Fall/Winter 2012

People for Animal Welfare in El Dorado County
RESCUED!
S
ometime in the beginning
of August the co-owner and
only surviving member of the
Australian Shepherd puppy mill in
Somerset (which was permanently
shut down in September 2006) died.
About a week later, authorities were
contacted about the missing woman.
Partner. Educate. Train. Save.
FALL/WINTER 2012
Puppy mill breeders embark
on a new life
Left alone on the property were eight
horses, three cats, a parrot and four
Australian Shepherds. Two of the
dogs, Princess and Jackson, were
inside the house with the deceased.
Princess did not survive the triple-digit
heat and lack of food and water. The
other two dogs, Gretchen and Tricia,
were in runs outside.
El Dorado County Animal Services
took the dogs, cats and bird to the
shelter and left the horses on site.
(Staff visited the horses twice a day
to make sure they had plenty of food,
water and human contact.)
A few days later, PAWED
President Charlene Welty was contacted about the dogs as they were
extremely shy, withdrawn and completely unsocialized. The three were
part of the group of dogs who were
Tricia (above) is now at NorCal Aussie Rescue;
(left) mobile groomer Denise Paquette gives
one of the Aussies a much-needed grooming.
“breeders” for the puppy mill. They
spent their young lives having litter
after litter of puppies until the puppy
mill was shut down. Charlene, along
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Lucy Litter Success Story
By Lisa S. Couper, DVM
L
ots of dedicated people—that is what it takes to
get an unwanted pit bull momma dog and her
11 puppies through the shelter and into loving
homes. At the beginning the pups’ eyes were
just barely opening and
the entire litter could fit in
an orange box. In a foster
home Lucy could get
some away time from the
puppy feeding frenzy. At
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A chronicle of the sheltering process
From 0 to 75 (pounds) in just seven months: Lucy’s
pups then and now. In the beginning their eyes were
barely opening and the entire litter could fit in an
orange box. (Above) Some of the pups with their proud
owners at the Oct. 21 reunion at the shelter.
A Nonprofit Organization Dedicated to Saving and Improving the Lives of Companion Animals in Our Community
4050 Durock Rd., #19, Shingle Springs, CA 95682 530-677-2476 www.pawedpets.org
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BOARD OF DIRECTORS
President:
Charlene Welty
Vice President:
Lisa Couper, DVM
By Janet Kenneweg
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Secretary:
Temporarily vacant
Treasurer:
Barbara Phillips
Janet Kenneweg
Teri Mizuhara
Bill Smith
Tracey Lindberg
OUR MISSION
People for Animal Welfare in
El Dorado County (PAWED)
is an all-volunteer, nonprofit
501 (c)(3) organization
dedicated to saving and
improving the lives of
companion animals in El
Dorado County, California.
Toward this end, PAWED
promotes compassionate
and responsible care for all
animals in our community
by partnering with other
nonprofit animal groups and
public agencies, educating
the public, training shelter
and foster animal volunteers,
and sponsoring spay/neuter
programs for pets to save
lives.
JOIN PAWED
Dues are paid annally for the
period January 1 - December
31. Types of memberships
include:
Student
Individual
Family
Business
Support
Life
$
15
$ 25
$ 35
$ 50
$ 100
$ 500
PAWEDprints, the official
newsletter of PAWED, is published quarterly for members
and other supporters.
Editor: Teri Mizuhara
Designer: Jamie Hartshorn
Mailing preparation:
Tunnel Street School
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Please Don’t Forget Us
PAW E D p r i n t s
lease remember
PAWED this year as
you consider your year-end
giving options. We know
you receive a lot of requests from many worthy
organizations but the monies you donate to PAWED
help us fund the many
programs and services that
our all-volunteer organization provides to companion
animals and their families
in El Dorado County.
Where does your
money go? Key PAWED
programs include: four
mobile spay and neuter
clinics for seniors, disabled
and low-income families in
South County, the largest
spay/neuter discount coupon program in the county
(1,500 coupons by yearend), adoption assistance
for anyone needing advice
on their newly adopted pet,
a shelter pet medical fund
to support the Western
Slope EDC Animal Shelter,
management of the volunteers who support the
EDC Animal Shelter seven
days a week, 365 days of
the year, exercising dogs,
socializing cats, cleaning
kennels and supporting the
staff as requested.
