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Make your holiday wishes come true!

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Has your adopted pet changed your life? YOU can help Oakland Animal Services earn $100,000 this holiday season! Share your story, help make our holiday wishes come true!
 

The Petco Foundation, together with BOBS from Skechers, want to know all the ways, big and small, that your adopted pet has changed your life for the better. Winning stories will receive up to a $100,000 Holiday Wishes grant award for their adoption organization PLUS winning adopters will receive a Petco shopping spree and BOBS from Skechers shoes!

We’ve had two winners in recent years. One of these could be you!!!

Two Puppies Unite a Transplant Patient and Her Donor

 

Submit your Holiday Wishes story by Sept. 23!
Here’s how to submit:

  1. If you’ve adopted a pet from Oakland Animal Services, share how your pet changes your life for the better each and every day. Write your story in 500 words or less.
  2. Upload at least four photos to support your story: one photo of your pet by him/herself, one photo of you or your family with your pet and two additional photos. You can add video too to help illustrate the bond between you and your pet. Visit petcofoundation.org/holidaywishes to read prior year’s winning entries and get some inspiration. Remember, good stories will show how your pet changed YOUR life.
  3. Include our organization’s contact information so that we can be eligible for a grant award:
    • Organization Name: Oakland Animal Services
    • Executive Director Name: Lisa Franzetta, FOAS Program and Fundraising Director
    • Organization Email Address: info@oaklandsanimals.org
    • Organization Phone Number: (510) 535-5602
    • Organization Tax ID Number: 20-4053711
  4. Submit your story and photos to petcofoundation.org/holidaywishes by Sept. 23, noon CST. But hurry because only the first 10,000 stories are guaranteed to be reviewed.

Winners will be announced during the holiday season. Finalists will receive a Petco shopping spree up to $1,000 and BOBS from Skechers shoes, and the organization they adopted from will receive a grant award ranging from $5,000 up to $100,000! For more information, visit petcofoundation.org/holidaywishes and join the conversation on social media using #HolidayWishes.

Support Jessie’s Virtual Kitten Shower and make a wish come true!!!

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We’d like to introduce you to Jessie, a very special OAS volunteer and kitten whisperer.

You can support Jessie here.

Though Jessie is “just” a teenager, she has already changed countless lives through her foster and volunteer work for OAS. Since May 2019, with support from her family, Jessie has been fostering homeless OAS kittens. As a young shelter volunteer, she started out doing non-animal handling chores like laundry while working around her school schedule. When our volunteer team saw her level of commitment, Jessie became a rabbit volunteer, providing care for the bunnies–cuddling, but also cleaning cages and feeding greens. On the first day of shelter-in-place, Jessie was one of the first in line to bring home both a foster rabbit and a foster cat! All of this on its own is heartwarming. But there is more to know about this amazing young woman.

Jessie has a lung disease that makes her eligible for a wish from Make-A-Wish Greater Bay Area. Most Make-A-Wish children, who are all facing life-threatening medical conditions, make wishes like taking a trip to Disneyland, or meeting one of their sports idols. Amazingly, Jessie’s one special wish is a philanthropic one–to help kittens at OAS by hosting a “virtual kitten shower.” As part of her wish, Friends of Oakland Animal Services will also receive a $5,000 donation in Jessie’s honor from Make-A-Wish Greater Bay Area!

Jessie’s generous wish will enable OAS to purchase much-needed items on our “kitten registry,” providing for all of the foster and medical care needs for our kittens as they get big and strong enough for adoption. We at FOAS are overwhelmed and inspired by Jessie’s incredible dedication and generosity–so much so, that we have committed to raising a matching $5,000 for Oakland’s kittens. Now, we need your help to meet this match for our dozens of kittens currently in foster care–and to make Jessie’s wish have double the impact for Oakland’s neediest animals.

The typical kitten arriving at OAS as a baby requires supplies like formula, bottles, kitten food, litter, a scale, and a carrier. They also need routine medical care including vaccines, flea prevention, medication for diarrhea and upper respiratory infections, and spay/neuter surgery. All told, each kitten in foster costs the shelter over $200, assuming they have no additional medical expenses.

Right now, OAS has 60 kittens in foster care, as this year’s unusually long “kitten season,” which began in the spring, is still in full force. Because shelter-in-place has impacted spay/neuter programs across the nation, the 2020 kitten season has no end in sight.

Jessie’s $5,000 wish come true, plus $5,000 from our FOAS community, means that we can continue to provide care for our city’s tiniest cats as these litters of bottle babies continue to arrive at our shelter doors.

Please help us continue to provide the love and care that every kitten deserves during this year of unprecedented need–and to celebrate Jessie’s dedication by meeting our challenge match goal of $5000. Your gift, no matter how small, will help make Jessie’s “virtual kitten shower” a truly life-changing event.

And on August 23, we’ll be celebrating live with a special baby shower broadcast from one of our shelter’s bi-weekly kitten adoption events! Jessie, FOAS, and Make-A-Wish representatives will join remotely as we livestream from the shelter, where our foster kittens who are ready for adoption will show off their cat-stuff and meet the families waiting to adopt a new best feline friend. Stay tuned to the OAS Facebook and Instagram feeds for details on how to join the party!

Support Jessie here: https://charity.gofundme.com/o/en/campaign/jessies-kitten-shower

Dog days of summer: a fundraiser for our dog foster program

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A special message from OAS Director Ann Dunn:

Meimei was a sweet, playful girl for her age. She was in foster for a few weeks where fosters discovered she had urinary incontinence. She was placed on meds putting the incontinence under control. We would not have learned of her incontinence at the shelter. Meimei was adopted at the end of July.

