Goals and Objectives
January 2002
Ultimate Goal:
A community where every pet has a loving home and every animal
is free of abuse and treated with respect.
Long-term Goal:
A community where every homeless pet has a safe and comfortable
haven where it can live until it finds a loving home and where
animal abuse or neglect is socially unacceptable and not tolerated.
Immediate Goal:
A community where everyone is aware that there is a humane society
that will help with animals in need of care and/or homes, where
the Petersburg Humane Association has the active support of a
large group of concerned people, and where people successfully
turn to the Petersburg Humane Association with their animal concerns
and needs.
Objectives for 2000:
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1. |
An agreement with the City to care for impounded
dogs, including making the pound more comfortable, exercising
the dogs, and possibly adding an attached run. |
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2. |
A cadre of people willing to care for impounded
dogs. |
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3. |
An organized system to enter, track and account
for each animal entrusted to the Petersburg Humane Association. |
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4. |
A system to easily track membership. |
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5. |
Enough foster homes to place all animals without
burning out fosterers. |
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6. |
An education and awareness campaign concentrating
on:
* The need to neuter all companion animals
* The need to restrain all animals in vehicles |
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7. |
At least one managed feral cat colony (trapped,
neutered, returned, fed, and sheltered) |
Of these objectives, we accomplished numbers
1, 3, and 4. We also have a cadre of people willing to care for
impounded dogs and are always delighted to hear from others who
want to help. We have some foster homes, but need more. Too often
dogs in our care are housed at the City shelter instead of in
somebody's home and cats have sometimes had to remain in harm's
way because we had no place to keep them. We now have a temporary
cat shelter, but a home is still a better environment for cats.
The objectives of our education campaign will continue until
every companion animal is neutered and every animal is safely
restrained, especially in moving vehicles. |
