 |
 |
 |
 |
 |
 |
 |
 |
|
 |
|
 |
 |
 |
 |
 |
 |
 |
|
 |
|
 |
 |
 |
|
|
Spring-to-Life Rescue Raffle goes until April 15th This Year No fooling--in 2008, our annual Spring-to-Life Rescue Raffle drawing will be April 15th [two weeks later than usual]. Don't miss out on the most exciting raffle ever--check out tickets on the Events page! Need more tickets? Email info@reddoorshelter.org or call 773-764-2242.  Back to topRed Door is a top charity in America's Giving Challenge Red Door was pleased to compete in America's Giving Challenge in January. And we want to thank the hundreds of people who participated in our online race for donations for the animal. Not only did Red Door friends reach out and expand our circle of giving, bringing in $5000 in small donation, but we have just been awarded an extra $1000.00 from Network for Giving for being one of the top charities to generate the most individual giving. Thanks to everyone who helped us help animals! Back to topUnited Airlines Foundation Honors Red Door Volunteer Thanks to Linda Sobirai, a dedicated volunteer, who recently won one of the 44 United Airlines Foundation grants of $1000.00 for her favorite non-profit organization--which is Red Door! Back to topLawlor Foundation Grant Red Door recently received a generous grant for animal care and rescue from the Lawlor Foundation. We greatly appreciate this support. Back to topRed Door Receives Two Grants Red Door is pleased to announce that it has received two grants: one from Wal-Mart and one from the General Electric Foundation. We appreciate their support of our efforts to rescue homeless animals. Back to topRed Door is a Founding Member of CASA Red Door is proud to be a founding member of the Chicago Animal Shelter Alliance. CASA was formed in 2003 with the belief that the power of many organizations working together can change the future for the thousands of homeless cats and dogs euthanized in the City of Chicago each year. Maddie's Fund has been instrumental in getting agencies across the nation to focus on this issue for cats and dogs. Yet, while Maddie's Fund concentrates only saving homeless cats and dogs, Red Door remains committed to its mission to save all kinds of homeless companion animals in need. We do not limit ourselves to saving only the animals that are generously funded by grants and foundations. Our rabbit rescue and adoption program remains the most comprehensive no-kill shelter program of its kind in the Midwest. Red Door also continues to rescue and rehome homeless farm animals (chickens,ducks, roosters) and small companion ahimals (hamsters, mice, guinea pigs); and we work closely with Flint Creek Wildlife to rehome injured wild animals. You can read about the how's and why's of Maddie's Fund at http://www.maddiesfund.org. To see our 2006 shelter data pertaining to cats and dogs and to learn more about CASA, please visit http://www.casachicago.org/maddies.html. Back to topCatch Red Door on WMAQ Morning News! WMAQ NBC TV Morning News [Channel 5] will feature Red Door friends and their dogs! Tune in on May 31st, 6:30 a.m. for this promotion for the Gimme Shelter! walk. Interested in being on TV? Your dog wants to be a star? Contact emilie.johnson@comcast.net or jomurray@yahoo.com about being part of the Red Door group on May 31st. Back to topRed Door Walk in Tribune! Don't Miss the Big Event! Back to Print Edition - Thursday At Play GO! Life's a beach -- for pets, too By Trine Tsouderos Tribune staff reporter Published May 24, 2007 Your poor pet has languished inside all winter. She's put on 12 pounds. She looks at you mournfully, her eyes pleading: Take me out, do something fun with me. Pleeaase. OK, that's my pet. Luckily, summer is full of novel ways to make it up to pets sick with cabin fever. There are walks where you can trot your pooch along with a hundred others. There's a pet beach party with cocktails and dancing. There are pet-friendly boat tours of the Chicago River and the lake. There's even a "pignic" for guinea pig lovers. You read that right. A pignic. At Play asked animal intuitive Denise Zak how animals feel when summer comes around. Are they psyched? There are as many answers as individual animals, said Zak, who will be doing 10-minute readings at the Hinsdale Humane Society's 18th Annual Pet Walk on June 3. But generally, "domestic pets look forward to summer because they have more activity. Their owners are more vibrant," she said. "That is more uplifting. That's how they would say it." Marion Coburn, president