All Animals Safe, But Cleanup Could Take Days Water Woes Return To Susquehanna SPCA By IAN AUSTIN • Special to www.AllOTSEGO.com COOPERSTOWN – Six cats and three dogs were rescued from the Susquehanna SPCA Isolation Building and kennels this morning after overnight rains flooded the it with over 12 inches of water. Executive Director Stacie Haynes was notified of the flooding around 6:30am by their landscaper Al Saltenberger. “I left as quickly as I could, but there was no cell…
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CLICK TO DONATE TO ‘SHELTER US’ Ground Broken, And $2M Raised, For New Shelter With Success, ‘Shelter Us’ Finds $3M Will Be Needed, And Sets New Target By JIM KEVLIN • Special to www.AllOTSEGO.com INDEX – There was plenty of good news, high spirits and benefactors aplenty at today’s groundbreaking on the new Susquehanna SPCA shelter on Route 28. Plus a new goal to strive for. First, it was announced the $250,000 matching grant from Staffworks President Anita Vitullo has…
Razing Makes Way For Animal Shelter by LIBBY CUDMORE • Special to AllOTSEGO.com INDEX The Susquehanna SPCA is just over the halfway point. “We’ve received $1.9 million in our Shelter Us campaign,” said Stacie Haynes, executive director. The campaign will help build the SQSPCA’s new shelter, which will have a groundbreaking ceremony at the new site at noon on Saturday, Aug. 24. (The acronym was changed from SSPCA to avoid confusion with four other SPCAs.) Tweedie Construction, Walton, began the…
Otsego Planning Board OKs Animal Shelter Plan DETAILS IN THIS WEEK’S FREEMAN’S, HOMETOWN…
CLICK HERE TO DONATE TO CAPITAL CAMPAIGN Groundbreaking Ceremony Planned For Animal Shelter COOPERSTOWN – With adoptable animals, a pet photo booth and more, the Susquehanna SPCA will break ground on their new animal shelter building on Saturday, Aug,. 24 “We invite animal lovers, shelter supporters and volunteers from across the region to join us with their pets for an afternoon of fun as we celebrate this momentous occasion,” said SQSPCA Executive Director Stacie Haynes. “If you’re not familiar with…
PETS Task Force’s First Case: Rescue Pigs From Pittsfield Farm HARTWICK SEMINARY – It was a scene Stacie Haynes has seen play out before. Two pigs, skinny and without food, water or hay, trying to eat the corpses of two dead pigs in a trash pile at a farm on County Route 18, Town of Pittsfield. “They were shivering and cold,” she said. “We got called out there at night in a rainstorm, and we seized them.” Now playfully dubbed…
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TASK FORCE TO START TRAINING OFFICERS Animal Cruelty Task Force Meets, Renames Self PETS By LIBBY CUDMORE • Special to www.AllOTSEGO.com COOPERSTOWN – PETS, Stacie Haynes said, are the county’s tools for combating animal cruelty. “PETS stands for Prevention, Education, Training and Systems,” said Haynes, Susquehanna SPCA executive director. “That is the new name we have given the Animal Cruelty Task Force.” The group, which formed in February, met this morning at the county Sheriff’s Department offices to agree on…
SSPCA Benefactor Offers $250K Match For New Donations Public Share Would Put $2 Million ‘Shelter Us’ Target Within Reach Susquehanna SPCA benefactor and Staffworks President Anita Vitullo, Clinton, above center, poses with SSPCA board members after announcing a few minutes ago that, dollar-for-dollar, she will match forthcoming donations to the “Shelter Us” fund drive up to $250,000. If fully realized, Vitullo’s contribution will bring the $2 million drive to build a new animal shelter to $1.75 million, only $250,000 short…
Haynes, Haddad Back From Beirut 13 Dogs Rescued, In Foster Homes, Resting At SSPCA Just arrived from a Beirut rescue, Bethoven affectionately licks foster dad Ian Laschell’s face a few minutes ago, as he and wife Wendy prepare to take their new pet home to Oneonta from the Susquehanna SPCA shelter in Hartwick Seminary. They are truly doing a wonderful thing, and it’s something that so many dogs apprecaite. Not many of these dogs have the love and attention that…