BELOW IS THE EMAIL ABOUT THE WV SHELTER THAT MADE ME ASK YOU TO VOTE FOR THEM FIRST:
WOW! This story is is really compelling...
These two women can use ANY help you can give. I don't even know what to say...
Please find it in your heart to help...in any way.
Crosspost far and wide.
You can donate easily through their website:
Their website is
http://beaglestotherescue.org/l/q6bbtt/1277937;http://www.petfinder.com/shelters/WV127.html
Jan 5, 2010 04:14:53 PM, ##### wrote:
Go to their web page and if you can donate $10 it would so help!
Welch, WV, is about 2 and a half hours southeast of Charleston, WV,
and about the same travel time northwest of Roanoke,VA.
The shelter has a Paypal donation site and they are desperately in need of $$ for food as well as rescues for their animals..any amount is good..even $5.00
They have Labs, Germ Shepherds, a Corgi, a Husky and Husky mixes, Chow mixes, a Greater Swiss Mountain dog, Hounds, a Beagle, a couple of Staffordshire Terriers (both purebred and mixes), Boxer mixes and lots of kitties!
http://beaglestotherescue.org/l/gy5gb0/1277937;http://www.petfinder.com/shelters/WV127.html
PLEASE read a detailed account of this situation below.
A West Virginia Shelter with a very sad story. I am forwarding this letter that I received last night in hopes that you will send it far and wide. Surely I understand that all shelters are in need of help but this is a story that I just had to share in hopes that you will pass it on far and wide. It is from a personal friend of mine who dedicates his life to saving dogs.
Hi Cynthia. Just wondering, do you have ###'s e-mail address? I want to drop them an e-mail to see if they have any extra food. I have been working with a shelter in Welch West Virginia ( McDowell County ) that desperately could use food or anything at all for that matter. When I made that run over christmas I had to go to that shelter for Pat McCann to pick up the pups. I was able to pull a couple of adults out of there but I just feel compelled to help them out any way I can.
The shelter is run out of an old Coal Company Store that they were able to get donated to them after it had been abandoned . Definitely designed as a shelter but they are doing the best they can. They have portable kennels set up all over inside and about 30 kennels set up outside wrapped in tarps. The shelter is run by 2 women, one is 63 and suffered a major heart attack a few months ago and now has major heart problems as only half of her heart is really functioning. The other woman is 77 years old. They have no volunteers because nobody cares . When they go shopping they get ridiculed by the locals and called names. These two women are all these dogs have. They get no funding from the county, receive very little in the way of donations and they spend every penny they have on the dogs. The county's animal control consists of a couple of holding crates , a 48 hour timer, and a redneck with a shotgun and an itchy trigger finger.
These ladies spay every female dog that comes in and fully vetsthem. They turn them over to rescues with no pull fee, just grateful for any rescue that will help them. When I was down there they had two bags of food left and she was on her way to return food she bought for herself to get enough credit to get more dog food to get by. I gave her $100 to go buy more food and the woman broke down in tears.
I leave on Friday for Ocala Florida to start my training as an Equine Dentist, figured if Carla has enough food,I could pick some up and I will re route to head to the shelter in West Virginia first to deliver food to them, they can desperately use it. I have been doing rescue for lots of years , I have been to tons of shelters in many different states, but none have touched me like this one.
Their website is
http://beaglestotherescue.org/l/rx7ws5/1277937;http://www.petfinder.com/shelters/WV127.html
UPDATE:
The McDowell County shelter received a # of donations as a result of this email hitting the internet... but that is sort of a temporary fix. They need something to carry them through for the long haul. Winning this contest could do it for them.