of Red Door Animal Shelter, said society's trend of taking dogs to festivals and pet parties and walks is relatively new. "It's in the last decade or so that all animal companions have become like family members," said Coburn, whose Red Door Shelter is hosting the Gimme Shelter! Walk for the Animals event on June 3. "When I was growing up, the dog lived out in the backyard much of the time. Now it is the opposite. The whole animal companion idea has really grown a lot." It's grown to a point that summer is a time to celebrate the warm weather with your loved ones, including your winter-chubby, aching-to-get-outside furry companion. Here are some events to get you started: June 3 10 a.m.-noon, Gimme Shelter! Walk for the Animals, Indian Boundary Park, 2500 W. Lunt Ave.; 773-764-2242. Red Door Animal Shelter's annual walk includes a raffle, tarot card readers, animal communicator and more. Back to topSome Watseka Rabbits Arrive at Red Door Some of the Watseka rabbits--confiscated by humane investigators and then returned by the Department of Agriculture--have arrived at Red Door. You can seen some photos of Sienna and Anthony on the Behind the Red Door blog. Ava's photo will be posted soon, too. These rabbits are healthy and ready for adoption. Back to topTop Raffle Ticket Sellers Mary Rodovich was the top Spring-to-Life raffle ticket seller with 750 tickets sold! ____ Other top sellers include: MacKenzie Carmichael; Tara & Chris Carmichael; Carrie DeVries;Susann Fangman; Gia Gallegos, DVM; Gianni Family; Allyson Kallicky; Jane Lawrence; Ann Lebedeck; Jeanne Malcolm; Erin Morgan; Judith O'Donovan; Gina Romano; Carol Prygrosky; Susan Schroeder; Share Siwek, DVM; Mrs. Wayne Towne; Irwin Zaleberg; Theresa Zingery. Back to topSpring-to-Life Rescue Raffle Winners! Thanks to everyone who helped make our Spring-to-Life Rescue Raffle a huge success! Grand Prize Winner: David Taylor, Chicago 1st Prize Winner: Pip Beckman, Lisle, IL 2nd Prize Winner: Richard Kepler, Navarre, OH 3rd Prize Winner: Bonnie Sargent, Island Lake, IL 4th Prize Winner: Gabe Ramirez, Chicago _____ Thanks from the animals! Back to topPet Food Recall Expands Now melamine, a chemical used in the production of plastics, has been in found in cat and dog foods, too. The list of recalled pet foods has expanded. For the latest information, check: www.hsus.org Back to topSad News--Watseka Rabbits Returned to Breeder The Illinois Department of Agriculture overturned the seizure of the 180+ rabbits from breeder Paul Craft in Watseka. Approximately 120 rabbits left South Suburban Humane Shelter Friday, March 30, and went to live with Craft and some of his breeder friends. In the month since being confiscated, approximately 20 rabbits have died from severe health problems. Currently, about 40 rabbits remain at SSHS. Craft has 30 days in which to decide if he wants to take those rabbits or not. Back to topUpdate on Pet Food Recall THere is the latest on recalled cat and dog food: The recall stems from approximately ten reports of cat and dog deaths which were linked to the consumption of certain brands of canned or pouch cat and dog food. The recall includes over 50 brands of dog food, and 40 brands of cat food, sold in the “cuts and gravy” flavors. Wheat gluten, which is a protein source used to thicken the gravy in these foods, is suspected to be the contaminating ingredient. Cats and dogs who have eaten contaminated foods will most likely display symptoms of kidney disease. The American Veterinary Medical Association (AVMA) advises cat and dog guardians to look for “signs of kidney failure include loss of appetite, lethargy, vomiting, diarrhea, changes in water consumption and also changes in urination. These signs may also occur with other illnesses. Anybody who has a pet that exhibits these signs should take the animal to a veterinarian. For the latest list of recalled foods, see: www.menufood.com/recall Back to topSharin' the Love Grant Red Door is proud to receive a $1000.00 grant from the Sharin' the Love Foundation. This grant will be used towards expenses for CAFE--our free animal food pantry for low-income pet owners--and for spay/neuter expenses for Red Door's continued rescue of cats,rabbits, and dogs. Back to topOver 40 Brands of Cat & Dog Food Recalled Over 40 brands of cat and dog food have been pulled from the shelves all over the U.S. The food appears to be contaiminated somehow, causing cats and dogs to vomit. Some have experienced kidney failure. To check out the recalled brands, go