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PLEASE CROSSPOST & HELP IN ANY WAY YOU CAN!

From: Crystal - curlybutts@zoominternet.net (zoominternet.net)

FIRE STRIKES RITCHIE CO HUMANE SOCIETY SHELTER OVERNIGHT

January 13, 2010: The red building that housed all of the cats and kittens burned in a fire in the pre-dawn hours. We do not know yet if there were any survivors. We do know that there were a few dogs there: Lil Dude, Chance, and shelter mascot Mamma, along with a mamadog and pups. I got the call from June at 3 AM, and the fire dept. was still there.

The supply rooms were also in this building. As far as we know, everything is gone: food, medicines, vaccines, transport crates, refrigerators to store medicines, cat kennel cages, ex-pens for puppies, cleaning supplies, trash bags, litter pans, litter, cat food, feeding bowls, newspapers, bedding, etc. June will try to set up a temporary area for cat-intake.

The most immediate need now is to replace the destroyed food.

PayPal is rchumane@zoominternet.net, or link thru the shelter website, http://www.petfinder.com/shelters/WV22.html

Checks can be sent to:

Ritchie County Humane Society
RR 1 BOX 3
Harrisville, WV 26362

If you have items you can donate, please call the shelter to arrange a time to bring them in, or we'll find a way to meet you part way (I'm off work Thur/Fri). The shelter phone is 304-643-4721. At this point, I'd ask you only to call to make arrangements to offer assistance during daytime hours. We'll send out emails and updates to the Petfinder site as soon as we have any information to pass along. It is still too early to know the source of the fire.

We are grateful to the rescues who took in several of the puppies & small dogs from that bldg. in two transports in the last week. And, I'm especially thankful to the rescue that begged us to transport last week when I was planning to wait another week until bad weather conditions cleared up. Those pups owe you their lives even more so now than they before.

Thanks in advance to anything you can do to help us recover from this tragedy.

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