2nd Chance Animal Shelter, Inc.

Saving Our Community's Animals,
One Life At A Time

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Our Adoption Center hours are Monday-Friday from 2:00 pm to 6:00 pm, and Saturdays from 12:00 am to 4:00 pm. We are closed Sundays, and major holidays. We are located at 1708 N. Whitley Dr. (Highway 95), Fruitland, ID. If any of you are interested in volunteering to help at our Center, you can call Christine O'Mara at 208-452-PETS; she is our shelter manager. We can also use help with our off-site adoption events and fundraisers. Right now we are working with some Nampa vets and are transporting cats over for spay/neuter on a weekly basis. The cost for female cats is $49, and the cost for males is $39. Any vaccinations are an additional cost of $15. If you are interested in having your cat fixed, call the shelter at 208-452-7387 to make an appointment. If you would be interested in helping with adoptions or fundraising for our spay/neuter clinic, let us know, we would love to have you!

Paws In The Park will be held on Sept. 20 this year. Keep checking back here for more information. It is a dog walk with some special entertainment and demontrations. "Mr. Paws In The Park" for 2008 is "Boston" owned by Mike and Kim Hanigan of Fruitland. He will be leading the pack on a dog walk through the streets of Ontario. Each dog registered for the dog walk will receive a special bandanna. Participants will have the opportunity to get pledges from their friends and neighbors and win some nice prizes for their trouble!

"A Summer Evening 2008" will be held Thursday, July 17. Keep watching here for more information. If you would be interested in being a sponsor for this event, or donating cash or merchandise for the auction, give us a call at 208-452-PETS or call Terrie at 208-405-1577. This year's very special emcee will be the renowned Kate McGwire from MIX 106 and the Mike and Kate Morning Show! The food and entertainment will be excellent as usual, and there will be many fabulous live and silent auction items for you to bid on.

If you would like to help with any of our fundraisers, please give us a call - we could really use your help, and just about any skills are needed!

In January, 2008 we started our wonderful new program called "Pen Pals" out at the Snake River Correctional Institution in Ontario. Specially selected inmates train shelter dogs, who live out at the prison during their training period. The result is highly adoptable dogs that are house-trained, crate-trained and obedience-trained. They even know a trick or two! The adoption fee for these dogs is $150 and includes their spay/neuter, all vaccinations including rabies and kennel cough, a health certificate, leash, and a bag of food. This program gives marketable job skills to the inmates and allows them to give something back to the community, it markedly lowers aggression levels in the prison, and it lowers euthanasia rates in the local shelters. The first group of dogs out there have already been adopted into loving homes and the next group is almost ready to go. The dogs can be seen at special adoption events in the area, or by appointment. Call Barb at 208-707-4663 for more information about the dogs or the program.

We will be at Wal-Mart in Ontario with puppies and several dogs from the Pen Pals Prison Program on Saturday, April 19 from 9:00-4:00. We will be at the Petsmart Spring Adoptathon on Saturday, May 3 from 10:30-3:00, again with puppies and "Pen Pals" dogs from the prison.

We have a special fund called the "Angel Fund". These are funds that are earmarked to help sick or injured animals. Thanks to your generous donations, and the kindness of Dr. Holderman at Eastern Oregon Animal Health in Ontario (formerly Dake Veterinary Clinic), we have been able to help "Saint" a Great Pyrenees-Austrailian Shepherd mix who had been shot through the jaw and the back and left to die for more than two weeks! He was starving and in agony, but he licked our hands and let us know what a wonderful dog he was. After surgery and recuperation at a foster home, Saint was saved and found a wonderful home where he can go to work with his new "Dad" every day and sleep on the bed at night. What a great new life for Saint! Then there Cinders, a lab who was also starving and VERY pregnant. She was rescued and went to a foster home where she had eight puppies the next day. The whole family is doing well and have found wonderful new homes.. And the litter of 4 week old kittens who were sitting by the side of the road after Mom had gotten run over by a car. It was almost 90 degrees that day and two of the kittens had already died by the time they were rescued. But the rest of the family made it after they were brought to the shelter and received some emergency treatment (and lots of love!) And the list of dogs and cats we have been able to help goes on, thanks to everyone who has donated to our "Angel Fund". THANK YOU! THANK YOU! THANK YOU! You are special people and you mean the world to these poor suffering dogs and cats! If you would like to be part of this life-saving effort, please mail your donation to: 2nd Chance Angel Fund, 1708 N. Whitley Dr., Fruitland, ID 83619 or click the button below.

Your donation will allow us to continue to provide care for helpless animals who have no where else to turn. Every little bit helps to provide the lifesaving medication a sick or injured homeless animal needs to get well.

Of course, one of the most important things you can do to help is become a temporary foster home for one or more dogs or cats who need some extra help. Some of these guys just need a few days of recuperation after surgery to get back on their feet, or a week or two on medication; or they have had no training or socialization and need to be worked with for a little while to get them ready for adoption; or they are pregnant or nursing a litter and they need time to raise their litle family and get them weaned and ready for adoption; or sometimes we are just very full, and can't take even one more - our foster homes can mean the lifesaving difference for an unfortunate animal who needs a place to stay for anywhere from a few days to a week or two until we get room to take them into the shelter. So how do you become a foster home for one of these special guys? We have you fill out an application and tell us what kind of animals you are willing to foster. Then we do a home visit, just to make sure the animals will be cared for in a suitable place. And then we add you to our list and call you when we get a little guy who needs some help. If you already have animals of your own, that's OK, you can usually still foster one or more. Or if you would like an animal, but for some reason cannot make a committment to an animal of your own right now, maybe fostering is for you. You will have the satisfaction of knowing that you have saved a life and helped them to get adopted into a great home where they will be loved for the rest of their life!

WHO WE ARE

We are a non-profit 501(c)3 organization and we receive all our funds from private donations. Our shelter is staffed almost 100% by volunteers. Our formidable goal is to have no more homeless animals in our community. Since 2nd Chance's humble beginnings in 2001, we have found homes for over 2,500 dogs and cats, puppies and kittens. We have spayed or neutered over 3,000 dogs and cats, preventing the birth of over 15,000 unwanted animals (figuring that each unaltered dog and cat will bring 5 more animals into the world in their lifetime - and, as anyone who has watched their cat give birth to three litters in a year can attest, that figure could easily be on the low side!) We have many ways you can help: