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Grand Opening King Cake Party
 
Start the Mardi Gras season right and help animals too...

Mardi Gras season is here!

As native New Orleaneans, each year we bring a little taste of home to Western New York in the form of a Mardi Gras Bash that has become quite the hit among Buffalo Humane supporters. This year we are kicking off the celebration even earlier in our new Education & Event Center in Pendleton, NY with a King Cake Party. Traditionally, this event is the start of the Mardi Gras season that is filled with parties, parades and costume balls.

Our event will be chock full of cajun and creole inspired refreshments and authentic King Cake for dessert. Adoptable dogs and cats will be on hand to give lots of purrs and licks to potential adopters. A door prize of an overnight stay in a Bed and Breakfast suite in Toronto will be awarded to one lucky person. Admission is free, although donations are always gratefully accepted.

• Saturday, January 14th, 2012
• 11am - 4pm
• Buffalo Humane Education & Event Center, 7007 Campbell Blvd., Pendleton, NY
• Adoptable Dogs & Cats
• Cajun & Creole inspired refreshments with King Cake for dessert
• Door Prize

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Doggie and Kitty Elves Await you!
 
Give the Gift of Life . . .

The elves are restless!

Buffalo Humane's kitty- and doggie-elves stand ready to fill your holiday request. Perhaps you wish to commemorate a special accomplishment or celebrate the life of a special pet or loved one who has passed on. Maybe you just want someone to feel good about helping a less-fortunate canine or feline friend. Maybe you wish to relive a cherished moment in childhood with a favorite family pet.

Our elves will write a lovely note on your behalf and provide a heartwarming story of love and hope.

Find out how by visiting our Holiday Giving Page

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Buffalo Humane Has Entered the Building
 
We have finally found a home of our own . . .

After searching for a year, we have just signed a 2-year lease with option to purchase on a building in Pendleton, NY — just north of the UB North Campus. This location will be used as administrative offices, meeting location for volunteers, adoption events and fundraisers. We will not be using it to house animals as we truly believe that dogs and cats should be fostered in homes for their mental and physical health.

We have some renovations to do before we can open to the general public, but if you are handy or just have a desire to get involved, we'd love to hear from you. Just contact Clara at vpcomm@buffalohumane.org for more details.

Pictures and details coming soon!

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No Kill Conference 2011
 
Washington, DC . . . and Buffalo Humane is here!

We've just arrived at the 2011 No Kill Conference in Washington, DC! After an 8-hour drive, settling in to the lovely place we are staying, and a nice dinner at the local "Busboys & Poets Restaurant, Bar, & Artists' Performance Center", we mapped out the workshops we would be attending for the 2-day event.

Needless to say, we are very excited. Our President, Carol Tutzauer, will be attending primarily those workshops dealing with the law, litigation, public policy, and advocacy/activism. Our Vice President, Clara Miller, will be focusing on matters of increasing adoptions and communication strategy, including the use of social media. Volunteer/foster/adopter Joanne Fuller is in attendance, along with daughter and daughter's boyfriend Matt. They are looking forward to attending workshops devoted to animal care, veterinary medicine for the non-veterinarian, and reaching out to potential adopters.

We will be blogging about our experiences as time allows. Keep checking our blog page devoted to the event.

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Saving Pia . . .
 
Help Us Save Pia .. No amount is too small to help save her life

Pia Update - 5/5/2011

Pia had her surgical follow-up visit yesterday and you would think that a celebrity was visiting! She just loved seeing all the wonderful people at OPVMC and she had lots of tail wags and puppy kisses for all of them. Dr. Kloc gave her a great follow-up report. I honestly think that he was as surprised as anyone that she was doing as well as she was. I know that vets see so much pain and hurt in their everyday life with clients, but they forget the powerful thing called "will to live" that some dogs just have. We knew that Pia wasn't done yet, that Pia had the will to go on and as long as she did - so did we.

Pia is getting a nutritional consultation from one of the leading veterinary nutritionists in the country, Dr. Rebecca Remillard from Angell Animal Medical Center in Boston. We will have them help us set up a home-made diet for her that can include some training treats since her behavioral development is just as important as her medical development. As a animal rescue, we have to be concerned about Pia as a whole dog and not just a clinical patient, but we also don't ever want to compromise her health. We really believe that Pia is going to be one of the lucky liver shunt puppies and will be able to move to a regular diet food in the near future, but if not - we hope to find an affordable alternative for her.

Again, we can't thank you all enough for donating, sending healing thoughts and prayers and supporting Buffalo Humane during this process. We are very grateful and humbled that so many in our community came forward. We could never have saved her without you all

Dumped - there is no other way to describe it, they were dumped. Six 8-week-old puppies left in an overnight drop-box at a shelter, flea-infested with sores, hair loss, thin, cold and scared. Six puppies who were lucky in some ways, they ended up at a shelter that cared, cared that they were cold, cared that they were hungry, cared that they were sick and cared enough to know that a shelter was the last place they needed to be.

We didn't really have room, but our foster homes, our supporters and our former adopters stepped up and opened up their homes to help these puppies that needed more than a concrete floor and a caring, but overworked shelter staff. So on April 3rd, five of the puppies came to Buffalo Humane and the road to a better life began. The skin condition that looked so bad with raw and bleeding sores was improving with meds, medicated baths, good nutritional food and a warm, dry home.

Unfortunately, for one of the pups - little Pia, things took a bad turn . . .

This is Pia's story:

Hi, my name is Pia, and while I didn't have the best start, I was getting much happier. I love to cuddle with my brother in the little bed my foster parents bought me. I just started to play with toys, and I get along with my foster fur siblings too. I am much smaller than my brother, but I didn't know that, I still loved to romp and play. I used to fall over every once in a while, but my foster mommy said I needed better food and gave me extra special bits of yummy meat.

But then, I knew something wasn't quite right. Unfortunately, I had no way of telling my foster mom and dad, and I was just so happy to be warm, dry and loved.

On Sunday, I didn't feel so good and had an "episode". It made me scream, drool, and fall over. This scared my foster mommy and she took me to the emergency clinic Sunday night. I've been at the clinic since that night.

The nice doctors and staff stabilized me, and I had to go through all kinds of tests to see what was going on. The doctor found a large liver shunt that he called a portosystemic shunt and also something called situs inversus, I don't know what that all means, but the doc said my organs are backwards, which means my right ones are on the left and my left ones on the right. I will be ok with that, it is just one of those weird things, but he did say that if I do not get surgery to repair my liver shunt, I will die.

I don't want to die - I have a lot more livin' to do, now that I am safe.

Buffalo Humane said "of course we won't let you die" and gave the doctors permission to operate on me. My surgery requires specialized skills and equipment, which are located at my Emergency clinic. I am a little scared, but my little body needs this to survive. I have a long recovery period ahead of me, but the doc says I will be happy and healthy with a new family that loves me very soon.

XOXOXO ~Pia

Buffalo Humane is serious when we say we save one animal at a time. So long as the prospects are good that the animal can be helped and will live a good life, we don't say no when expensive medical care is needed.

But we need YOUR HELP. Pia needs lifesaving surgery by a board-certified veterinary surgeon with experience performing this delicate surgery. As much as we need the skill of the surgeon, we need all of you to give what you can to help little Pia live to grow into the happy, wonderful dog that she will no doubt become.

Won't you help our little Pia? She sends licks and kisses.

You can follow her journey on her own personal blog page Pia's Story. Pictures of her through her illness and recovery will be posted as much as we can. We know times are tough, but we are once again asking for your help - for Pia too deserves a chance at life.

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