We truly appreciate
your support of these lifesaving programs and wish
you a happy and healthy
2013.
Jo Anne Nicolay Foundation
Supports PAWED!
P
AWED member Kristie
Phillips recently donated $2,000 to PAWED
on behalf of her mother’s
foundation, the Jo Anne
Nicolay Foundation. Jo
Anne was born and raised
in Detroit where her love of
animals (mostly dogs) grew
out of her passion to help
those who could not help
themselves. Her foundation
Spay/Neuter
Coupons’
Success
Continues
supports several programs
near and dear to her heart,
including animal welfare.
In 2011 and again this year,
Kristie and her brother Rick
recommended funds be
donated to PAWED to support their mother’s love of
animals.
PAWED plans to use
these funds to resurface
and maintain the dog exer-
T
he agreement brokered
in 2011 between PAWED
and Animal Outreach to
bring discount pet spay and
neuter services to the residents of El Dorado County
has been more successful
this year.
PAWED’s spay and
Jo Anne Nicolay
cise areas at the temporary
county shelter so the dogs
will have a decent area to
play. We believe Jo Anne
would have liked knowing her legacy is enriching homeless dogs in her
daughter’s community.
neuter discount coupons
are redeemed with Animal
Outreach for services, with
a saving to the public of
$10 per feline and $25 per
canine client; there is a limit
of two coupons per household. The coupons are discontinued on next page
HOW TO REACH US: Our office is at 4050 Durock Rd. #19, Shingle Springs, CA 95682; phone: 530–6772476; email: [email protected]. PAWED is now on Twitter and Facebook! You can check us out without joining
by going to the PAWED website and clicking on the logos.
www.pawedpets.org
Fall/Winter 2012
Lots ‘n’ Lots of
By Janet Kenneweg
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FUN!
AWED members have been partying hard! In
August we hosted our 2nd Annual Furry Friends
Fiesta, which raised over $3,200 for the Spay/Neuter Coupon Program. Guests enjoyed “Yappy Hour”
with yummy margaritas in addition to the delicious
catered meal by Fresh Mex. We were pleased to have our
friends from Animal Outreach partner in this event as they had
just launched their $100,000 Rachael Ray Challenge.
Friends enjoyed outbidding each other in the silent auction
and raffle drawings by Animal Outreach volunteers kept everyone smiling. A special thanks to Kerry McBride of El Dorado
Pet Club for her sponsorship of this event.
In September, PAWED members and their dogs were
invited to our first “Members Only” Dog Days of Summer
Ice Cream Social. PAWED volunteer Kurt Bratten generously
donated ice cream and toppings from his Cameron Park Baskin
Robbins 31 Flavors Store. VibraPet donated delicious doggie
“ice cream” and handmade treats. A big “WOOF” to Kerry
McBride for hosting this event at her lovely dog park and a very
special round of applause for our two and four-legged members for braving the heat on this especially toasty afternoon!
Lucy Litter Success Story
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about five weeks the puppies came back to the shelter
and staff gave them names: Auto, Lexus, Camry, etc.,
and they were placed back into multiple foster homes
where disease exposure is lower. Finally the puppies
were returned to the capable hands of shelter staff to
be spayed/neutered. Lucy and her puppies were all
adopted out to their forever homes. Sunday, October
21, they had a small reunion.
Thank you to the dedicated shelter staff and
PAWED volunteers, the dedicated foster parents and
thank you to the dedicated adoptive owners.
Get Your Dogs of Main Street Calendars Today!
T
he 2013 Dogs of Main Street calendar is now on sale at The Bookery, Flowers on Main
and Pampering Pickle; these businesses are generously donating $10 of the $15 purchase price directly to PAWED. All are located on Historic Main Street in Placerville.
