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DOG SANCTUARY PROJECT
Marty and Angela Donald of Sardis, MS are dog lovers on a special mission. The mission is to open a dog sanctuary in Panola County, MS for homeless,abused,neglected and last chance dogs, those dogs who are to be euthanized because of over crowding, behavioral problems or disabilities in local area humane shelters and those running loose within our communities. The sanctuary would also care for family dogs of mid-south military service personel who were deployed.
Angela Donald is a Canine Behavior Consultant in private practice who feels the county needs help with dogs running loose all over the county. This is a dangerous situation, packs of dogs are forming within the county and could potentially be life threatening to livestock, other animals and people. "The best dog in the world can become vicious when in packs, as their natural instincts kick in." Batesville does have a humane shelter but it only picks up animals inside Batesville city limits leaving the rest of us to deal with this problem. Many of the dogs in local area shelters and running loose are very adoptable and its just inhumane to euthanize them in her opinion. Angela Donald has been a 40 year veteran dog owner and enthusiast ,shows boxer dogs, she has three international champions at this time and has devoted much of her life to canines and the study of their behavior. She is also a active rescue volunteer, author and volunteers for AllExperts.com.
"I believe we can make a difference in the county and community by starting this project. My expertise will allow me to rehabilitate many dogs who would otherwise be euthanized, instead allowing them to be adopted into loving homes, those less fortunate and with disabilities like blindness and deafness would be able to live out their lives at the sanctuary if no one adopts them. I advocate responsible pet ownership through public education and would also like to start spay and neuter programs county wide. We would also like to start a program for our military service personnel in the midsouth, those being deployed would be able to house their dogs with us at the sanctuary while deployed instead of giving them up to the humane shelters in our areas who are kill facilities".
This project will never come to past by using grants as there aren't any available for this. So Angela has come up with a unique way to possibly fund the start up of the sanctuary, she has entered one of their dogs into a contest for cutest dog, grandprize 1 MILLION DOLLARS, Dealer a boxer with a unique # 7 marking is vowing to be the cutest dog in the contest. The contest runs until approximately Oct 26, 2009 with 12 weekly winners, those 12 will compete for the top 4 spots voted by the public and then the sponsors of the contest to pick the grand prize winner.
Since the public is voting Angela asks everyone with a computer to help us win this contest by voting daily for Dealer, it will take many thousands of votes in a week to get into one of those 12 spots as a finalist, with the publics help we have a real chance at winning this. Please vote for Dealer online at http://tiny.cc/VOTE763 . Together we can make our community a better place and help these wonderful canines live a life filled with love and compassion that they might not otherwise have. Tell your friends and family all over the country to Vote daily too.
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Angela says...
Well we didn't win the contest but we do have two foster dogs at this time, Mikey and Woody, both mix breeds looking for forever homes. Both are sweet loving souls.If you are interested in adopting one of these guys or need more information please feel free to contact me at hitowerboxers@aol.com, I'll try to get pictures up soon or you can go to petfinder.com and look up Panola County Humane Society in MS for photos of them and other dogs looking for a forever home. Remember the Panola County Humane Society is a group of dedicated volunteers who foster dogs in our county within their own homes as they have no shelter of their own.