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Our Featured Pet...

My name is Princes Nobel!! I am about 7 year old, and adore people. I love to play fetch or just walk around squeaking my squeaky toy. I do great with other dogs, and give people lots of kisses. I am very well housebroken. All I want to do is be by your side. I even ride nicely in the car. I will need a loving home with someone that has time to spend with me, and a fenced yard to play in.

Please Help Princess Nobel

You can donate toward her treatments using her sponsor me button on her page at http://www.petfinder.com/petnote/displaypet.cgi?petid=14887168

Donate to this organization through Drs. Foster and Smith

Pet Supplies - Dog Supplies - Pet Meds

POISONOUS HOLIDAY PLANTS

Poinsettia, mistletoe, holly and other Christmas Holiday plants and decorations can be poisonous to your pets. List, symptoms, and poison treatment.

Cyclamen (Primulaceae) – Contains Triterpinoidsaponins found in the tuberous shizomes.

Symptoms: GI problems, convulsions, and paralysis. Toxins cause local irritation and are therefore well absorbed from the GI tract. Toxicity of hybrid species has not been supported experimentally. Treatment – Symptomatic.

Poinsettia (Euphorbia pulcherrima) – Milky sap contains unknown toxic principles.

Symptoms: Irritates mucous membranes and causes excessive salivation and vomiting, but not death.

Treatment – Symptomatic at best. Gastric lavage, activated charcoal and saline cathartics should be considered.

MISTLETOE - ONE OF THE POISONOUS HOLIDAY PLANTSEnglish Holly (Ilex aquifolium) – Saponins: an alkaloid triterpene compound, and unknown compounds with digitalis-like cardiotonic activity have been found in leaves, fruits and seeds.

Symptoms: Abdominal pains, vomiting and diarrhea observed following ingestion of .2 berries. Death rare. Treatment – Symptomatic at best.

Mistletoe (Pghoradendron flavescens) – Amines, toxic proteins and unknowns found in all parts. Symptoms: Vomiting, profuse diarrhea, dilated pupils, rapid labored breathing, shock, and death from cardiovascular collapse within hours of ingesting toxic dosage.

From the AKC Canine Health Foundation's Poisonous Plant Guide

Related Links: Pet Safe Christmas & Five Most Hazardous Plants http://www.thedogpress.com/Columns/Poisonous-Holiday-Plants-0911.asp

Adoption Checklist

Before You Adopt Give This List Some Thought:

1. When you adopt, you need to make a real commitment to care for your pet for its entire life, no matter what that entails, just as you would with a child.

2. Be prepared for a pet to affect other parts of your life for as long as you have the pet (can be up to 15 years for a dog and 20 years for cat). Your pet’s well-being will have to be considered in all kinds of decisions, including travel, social life, relocating to a new home, adopting other pets, having children, etc.

3. Verify in advance that you’re allowed to keep a pet where you live, especially if you rent or belong to a homeowners’ association.

4. Make any necessary modifications to your yard and fence, if you have one, to provide for your pet’s safety and to prevent your pet from escaping.

5. Never give a pet as a gift.

6. Choose a pet appropriate to your living situation and lifestyle. Figure out what size, age, and energy-level pet is most appropriate for you.

7. Never adopt a pet on a whim or because you feel it’s love-at-first-sight. Do your research and carefully consider all the aspects and implications of adopting before you make a decision.

8. If you’re adopting a pet for your kids, understand that the responsibility is yours. Kids, by their nature, often tire of things that were once new and exciting, and this includes their pets. You will most likely end up being the one who provides most of the pet’s care.

9. Plan for a several-week adjustment period during which there will be challenges.

10. Provide sufficient exercise and stimulation. (Walk dogs according to individual need, provide playtime and appropriate toys for both dogs and cats, spend time just petting and talking to your pet, include pet in family activities.

Wish List

Our Van is in need of repair. It has been overheating. We could sure use a good mechanic, or someone that knows a little about repairs..

We are so thankful to Wal-Mart in Lebanon for their dry dog, and cat food donations to help care for our animals while in our care.

Our special need k-9 kids are in need of the canned Pedigree dog food for the ones on medication, or the older dogs that need it. Preferably the ground with out the gravy. We often feed more than 10 special needs animals each day, and this is costing about $300 a month..

If you would like to help, Please call Fran at 541 926-5629, and we can arrange for a drop off ,or pick up (locally) of your most needed donations.

Our New Donated Van

A VERY special thanks to Sherry Rohbach in Portland, for her most generous donations, and for the wonderful van we so desperately needed after ours burnt to the ground on the way to a Petco event.. THANK YOU Sherry!

Who We Are

K-9 Homefinders & Rescue, Inc. is a no-kill, non-profit, organization that was started, here in Albany. OR. in 1980, so we have been rescuing dogs for 29 years. For most of that time we were the only dog pound rescue that was saving the dogs out of the Linn County Dog Control. We would run the ad in the newspaper so people would know to check the pound for their dogs before they were killed. There was no Internet, so placement was allot harder. A large number of dogs were being euthanized. We would take a large amount of the dogs that were due to be euthanized that day, and some we saved when they were walking into the room where they put them down. We paid their fees, to get them out, give them their shots, spay/neuters, and any medical care needed. We are still available for kill-shelter rescue, for adoptable dogs, as space and funds allow. (We accept donations, see below for some ways to help). We are also on call if needed when a dog is injured after hours with no owner. We help owners that can't keep their pets, find loving homes for them, by advertising, and taking applications to fine the best homes for them. We are an all volunteer group, solely run by your greatly needed donations. All funds go to help the animals. We are an all volunteer organization, with NO paid employees. We do it for the love of animals.

Adopting a Friend

An Adoption Application must be approved, and then we will be glad to bring the pet you are interested in, for a home visit.

Come Visit Us!

Only by appointment, and after your application has been approved.

K-9 Homefinders & Rescue, Inc.
P. O. Box 2500
Albany, OR 97321
Phone: 541-926-5629

Email: FranKreger@aceweb.com
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Alleviate the financial stress associated with your pet’s unexpected medical expenses and generate funds for our shelter at the same time! Simply apply for a ShelterCare Pet Insurance Program by using the ShelterCare banner-link. Here’s how it works: ShelterCare Pet Insurance Programs cover you when your pet needs essential veterinary care from an illness or injury. Also, every time a completed application for a ShelterCare program is generated through our shelter’s website, we automatically receive a $25 donation to help cover common needs like blankets, litter and food. This donation is of no cost to you and provides us with essential funds. Make the right move and enroll today!