Last year’s calendar raised $1500 and it is anticipated even more will be raised this
year. The top community member seller last year was two gorgeous St. Bernards, Ursa
and Dot, featured as this year’s cover models. The merchants plan to continue the tradition of the top community member seller’s photo being used as the following year’s cover.
With the exception of the cover, all photos were taken and time generously donated
by Jess Gibson of GibsonVisuals Photography.
Spay/Neuter Coupons
continued from previous page
tributed through PAWED’s cooperators: Animal Outreach in Diamond
Springs, the County Animal Shelter
in Placerville, and now at one location in Georgetown. Visit PAWED’s
website at www.pawed.org for more
information.
For 2012, there have been 1,000
S/N coupons issued for distribution.
Of those thousand coupons, 372 or
37% have been redeemed for service,
up about 10% from the program’s
first year.
PAWED’s Mary Winkler, who
keeps the statistics for the coupon
program, relates that for the first six
months of 2012, 97 felines and 132
canines have been altered through
Animal Outreach using the PAWED
discount coupons. Of the felines, 66
were female and 31 were males, most
were of the ages from kitten to three
years old. Further, Mary’s statistics
identify canine alters evenly split at
66 for both genders. Again the majority of the dogs age between 1 to 3
years.
So far, PAWED has spent $7,400
of the $10,000 budgeted for the 2012
coupon program—a small investment
for the huge dividend given to the
people of El Dorado County.
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World Rabies Day
Free vaccinations provided at Moble Clinic
By Charlene Welty
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n September 29, El Dorado County Animal Services
joined shelters, animal groups and veterinarians
across the nation to promote the importance of rabies
vaccinations for dogs and cats. FREE rabies vaccinations (supplied by the California Veterinary Medical
Association) were provided at the PAWED Mobile
Clinic, which was stationed at the County Government offices parking lot for the day. A big thanks to the
volunteers who staffed the event in two shifts: local
veterinarians Dr. Mike Russell and Dr. Ric DelGadillo,
RVTs and vet assistants from Consumnes River College
vet tech program, EDC Shelter supervisor Alli Lozoya,
and PAWED volunteers Jeff Lee, Charlene Welty, Cindy
Mayes, Mike Scariot, Carol Mayes, Teri Mizuhara and
Lisa VanDyke.
A total of 97 vaccinations (almost half for cats!)
and 17 microchips were provided throughout the day.
(Above) Sally Carlson, Holly Shaffer, Dr. Ric Delgadillo, Jeff Lee,
Alli Lozoya, Cassidy Hanson; (below) Kimberly O’Connor, Erin
Smythe, Dr. Mike Russell, Lisa Mastropieri, Jenna Lipson
Mobile Clinic Services South County
By Charlene Welty
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e are very proud to report that we have completed
four low-cost spay/neuter clinics for South County
(Somerset, Mt. Aukum, Grizzly Flats, Outingdale and
Fairplay) residents’ pets! Clinics were held in June, July and
August at Pioneer Park in Somerset. All three clinics went
very well, except the night before the August clinic, where a
vandalism incident occurred. We went ahead with the clinic
the next day, but the PAWED Board decided to cancel the
September clinic at Pioneer Park for the safety of everyone
involved.
Thanks to our partnership with Animal Outreach, we
arranged to provide the services for the South County pets
who were scheduled for the September clinic at the Animal
Outreach clinic in Diamond Springs, in conjunction with its
free feral cat clinic.
A total of 70 dogs and cats (30 dogs, 27 cats, and 13 feral cats) were altered at these four clinics. A huge thank you
to all the volunteers who made these clinics successful, including: veterinarians Dr. Lorraine Sellers, Dr. Karen Jackett,
Dr. Shirley Harman and Dr. Mary Pride Clark. Registered
Vet Techs: Kris Avery, Amy Nichols, Tonya Ruffner, and Sue
Vargas. Vet Assistants: Love Alvarez, Lindsay Dawe, Becky
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Oliver, Debra Webster, and Danielle Whittemore. PAWED
Volunteers: Kelly Adams, Kathy Anderson, Donna Deaton,
Nancy Fuqua, Kyle Fuqua, Noelle Hartshorn, Betty Horton,
Janet Kenneweg, Desiree King, Barb Lee, Jeff Lee, Cathy
Leffler, Janice Marques, Carol Mayes, Teri Mizuhara, Karen
Nishimura, Kevin Oliver, Sandy Scariot, Donovan Sinton, Bill
Smith, Dan Sorensen, Charlene Welty, and Mary Winkler.
