PAWS Winter 2015-16 Newsletter

Animal Fest 2015 a Big Success!

Thanks to everyone who worked so hard to make Animal Fest 2015 a huge success!

Our great t-shirts are still on sale for $20 each. T-shirt sales are part of how we raise money to care for the animals in

our no-kill shelter!

We appreciate our sponsors: The Muskogee Phoenix, A&B Distributors, Haley & Loyd Jewelry, Advanced

Workzone Services, Bumgarner Heat & Air, Charlie’s Chicken East, Sadler Paper Company, Oxford Productions, Five

Star Office Supply, Holloway Updike & Bellen Inc., Animal Medical Center, Louis & Dorothy Farmer, Corporate to

Casual, Health Biz, Inc. and Cross Communications.

Also, we greatly appreciate the donations from our friends at: Bebb’s Flowers, Applebee’s, Bella

Mea’s, Jimmy’s Egg, Homeland on Chandler, I’m a Basket Case, Tractor Supply, My Place Bar-B-Q East and West,

Griffin Holdings, Kmart, Runt’s Bar B-Q, Chili’s, Freddy’s, Mahylon’s Bar-B-Q, Golden Corral, Red Lobster, Rib Crib,

Boom-a-Rang Diner, Buffalo Wild Wings, Speedway Grille and Hamlin’s El Toro.

And Finally…We appreciated the entertainment provided by Mountain Grove Bluegrass Band and thanks to the food

trucks who participated: Dawgs Hawg Wild, Sizzling Bones, Kicken Tacos and Rozay’s Wings and Things. Thanks to

Patsy Rodin and Martha Stoodley for the baked goods, and to student volunteers Geni Gallant and Julia Mulder.

PAWS Has Many Great Dogs & Cats for Adoption! If you know of someone that would make a great pet owner and has a fenced-in yard (for dogs), have them give us a call at (918) 686-7297.

Before bringing a new dog into your home, please

carefully consider the needs and characteristics of the breed. Some breeds require a great deal of outside exercise, or even a "job" to do in order to be healthy and happy. Other breeds are real lap dogs or good around children or other animals. Do your homework before you adopt!

Green Paw Efforts: Through our efforts to recycle aluminum pop, beer and

energy drink cans, PAWS earned $625.72 for 2015. Please drop off your donations to our shelter!

Thanks to everyone who donated to PAWS. Donations are what keep us going!

Janet Niezgoda - Donation

Kirschner Trusts – Donation

Courtney Pendley - Donated Dry dog food and HE liquid washer soap.

Pamela Upton - Donation

Leonia Barker - Donation

Gina Wood - Donation from Hershel and Sasha that were adopted from PAWS

Pasty Rodin - Donation and brought PAWS employee Chocolate Cake

Truist - Donation

Raymond & Elizabeth Brown - Donation

Mame Palmer - Donation

Bill & Sabina Beckman - Donation in memory of Carolyn Bresser-Cory

Leisha Haworth - Donation

Sue Johnson - Donation

V. David & Billie Miller Family Foundation - Donation in memory of Myrle O'Dell and Carl J. Sterling

Joan L. Murray-Hogan - Donation in memory of Janet Davis

Millie Nice - Christmas Donation

Miller Family Foundation - Christmas Donation

John & Eva Galluzzi - Christmas Donation

Ansel Smart - Donation

Steve Yaffe Charitable Trust – Donation

Patsy Rodin - Donation and Candy Bars for volunteers and employee's

Arabel Jonston"s Estate - Donation, she was a long time member and good friends with Dorothy over the years

Charlotte Palmer - Donation

Dorothy Farmer - Canned cat food

Terry & Mary Eddings - Donation Animal Fest 2015

Theresa Miracle -Donation Animal Fest 2015

Mamie Palmer - Donation

Patsy Rodin – Multiple Donations, Candy Bars, cookies for employees

Charlotte Palmer - Donation

Marshall & Brenda Helsley - Donation

Timothy & Kara Holder - Donation in memory of Janet Davis

Alice Malcolm - Donation

Paige Frix - Donated Best Choice UPC Bar Codes

Frances Cannon - Donation

Michael & Evalyn Massey - Donation

Ann Barker Ong - Donation

Jim & Rose Mary Lemley - Donation

Special Thanks!

