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WARM HEARTS HUMANE SOCIETY, INC. P.O. Box 535 Mount Ida, Arkansas 71957
FOR YOUR INFORMATION . . .
TO OUR CONTRIBUTORS. As you know, our economy is
getting tighter and tighter. Warm Hearts is no exception. In
an effort to “GO GREEN”, we are asking you to make a choice
of how you wish to receive our newsletter. PLEASE NOTE that
we will continue to mail the hardcopy if you do not have an
email address. Your email address ABSOLUTELY WILL NOT
be given out and will be protected by Warm Hearts Humane
Society, Inc.
Advise us if you would like to receive the newsletter
electronically to your email address or advise us if you no
longer wish to receive our newsletter, send your decision to:
If you would like to make a donation, you may use the
address in the mast head, or you can choose one of the follow-
ing addresses. Please note that we will send a receipt of your
contribution for your income tax.
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And Before We Go . . .
WE UNDERSTAND, how those beautiful eyes look at you
saying “PLEASE TAKE ME WITH YOU”. Considering the heat
wave America is experiencing; LEAVE YOUR PET AT HOME.
Even the extra 5 minutes you may take to say hello to a friend
can kill your pet! The heat rises exponentially inside your vehi-
cle, especially with the windows up. Your pet will be happy to
see you when you return and that really is worth leaving them
behind.
THINK ABOUT IT!
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The Tail Wagger WARM HEARTS HUMANE SOCIETY, INC. PRESENTS OUR NEWSLETTER —
REMEMBER THE THUNDER MOUNTAIN PUPPIES RESCUED
AT CHRISTMAS?
T hese are two of
the Christmas Day
abandoned pup-
pies. . .our fosters
gave up their afternoon to
rescue them from Thunder
Mountain.
Both dogs
were
adopted by one couple. . .
how precious are these pic-
tures!!! Umpire, the floppy
eared boy was scared to get
in the car, just look at him
now sitting with such great posture!!!
WHAT ABOUT IZZY? . .THE NEW ASSISTANT!
WARM HEARTS HUMANE SOCIETY is so fortunate
to receive update stories and pictures from our
newly adoptive families. It is one of the best
reasons we do what we do. This story is about
“Izzy” and her Forever-Mom.
After only a couple of
weeks, Izzy had found her
niche. She goes to work with
Mom everyday and visits with
the patients to a point of cud-
dling up with them in their
wheelchair.
One day Izzy was found in
her Mom’s office chair facing
the computer.
She has not only captured her Mom’s heart, but everyone
who meets her. Great Dog!
AARON’S LEMONADE STAND
AARON decided to do
something for the people who
saved his best friend, BOLOO
BEAR. After all the preparations
and patience,
he made
$20.00 and
had his par-
ents help mail a donation to WHHS. We
believe this is a great example of commu-
nity involvement. Boloo Bear and Aaron
will be life long friends and Warm Hearts
thanks this wonderful little boy.
MEET SHIANA, THE REPRESENTATIVE!
S hiana’s forever-family wrote these notes: WE are
enjoying life with Shiana
and I thought I'd send you
an update. She is such a
great dog to promote adoption because
everyone loves her and asks where we
got her. When our neighbors lost their
dog this winter (11 year old border col-
lie) they felt comfortable adopting the
way we did. Not only that, but her father
adopted a dog as well via transport.
Who knows how many others did this
because they met Shiana.
LIFE IS ‘TULIPS’ WITH BEAU
S kuttles (aka Beau) was one of the four (4) mange
puppies left in a ditch on Slate Mill Road. . .he is
living the good life now. His forever-mom, Lisa
writes: I just love my little guy. He makes a great
companion and I take him eve-
rywhere with me. According to
my vet, he isn't going to get
much bigger and weighs
around 21 lbs. He is quite so-
cialable, loves our trips to the
dog park, always has kisses
and a wagging tail for everyone
he meets.
The Tail Wagger
TAPEWORMS — There are 2 common types, TAENIA and
DIPYLIDIUM. All these tapeworms require a specific intermediary
host. Taenia most dogs get from eating guts, most often from rabbits
or fish, and Dypilidium is from ingesting infected fleas. Tapes mostly
deplete vitamin B12 and with heavy infestations may cause mucoid
diarrhea.
HEARTWORMS — Spread by mosquitoes from infected dogs,
these spend time in the tissues, can migrate transplacentally and
wind up as juveniles maturing to adults in the heart and pulmonary
vessels. Signs and effects vary with worm burden, from inapparent to
death. These worms lay live larvae into the bloodstream, where they
are picked up by new mosquitoes and retransferred to another dog.
Treatment is expensive and risky for heavily infested dogs. Prevention
is reliable with good owner compliance. Heartworms will very
occasionally infect humans.
COCCIDIA — Protozoal parasite that replicates inside cells lining
the intestine. Bloody diarrhea and malabsorption are the result.
Oocysts are shed in the stool and become infected after being in the
environment for a day or two. These are ingested and develop to
maturity in the small and large intestine.
GIARDIA — Chronic Protozoal intestinal infection, with loss of
nutrients and diarrhea. Cysts are shed in the feces and are
immediately infective by the oral route. They develop to Trophozoites
in the upper small intestine and attach to Enterocytes, damaging
them in the process. This leads to Maldigestion, Malabsorption and
Diarrhea.
