Kootenai Pets for Life, Libby

Last update 1/9/2012

Board of Directors: Eileen Carney, President; Judy Hyslop, Vice President/Shelter Director; Connie Holthaus, Secretary; Carol McAllister, Treasurer; Anita Beasley; Susan Bulyar ; Linda Newstrom; Tami White; and Bobbi McCanse

Our next meeting will be Monday, February 13, 2012, at 6 p.m. at the Libby campus of the Flathead Valley Community College in Libby. Everyone is invited to come and share ideas. If you have questions or need directions please e-mail. Minutes from our last meeting can be found here.

Saturday and Sunday we are open from 10 a.m. to 2 p.m. Volunteers are busy doing their work 9:30 a.m. to noon Monday through Friday so it is best if you call before coming so that someone is available to talk with you and show you the pets available for adoption. Call for an appointment if our regular hours don't work for you.

The Shelter is too full. We have too many dogs, cats and kittens all looking for a forever home (or even a foster home). Do you have room in your home and heart for a pet?

We need volunteers at the Shelter. Some of the regulars have vacation plans and we could use some replacements so they can have a day off! Call the Shelter and tell them you can help - 293-5735 (kpfl) There are lots of things you can do - for an hour, a day, a week, you name it! Walk the dogs, play with the cats, clean kennels or litter boxes, help with the feeding, do office work - the variety is endless.

Our Spring Rummage Sale is fast approaching. If you have items to donate please bring to the Ponderosa room on Friday morning, February 24 or talk to Carol at 293-3435 to make arrangments to drop off your items. No clothing items please. If you are able to help with the rummage sale please call Carol.

Kootenai Pets for Life calendars are available now. They can be found at the KPFL Shelter and This n That for Dogs and Cats in Libby and at Booze & Bait and B-Rocks in Troy.
They have lots of photos people have sent in of pets that they have adopted from KPFL.
Also big blocks to write in. Price has been reduced to $8 or two for $15.

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Raffle Tickets now available 1 for $1 or 6 for $5

$100 Gift Certificate donated by Rosauers
Animal Print Couch Throw donated Anonymously
Deep Fat fryer donated by June Barnes
Drawing will be held at February 25 at rummage sale
Call 293-3435 and leave message if you need tickets

Answers to questions that we often get. Hope this helps. If you can think of other things you would like answered, let us know.

If you are looking for the animals that we do have on line at this time (and there are usually some that are not on line yet so be sure to check without Shelter) you will find them at:

http://www.petfinder.com/pet-search?shelter_id=MT14&sort=identifier

If you are interested in adopting at pet - at the bottom of this page is a link named "Adopting Pets" It takes you to:

http://members.petfinder.org/~MT14/kpfl-adopting.html

On that page there is a link for a dog adoption form at:

http://members.petfinder.org/~MT14/formdogadopt.html

Also on that page there is a link for a cat adoption form at:

http://members.petfinder.org/~MT14/formcatadopt.html

And also on that page there is a link for an adoption agreement you can print and fill out at:

http://members.petfinder.org/~MT14/adoptagree.html

Needed at the Shelter:
Treats for the dogs and cats
Paper grocery bags (w/handles preferably) or plastic bags
Volunteers

Photos and descriptions of the pets we have available for adoption can be seen by clicking here. Information on individual animals is at the bottom of that page. Our on line photos are not always up to date so please call and make an appointment to see the dogs and cats available or stop by the Shelter when we are open. We usually have many that are not on line with photos. We have puppies and other dogs not seen on line.

If you can't adopt at this time, could you foster a pet in your home until we can find a permanent home? If you can, please e-mail. Could you help out at the Shelter?

The cumulative total for spay & neuters facilitated by KPFL from 2001 through July 2011 is 4409. We continually work on the spay/neuter program using facilities in Libby, Kalispell and Bonners Ferry. We encourage each and every pet owner to go to their veterinarian and have their pets up to date with all medical needs. If this is impossible we can offer some assistance.

Molly, Bella and Beau all went to one family and it sure looks like they found a great place to live!

Kootenai Pets for Life encourages everyone to take their pets to their veterinarian and have them spayed or neutered and to have their vaccinations up to date.

If you are unable to do this KPFL, with some financial assistance from the County, is still actively offering a spay/neuter program. If you need help to spay or neuter your pet call 293-kpfl (5735) or if you can help fianancially mail your check to KPFL, Box 1454, Libby, MT 59923.

1 year - 12
2 years - 67
3 years - 376
4 years - 2,107
5 years - 11,801
6 years - 66,088
7 years - 370,092
8 years - 2,072,514
9 years - 11,606,077

Join the Tile Wall at the Shelter

You can still join our wall of tiles at the Shelter. You can submit any drawing, clipart, and even a photo and we'll see if it will work for a tile. Or if you would like help designing one we'll do that too. If you have questions or would like to submit a design, please click here.

The cost is $50 for a personal tile and $100 for a business tile.

The Casey Fund
a separate account solely to provide funding for animal surgeries at KPFL

Dog’s death leads to fund for surgeries

By Canda Harbaugh
The Western News

A 9-year-old great western terrier that won the hearts of Kootenai Pets For Life animal shelter volunteers died last December.

The force that local businesses and volunteers put behind trying to save the little dog’s life, however, has led to something positive – a recently-established fund in the canine’s name to help shelter animals in need of surgery.

KPFL volunteer Terri Turman still gets emotional when she speaks of Casey, the little dog that died from complications after a bone became lodged in his throat.

“He just touched everybody at the shelter,” Turman said. “He was so well-behaved and so sweet.”

Casey didn’t stay long at the shelter before he found a new family to take him home last year. But shortly after his move, his owners brought him back for a veterinary exam. The dog had been vomiting for a week.

That is when the wheels began to turn.

To read the full story, click here.

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See more photos and stories of other animals at Adoption Stories.

If you have photos of your adopted pets, please send in your story along with your photos. We love to share them. E-mail