Thanks to Dillard's for having PAWS bring some dogs for their fashion show at Arrowhead Mall raising money for Kids Space on February 12, 2015. The employees made a donation to PAWS. Lori Fullbright from Channel 6 was the commentator. Also want to thank Jessie Everett and his wife Carol Anne Cleland for taking the 3 dogs for this event; they were Buddy, Scott and Harley. Also want to thank Town & Country Grooming Pups and Eva Fuller for donating the grooming for Harley. They are great ladies and do great jobs on the dogs.

Memberships & Renewals

Billie Flinn - New Membership Individual

(Joyce Morgan) Molly - Pet membership

Austin & Betsy Kenyon - Renewed Family

Janet Niezgoda - Renewed Individual

Sara Sherwood - Renewed Bronze

Leisha Haworth - Renewed Bronze

Jackie Sanders - Renewed Business membership

Leonia Barker - Renewed Grand PAW membership

Elouise Farmer - Renewed Individual Membership

Victoria Carvajal - Renewed Bronze

David & Pamela Miller - Renewed Family

Tom & Barbara Guthrie - Renewed Family

Millie Nice - Renewed Family

Bob & Pamela Taylor - Renewed Family

Thomas & Susan Spears - Renewed Family

Raymond & Elizabeth Brown - Renewed Family

Shirley Miller - Renewed Individual

Jean Van - Renewed Individual

Lucile Wilcoxen - Renewed Family

Mame Palmer - Renewed Family

Tenia McCormick - Renewed Individual

Debbie Cohea - Renewed Individual

Vyrl Keeter - Renewed Family

Norma McFadden - Renewed Individual

James Kinsey and Shirley Bryant - Renewed Family

Nick & Laurie Fuller - Renewed Bronze

Health Biz, Inc. - Jody Montgomery - Renewed Business

Helen Payte - Renewed Individual

Kathy Geddie - Renewed Individual

Ronald & Nancy Slavenwhite - Renewed Bronze

David & Diane Johnston - Renewed Family

Marshall & Brenda Helsley - Renewed Silver

Holloway Updike & Bellen, Inc. - Renewed Business

Gains & Diana Smith - Renewed Family Membership

Patsy Rodin - Renewed Individual Membership

Bill & Sabina Beckman - Renewed Gold Membership

Judith Anderson - Renewed Individual

Terry & Mary Eddings - Renewed Gold Membership

Clayton & Rita Farmer - Renewed Gold Membership

Albert J. Thomas, Jr. - Renewed Bronze

Felicitas Anthis - Renewed Individual

Carolyn Lane - Renewed Individual

Marcy Rappapart - Renewed Individual

Robert & Pamela Taylor - Renewed Family

Jeff & Angie Gallant & Family - Renewed Bronze

Jim & Tracy Blair- Renewed Family

Joan Beasley - Renewed Grand PAW

Lonn Crews - Renewed Grand PAW

Sherrill Durbin - Renewed Individual

Dewey & Mary Isaacs - Renewed Family

Janet David - Renewed Grand PAW

Dr. Walter Davis - Renewed Individual

Michael & Evalyn Massey - Renewed Family

Jim & Rose Mary Lemley - Renewed 2 Grand PAWS

James Terrill - Renewed Grand PAW

Don & Lolita Myers - Renewed Bronze

Sharon Parnell - Renewed Individual

Joyce Morgan - Renewed Grand PAW

Ernie & Dorothy Sykora - Renewed Family

McGraw Motor Company - Renewed Business

Moffitt Parker & Company - Renewed Business

Shelle Hamlin - Renewed Individual

Virgil's Beauty College - Renewed Business

Orval & Mary Baldwin - Renewed Bronze

Shirley Wallace - Renewed Individual

Diana Youngman - Renewed Bronze

Muskogee Lock & Key - Renewed Bronze

Ed Farris - Renewed Individual

Joyce Morgan - Renewed Grand PAW

2016 PAWS Board of Director’s Meeting Dates:

Feb. 24, May 24, July 27, Sept. 28

All board meetings begin at 12:00 p.m. at the

Muskogee Non-Profit Resource Center, 207 N. 2nd Street, Muskogee, OK

Thanks to all of our volunteer board members!

