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President Matt Gaffney
VP Diane Bathgate
Director Phil Schwartze
Director Charles Rea
Director David Swerdlin |
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Meet Judy Featured Pet
Visit This Loving Cat at
Petsmart In Store Adoption Center
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AM CATTERY
VOLUNTEER NEEDED
CALL CARE ASAP
AT 949-240-1735
To Volunteer: email
CARE Volunteers
An
Easy Way To Help Today
Register Your
Ralph's Club
Card to Have A Portion of Your Purchase Donated To
Help The Homeless and Abandoned Cats and Dogs. |
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Please don't litter.
We're proof that very early spay/neuter is important
and works. It
will also be good for your pet's health. |
To volunteer
email CARE Volunteers
Adoption Days
every Saturday
Noon to 4 PETsMART San Juan Capistrano
Map to PetsMart
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Read Recent Editions
CARE Quarterly
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CARE
TIMES Spring 2008
CARE Helps Drive E-Factor Near Cities With Pro-Humane
Shelters, Nat'l Adoption Day Celebration, Mariah, Kona,
Fergie & Ace
CARE
TIMES Winter 2007
Garfie, Liz (3 legged cat), Kona, Mollie puppies
CARE
TIMES Fall 2007
Countdown to 1,000th Pet Adoption, HOGS for DOGS (and cats
too), Zeke, Mae Bell, Raven & Luna
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Your Gifts Are Leveraged Through The
Work of Volunteers When Given To Local Charitable Animal Rescue Groups.
- More Than Seven Years of
Services to the Community.
- More Than 1,050 Cats
and Dogs Helped to Find Homes.
Together, with your help,
CARE rescued and adopted over 165 cats and dogs in 2007.
CARE counts on your gifts to
help meet the needs of our mission by taking care of and placing the
adoptable San Juan Capistrano cats that go to OC, CA Shelter and many of
the San Juan Capistrano dogs that the shelter can not place.
These goals are only met through the
gifts of many volunteer hours combined with your generous tax deductible
donations. We appreciate your donations to help the dogs and cats of
CARE.
Some items we need include:
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$25 Provides an adjustable
heating pad to warm an ill small adult dog or cat or litter of the
tiniest kittens.
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$35 Litter for one litter of
kittens
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$105 Average acquisition costs to
CARE for one dog or cat from the OC Shelter
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$150 A tonga cage to foster an
adult cat
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$250 or $25/month Litter for a
foster home caring for a rotating pair of two adult cats up to ten
cats in a year
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$500
Sponsor a dog or cat kennel in your family or pet's name
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$5,000 Sponsor a dog exercise
yard in your family or businesses name
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$50,000 Sponsor the planned Vet
animal check in and check up clinic in your family or businesses
name
For more opportunities,
Please call CARE 949-240-1735
email
info@capoanimalrescue.com
Checks made payable to: CARE
PO Box 1089
San Juan Capistrano, CA 92693 |
Learn More About Capistrano
Animal Rescue Effort CARE.
Dog and Cat
Care
Dog and Cat Housing Today
It Takes A Village to Handle
Large Problems
Things You Can Do
Visiting the Dogs and
Cats Today
Our Plans For The Future
Capistrano Animal Rescue Effort's Beginnings
As each dog or cat arrives into the programs of CARE, all necessary
veterinary care is provided by CARE. All animals are checked by one or
more of the Veterinarians helping CARE with a hands on check up
including internal parasites, fleas, and ear mites. Each is given
treatments and immunizations should they be required. Cats and kittens
are checked for both feline immunodeficiency virus and feline leukemia.
Dogs and puppies are checked for heart-worm, and all animals are treated
accordingly. Many of our pets come with AVID microchips installed to
assist in identification should a disaster strike and they become
separated from their new homes. To reduce the pet overpopulation
problems, all dogs and cats are spayed/neutered prior to placement into
their new permanent homes.
Dog and Cat Housing Today
Today all of our
dogs and cats are placed with CARE foster families, if one is
available. Foster families are CARE volunteers who generously open
their homes to animals in need. The cats and dogs are provided with a
caring, nurturing atmosphere to facilitate their well-being. While in
foster care, we gain an understanding of the pets' needs and their
personality traits and share this information with potential
adopters. Foster homes work with adoption coordinators to match the pet
with suitable permanent families. All supplies such as food, dishes,
and collars are provided to the foster family by CARE. CARE needs
additional foster homes that can provide homes for medium to large size
dogs. Please see the volunteer page.
