Dog Park Tree Planting

~~ “From the Heart” Spay-Ghetti Dinner

and $10,000 Total Raffle~~

Gallup-McKinley County

Humane Society Newsletter

SUMMER 2013

1315 B Hamilton Road off Hwy 491 - P O Box 550

Gallup, New Mexico 87305-0550 Ph. 505-863-2616

What a wonderful time we had at the “From the Heart” Spay-Ghetti Dinner and Raffle held in February. It is said that when you give—-you get back! Our big winner of the raffle was John Killgore taking home $7000. Second place went to Barry Butler and third place was Javier Marquez. All three of these men have given generously to the Humane Society and to our community! Congratulations to all our winners; especially the animals! After all our expenses, we made just short of $22,000 from the event. THANK YOU to everyone who pur-chased tickets, attended the event, and supported our Humane Society and the animals! The cost of keeping animals off death row doesn’t come cheap. The expense of vaccinating, deworming, flea and tick control, and daily care while awaiting a new home, costs around $280 per animal. We took in over 5,000 animals last year. All around us, there are so many lives to be saved. One transfer trip, to-and-from Denver, Colorado costs around $600. Our old transport van blew the engine and we were able to purchase a used replacement van for $3500. The rest of the funds will go to saving as many animal lives as possible. All of these statistics give credence to our need for fund-raisers and the need for support from our community. We send out our special thanks to everyone who worked the event and those who made spaghetti sauce. Also, Crystal Masingale did beau-tiful work in transforming the Elks Lodge. Thanks to Crystal and Felicia Hudgeons, also, for cooking spaghetti, and to Steve Seeger for washing up many pots and pans! Thanks to Ralph Richards of Earl’s Restaurant for cook-

ing chicken and letting us use equipment. Also, we thank Lennie Hammitt and her niece, Char Suina and Sheila Matt for helping in the kitchen. This event marked a milestone for us, as we sold 600 tickets for the raffle. We have never sold that many tickets in the past. Thank you Gallup and all our friends for supporting the animals and our efforts, and for recognizing that the ani-mals need our love!

After numerous years of people asking for a dog park, our dream came true! We are so grateful to Mayor Jackie McKinney and the City of Gallup for honoring the request of the dog lovers in our community. This would never have hap-pened without the huge donations made by the following peo-ple:

John and Michelle Kilgore – Land

DePauli Engineering (Marc DePauli) – Design/plan/stake

Bubany Lumber (John and Judy Kozeliski) – Fencing

Rick Murphy Builders – Installation of Fence

George and Joyce Kozeliski – Rules Sign

Vernon Hamilton Construction – 300 tons of gravel plus

discount on another 300 tons

Hinkley Signs –discount on Entry Sign

Nikki Seay – Access easement

City of Gallup Crews - construction and maintenance.

The people traveling through Gallup are also very grate-ful for the park. We have had many out-of-towners bring their dogs to the park for a break from traveling. The Humane Society purchased 44 trees, and under the direction of Eric Esparza, Humane Society staff and volun-teers planted all the trees in one day! As a fundraiser to ben-

efit the homeless animals in our shelter, we are offering an opportunity for you to purchase a tree “in memory of” or “in honor of” a loved one, a pet, or to just purchase one to recog-nize your family or business.

The price will include an engraved plaque or stone to be placed at the tree of your choice. The Price varies with the size and type of tree: (Continued on Page 2)

~~The Beautiful Gallup Dog Park~~

Dr. Clint Balok along with Eric Esparza and

Lettie Munozscano in front of a beautiful pine

planted at the park entrance.

Bosco, an abused shar pei.

Seri had been kicked in

the stomach creating this

seroma. Seri is now

healed and adopted!!

