Greetings Volunteers,
We urgently need pet food donations! Our Pet Safety Net program provides free pet food to hundreds of pet guardians struggling to make ends meet. The demand has skyrocketed over the past few months, and our shelves are almost bare. Here’s how you can help:
Buy an e-gift card from Amazon, Target, or Safeway and email it to petfooddrive@marinhumane.org, so we can purchase food as needed.
Buy an item (or two!) from our Amazon wish list or Chewy wish list and it’ll be delivered directly to us. Just in time for Amazon Prime Day!
Drop off pet food donations in the donation bin at our main campus in Novato. You can also drop off or mail physical gift cards (we love Pet Food Express and Woodlands Pet Food & Treats!).
THANK YOU for supporting our Pet Safety Net so we can keep animals in their homes where they belong!
Shelter update: We currently have 333 animals in our collective care. 262 are at Marin Humane: 88 animals in foster and 174 animals in the shelter/Kitty Corner, including: 31 dogs, 4 puppies, 53 cats, 68 kittens, 6 rabbits, 3 guinea pigs, 4 reptiles, and 5face birds. 71 animals are with Hopalong: 7 animals are in the Oakland office and 68 cats, kittens, dogs, and puppies are in foster or offsite adoption sites!
Adoptions update: Another Wednesday, another week of wonderful adoptions! Enjoy the weekly adoption slideshow if you need a little boost today! And can we get three cheers for this beautiful more mild summer weather?! 
Thank you to all the adopters … here’s the Adoption Report with more details!
Hopalong happenings! Meet Ninja! This adorable kitten was rescued from the trash this week by one of our foster’s parents, who sadly witnessed it being abandoned at his worksite. He was able to safely contain the kitten in a Ninja blender box, and as you might have guessed, that’s how Ninja got his name. When Ninja arrived at Hopalong’s office, he found more helpful hands ready to turn things around! One of Hopalong’s team members cleaned him up and brought him home to foster. Maybe he’s already landed in his forever home? At the very least, his luck has changed and he’s being shown the better side of humanity now!
Goat rescue! Just a couple goats out for a morning stroll… wait, what? Last week, our Animal Services Officers brought a multiple-week endeavor to a dramatic conclusion when they rounded up these baaa-aaad goats on the loose!
For a few weeks, we’d been receiving calls from concerned residents reporting that a pair of goats was on the loose in Mill Valley. But this duo was proving especially elusive and our officers hadn’t yet gotten a good opportunity to catch them – until Monday, that is, when we received a call that they were in the backyard of a home on Eton Drive. Our officers knew they had a good chance of success this time! Officer Chris Middagh was the first to arrive and when he surveyed the yard, he knew it was a good location to corral the elusive goats. We contacted the property owner who advised us that he was out of town. Knowing we would need as many people as we could muster to catch the wily, wayward goats, Officer Middagh called Officer Adrienne Russo on the phone to formulate a plan. Officer Russo then looped in Officer Conner Cimmiyotti, Officer Brett Trumper, and Officer Dave Stapp, who brough the Rescue Truck and a second van stocked with x-pens.
Once everyone was on scene, they finalized their plan. Step one, back the van all the way up to the open gate. Step two, use the x-pens to build a chute to guide the goats into the back of the van. Step three, position the team in their respective places to herd and move the goats. Using large animal rescue skids as blocker boards, the officers moved up around the goats, pushing them down the hill towards the house and the open gate. The goats stopped momentarily at the gate, looked into the back of the van, and then – amazingly – jumped right in! With the precious cargo now secured in the van, our officers transported the goats back to the shelter where they got to unwind from their adventures in our barn. Soon after, their guardian happily came to claim them. Baaa-aaall’s well that end’s well! Thank you to our resourceful Animal Services Officers for being the GOAT when catching these goats!
Volunteer High Five to Laundry Volunteers! “Did you happen to notice how extremely HOT it was the last few weeks, maybe the hottest June ever (pretty hard to have missed it, right?!). Well, our hardy laundry volunteers came in every day to do laundry … outside … in the heat! Talk about dedication! So, this Volunteer High Five is for you Annette, Christine, Heidi, Iris, Linda, Melinda, Sue, Valerie, and Viv! We saw you out back working away in front of the washers & dryers, and wanted to make you know how much all of the animal care staff appreciate you. Three cheers to our heroic laundry volunteers!!” – Kyle Dunlop, Animal Care Supervisor
Columbia Sportswear discount! Our Columbia Sportswear Employee Store Perk is here again! Here’s the Columbia Sportswear Store Summer Invitation, valid for employees and volunteers from July 5-July 28th! Here are some details: for store access, please provide your digital invite (printed or shown on your mobile device) + proof of affiliation; you can bring up to four additional guests with each visit; and, this offer is for store access (not valid online). Happy shopping!
Happy ending: Who doesn’t love a before-and-after??? Check out Mr. Furley upon his arrival and at the time of his adoption. Talk about a totally different cat! And Mr. Furley’s transformation during his 2 months in our care wasn’t just physical, it was also behavioral. When Mr. Furley arrived in late April as a stray, he was covered in ticks, clearly very ill, and totally shut down. Our clinic determined that he was suffering from a severe upper respiratory infection and needed a solid grooming – plus plenty of patience. With time and care, he recovered and his personality started to show. Sure enough, Mr. Furley was an absolute sweetheart who’d just been feeling extra crummy! Once he was better, he became a total lap cat and lovebug. Now feeling much better, Mr. Furley went up for adoption and quickly found his forever home. We’re so grateful Mr. Furley got the new beginning he so deserved! Happy tails, Mr. Furley!
Tails of Marin: Not every dog is going to be a fan of dog parks – and that’s okay! When dog parks become about what WE want, instead of what’s best for our dogs, we’re not being good pet parent to them. Read more in this week’s Tails of Marin, “Dog parks aren’t all fun and games.”
Hope you have a fantastic week!
Candace