I think everyone understands that the shelter is a stressful place for animals, but the sad reality is that a dog who is shut down or seems aggressive in a shelter, or who has some behavioral issues, is unlikely to be given a chance. 

Before becoming OAS Director earlier this year, I founded and ran Cat Town, a cat rescue organization with a mission to help OAS cats who are at-risk for euthanasia because they are too scared in the shelter environment to show their true personality. I was told back then that the cats we set out to help were “unadoptable.” 

By getting scared cats into an environment where they feel safe, so potential adopters can see their true personalities shine through, Cat Town helped increase the save rate for cats at OAS from 58% in 2011 to over 90% today.

Nellie was very shy, scared, and needed socialization. She also demonstrated food guarding behavior. Nellie went to foster and blossomed into a sweet, playful, and smart dog where no food guarding was observed. She was made available for adoption in the beginning of July and adopted two weeks later.

Knowing that there are so many parallels to dogs, one of the first things I did after starting at OAS was to reach out to FOAS to help me create a targeted foster program especially for dogs who aren’t doing well in the shelter and just need an opportunity in a foster home to thrive and become adopted. 

  • Our new foster initiative for these dogs in need of special assistance gets them out of the shelter and into the homes of one of our more than 350 Oakland foster families, as quickly as possible. But that’s just the beginning.
  • We support our foster families with supplies, classes, and individualized support from professional dog trainers.
  • We oversee doggie play groups at the shelter, an important behavior training opportunity for both fearful and aggressive dogs.
  • Our “canine good citizen” approach focuses on improving a dog’s behavior, and the support provided to fosters and adopters means they can take a chance on a “dog in progress,” knowing they won’t be stuck without support in a challenging situation.

FOAS has set a goal of raising $10,000 to help dogs once deemed unadoptable. Please, give today to support our Dog Days of Summer campaign, which will help make our shelter’s visionary program a reality for all of our dogs in need. Thank you!

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Operations during the shelter-in-place mandate are limited

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In response to the COVID-19 shelter-in-place declaration, OAS will continue to provide key services to our community. To prevent the spread of the virus, we are open to the public by appointment only.

Between the hours of 11 am to 4 pm every day, we can be reached at (510) 535-5602. We will assess your situation to offer help when possible.

All animals who are available for adoption have been moved to foster homes. If you are interested in adopting, please check here for more information on our current adoption process.

If you just need to license your dog, please do so ONLINE.

If you are looking for a lost animal, please look here.

After hours, if you have found a stray, sick or injured animal and can transport it to the VCA Bay Area Veterinary Specialists & Emergency Hospital or another 24-hour veterinary care facility, please do so. Alternatively, call the police non-emergency line at 510-777-3333.  You must stay on the line to speak with a dispatcher.

 

Operaciones de OAS durante el Mandato de Refugio en Casa

En respuesta a la declaración de refugio en casa debida al COVID-19, OAS continuará proporcionando servicios clave a nuestra comunidad. Con el objetivo de evitar la propagación del virus, estamos abiertos al público únicamente con cita.

De las 11 am a las 4 pm todos los días, puede comunicarse con nosotros llamando al (510) 535-5602. Evaluaremos su situación a fin de ofrecer ayuda cuando sea posible.

Todos los animales disponibles para su adopción han sido mudados a hogares de cuidado temporal. Debido al COVID-19, no estamos programando reuniones en persona en este momento. Actualizaremos la información de nuestro sitio web en cuando cambien estas circunstancias. Si está interesado en adoptar una mascota, ¡comnuníquese con nosotros en el futuro!

Puede obtener una licencia para su perro en https://www.oaklandanimalservices.org/services/dog-licensing/.

Puede buscar un animal extraviado en https://www.oaklandanimalservices.org/services/lost-and-found/.

Después de horas hábiles, si encuentra un animal callejero, extraviado, enfermo o lesionado y puede transportarlo al Hospital de Especialistas Veterinarios y Emergencias VCA Bay Area o a otra institución de atención veterinaria 24 horas, por favor hágalo. O bien, llame a la línea de la policía para casos que no son una emergencia al 510-777-3333.  Debe permanecer en la línea para hablar con un despachador.

 

屋崙 (奧克蘭) 市動物服務中心(OAS) 在就地避難令期間的營運

 

為因應 COVID-19 (新型冠狀病毒) 就地避難頒令，OAS 將繼續為我們的社區提供重點服務。為防止病毒擴散，我們只接受民眾預約。

每天上午 11:00 至下午 4:00 之間，你可撥電話 (510) 535-5602 與我們聯絡。我們會評估你的情況，並在可能的情況下提供幫助。

所有可供領養的動物都已被送往寄養家庭。由於 COVID-19 的原因，我們現在沒有安排見面時間。若這個情況有變動，我們將盡快更新我們的網站。如果你有興趣領養，請再和我們聯絡！

你可在此申領狗牌照：https://www.oaklandanimalservices.org/services/dog-licensing/。

你可以在此尋找丟失的寵物：https://www.oaklandanimalservices.org/services/lost-and-found/。

若在服務時間以外發現流浪、生病或受傷的動物，可以把動物送到 VCA 灣區獸醫專家和緊急醫院 (VCA Bay Area Veterinary Specialists & Emergency Hospital)，或送到其他 24 小時獸醫護理設施 (請這樣做)。或者，撥打警察局非緊急電話 510-777-3333。你必須留在電話上與調度員通話。

 

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