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(continued from Page 1) 10 Austrian Pines @ $108 each 2 Purple Robe Locusts @ $90 each 3 small Weeping Willows @ $40 each 1 large Weeping Willow @ $230 each 4 Sunburst Locusts @ 240.00 each 4 large Bradford Pears @ $400.00 each 20 5 gallon Locusts @ $90 We will also be selling Stepping Stones, Benches and Ta-bles for the park; prices are currently being gathered. We wish to thank Eric Esparza and his group of students and all the volunteers who participated in the tree planting. You all made a huge project possible! We would like to add wood chips to use as ground cover to help with the mud problem. If anyone has ideas for obtaining wood chips, please contact Cosy or Sandra at the Humane Soci-ety at 863-2616.

to lack of space, because of the partnership with Rescue Waggin’®. It takes a lot of time and money to prepare each pup to go on the Rescue Waggin’®. They must be perfectly healthy to make the trip. They have to be at least nine weeks old with two sets of vaccinations, dewormed and socialized. Three pages of paperwork per puppy is typed up by Sandra McKinney and Betsy Vigil, then photos are taken of each dog and submitted to Boulder Humane. The entire staff at the Humane Society work attentively to keep these pups healthy and happy while they await their trip. In order to accomplish this one to two month process, we try to get as many pups into foster care as possible. Our foster families are heroes. Kris Gruda, along with her dedi-cated husband Steve and their children, Paige and Ryan, have fostered nearly 100 dogs. They take in one, two or three litters at a time for a month or two, and faithfully care for them. If they get sick Kris doctors them, if they cry the kids hold them, if they are cold Steve heats their dog house. And then the reward, at 4:00am every time a transport is scheduled, sometimes in below freezing temperatures, this entire family helps load up their foster pups along with the foster pups of Dr. Oscar and Theresa Paloma, Vicky and Arthur Poole, Sheryl McClure and her daughter Chentel, Marty Orr and Sabor Biggs, Desirae Esquibel, Blair and Nate Robinson, Gabi and Jeremy Boucher, Billy Harrison, Latasha Baker, Judy Sweeney and family, Gloria Padilla and family, Marissa Kim, and the Moore boys. Misty Tolson and Cosy Balok are at the shelter even earlier to walk the dogs before the loading begins aboard the beautiful Res-cue Waggin’® van; sometimes as many as 50 puppies at a time! Tears of joy and sadness flow each and every time. It is a huge success story for us and for all the volun-teers that work so hard to save these helpless lives. Our thanks is little wet puppy kisses! Thanks to all of you in our community who have sup-ported the Humane Society in some way. You too have helped save lives and have helped ease the pain of so many sweet creatures.

Bear got old. Bear’s family didn’t want an old dog that just laid around. How can one give up a family member??? But that is just what happened to this old boy. Bear lived in the Humane Society lobby for about six weeks, keeping the staff company. Then one day the drivers for Rescue Waggin’® came to pick up pup-pies and Patty Henderson from Boulder, Colorado saw Bear and fell in love with the old guy and adopted him. Bear is going to have a loving forever home now in

Boulder, where he can live out his days. Thank you Patty for recognizing that there is still a lot of life in this old boy! Bear has worth as a com-panion! We are going to miss the old guy!! When you look to adopt, please remem-ber that older pets need love too!

~~LIVES SAVED~~ Established 24 years ago, the Humane Society has adopt-ed out 32,000 animals from our little shelter. Each of these ani-mals were spayed/neutered and vaccinated and placed into lov-ing homes. Many of them were transported to other facilities in Colorado and Arizona via horse trailer, truck, and airplane. The animals were transported by volunteers who knew the animals lives depended on taking them to areas that didn’t have the pet over-population that we have. The success of saving this many animals is due to some very dedicated people in our community. Some of these com-munity members have donated financially by faithfully participat-ing in our annual fundraisers of dances and our $10,000 raffle. Some have sent in their annual donation for 24 years. Many honor their departed loved ones and beloved pets by making donations to help care for these abandoned and abused lives. People like Martha Khoury, a former Gallup resident now living in La Jolla, CA, has donated much needed supplies. Many folks donate newspapers on a regular basis. Many of our youth, with the help of caring teachers, have created fundraisers and art projects to benefit the animals. Students and adults come in weekly to bathe and socialize the animals. A teacher from Gal-lup High, Cynthia Hull, donates her entire Saturday each week to walk every dog in our facility. Most of them are leash-trained because of this wonderful act of kindness. The dogs so look forward to their walks. Cynthia is happy because it keeps her in shape while helping the animals and she doesn’t have to pay a gym fee. If only the dogs could be walked daily. In 2012 we adopted out 1200 animals. Sena Fitzpatrick volunteered to take 92 animals (mostly adults) to adopt-a-thons in Albuquerque and was able to find homes for all of them. Vol-unteer Angela Cerci, worked diligently for hours networking to make arrangements for 75 animals (mostly adults) to go to dif-ferent shelters throughout Colorado. She arranged donations from numerous people to pay for the trips to transport these ani-mals which cost around $600 per trip. Kris Gruda works hard at networking. Our facility has ar-ranged transfers for almost 500 dogs and cats to go to wonder-ful homes in Arizona, Colorado and other parts of New Mexico so far this year. In February of 2012 we were accepted into a partnership with the PetSmart Rescue Waggin’® and in just 17 months, 677 animals have been transferred to Boulder, Colorado where this awesome program guarantees adoption and a loving home. We have not had to euthanize any puppies this year due

