The Summit County Bee July 7, 2000 91 Midway Floor Coverings Vinyl & Hardwood Laminate Floor Mohawk Trackless & Crusii Proof Carpet pq 3 i I Free Estimates Guaranteed Installation Our Low Prices Will Floor You Full RollsRemnants In Stock Showroom: 1 40 North Confer Midway ,654-281- 6 "v- JU 7 v, A Revolutionary, Five-yeProgram Will Serve as National Model Campaign Underway To End Killing of Utah's Shelter Animals by 2005 ar SuBscriBe To The Bee 9pzu! 2222252222553SS3S3ffl PageJB3 An ambitious campaign to halt the killing of adoptable shelter dogs and and establish the cats in Utah slate's program as a national model will be launched Thursday. June 29, at 9:30 a.m. on the steps of the ' capitol building in Salt Lake City. The unprecedented effortcalled No More Homeless Pets in Utah was designed and will be administered by Best Friends Animal Sanctuary, the nation's largest animal refuge and a pioneer in the nokill movement. No More Homeless The five-yePets campaign includes a mobile spayneuter clinic, discounts for spays and neuters at 52 participating veterinary hospitals, an Internet Web site featuring adoptable cats and dogs, and a new adoption center, Furburbia, in Salt Lake City's Cottonwood Mall. If successful. No More Homeless Pets would establish Utah as the first state in the nation to end the ar killing of shelter animals. Last year 85,(XN) eats and dogs were impounded by Utahs rescue groups and animal shelters. Almost 46.000 ol them were killed, including an estimated 15.000 adoptable animals. The campaign is being financed by an $8 million grant from Maddie's I'und. a $200 million foundation directed by Richard Avanzino, former head of the San Francisco Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals and a leader in the movement to end the destruction of shelter animals in the US. Utah Governor Michael Leavitt signed a Proclamation June 20 endorsing No More Homeless Pets in Utah. The Governor is doling pet human" to Faux Paw. a former shelter cat who nowadays enjoys the run of the state executive's office. "The Maddies Fund grjni will make a very big difference in helpin the ing us achieve goals king-hel- d Coalville Health Ceuter 82 North SO East Coalville. UT Kama Health Coder 158 WcM 200 South IT Kamas. WAIN ALLEN, M.D. JEANETTE VERNON, RN PA-- C SALLY SHENK-FLKC- I, FNP MELINDA ROALSTAD, MS PA-Complete Family Medical and Emcrvicy Carr C Coalville Hours: Monday - Friday 8:30 ain - 5:00 pm Saturday 8.30 am - 2:00 noon Kamas Hours: Monday - Friday 9:00 am - 5:00 pm Saturday CLOSER Coalville 24 hour number: Kamas 24 hour number 1 humane community," said Gregory Castle, director of No Mure Homeless Pets in Utah and a Best Friends founder. "Its a message to everyone in this state that killing homeless animals is going to come to an end." The campaign aims to increase adoptions this year by 3,000 over 1999's numbers and to increase spays and neuters over 1999's numbers by 21,000. The Maddies Fund grant for the first year of the campaign amounts to $1.3 million and is distributed among the participating animal groups. "Critical to the success of the campaign is the cooperation of the slates entire humane community," Castle said, noting that at present 18 ll sanctuaries, shelters and fos-torganizations are taking part in a statewide coalition. They are joined by two traditional humane organizations and the state's 54 animal control facilities. "But money alone won't make this happen," said Temma Martin, public relations specialist for Salt Lake County Animal Services and a for No More spokesperson Homeless Pets in Utah. "This has to be a community effort. Everyone has the power to make a difference. Even people without pets can influence how their friends and relatives and neighbors deal with their animals." While animal control agencies aren't eligible for Maddie's Fund grants, they stand to benefit from the er no-ki- campaign. "The rescue groups that are funded will be able to take more of our 9c6er Valley Rational Banfi af,; $& iy ' i. s c-- wtmatrQ&SE. animals and adopt them out." Martin says. "And the various campaign projects mean that we should see a dramatic decrease in the number of animals that end up in our shelter. The impact of Maddie's Fund has already been fell in many Utah communities, including the small, rural town of Vernal where the number of animals destroyed at the county shelter dropped by 20 percent in two months' time, thanks to the volunteers with Uintah Animal Care. Media advertisements, foster parfor and fundraisers enting, all worked spayneuter programs wonders. But without some ongoing financial help, Uintah Animal Care couldn't keep up the momentum. New, with support from Maddie's Fund, the two volunteers who spearheaded those lifesaving initiatives can be hired by Uintah Animal Care to continue their work. And local officials, assured of the continuation of the volunteers' program, hast decided to build their own animal shelter. The Maddie's Fund Foundation was created by PcopleSoft founder Dave Duffield and his wife Cheryl to help bring an end to the killing of healthy homeless pels in America. Avanzino, a pivotal player in making San Francisco the first city in the US, was named executive director of Maddie's Fund in 1999. "Dave and Cheryl Duffield expect Maddie's Fund to help revolutionize g of comthe status and panion animals, Avanzino says. 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