Portland Oregon area County Animal Shelter Suffers Budget Cuts - Animals are the victims

An appeal for help from:

Friends of Shelter Animals (FOSA)
25 NW 23rd Place, Suite #6
Portland, OR 97210

Contacts:

Phyllis Johanson	(503) 228-4237
Connie Thiel 		(503) 254-3112
Heidi Underwood		(503) 977-6535

The following is reprinted from a current FOSA flyer

Because of Measure 47, the budget for Multnomah County Animal Control has been cut by $430,000 with the result that the shelter in Troutdale and their Adoption Outreach store in Clackamas Town Center are both closed every Sunday and Monday. Hours during the week have also been reduced - the phone service is only open for 28 hours each week! If you were to lose your dog on a Friday night, you wouldn't be able to phone the shelter until the following Tuesday! Not to mention all of the desperate animals needing homes who now won't get them because working people who may want to adopt won't be able to get to the shelter at a convenient time. What a dreadful state of affairs!

A small group of people who are concerned about the dogs and cats who have had the misfortune to end up at the shelter are trying to improve the situation. There are a couple of things we want to do as soon as possible. The first is to get a computerized Lost & Found hotline started. This will help prevent many animals from arriving at the shelter at all! The second is to begin advertising for adoptions to help get the animals out of the shelter and into wonderful homes!

Our first project is to raise some money so this can become a reality. That's where you come in! We need beads, bangles, bracelets, brooches, rings, earrings and necklaces for our JEWELRY ONLY sale on Saturday, November 1 at the Neighborhood Improvement & Civic Center at the corner of SE Holgate and Foster (SE 64th). A wonderful ballroom space has been donated to us so we're hoping to have tons off jewelry to sell!

We're looking for all types of jewelry. From $1 costume jewelry to a cameo worth who knows what. If you haven't worn a piece ofjewelry for the past 4 or 5 years, this is the perfect time to donate it to a good cause.

Jewelry can be dropped off at any of the following locations:

Or you can phone one of us listed above and we'll be very happy to pick up your donation.

Needless to say, we'll be thrilled if this fund raising effort appeals to you, and we'll be even more thrilled if you will tell your friends, acquaintances and colleagues about it. There are thousands of dogs and cats whose very lives depend on all of us doing what we can to help.