Just some of the volunteers who helped alter a total of 70 cats and
dogs at PAWED’s four low-cost clinics.
The Doctor Is In
Doc Couper’s
Holiday Pet Safety
Top 10 List
By Lisa S. Couper, DVM
(Doctor Couper highly recommends
viewing the movie Christmas
Vacation to reinforce this list.)
Don’t leave holiday food within muzzle reach (hint #3)
10. Unless you are particularly fond of cleaning up pet puke and midnight trips to the emergency veterinary clinic, DON’T discard fat scraps or grease where your pets can get to them.
9. 8. 7. 6. 5. 4. DON’T use tinsel or angel hair (spun glass) on the tree. Wondering why? Try eating some yourself.
DON’T feed pets cooked turkey or chicken bones. Why? Same as 9.
DON’T give pets as gifts.
DO NOT regift that Chinese Chicken Jerky you bought and never opened. (FDA warning ring a bell?)
DON’T feed your pets chocolate. (See 10)
DO NOT arrive at your relatives’ for Christmas with your pets without prior arrangements. (Especially if your pet is a large Rottweiler named Snots.)
3. DON’T leave holiday plants, food and decorations within muzzle reach. (See 1)
2. DO NOT skip your and your pets’ routines, especially exercise.
1. DON’T forget that a new electrical cord may look like a fun new toy to your dog or cat. Secure it or risk recreating a particularly ugly scene from Christmas Vacation.
Final hint, even though they are cute, live squirrels should never be used to adorn any part of the Christmas tree.
For more seasonal safety tips check our web page: http://pawedpets.org/pet-care/seasonal-pet-tips/
or some of our previous newsletters for a more detailed discussion:
http://pawedpets.org/wp/wp-content/uploads/PAWED-Prints_WinSpr2012.pdf
http://pawedpets.org/wp/wp-content/uploads/PAWED-2009fall.pdf
Aussie rescue
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with PAWED volunteers Bill and Teri
Smith, Renee Badger and her daughter Danielle all made an effort to visit
the dogs at least a couple times a day
to try to calm and socialize the three
dogs. All of these volunteers are also
parents to four of the puppy mill puppies who are now 6 years old.
As soon as possible, all three dogs
were groomed by Denise Paquette in
her mobile grooming van at the shelter
and had to be shaved down due to the
large mats, and generally poor condition of their coats which took a whopping 7 hours! As timid as the dogs
were, they felt much better after the
grooming, running with tails wagging.
A couple of weeks later Animal
Services Chief Henry Brzezinski
received permission from the courts
to place the dogs into foster care as
they weren’t doing well in the shelter.
Charlene took Gretchen home to join
her two dogs (Barney and Ellie) and
another foster dog, Sierra, six cats, two
llamas and a goat. Two days later Bill
and Teri took the remaining two dogs,
Tricia and Jackson, to their home to
join their two dogs and three cats.
