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County SPCA gets a windfall
Topic Started: Dec 24 2006, 01:00 AM (113 Views)
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County SPCA gets a windfall
Grants to aid shelter plan
By Michael Woyton
Poughkeepsie Journal

HYDE PARK — Christmas arrived early for a local animal shelter.

The Dutchess County Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals announced Friday three grants and a pledge from board members have allowed it to establish a capital improvement fund that will lead to the construction of a new adoption center.

SPCA Executive Director Joyce Garrity said the nonprofit received two grants totaling $687,000 from the estate of
Dr. Edith Har-Esh and an additional grant for $240,000 from the Jane W. Nuhn Charitable Trust.


She said the fund will pay for the design and construction of a new center.

"Now, the dreams of those who have gone before us and who work with us now will become a reality," Garrity said. "This is going to make a big difference to the animals."

Board President Debbi Calabrese said the 17-member board has pledged more than $200,000 toward the capital campaign, pushing the total amount of money to more than $1 million.

Estate gives grants

The SPCA accepted a $500,000 donation from Marco Caviglia, the executor of Har-Esh's estate, Dec. 3.

"That was a nice, round figure," Caviglia said, "but I knew there would be money left over in the estate."

He gave the remaining money — $187,000 — to the shelter. The entire Har-Esh donation was given with the specified purpose of constructing a new facility.

"This is an outright donation," Caviglia said. "We hope other generous persons or corporations will step up and help."

Har-Esh, who was a Hyde Park psychiatrist and animal lover, once served as acting director of the Hudson River Psychiatric Center. She died of heart disease in 1997.

Nuhn, a Millbrook resident who died in 1987, was the wife of the late Clifford J. Nuhn, former publisher of the Poughkeepsie Journal.

http://poughkeepsiejournal.com/apps/pbcs.d.../612230317/1006
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That was such a nice gesture. My wife and I love to watch the Animal Cops show on TV. I started my law-enforcement career in ancient days as an Animal Control Officer just like the ones on TV.
We rescue animals and turn them over to others when we can.

I am so saddened by the way things seem to have turned out around here though regarding humane shelters. Tell me, how does yours operate? Around here they have gone to a business type of atmosphere and I fear the animals are losing in the long run. But maybe I don't see the big picture.

Tell me what you think of your local shelter, and I'll share what we do here, and see if we are close.


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I don't know much about the inner workings of our SPCA.

I do know there are stricter rules about accepting animals
and adoptions than years ago.

http://www.dcspca.org/mainpages/page1.htm
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It's just gotten strange to me. I know they are trying to cut down on the animal population, but it just seems so restrictive is all. Some of it borders on the silly at times.

Used to back in the 70's and 80's you could go and adopt a pet from the local humane society for about $15 Saw alot of kids with smiling faces. The places weren't that elaborate, but they were generally in good shape. A small house looking building in front that housed the offices, with kennels in the back (nice ones) for the animals.

About 5 years ago, there was a huge drive for donations and they built a large million dollar place. Holds the same amount of animals.

But in the new one you get to sit in a nice finely furnished office with a "counselor" who will sit and talk with you and the pet to see if you are compatible and you go through a battery of questions to ascertain your skill level in caring for a pet. You provide documentation that you own your home, or a rental agreement showing you may have a pet.

Then you get to fork over $85 for kittens, and $95 for dogs or puppies. They must be nuetered "fixed" before you can have them.

I know the rationale behind this thinking, but it seems that it has removed the wonderful experience of the poor children in going and picking out that lifelong buddy/pet and feel you are rescuing him/her. Most cannot afford that steep price. So only the well to do have much luck in adopting a pet nowadays.

It is sad how many of them are put to sleep now since they cannot be adopted. There may be less strays on the streets now, but that is just because we are "culling" the population through the ones that are "donated" and put to sleep.

We still have many that work there that care for the animals, but they now have many that work for the fancy new salary as a "counselor" and "director" and such. It saddens me. I hope in other places it is not such a business.

Don't get me wrong, all of them are needed, it is just all the fancy coverings our's has taken on takes the humanity out of it. It reminds me more of a giant pet store now, only when they don't get adopted they are put down for new stock.


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As much as I care for animals, I can't help but think that there must have been more deserving areas that could have used funds of that magnitude. It surprised me that a psychiatrist who had been a director at a psychiatric center wouldn't have wanted to help those she tried to help in her life's work.

I have to agree that the whole pet adoption procedure has gotten way out of hand, with all of the pre-investigation procedures of the new prospective pet owners and the fees are way too high.


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