Getting arms around
the pet overpopulation, high euthanasia and pet retention problems
requires a multifaceted approach. This is not an easy problem. One group
cannot solve it on their own. CARE realized this early in their
formation and began building the important partnership relations with
others in the animal care world. Vets are the original rescue groups.
Both the City of San Juan Capistrano and the Orange County Shelter have
become solid partners with CARE. The Orange County Animal Care Center
(OCACC) continues to build on their partnership with CARE and
other rescue groups to increase adoption rates, while making additional
changes to double their rate of returning pets to owners. Businesses in
town, including PetsMart, PetCo, Starbucks, Ralph's and Family Toyota
sponsor adoption day events at their locations. These and other
businesses and organizations help with grants, donations and in-kind
donations to help with fund raising.
You are a critical
partner in the success in helping meet the needs of these animals. Even
with the help from our partners above, the homeless and abandoned dogs
and cats need to have much more additional help from you, the
general community. Please know that this works only with your support as
Members, Volunteers, Foster Families, and through your generous
donations and support of fund raising events. Without your
participation, community rescue efforts cannot succeed.
CARE appreciates
the generous use of the San Juan Capistrano PetsMart wonderful in store
pet adoption facility. There, the public can visit CARE cats seven days a week. Each
Saturday, CARE volunteers are on hand from noon to 4PM to answer
questions about the cats. Additionally, dogs in our care can usually be
seen during the Saturday adoption events. Call CARE to check on dogs
scheduled to visit. Additionally,
Ortega Animal Care Center
graciously provides a several deluxe suites adjacent to their lobby
where cats can be seen daily. From time to time, they may also provide a
suite for a CARE dog that can be seen 7 days a week. You are encouraged
to visit the available pets on the
adopt a cat,
adopt a kitten,
adopt a dog and
adopt a puppy pages of
this web site.
Our Plans For a Future Dog And Cat Adoption Center
CARE plans to build
a Humane Adoption Center in San Juan Capistrano. The County of Orange
continues to provide Animal Control for the City, yet the animals would
be transported to the Adoption Center. Much of the groundwork is in
place. With your help, we celebrated our Ground Breaking Ceremony in
September 2003. In the second half of 2004, long time CARE
supporters, Dennis Gage of Concorde Development and Myron Sukut and
family, founders of Sukut Construction, took on the heavy task of
excavating and compacting the top eight feet of soil. The Adoption
Center is ready to begin the very early stages of construction. Your
help is needed. The rate of progress on the building, depends heavily on
the donations of material, labor and skills from our local and extended
community. Fundraising efforts are vitally important as we tackle the
task of building while still helping the animals.
To learn more about the plans and to follow the progress, visit the
Adoption Center page. |
Concept Drawing Oct 2006 |
As the result of continued attempts to trap and exterminate one of San
Juan Capistrano’s oldest feral cat colonies, the Capistrano Animal
Rescue Effort was born. In April 1999, after more than 15 cats
living in a colony on Spring Street were killed, a successful attempt
was made by Marsha Schwartze and local South Orange County Veterinarian
Dr. Joe Cortese to spay and neuter the remaining (8) adult feral cats
and return them to their home in the wild. In addition, approximately 33
stray kittens were rescued, tamed and adopted out as pets.
At that time and
unfortunately even today hundreds of San Juan Capistrano residents
believe that the City of San Juan Capistrano already contracts for
humane animal services with San Clemente and Dana Point or Mission Viejo
and Laguna Niguel. It is when they try to take a lost, injured or stray
animal to one of these humane shelters that they find out this is not
the case. They are turned away because they live in San Juan Capistrano.
The truth is that San Juan Capistrano has contracted with the County of
Orange for animal services since 1941. Many residents believe that
the outdated and overcrowded facility of the Orange County Animal Care
Center located in the City of Orange does not serve the current needs of
this community. CARE was founded on the believe that the time had now
come to make the long overdue change in our City's future animal
services plan.
If you agree and
want to help improve the lives of the abandoned and homeless dogs and
cats of San Juan Capistrano, review this web site to find many ways in
which each of you can help today.
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