WhipStaff Ranch and Rescue
NewsIts our first ever Adoption Paw-ty!!!!We will be hosting our first ever Adoption Paw-ty on Saturday, June 27th 2009! Please join us from 10 am til 4 pm for a day of fun! Come meet some of our adorable adoptables, donate food and supplies, buy some of Chef Barko's famous handmade Doggie Biscotti, have some human "Pupcakes" and hopefully many of our little cuties will get adopted! We'll have lots of fun things for everyone. We'll be at the grassy common behind Friendly Fins Pet Shop in the parking lot of the Paul Bunyan Mall on Paul Bunyan Drive, Bemidji MN. Come join the fun!!! Go Green and help feed the animals!!! Please save for us your old cell phones, ink cartridges and toner cartridges. We are enrolled in a recycling program which pays us cash for these items. We also save aluminum cans for recycling. Goodsearch for our rescue!!! GoodSearch is a search engine which donates 50-percent of its revenue to the charities and schools designated by its users. It's a simple and compelling concept. You use GoodSearch exactly as you would any other search engine. Because it's powered by Yahoo!, you get proven search results. The money GoodSearch donates to your cause comes from its advertisers — the users and the organizations do not spend a dime! Just set your home page to www.goodsearch.com and set your preferred charity to WhipStaff Ranch and Rescue. With just a click you'll earn money that Goodsearch donates to our rescue once a year. HELP OUR HORSES!!! We have the opportunity to purchase as many round bales as we need at a locked in price of 35$ a bale. It takes about 10 round bales to feed each horse through winter. Consider sponsoring a winter's worth of feed! With foreclosures hitting the nation, people have been forced to give up their pets- horses included. We need the public's help to care for these lost souls until permanent, loving homes can be found for them. We are also need of a good running pick up truck, a tractor with a front end loader, bale spike and a pipe round pen! Donate to our Wish List! Our Wish List: These are items we use on a daily basis and are always in need of. If you can donate an item it frees up funds to pay our vet bills! Dry Dog food, dry puppy food, canned dog food, canned cat food, dry cat food, dry kitten chow, scoopable cat litter, pine shavings, straw, hay, rabbit pellets, guinea pig food, laying mash, sweet feed, horse dewormer, Weight Builder supplement for horses. Buckets, troughs and feeders are in high demand. Garden hoses, heated water buckets, extension cords. Fence posts, woven wire, electric fence wire and insulators and gates are in need as well. We are looking for several bundles of 8 foot long slab wood to rebuild a fence line. We are saving building materials to construct an indoor kennel unit. We need steel roofing, 2x4 lumber, wiring, plumbing, windows and doors. Do you have items left over from a remodel? We'd love to have them! We collect and use old satellite dishes. Yes, those big ugly dishes are recycled on our ranch into aviary's. We get many compliments on our round bird pens, and the secret is the satellite dish roof. We are glad to dismantle and remove your unwanted dishes. The bigger the better! We take fiberglass, steel or mesh dishes. You can now make donations to our rescue efforts via Paypal! Please be sure to let us know which pet you'd like to help out with it!! ADOPTION PROCEDURE!Before an adoption can be approved, we must have an application back on file with a vet reference. This is done to ensure you have a vet available to you for ongoing care. All dogs and cats MUST be spayed/neutered. NO EXCEPTIONS! Once your application is approved, you will be contacted by our adoption coordinator. She will set up a time for you to come visit the animal if she feels it would be a good match. You may take the animal home that same day, as long as it has been sterilized. If it will be more than a week before you will be picking up the animal, we ask that half their adoption fee (listed on their petfinder page) be sent to the rescue as a deposit. Your deposit will not be returned to you if you change your mind or fail to show up to adopt. We have had to start enforcing this because of people that put an animal on hold, we turn down other homes, and they never come adopt. This only hurts the animal. Thank you for your understanding! Who We AreWhipStaff Ranch and Rescue is celebrating it's 19th year of operation in 2009! We are the only 501c3 non profit animal welfare organization in the northern part of the state that is able to work with all species of animals. Animals accepted into our rescue are treated like they were our own pets until we place them into a new home. We tell you everything we know about the animal- good points and bad habits that need work. We work with