After a few weeks of rest, fun in
the sun and a limited amount of socialization (because the animals were
all in protective custody) Tricia was
transferred to NorCal Aussie Rescue
(NCAR) in Grass Valley. Originally all
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PAWED Supporters
Donors
Joe Ball
Bark Avenue–Robin & Ken Mizell
Wakayo & Richard Bartholomew
Blue Ribbon Personnel Services
Marjorie Bougher
in memory of Carsie
Kurt Bratten
Dan Chandler
in honor of Mia the Chihuahua
Gloria L. Charter
Lori Cicchini
Kathy Clark & Phil Steele
in memory of Jakey, All Ball &
Hershall
Lisa Couper, DVM
John Cramer
in memory of Ulysses
David & Denise Cusick
Donna Deaton & Janice Gordon
El Dorado Dog Photography–
Lisa Van Dyke
Jackie Elting & Gay Middleton
Eskaton Village Placerville
Al Fambrini
Cynthia Flaherty
in loving memory of Clover
Linda Fullerton
Richard Ganguet
Sharon Groen
in memory of Abby Skinner
Jeanne Jackson
Gayle Johnston
Janet Kenneweg
Dale & Joeann Kirkpatrick
in honor of Indy, Sophie & Freddie
Jytte Langlois
in memory of Murphy
Barb & Jeff Lee
in honor of Noelle Hartshorn
M. R. Lee
Tracey Lindberg
MV Winery, John & Cindy Miller
Priscilla Massie
in memory of Gayle Kain-Arroyo
Carol Mayes
Carol Menke-Clark
in honor of Pat Slaight & Deb Rosina
Catherine Mesenbrink
Katie Meyer
Albert & Sachiko Mizuhara
Mountainside Center for
Spiritual Living
Joanne Nicolay Foundation
Pampering Pickle–
Theresa Corley
Barbara Parmenter
ReBARKable Support
D
o you know you that you can meet and greet and maybe even snuggle EDC Shelter animals the second Saturday of every month at Pampering Pickle, 320 Main St.,
Placerville, from 11 a.m. to 2:30 p.m.? PAWED volunteers
Michael Damer and Noelle Hartshorn pick up cats and
dogs to showcase at this ReBARKable pet-related shop.
It’s an excellent opportunity for the animals to spend the
day meeting the public and an even better opportunity for
the public to see what wonderful, loving pets are available
for adoption! So if you are in the neighborhood, please
stop by and see what’s going on.
Want to go hiking with your dog? Look for some advice
on preparation and planning for you and your pooch in our
Spring newsletter. Can’t wait? It should be up on our website
by mid-December so you can fill out your holiday wish list.
Planning on heading out into the snow? Get some musher’s
secret, don’t forget to carry water even in the winter and get
your dog a sturdy harness (check out Ruff Wear) to wear so
you can retrieve them without going out on thin ice.
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NEW LIFE MEMBERS
Evelyn Petersen
in memory of Amber
Jan Petersen
in memory of Amber
Debbie, Randy & Joey Pishek
James Powell
Jim & Bonnie Rand
Bob & Julie Ratto
in honor of Barb & Jeff Lee’s 35th
wedding anniversary
John & Sandra Richmond
Chris Ridgeway
Cindy Rountree
in memory of Gayle Kain-Arroyo
Salvador Kitti, Amy Campos
Samson Sfakianos
Bill & Teri Smith
Carol Smith
in honor of Shasta
Jerry and Cheryl Smith
Angie Stamm, DVM
Brent Thiese
Ken Tiedemann
in honor of Simone & Phoebe
Kenneth Wells
in the name of 3 cats: Sydney,
Amigo & Julie
Winery by the Creek–
Debi Fraties
Thann McLeod
MEMBERSHIP
RENEWALS
Earl Tice
NEW MEMBERS
Bruce Barr
Ashley Berenstein
Gail Bower
Cole Brandon
Alan & Misty Call
Brandon Cole
John Cramer
in memory of Ulysses
Chad Curzon
Al Fambrini
Rebecca Felix & Tyson
Taclay
Marie Halverson
Julia Martin Hensel
Kelly Hurd
Nancy Powers
Hannah Rowley
Kristen Schalkoord
Carolynne Smith
Meowy Christmas
& Yappy Holidays Party!
Come one, come ye all and join us again this year
for PAWED’s annual holiday bash on Saturday,
December 1, from 6–10 p.m., at the Shingle Springs
Community Center. There will be both a live auction
and handmade crafts for some early
holiday shopping. Our famous
auctioneer Janet Kenneweg will
be auctioning wonderful gifts
and making us laugh all the
way to the bank. This is a
potluck so please bring a dish
to share and enjoy some
other fabulous foods from
PAWED members. Don’t
forget to bring an item to
donate to the auction!
A Howling Good Time
at Plantapalooza
A
nimal lover Juliette Voightlander of El Dorado
Garden & Nursery did it again, raising $500 for
PAWED at the nursery’s annual Plantapalooza event.