~~BEAR’S HAPPY TALE~~

Patty Henderson and Bear

What a blessing Martha Khoury is to our shelter! A former Gallup resident, Martha now resides in LaJolla, CA. But Martha has not forgotten her hometown of Gallup! So many times, she has sent us office supplies, cleaning sup-plies, food bowls, water buckets, candles, dog toys, hair dry-ers, puppy formula, cameras for our officers, and even a desk. It is like Christmas when the UPS man delivers all the

boxes! She has also sponsored the adoption of many of our ‘residents’, mak-ing sure the dogs and cats get a good home! Martha even treated our entire staff to a lovely New Years luncheon at Don Diego’s. We know some of Martha’s friends who live here in Gallup and they all tell us

“Martha is an ANGEL”! We certainly agree!!

Thank you Martha for all you do for our shelter!!!!

Imagine losing your blind and deaf senior pet that had

been with you for many years. Well, that is exactly what

happened to George and Anne Galanis. During the terrible

wind storms, their fence was blown down and their little old

schnauzer wandered out of their yard. They searched all

night for her to no avail.

A concerned citizen saw this little old dog wandering

down busy Route 66 at night and picked her up and took her

home with the plan to take her to the Humane Society the

following day.

The next morning George and Anne came to the Hu-

mane Society looking for their little old dog. Tired and sad,

yet hopeful, they searched each kennel without any luck.

While George and Anne were searching the kennels in

the back, in came the concerned citizen through the front

door carrying a confused old schnauzer. “We found this

poor old dog wandering down Route 66 last night”. As

George and Ann came to the front of the facility, they saw

their precious old schnauzer in the arms of strangers and

the tears started to flow from everyone’s eyes, including all

our staff! When this little old blind and deaf dog smelled her

owners, she wiggled and whimpered with JOY!

This is why we encourage people to bring the animals

they find to the shelter. Had this concerned citizen not

brought in the lost old dog, the Galanis family would never

have experienced this happy ending.


~~THANK YOU MARTHA KHOURY~~

This is Oreo helping us open one

of the many gift boxes sent by

Martha Khoury. Oreo and the

other dogs love the toys!!!!

~~HAPPILY REUNITED~~

~TASTE OF GALLUP—VOL. II~

After using 547 recipes in the first Taste of Gallup

cookbook, we still were not able to print all of the recipes

people wanted to share. It was such a huge success, we

are ready to start on Volume II and we need your help to make the second edition just as great a success as the

first!

Please share with us your favorite recipes, cooking

tips and even home remedies, by e-mailing your contri-

butions to [email protected] or you can

send recipes by postal mail to Humane Society, PO Box

550, Gallup, NM 87305, attention Sandra or Betsy. Start

sharing immediately!!

Some of the old-time recipes are difficult to under-

stand without some visual help, so we are going to do a

video tape of Luby Grenko making her famous Povatica,

Casey Balok-Gay making her delicious Baklava, along

with several other notable cooks. When the cookbook is

completed and we begin our sales, the FIRST 50 books

sold will receive a free DVD of the cooks in action! After

the first 50, the DVD’s will be available while supply lasts

for $5 along with the $25 cookbook.