Going on Vacation and can’t take the pets? PAWS can board your furry friends! Please call us at 918-686-7297 to make a reservation.

Pet Tips

Spaying a female cat before her first heat cycle will contribute to a longer life for her.

Neutered male cats are calmer, less likely to roam and less likely to develop prostrate cancer.

Be gentle, but firm when training your dog. Never hit the dog as this creates fear, not respect.

Dogs who are trained to obey commands are less likely to bite when nervous or injured.

Avoid isolating your dog and give it the opportunity to socialize around people.

CAT FACTS

The domestic cat is the only species able to hold its tail vertically while walking. Wild cats hold their tail

horizontally, or tucked between their legs while walking.

The catgut formerly used as strings in tennis rackets and musical instruments does not come from cats.

Catgut actually comes from sheep, hogs, and horses.

Both humans and cats have identical regions in the brain responsible for emotions.

Electric light or light from your TV set will make your cat shed their fur.

Sir Isaac Newton invented the cat door.

Despite its reputation for being finicky, the average cat consumes about 127,750 calories a year, nearly 28

times its own weight in food and the same amount again in liquids. In case you were wondering, cats

cannot survive on a vegetarian diet.

The Maine Coon cat is America's only natural breed of domestic feline.

2015 PAWS Adoption Summary

Adoptions: 63

Spay/neuter vouchers: 56

Transports to other state: 19 dogs

A Special “THANKS TO VOLUNTEERS”

These ladies brought homemade treats for the shelter dogs for Christmas. And they brought their sweet little dogs dressed in their Christmas outfits. The little black one was adopted from PAWS 3 years ago. A big thank you to these ladies and their sweet little dogs! Thanks to Rose Mary Lemley, Ranae Bumgarner, Charlotte Palmer, Jessie and Carol Everett and Patsy Rodin for all their efforts on behalf of PAWS. We couldn’t give enough thanks to Louis Farmer, who mows, weed eats and brush hogs the pasture behind PAWS and our front lawn. He also goes to Oklahoma City and elsewhere for loads of food and for supplies here in town. Louis repairs things at PAWS has saved us many thousands of dollars over the years! We truly appreciate Linda Lee for keeping our face book page up and Chad Farmer for many years of doing our web page.

GOOD IDEAS for dealing with pet messes….

A window squeegee works wonders on furniture and stairs for removing pet hair.

A regular rubber glove works to pick up hair but doesn't have to be wet.

You can use a lint roller on your cat. They will love it and they are getting groomed at the same time.

Woolite is a good pet stain remover.

ANIMAL ABUSE & HUMAN ABUSE PARTNERS IN CRIME

Violent acts toward animals have long been recognized as indicators of a violent psychopathology that does not

confine itself to animals. "Anyone who has accustomed himself to regard the life of any living creature as

worthless is in danger of arriving also at the idea of worthless human lives." wrote humanitarian Albert

Schweitzer. "Murders very often start out by killing and torturing animals as kids," according to Robert K.

Resler, who developed profiles of serial killers for the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI). Studies have now

convinced sociologists, lawmakers, and the courts that acts of cruelty toward animals deserve our attention.

They can be the first sign of a violent pathology that includes humans.

A LONG ROAD OF VIOLENCE

Animal abuse is not just the result of a minor personality flaw in the abuser, but a symptom of deep disturbance.

Research in psychology and criminology shows that people who commit acts of cruelty against animals don't

stop there; many of them move on to their fellow humans.

The FBI has found that a history of cruelty to animals is one of the traits that regularly appears in its computer

records of serial rapists and murderers, and the standard diagnostic and treatment manual for psychiatric and

emotional disorders lists cruelty to animals as a diagnostic criterion for conduct disorders.

Studies have shown that violent and aggressive criminals are more likely to have abused animals as children

than criminals considered non-aggressive. A survey of psychiatric patients who had repeatedly tortured dogs

and cats found all of them had high levels of aggression toward people as well, including one patient who had

murdered a boy. To researchers, a fascination with cruelty to animals is a red flag in the lives of serial rapists

and killers.