Their generosity and that of their wonderful vendors
who donated amazing raffle prizes, made for a great
day in the sun! Everyone snacked on free hot dogs
while they shopped around the beautiful garden center.
PAWED volunteers Karen Nishimura, Leslie Wall and
Sue Kaiser did their best selling raffle tickets to everyone who wandered past, answered a variety of pet
questions and handed out samples of Milk Bone Trail
Mix.
Evelyn’s Amazing Recovery
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AWED member Donovan Sinton continues to provide foster care
for Evelyn, the 11-year-young black lab with the skin condition.
Evelyn recently reached a milestone and is off of antibiotics and eye
medication. She looks and feels very well but continues to need daily
pain and thyroid medication as well as ongoing baths and ear care.
In his spare time, Donovan trains new volunteers at the EDCAS for
PAWED. He is also an assistant baseball coach at Folsom High and
runs a business, Tier 1 Software.
Western Slope Animal Shelter Project
…and We’re Still Waiting…
By Barbara Lee
I
n the Spring issue of this newsletter, we reported the Western Slope
Shelter Project’s major change in
direction to: scrap the original project site; find an existing industrial
building with enough adjacent land;
and improve that existing building
to provide the needed permanent
animal shelter. The cost to provide
site improvements and an access
road at the original site will leave little
to actually build a shelter—thus Plan
B. The Board of Supervisors moved
project responsibility to the Chief Administrative Officer’s office and hired
a new project manager.
That was six months ago. I’m
afraid that, just as with the last update article, there is really very little
to report at this point. The project
manager hired in April has been
working to find a property that will
work. Staff has searched out buildings and adjacent lots on and off the
market and the challenge of cobbling
together a deal with a building owner
and adjacent land owner (for the
needed livestock housing) has proven
to be as difficult as we thought it
might. As this issue of the newsletter is being finalized, we understand
there are a couple of possible combinations that remain in the running.
We remain hopeful that the
County will soon have some progress
to report in terms of site selection.
However, we have no word on when
the next project update may be presented to the Board of Supervisors,
so please check PAWED’s website,
www.pawedpets.org or the Animal
Shelter Coalition’s website, www.
newshelternow.org for updates.
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4050 Durock Rd.
Shingle Springs, CA 95682
530-677-2476
www.pawedpets.org
Adopt
Visit pawedpets.org
for links to websites
listing available forever
companions or stop by a
local shelter facility:
El Dorado County
Animal Services
Placerville Shelter
511 Placerville Dr., Placerville / 530-621-5795
Mon–Sat: 9:30am–noon
& 1pm–4:30pm
Closed Sunday
South Lake Tahoe
Shelter
1121 Shakori Dr., So. Lake Tahoe / 530-577-1766
Same hours/days as above
Animal Outreach
6101 Enterprise Dr.,
Diamond Springs / 530642-CATS (2287)
Call for hours or visit www.
animaloutreachcats.com
El Dorado
Humane Society
777 Pleasant Valley Rd.,
Diamond Springs / 530642-2738
Mon.–Sat.: 10am–4pm;
Sun.: noon–4pm
Remember to spay or
neuter your pets!
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Aussie rescue
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three Aussies were to be
transferred there but the
Weltys decided to continue to foster Gretchen
because she was making
amazing strides in her
socialization. During a
routine medical exam,
it was discovered that
Jackson has lung cancer
and therefore did not qualify for adoption, so the Smiths decided to keep
Jackson instead of sending him back
to the shelter.
Three weeks later, on October 5,
Chief Brzezinski informed the foster
families that the courts finally completed the paperwork necessary to
allow all the animals to be placed up
for adoption. Look for an update in
the next issue.
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Currently Jackson (left) is fostered
by the Smiths and Gretchen
(above) is with the Weltys.
320 Main St l Downtown Placerville l 530.344.7451 l pamperingpickle.com
El Dorado
Nursery & Garden
Phone: (530) 676-6555 • Fax: (530) 676-6554
3931 C Durock Road • Shingle Springs, CA 95682
eldoradonursery.com