livestock, horses, small caged animals and more. We rehabilitate and rehome hundreds of animals each year. We are a volunteer based organization and rely on donations and adoption fees to keep the rescue going.Our PhilosophyWe work very hard to ensure that each animal that comes to the ranch, whether it be a hamster or a horse, be given individual attention on a daily basis. We work hard to ensure that each animal is given everything they need to heal and thrive, be it medical care, special food, chiropractic and massage or holistic remedies. We temperament test each animal on intake and work with them on a daily basis to get to know them. We will NOT adopt out an animal that we feel has an unstable or unsafe temperament as public safety is very important to us. As long as an animal remains healthy or treatable within reasonable means, and as long as they are sound in temperament then they can stay here until they find a home.Adopting a friendRemember that adoption is wonderful, but must be done with thought and concern for how you will care for the animal in the long term. Think about things that may happen- a marriage, moving, children- and how an animal would fit into the picture. Make your decision with your head as well as your heart.If you see an animal that tickles your fancy, feel free to email (checked twice daily) or call between the hours of 10 am and 6 pm to set up an appointment to visit. Because WRAR is a working farm we may not be available for drop-in visitors, especially during the summer months, so animals are seen by appointment only. Additionally, adoptable rescue animals may be in foster homes so we may need to arrange for the foster to bring the animal to the ranch for an appointment. Thank you for your understanding! We are happy to have you bring your entire family, including your family dog to meet a prospective adoptee. We ask that if you bring your dog to help pick out a new friend, your dog MUST be leashed because we do not allow loose dogs on our ranch. If you do not have a leash, do not take your dog out of the car without us providing you a leash. PLEASE NOTE: We love children -- but because we are a working farm, we have livestock/equipment/fencing (such as electric fencing and large animals) which may be dangerous to small children. We do the best we can to limit these dangers, but please understand that YOU are responsible for watching your children. This is not a playground or petting zoo, nor are we babysitters. If your children have difficulty following direction, we will ask you to contain them in your vehicle or will provide you a leash. :o) This is only for your children's safety and well-being. Certain areas of our ranch are OFF LIMITS to visitors. This includes our personal pets, our ranch animals and poultry, gardens, flowerbeds and fenced off areas. This is to help control the spread of disease as well as prevent accidents. Our ranch is enrolled in several state and federal programs with our poultry and livestock to stop the spread of disease. Due to biosecurity risks we cannot allow visitors to our barnyard. We are however more than happy to show you the animals available for adoption. Come Visit Us!From Bemidji take HWY 2 West. Go 4 miles past the town of Wilton, and take a right turn onto CTY RD 507 (Northwood Road). Go 1/2 mile to the first crossroads and take a right onto Flat Balsam RD. Go another 1/2 mile to the first road that turns left, and make the left hand turn onto Meadowview RD. We are the first farm on the left hand side. Our mailbox is painted black with the POW symbol on it, we have a log home and many outbuildings. You'll see a gigantic white pine by the driveway with a long row of kennels along side it, a pirate flag flying in the yard and a enormous white goats head on our milking goat shed. If you are coming from the West, go 2 miles past the town of Solway- careful, if you blink you'll miss it! Take a left onto County Rd 507 just after 2 West Express gas station, and continue with the directions above.Please understand that we are a family-run, volunteer-based rescue. We may not be available when you call as we have a working farm as well. Many times we are out feeding animals and cleaning pens. If you leave a message, your call will be returned within 24 hours. If you do not want to leave a message then try back in an hour or two, or email. Our animals are seen by appointment to ensure we can give you our undivided attention. Please call to make an appointment before driving out to ensure the animal you are interested in is still available for adoption. Dogs and cats are housed in foster homes as well and it may take a week to arrange a time that works for both parties to meet. WhipStaff Ranch and Rescue 6185 Meadowview RD NW Solway, MN 56678 Phone: 218-467-3309 Email: celtic@paulbunyan.net |