DONE! No animals--just much needed supplies NY-Pineville,WV
Posted: Thu Jan 07, 2010 8:05 pm
Can anyone help get some much needed supplies to a tiny, rural shelter in WV. This is heartbreaking!
The shelter is in Welch and there was an airport there--but it's closed. Pineville looks to be the next closest airport.
A group in Albany has a lot of donated supplies that are needed at this shelter. And there is a Humane Society in Potsdam willing to donate some food as well--if there is a way to get it there.***Crossposting Requested***
Welch, WV is about 2 and a half hours southeast of Charleston, WV and about the same travel time northwest of Roanoke,VA
the shelter has a paypal donation site and they are desperately in need of $$ for food as well as rescues for their animals..any amount is good..even $5.00
they have labs, germ sheps, a corgi,a husky and husky mixes, chow mixes, a greater swiss mt dog, hounds, a beagle,
a couple of staffordshire terriers both purebred and mixes, boxer mixes and lots of kitties
http://www.petfinder.com/shelters/WV127.html
Subject: A West Virginia Dog Shelter with a very sad story
A West Virginia Shelter with a very sad story. I am forwarding this letter that I received last night in hopes that you will send it far and wide. Surely I understand that all shelters are in need of help but this is a story that I just had to share in hopes that you will pass it on far and wide. It is from a personal friend of mine who dedicates his life to saving dogs.I have been working with a shelter in Welch West Virginia ( McDowell County ) that desperately could use food or anything at all for that matter. When I made that run over christmas I had to go to that shelter for Pat McCann to pick up the pups. I was able to pull a couple of adults out of there but I just feel compelled to help them out any way I can.
The shelter is run out of an old Coal Company Store that they were able to get donated to them after it had been abandoned. Definitely designed as a shelter but they are doing the best they can. They have portable kennels set up all over inside and about 30 kennels set up outside wrapped in tarps. The shelter is run by 2 women, one is 63 and suffered a major heart attack a few months ago and now has major heart problems as only half of her heart is really functioning. The other woman is 77 years old. They have no volunteers because nobody cares. When they go shopping they get ridiculed by the locals and called names. These two women are all these dogs have. They get no funding from the county, receive very little in the way of donations and they spend every penny they have on the dogs. The county's animal control consists of a couple of holding crates, a 48 hour timer, and a redneck with a shotgun and an itchy trigger finger. They spay every female dog that comes in and fully vet them. They turn them over to rescues with no pull fee, just grateful for any rescue that will help them.
When i was down there they had two bags of food left and she was on her way to return food she bought for herself to get enough credit to get more dog food to get by, I gave her $100 to go buy more food and the woman broke down in tears. I have been doing rescue for lots of years , I have been to tons of shelters in many different states, but none have touched me like this one.
The shelter is in Welch and there was an airport there--but it's closed. Pineville looks to be the next closest airport.