Preparing this recipe book is a labor of love and is a

time-consuming process, so be patient and share your

recipes with us and you will see the results soon!!!

Right now it is just

a yellow bus. We re-

moved the word

SCHOOL so as not to

confuse the issue. The

seats have been re-

moved and permanent

crates installed so we

can use the bus to

transport animals. We

hope to get assistance

from the UNM-Gallup auto body class or from a high

school class to have the bus painted.

Wouldn’t it be fun to have animal graphics painted

on the bus, too?! We would like to put out a call to

local artists who would be willing to volunteer their time

to add some whimsical characters to our bus after it has

new body paint. Please contact us at the Humane Soci-

ety if you are interested in painting our bus!

We are tremen-

dously grateful to Ri-

co Auto Complex for

their help in obtaining

this bus. Thank you

Marty and Mickey

Menapace for this

wonderful contribu-

tion to our shelter!!

THANK YOU RICO AUTO COMPLEX


Our condolences and blessings to those who

have lost a loved one or a precious pet.

We thank you for remembering the

Humane Society at such a time of sorrow.

IN MEMORY OF JAMES PARISH Dick & Virginia White

IN MEMORY OF CHARLENE CRESTO ESPARZA

Dick & Virginia White

IN MEMORY OF H. V. DENNERLIEN Joe & Margaret Bolf

IN MEMORY OF JOE MESICH, SR.

Joe & Margaret Bolf

IN MEMORY OF KEN HOLLOWAY Pat Holloway & Terry Currier

IN MEMORY OF KATHY & GALEN BOWLES

Lisa Bowles

IN MEMORY OF DIXIE TANNER Dick & Virginia White

IN MEMORY OF PAUL DAVIS


IN MEMORY OF RALPH JORDON Dick & Virginia White

IN MEMORY OF IDA SANCHEZ

Ruth M. Gonzales Baca Sandra Garcia

Josephine Yurcic Belle & Dennis Baretinicich

IN MEMORY OF MARY JANE ASHCROFT

Josephine Yurcic Dick & Virginia White

IN MEMORY OF ROGER BIGGS, JR.

LiVon Bagh Dr. Oscar Paloma

Sandra & Jackie McKinney

IN MEMORY OF BOB DUNCAN Josephine Yurcic

IN MEMORY OF MARK JOHNSON

Josephine Yurcic

IN MEMORY OF DARBY SILVA Bill & Barbara Rucker

IN MEMORY OF LOUIS BORTOT

Joyce & David Lebeck

~~MEMORIALS AND RECOGNITION~~

IN MEMORY OF JIM McAVOY Dick & Virginia White

IN MEMORY OF JOHN BARRAZA


IN MEMORY OF KAYE GRUDA Sandra & Jackie McKinney

Julie Ramirez Gallup Lumber Family

Randy Wells & Michelle Kulish Nancy J. McDevitt

Pinnacle Bank Ann Doucette

IN MEMORY OF JUDGE LOUIS DePAULI

David & Joyce Lebeck

IN MEMORY OF MRS. CARRIE WINFIELD John & Theresa Dowling

IN MEMORY OF TOMAS HENIO

Judith Rapping

IN MEMORY OF BOB SIEBERSMA Thunderbird Jewelry Supply

Dr. & Mrs. Philip Kamps Jeanne Kamps

Rosemary Trimmingham The Bell Group

Ruth Ann Monroe Rosanne & Jerold Power

Gallup Lumber Family Mr. & Mrs. Dan Dible

Jeannie Fuhs

IN MEMORY OF STEVE TOMLJANOVICH Josephine Yurcic

IN MEMORY OF JOHN JEKIELEK

Josephine Yurcic Bill & Betty Armstrong

Sandra & Jackie McKinney

IN MEMORY OF TED BENDER Betty Chapman

IN MEMORY OF JUANITA KEZELE MITCHELL

Dan and Mary Ellen Marrello

In Memory of TAFFY Madeline Jennings

In Honor of BLACK DOG

Advanced Technical Services

In Honor of MANGO, KIWI & PEACHES Patricia Sheely

IN MEMORY OF DANO GRAVES

Paul & Joyce Graves


It has been a long time coming, but the Humane Society is finally entering the 21st Century! Gone are our ledger books which were totally hand-written! Gone are the index cards we must use to mark each animal’s kennel. Gone are the hand-written receipts! Life is getting streamlined at the Humane Society and Metro Animal Control!! Thru special funding from the City of Gallup, we have been able to purchase computers and a computer program “ShelterPro” specifically designed for shelter and animal control tracking. Our officers now have lapel cameras to film dan-

