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Volunteers Needed for Coop Earth Day, April 27
Call Hildegard at 265-2322 ext. 24, or e-mail hildegard@apnm.org if you are interested. La Montañita is located at the corner of Central and Carlisle SE. Come have fun with us as you help with a good cause! For a schedule of Earth Day musical entertainment, please visit: www.LaMontanita.coop ....... Alameda Park Zoo to be Scene The 14th Annual Community Earth Day Fair is expected to provide food and entertainment for 8,000-10,000 Earth Day celebrants at the Alameda Park Zoo in Alamogordo, from 9:00 a.m. to 4:00 p.m. this Saturday, April 26. Animal Protection of New Mexico will have a table at the Fair, with the Southern New Mexico Humane Society. Drop by and say hello! Small Town in Eastern NM Spends
Tucumcari, a community of about 6,000 people in Eastern New Mexico, will be hosting a mobile spay/neuter clinic on May 24–25, 2008 in response to a request from local animal advocate Robert Ciolli. Tucumcari’s city commission agreed to fund the low-cost clinic at a cost of $4,000. The mobile surgical unit is operated by the Santa Fe Animal Shelter and Humane Society and is staffed by one veterinarian assisted by three veterinary technicians. Ciolli organized and promoted a similar event last year in Tucumcari, with funding secured by Animal Protection of New Mexico (APNM) through an anonymous donor. That event was so successful he decided to try it again for two days this spring. This time, he asked the city commission to invest the funds needed to help stem the tide of dog and cat overpopulation in the area. Ciolli and other residents drove home the point that repeated spay/neuter efforts can have a noticeable impact on the numbers of animal births. Many unwanted puppies and kittens end up at the shelter and are eventually euthanized. The city euthanizes about 1,500 dogs and cats annually. Commissioner Robert Lumpkin said the low-cost spay and neutering services provided by the clinic should be available to all residents living within the city limits. City commissioners Jim Witcher and Jimmy Sandoval also voted affirmatively. Mayor Antonio Apodaca and commissioner Jim Lafferty were absent. APNM congratulates the City of Tucumcari and its residents for working to establish targeted and consistent spay/neuter efforts. APNM urges residents in other New Mexico communities to take measures against animal overpopulation by encouraging their local government to set up low-cost spay/neuter clinics. The use of a mobile, low-cost spay-neuter clinic is one excellent way to curtail the tremendous costs of handling and euthanizing thousands of homeless animals in New Mexico. For more information or to schedule an appointment, please call Robert Ciolli, 505-461-8669.
....... The Most Innocent Victims of Home Foreclosures: Commentary by Ben Stein on CBS
The current rate of home foreclosures in the U.S. has created a crisis among a family's most innocent victims: its cats and dogs. Shelters in some parts of the country are filling up with members of the family who don't understand why their humans have abandoned them to noisy, chainlink and concrete enclosures. Ben Stein calls for the government to help the displaced animal victims of the housing crisis. Click to watch video on CBS.com.
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Volunteers are needed to help with the Animal Protection of New Mexico outreach table at La Montañita Coop’s Earth Day celebration in Albuquerque’s Nob Hill neighborhood on Sunday, April 27, from 11 a.m.–6 p.m.
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