An anonymous donor has pledged to match every dollar given to Rescue The Animals, SPCA up to $20,000. This offer is gooduntil May 1, 2011. Our donor will match any amount you give.

You can double your money and double the number of animals you can help. Think of it as Las Vegas for animals! You can send us a check and boom, your money is doubled. No matter what number comes up on the dice, no matter which cards you draw, your money is doubled! We know you will miss seeing Venice and the big pyramid in Las Vegas, but this is a sure thing. Since you are saving air fare, you can probably even make the check a little bigger. Because of the recession, we are seeing a big increase in the number of animals with very serious medical problems, and a dramatic rise in starving animals. It is critical that we have your help to meet this matching opportunity! Matching Cats Need Your Matching donation! Solid gray Russian Blue cats are beautiful, but very hard to tell apart, except our pair. Anastazia came to us after an accident and lost her right eye. Ophelia, her almost twin, had to have her left eye removed because of a birth defect. Oh, Ophelia also had to have most of her tail removed; but working together, they did very well on the vision chart. You can save two cats for the price of one!

Pebbles Rolls Snake Eyes….Your Luck is her last chance. Dumped at a Fina station (in Abilene not Las Vegas), the very skinny Chihuahua was totally out of luck. Pebbles had a high fever, a bad skin condition, terrible teeth, a broken tail, a blind eye, and has a very bad case of heartworms! Pebbles is undergoing heartworm treatment, and by doubling your money, you can help change her luck.

Doubling Your Money Will Bring Serenity, or at least find her a home! Serenity (below) was found, matted and dirty, on an Abilene street, by a lady walking her dog. The woman soon discovered that Serenity’s puppies had all been dumped in a nearby dumpster. Left to fend for herself in freezing weather, Serenity’s luck changed when she arrived at our Adoption Center. As you can see below, she is very, very happy!

Tomcat Surprise Parties Fix over 300 Tomcats in 4 Days! Our Tomcat Surprise Parties are quite a hit. Dr. Celeste Hill is donating her time to fix every Tomcat in West Texas as we work to double our spays and neuters in 2011. Thanks to Rudy Fernandez at KEAN for all the great FREE publicity! We will fix your Tomcat for Free when you pay $19.99 for Shots!

Help us Save 100 Pets in 48 Hours on April 5th and 6th at PetSmart West Texas’ largest ever pet adoption event will be held at PetSmart when the North Shore Animal League’s Tour for Life stops in Abilene. Working with PetSmart and the City of Abilene, we will bring animals from pounds all over West Texas to this huge event. Our goal is to adopt over 100 animals in 48 hours. Last year’s event saved 46 in five hours. We’ll need volunteers!

Jones County Sheriff Helping more Horses We continue to receive calls almost daily about horses that are starving. With no market for horses, owners have nowhere to turn. Coffee was starving in Jones County, when found by Sheriff’s deputies who arranged for the owner to call us. Lora Jones from Hendrick Home for Children picked her up and has begun her rehabilitation. The Jones County Sheriff’s department has brought us several horses over the past few months as they carefully monitor reports of neglect.

Brown County Horses Arrive After a month of negotiation, two Brown County horses are safe. One is a 16-year-old brood mare (Registered American Quarter Horse), the other is her 18-month-old filly. A Brown County man saw them in trouble and worked with their owner to send them to us. Our friend David Gray of Gray Performance Horses is working to bring them back to good health. We need homes for horses, and we need folks with land who can foster horses. Call Lynn Shults 695-7270.

5K Run and 1 Mile Run/Walk to benefit SPCA on May 14. Jane Hill and her mom, Molly Hill, are hard at work organizing a terrific benefit for our animals to be held at Nelson Park. Call 829-0035 for details. Register online at www.abilenerunners.com.

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Matching Grant Doubles Help us Fight Animal Your Donation till May 1 Dumping!

....Till May 1, 2011 Give $20 and we get $40! Give $500 and we get $1,000!

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Become a Pet Partner and we can double your first year’s gift! With our Matching Grant, we can double whatever you give as a Pet Partner for the first year. If you donate $10 a month as a Pet Partner, that’s $120 per year. BUT we receive $240 because your Gift is doubled! Your monthly donation on a

bank draft or credit card can make a huge difference for our animals.Garage Sale Stuff Needed…Call us to Donate. Dachshund Races July 21st

About 8,000 animals will die at the City of Abilene Animal Shelter this year, but thousands more will be dumped beside the road and even in dumpsters! Dumping and abandoning animals are against the law, but no one is ever prosecuted…..until now!

Puppy Dumper Does Probation Our friend Sheriff Ed Miller made history in January. He arrested a Shackelford County man for dumping puppies and got a conviction. This is the only animal-dump-ing conviction that we can find in our area. The suspect was seen dumping the pup-pies in early December. With a description of the vehicle the sheriff was able to make an arrest. Josie Robertson of Albany’s Cause for Paws had given the suspect a spay voucher to help him get the mother dog spayed and had posted his puppies for adop-tion just two weeks before they were dumped. After the, arrest we took the puppies.

