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PWSPCA Partners with ACTS on Operation Turkey Project
ACTS is hosting "Operation Turkey 2007" and helping needy families in our community. Since families include pets, the PWSPCA will be collecting pet food and treat donations so that the furry family members can celebrate the Thanksgiving holiday, too. It may be tempting to share turkey bones and scraps with your pets but it is not healthy for the pet and can cause choking. Instead, choose wet or dry food or snacks, and save the turkey bones for soup! The pet food drive will run through November 17th. You may take your donations directly to ACTS or drop off your donations at the PWSPCA Annual Meeting on November 15th at 7 PM at the McCoart Building's Potomac Room. Best items to donate are: wet food in cans/pouches, dry food in small bags or treats of any size.

 

 

Pet Food Drive
The Prince William SPCA is coordinating a pet food drive to benefit Action in Community Through Service (ACTS). ACTS is a community organization whose mission is to alleviate hunger, homelessness, and domestic violence, and to help people achieve self-support in the Prince William Area. The Prince William SPCA will set-up a pet food collection area at the Potomac Nationals Dog Days of Summer Game on Sunday, August 26, 2007. The Prince William SPCA is accepting unopened bags of non-perishable wet and dry food for dogs, cats, puppies and kittens.

Let's Make Easter Happy for Bunnies, too!
Over the next few weeks, thousands of local adults will be tempted to buy an Easter rabbit for a beloved child, godchild, grandchild, niece, or nephew. And a few months from now, our local animal shelters will be, as they are every year, inundated by a flood of cast-off bunnies. If you want to make a child’s Easter happy, don’t give a live rabbit unless you know it will be loved and cared for throughout its natural life. If there’s any doubt, give a stuffed or, better yet, a chocolate bunny instead. Let’s all make Easter happy for bunnies, too! The Prince William SPCA asks that everyone who is considering buying a rabbit this year stop and think about important facts:

• First, although rabbits can make wonderful pets, they are naturally fragile and timid. An active child who expects a cuddly pet can easily terrify or even injure a rabbit.
  
• Second, rabbits are not low- maintenance pets. They require as much love, attention, and car as a cat or dog and will live ten years or more. Don’t give an Easter rabbit to a child unless you know that the child’s parents will be happy to take on a decade-long commitment.
• Third, a new rabbit will cost $300 for a cage and other necessary equipment. On-going expenses include grooming, food, toys, and other supplies. Rabbits need the same routine veterinary care as cats and dogs and need to be spayed or neutered at a cost of $100 or more. Additionally, expect to pay $20 a month for unforeseen expenses, such as emergency veterinary care and care for elderly pets.
  
• Finally, pet rabbits cannot be set "free". It is a death sentence for them as they are not able to defend themselves in the wild and usually die of starvation or exposure to the elements, or are preyed upon by other animals.
  

OK, so you were not planning on getting a bunny but think that you might add a live chick to the Easter basket? You will want to think again. While they are cute, owning chickens is illegal in the city of Manassas and many areas of Prince William County. Your best bet is to stick with the marshmallow variety.

Prince William SPCA Established a New Spay/Neuter Endowment Fund
October 24, 2006 -- The Prince William SPCA announced Saturday that it has established a Spay/Neuter Endowment Fund and dedicated $10,000 of its reserves to help stop pet over population within the region. It plans to develop a program to offer reduced cost spays and neuters for companion animals in the community. Spaying and neutering pets lowers the number of animals that end up in the local shelters. Many of these animals never find homes and are instead euthanized. Prince William SPCA President Melissa Korzuch and Nancy White of the Manassas Journal Messenger newspaper made the first private donations. To make a donation to this fund, please mail your check, made out to the PWSPCA to: PO Box 6631, Woodbridge, VA 22195.