to: http://www.menufoods.com/recall Back to topDecision on Custody of Watseka Rabbits Appealed The fate of the 170+ rabbits confiscated from a breeder in Watseka, IL is still pending. The breeder has now filed an appeal, asking for the return of at least 25 rabbits. Read more at Behind the Red Door, the shelter's blog. Back to topCustody of Watseka Rabbits Decided The Illinois Department of Agriculture has awarded custody of the confiscated Watseka rabbits to South Suburban Humane Shelter. However, the breeder from whom the rabbits were confiscated has 48 hours in which to appeal. It is fully expected he will appeal. Keep reading the blog, Behind the Red Door, for up-to-minute reports. Back to topWatseka Rabbits Update No news yet from the hearing in Springfield about the custody of the Watseka rabbits. They could be returned, at least in part, to the breeder or South Suburban Humane Center could be given official custody. For the most up-to-date news, check out Red Door's blog. There is a link to Behind the Red Door at the top of the News column. Back to topHelping the 170+ Confiscated Rabbits Nine volunteers from Red Door went to South Suburban Humane Shelter in Chicago Heights on Sunday, March 4. The plan was to help that shelter care for the 170+ rabbit confiscated by a breeder a week earlier. It was hard work--cleaning, feeding, and medicating-- but gratifying. To learn more, read the back story on Red Door's blog [http://www.behindthereddoor.blogspot.com]Lots of photos are posted there, too! On Tuesday, March 6, a hearing will be held in Springfield to determine whether SSHS will be granted custody of the rabbits or whether they will be returned to the breeder. Back to topMore Rabbits Need Help--177 Taken From Breeder You might have already seen it on Fox News: 177 rabbits were taken from appalling living conditions in Watseka, IL. Red Door is partnering with South Suburban Humane Shelter, whose humance investigators got a court order to take custody of the rabbits. Want to help Red Door help the 177 rescued rabbits? Please make a donation on this web site and mark it "For Rescued Rabbits." We'll make sure that your gift is used directly to help the 177 bunnies. Want to join a Red Door team of volunteers making weekly visits to SSHS to work with the rabbits? Send us an email at info@reddoorshelter.org To read more about the rescue of 177 rabbits, go to Red Door's blog. Back to topRabbits Rescued from Grim Conditions On February 17, the Indiana House Rabbit Society took their veterinarian and went to a small shelter in Robinson, IL. The goal was to examine, treat and remove as many rabbits as possible from the grim conditions there: no heat, animals crammed together in cages, no medical treatment for multiplying illnesses. Red Door committed to taking two of these rescued rabbits before IN HRS arrived at the shelter. Now two beautiful big girls, Flemish Giants, are back at Red Door! Read more about this rescue on our blog. http://www.behindthereddoor.blogspot.com Back to topRed Door's New Cookbook Hot off the Press! Who doesn't enjoy both desserts and helping animals? Red Door's brand new cookbook, "Just Desserts," features 250 delectable recipe secrets tried and tested by shelter volunteers. Enjoy treats of every kind, including special vegan and pet friendly recipes. Each copy is $15 (add $3.95 for postage if needed). Pick your copy up at the shelter, or order online today! Back to topRed Door Wins Oxbow Pet Products Rescue Grant! In December 2006, Red Door was awarded the annual Rescue Grant from Oxbow Pet Products. Oxbow's gift of $1,000.00 will help to equip the new shelter's rabbit spaces. Back to topGeorge Finds a Home!  When Red Door staff members reported to work on a hot July morning, they were surprised to meet George, a friendly but lonely black lab who had been tied to the front door of the shelter. We sent an immediate email alert to volunteers in hopes of finding a foster home for this elderly gentleman. The response was overwhelming! We are thrilled to report that George is relaxing happily now in a new home. Thanks so much to everyone for caring about him! Back to topWhat's Up, Doc? Red Door Rabbits in the News Red Door is one of three Midwestern shelters or rescue groups mentioned in the Spring 2005 issue of Chicagoland Tails. Check out this article to read about rabbits' personalities and tips for good rabbit care. Back to top |
||||
 |
 |
 |
 |
 |
 |
 |
 |
 |
 |
|
|
Spring-to-Life Rescue Raffle goes until April 15th This Year