gerous situations plus new communication radios with longer range (we no longer have to share a frequency with the Solid Waste department!) We also have new telephones that tie us directly into the City Offices. The City Electrical Department up-graded outlets and wiring for us, too. And for the animal’s listening pleasure, we now have music throughout the facility. At night we can turn on classical music which is best for soothing the animals to sleep. During the day we can play light music to sooth us while we work! What a joy to be up-grading our work-world. We send out our huge thanks to the Mayor and City Council for their approval of the funding, and to all the City staff who have helped make this happen: Rick Snider, Joe Eckert and Suzanne Begaye, your tireless work is greatly appreciated! THANK YOU!!!

~~ENTERING THE 21st CENTURY~~

What a difference love has made for this sweet momma dog! She does not look like the same dog! Lilly was rescued from the streets of Gallup. It was obvious that she had been used simply for breeding. Her shoul-ders were hunched from being confined in a small cage designed only for breeding plus her teeth had been ground down to almost nothing to stop her from biting the male dogs. She was skinny to the point of starvation, her ribs and spine ex-posed. She also had infected teats from so many litters and no veterinarian care. She had sores on her body and was totally deaf. Poor Lilly was simply down-trodden and very close to death’s door! Enter networking to find a rescue shelter. Happily, she is now rather full-figured, living in a loving home in Colorado. Lilly originally went to Pam to be fostered with plans to place her in a different forever home. But Pam is what we call a “Failed Foster” as she fell in love with Lilly and decided to adopt her and not send her on to another home. We extend our gratitude to Evergreen

Animal Protective League for help with this sweet dog. We also send our gratitude to Angela Cerci for her work in getting Lilly transferred to Colorado so that she could find love and a forever home! And thank you Pam for giving Lilly that loving home!

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~~A VERY HAPPY TALE~~


Discount Spay-Neuter Clinics

( low-income )

Every Wednesday: 505-863-2616

Pick up an application at the Humane Society Shelter and

make an appointment to have your pet spayed or neutered.

The Gallup McKinley County

Humane Society

P. O. Box 550

Gallup, NM 87305-0550

U.S. POSTAGE PAID

PERMIT # 631

NON-PROFIT ORGANIZATION

GALLUP, NEW MEXICO

~~SUCCESSFUL ADOPTION STATISTICS~~

For the year 2012, we took in a total of 5,874 animals, of which we were able to find homes for 1,140 of those animals, and we transferred 603 animals to other facilities . For 151 fortunate animals, they were joy-ously returned to their families! We had 45 critters that were released back into the wild; this includes feral cats, skunks, foxes, birds and even a snake! Our officers had the very difficult job of picking up 156 animals that were dead on our streets and highways and we put 11 animals on rabies watch. But for the very sad and difficult part of our job, we unfortunately had to euthanize 1,208 animals that were unadoptable because of injuries or illness, and yet another 1,668 animals were euthanized simply be-cause we could not find homes for them. Yes, those adoption statistics are wonderful, but the other stats wrench our hearts daily. We would not have these sad statistics if only we humans would do our job to have our pets spayed or neutered. We offer a discount spay and neuter clinic each Wednesday. Please be a RESPONSIBLE HUMAN and schedule your pet to be sterilized so that they do not contribute to the sad part our job every day.

Carrying a full line of Pet Supplies:

Dog Food, Snacks, Pet Doors, Collars, Leashes,

Cable, Chain, Dog Houses, Kennels,

Cat Food, Flea & Tick Collars, Cat Litter, Scoops,

Bird Seed, Suet Treats, Feeders,

Corrals, Gates and Panels, Fencing, Stock Tanks.

Documents

Dog Park Tree Planting