HYGIENE IS OF THE UTMOST IMPORTANCE AS THERE IS
EVIDENCE THAT THESE MAY INFECT HUMANS
OLIVER’S STORY . . . OLIVER and his family were left behind
and in dire straits. Oliver being the worst
case, was badly burned
by an evil hand. The in-
jury you see here is after
5 weeks of painful treat-
ment. He was only 3
weeks old when WHHS
rescued him. He is safe
and happy now under the care of one of our
loving foster-moms.
COMMON INTERNAL CANINES
PARASITES BY DR. BARBARA PAGE, DVM
W ARM HEARTS HUMANE SOCIETY provides
documentation of a healthy animal from our
Veterinary Hospital. Just FYI, these are the
most common internal parasites we deal with
here in Arkansas. For more information, the
companion Animals Parasite Council has an excellent web-
site, found here: www.capcvet.org.
ROUNDWORMS — These are very common in puppies and may
also infect humans. Life cycle in young animals- less than 3 months
of age. The very thick-shelled eggs are swallowed, hatch, penetrate
the intestines, migrate thru liver and Lungs, are coughed up,
swallowed, back to intestines, mature, eggs are passed, repeat. In
older animals, these worms may not complete the entire cycle, but
wind up in various tissues with arrested development. They can then
later be mobilized in the pregnant bitch, and either wind up in her
intestines maturing or migrate across the placenta and develop in the
puppies prior to birth. Fatal infections can occur in young puppies. In
humans, the migrating larvae tend to migrate aberrantly and can end
up in any tissue and may cause death.
HOOKWORMS — All too common in any age dog, though older
animals are more resistant. Infection can occur through the ingestion
of infective larvae or their penetration of the skin. They go through
migration through liver and lungs to the intestines where they
mature. In animals more than 3 months old, maturation is arrested in
somatic tissues and in the lining of the intestines. These arrested
larvae are activated after removal of adult worms from the intestine
or during pregnancy when they accumulate in the mammary glands.
Therefore, neonates are infected as they first nurse. These worms are
blood-suckers and cause anemia and sometimes death. In humans,
infective larvae can penetrate the skin and cause intense itching.
Occasionally they will penetrate to deeper tissues and cause
problems there.
WHIPWORMS — Thick shelled eggs are passed in the stool and
become infective in 2-4 weeks. They are ingested, hatch and mature
in the lower small intestine, upper large intestine and cesium. Eggs
are shed intermittently and with light infections, may be difficult to
find. Whipworms cause intermittent bloody, mucolid diarrhea. These
can be difficult to reach without systemic anthelmintics, because
medication can bypass the Cesium.
SAVING HOPE By Kathleen Lamb
WHAT A SORRY SIGHT two of our volunteers encoun-
tered when they went to check out a call on an abandoned
dog. A sweet little "leather" dog;
mange so bad she was only skin,
left in a back yard by people who
heartlessly moved away with no
provision for her. One of the volun-
teers took her home, even though
she is already 'full" with fosters,
and she is now named Hope, be-
cause now this little innocent has
hope. Her foster mom delights at watching the other dogs
entice her to play, which she didn't know how to do. Equally
gratifying has been her slow but steady return to health. She's
growing fur, and looking less like a lizard each day! Hope is a
great little dog; If you are considering making a donation, be
aware that your money will go directly to her medical care
and upkeep, as well as our other fosters. Now there is hope
for Hope.
A SAVIOR FOR WILD ANIMALS As you know WHHS is located in the Ouachita Mountains
and therefore we occasionally run across baby animals, ap-
parently abandoned. That happened to one in our community
and we did not know what to tell
her. We knew the mother would not
come back because she had been
hit by a truck. Luckily, our vet gave
some advice; namely, DO NOT DIS-
TURB the babies. We pursued and
the Forestry Service gave us a
name of an authorized deer
adoption service. This gentleman
takes the baby deer to his facility and raises them until they
can be released back into the forest.
Check with your Forestry Service. It is against the law to
harbor a wild animal.
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Baby Splash
Splash Now 12-11 78 lbs
BARLEY AT ADOPTION
AND NOW, STILL GIVING
LOVE KISSES WHHS SALUTES OUR VETERINARIANS,
VOLUNTEERS, AND OUR COMMUNITY You have seen some articles that illustrate the amount of
abuse some of our rescues receive. Taking animals with these
types of injuries to a vet can be the only immedi-
ate action. However, without the constant loving
care of our foster homes, these animals would not
live.
Warm Hearts is homed in a large rural, forested
area. When animals are literally thrown away,
they are put in immediate danger. They can be
somebody’s lunch, or starve, or die from their inju-
ries, or the weather. We work on an overloaded
situation and cannot possibly take all the ani-
mals, although we reach out to neighboring socie-
ties and shelters or in the end, take them into an
already overloaded situation, or not at all. You ask
‘How can this cycle be broken?’
SPAY/NEUTERING, COMMUNITY INVOLVMENT, EDUCATION
Without the community support donating their time, food,
and funds, Warm Hearts would be in jeopardy.
Our switchboard is answered daily by one of our volun-
teers. It’s a hard job, because sometimes we have to turn
folks away. We use our voucher funds to help with spay/
neutering. This lady is a busy, busy person. Thanks B.J.
JOIN A HUMANE SOCIIETY TODAY — YOU WILL BE WELCOME!
SEE
HOW LOVE
GROWS
—
BEFORE AND
AFTER
RESCUE
Maisey Mudpie, one of the storm puppies, getting her first kiss from forever-mom and one year later Birthday!!
BARKLEY
NOW
ALL GROWN
UP
TEDDY
COBIE—AT TRANSPORT DAY
AND HOME
THIS IS VIVA
ALL GROWN UP