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San Diego Animal Support Foundation
Organization: Non-ProfitFacility Type: Animal Shelter
Status: Open
Address:
P.O. Box 880133
San Diego, CA 92168
| Region: | Southern |
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| County/Parish: | San Diego |
Main/General Business Number: (619) 847-8755 ~ SDAnimalSupport@aol.com
Website: http://www.sdshelters.com/
This organization provides Temporary or Permanent Service? Temporary
Notes:
The San Diego Animal Support Foundation (SDASF) is pleased to announce that free dog and cat food is available to pet owners who have lost their homes in the recent fires in San Diego. Thanks to the generosity of Wellness/Old Mother Hubbard Premium Pet Food , 13 pallets of high-quality food are now available to those financially burdened by the fires.
Sullivan Moving and Storage Facility in Kearny Mesa has generously donated space to accommodate the food which will be distributed to fire victims and rescue organizations throughout the community. People who have lost their homes, and temporary foster families who are accommodating fire victims' pets will be given first priority.
Because Wellness/Old Mother Hubbard products were never affected by the pet food recall, the SDASF is especially pleased to announce the distribution of such high-quality food.
To make an appointment to pick up donated food, please call the San Diego Animal Support Foundation at 619-847-8755. Donations will be distributed this week (November 6 - 10) or until the food is gone.
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Fire Update! THANK YOU to everyone who provided financial and volunteer support during the recent fire disaster throughout our county. Our volunteer efforts continue to help animals displaced by the fire. Here is an article that describes just one of the ways in which we were able to help out during the evacuations. If you are still in need, or would like to help out please contact us at 619-847-8755.
Committed to the Welfare of Animals in San Diego
The San Diego Animal Support Foundationis a private, nonprofit (501c3) organization dedicated to raising funds for overburdened, underfunded local shelters and rescues through events, fundraising campaigns, and a car donation program.
Our mission is to actively promote the proper care and treatment of animals, as well as encourage the adoption of shelter/escue pets with the cooperation of the local media. Additionally, we help local rescue organizations pay for spay/neuter surgeries, fund imperative animal welfare projects, recruit volunteers, and maintain a small medical fund to help pets in need of emergency treatment. We support more than 28 local nonprofits. With the exception of one part time employee, all SDASF members are volunteers.
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Animal assistance organization helped relocate hundreds of horses
North County Times
By: BARBARA HENRY
Staff Writer
The woman who is perhaps best known in San Diego County for doing television news spots featuring adoptable animals helped to orchestrate the evacuation of hundreds of horses as wildfires raged across the region this week.
But don't try to praise Darlene White, who runs the San Diego Animal Support Foundation. She would much rather credit the many people who offered to transport or house the evacuated animals.
"I'm just an idiot with a phone and computer," White joked as she described how she set up the temporary regional assistance network.
By Friday, her informal network contained 800 to 1,000 names and phone numbers of good Samaritans who had offered help.
The system had helped link hundreds of frantic horse owners with people who could provide temporary housing or trailers to get horses away from the flames, she said.
In addition to serving equestrian needs, the service also assisted dozens of people who needed a place to put dogs and cats. It even helped goat and llama owners. One ranch alone had 70 animals that needed to be evacuated, she said.
"She had a list of people to call, and the people I called were Johnny-on-the-spot," said Carlsbad resident Karen Burrows, who used the service to help her evacuate three horses from Ramona. "They kept me a lot calmer."
In her normal life, White runs an umbrella organization that works with San Diego's humane societies and other animal adoption groups.
"My formal title would be executive director, but we prefer to call me 'Puppy Pimp,' " the Mission Valley resident said.
That's because she's the one who appears on local television, showing off adoptable animals and urging people to consider adding them to their families.
White didn't plan to become an animal evacuation coordinator, but after realizing Monday that there was a need ----- two TV reporters called her asking for help evacuating their horses ---- she stepped forward.
Using the foundation's press contacts, she announced her availability, and "immediately, I got hundreds of phone calls," she said.
Many came from people who just wanted to help someone in distress.
"All these good Samaritans were calling me. I did not sleep for two days, literally," she said.
The offers came from well outside the county limits ---- people from San Francisco and even Colorado called, saying they had brought their trailers into the region and were standing by, she said.
Eventually, White instituted a system where people would leave messages saying what they needed or what they could do to help. She created master lists and linked people in need with multiple assistance offers, allowing them to chose what worked best for them.
She's still getting calls requesting assistance.
"I'm trying to find a house that can take nine dogs," she said late Friday afternoon.
There also are people who want to move their horses back to their properties now that most evacuation orders have lifted, and there are people whose homes burned who are looking for long-term help, she said.
White added that she's very worried that the number of animals in humane society shelters will jump a month from now as people learn that rebuilding their homes will be a lengthy process.
"I think that we're going to have an overwhelming amount of pets in our shelters ... that can't go back," she said. "I think in a month that's when we're really going to feel the pain."
To contact the San Diego Animal Support Foundation, call (619) 847-8755.
Info Source/Changes:Created At: Thu Nov 15 09:05:57 +0000 2007
Updated At: Thu Nov 15 09:07:18 +0000 2007
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