$500 Reward! Puppy Dumped at Rose Park A sensationally cute five-month-old Rat Terrier was found under the bridge in Rose Park. Dumping? Well, he was locked inside a pet carrier with no food or water. We are offering a $500 reward for information that leads to a conviction. Kale is hoping for a new home. No Trolls need apply (or is that discriminatory?).

$500 Reward! Spirit of Tuscola As with most witnesses, the folks were so amazed to see a dog emerge from the box that

was thrown out of the speeding truck that they did not get a license number. Spirit was “speed dumped” in a cardboard box with a little food near Tuscola. However, Spirit had been terribly neglected and left in pain his entire life. He has the worst case of demodectic mange that any of our vets have ever seen, and he has had it since birth! The poor dog has bleeding scabs covering his entire body from mange mites. We are deploying the latest in veterinary science to save him, but it will be months before we know if we can control the mange.

Siamese Survives, Sniffles, and Thrives An entire litter of Siamese kittens was dumped beside the road. Only one was still alive when someone found them. Spice survived with just a case of the sniffles and is mending quickly.

We Get Trapped at Our Dumpster Our staff saw a mom and four kittens beside the dumpster at our Adoption Center. Since only two were tame enough to handle, they put out a live trap to catch the others. Our trap was promptly

stolen! We guess the dumper needed a trap to bring us more inventory! Our survivors are Thicket and Thorn.

Dumping or Unleaded? Sitting between two gas pumps in a box, the little dog was shivering. No one at the Allsup’s store saw who dumped him. The folks who found him would have kept Colton, but their landlord demanded a big pet deposit, so Colton moved in with us.

We Corner the Golden& Piggy Markets!

Knowing they were in over their heads, the owners brought us a beautiful pregnant Golden Retriever who soon gave us 9 Golden puppies. Now you can invest in the hottest commodity on the market with one of our puppies; but hurry, our gold may eat us out of house and home. Porky and Piglet, whose mom died on New Year’s Day when they were only hours old are hoping for a Golden future too. The owners brought the little Chihuahuas to us, and Joy Stamm has been feeding them around the clock. They will be ready for adoption soon…call now!

Manx Kitty Loves Dogs! Pumpkin the Manx kitten really loves her dogs! When found as a stray, she tried to nurse from the people’s dog (who was quite under-standing). Pumpkin has joined our back office staff and is a typing dude!

Thanksgiving for Rosie Among our Thanksgiving guests were Rosie and her litter of 5 puppies brought to us by Bob and Melody Barr. When Rosie came to the door of Bob’s shop, he shooed her away and followed her outside to make sure she moved on. But, then he heard a puppy yelp. Follow-ing Rosie, he found her litter of pups under an

old trailer. They took food to the dogs for several days before Melody stroked Rosie’s side and felt a heavy wire cable. “This dog has almost been cut in two,” she told Bob. After cutting away the wire, a coyote snare, Bob found a terrible gash that ran all the way around Rosie’s body.The cut was just behind her front legs, and she had almost torn herself apart to break the snare loose from its anchor. She had been trapped ei-ther hours before or just after giving birth to her puppies! Despite a very deep gash in her chest, she was able to feed her puppies. Dr. Allen Bolt was amazed she had survived, but said the cut

had to be left open to heal. Over Thanksgiving, we cleaned and treated her wound two times every day as Rosie fed her puppies. She was a perfect mom despite her pain. The Barrs visited Rosie every week, and when her puppies were weaned they adopted her. Her puppies are now ready for adoption too!

Vaccinations $19.99 Every Wed. 1:00 to 3:30! Spay/Neuter Cats: $30 & up Dogs: $40 & up Call 698-SPCA

We are teaming up with the City of Abilene to put every animal at the Abilene Animal Shelter on sale for the month of March. We will offer a $20 mail-in rebate for spay/neuter on every animal. We will also run advertising to promote the sale since the City has no ad budget for the pound. Make a Double Your Money donation now, and we will save two animals instead of just one!

Christmas Sale Sets Record! Our big Christmas sale at the Abilene Animal Shelter saved a record 192 dogs and cats! We offered a $20 mail-in rebate on spay/neuter, and the City put every animal on sale. Our thanks to everyone who donated in December to make our sale possible.

Pre-Emergency Surgery Live and direct from death row, the little black dog thought everything was OK.We did too, until Dr. Jimmy Smith felt something he did not like when prepping the dogfor her spay. Oops…a huge pile of almost marble-sized bladder stones had to be removed. Now, we are OK! We do surgeries of some type every week.

Happy Trails Lead to Our Clinic! You’ll meet Natalie at our front desk or picking up dogs on the street! She saw Tread running in traffic with a hole in his leg! An old wound had not healed, and tissue had to be removed. Re-treaded, he is ready to travel. The San Saba Kid was spotted limping

along the highway by a lady driving from Austin to Abilene. She was shocked to see nothing but bare bones sticking out where toes should have been. Dr. Allen Bolt repaired the old injury, but wanted posters on the Kid will mention a lack of toes on one foot. Does your gang need a new member?