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WARM HEARTS HUMANE SOCIETY, INC. P.O. Box 535 Mount Ida, Arkansas 71957

FOR YOUR INFORMATION . . .

TO OUR CONTRIBUTORS. As you know, our economy is

getting tighter and tighter. Warm Hearts is no exception. In

an effort to “GO GREEN”, we are asking you to make a choice

of how you wish to receive our newsletter. PLEASE NOTE that

we will continue to mail the hardcopy if you do not have an

email address. Your email address ABSOLUTELY WILL NOT

be given out and will be protected by Warm Hearts Humane

Society, Inc.

Advise us if you would like to receive the newsletter

electronically to your email address or advise us if you no

longer wish to receive our newsletter, send your decision to:

whhsnewsletter@gmail.com

If you would like to make a donation, you may use the

address in the mast head, or you can choose one of the follow-

ing addresses. Please note that we will send a receipt of your

contribution for your income tax.

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Or, LIKE us on Facebook:

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And Before We Go . . .

WE UNDERSTAND, how those beautiful eyes look at you

saying “PLEASE TAKE ME WITH YOU”. Considering the heat

wave America is experiencing; LEAVE YOUR PET AT HOME.

Even the extra 5 minutes you may take to say hello to a friend

can kill your pet! The heat rises exponentially inside your vehi-

cle, especially with the windows up. Your pet will be happy to

see you when you return and that really is worth leaving them

behind.

THINK ABOUT IT!

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Save

A Life

Today

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Join

The

Fight

Against

Animal

Abuse

The Tail Wagger WARM HEARTS HUMANE SOCIETY, INC. PRESENTS OUR NEWSLETTER —

REMEMBER THE THUNDER MOUNTAIN PUPPIES RESCUED

AT CHRISTMAS?

T hese are two of

the Christmas Day

abandoned pup-

pies. . .our fosters

gave up their afternoon to

rescue them from Thunder

Mountain.

Both dogs

were

adopted by one couple. . .

how precious are these pic-

tures!!! Umpire, the floppy

eared boy was scared to get

in the car, just look at him

now sitting with such great posture!!!

WHAT ABOUT IZZY? . .THE NEW ASSISTANT!

WARM HEARTS HUMANE SOCIETY is so fortunate

to receive update stories and pictures from our

newly adoptive families. It is one of the best

reasons we do what we do. This story is about

“Izzy” and her Forever-Mom.

After only a couple of

weeks, Izzy had found her

niche. She goes to work with

Mom everyday and visits with

the patients to a point of cud-

dling up with them in their

wheelchair.

One day Izzy was found in

her Mom’s office chair facing

the computer.

She has not only captured her Mom’s heart, but everyone

who meets her. Great Dog!

AARON’S LEMONADE STAND

AARON decided to do

something for the people who

saved his best friend, BOLOO

BEAR. After all the preparations

and patience,

he made

$20.00 and

had his par-

ents help mail a donation to WHHS. We

believe this is a great example of commu-

nity involvement. Boloo Bear and Aaron

will be life long friends and Warm Hearts

thanks this wonderful little boy.

MEET SHIANA, THE REPRESENTATIVE!

S hiana’s forever-family wrote these notes: WE are

enjoying life with Shiana

and I thought I'd send you

an update. She is such a

great dog to promote adoption because

everyone loves her and asks where we

got her. When our neighbors lost their

dog this winter (11 year old border col-

lie) they felt comfortable adopting the

way we did. Not only that, but her father

adopted a dog as well via transport.

Who knows how many others did this

because they met Shiana.

LIFE IS ‘TULIPS’ WITH BEAU

S kuttles (aka Beau) was one of the four (4) mange

puppies left in a ditch on Slate Mill Road. . .he is

living the good life now. His forever-mom, Lisa

writes: I just love my little guy. He makes a great

companion and I take him eve-

rywhere with me. According to

my vet, he isn't going to get

much bigger and weighs

around 21 lbs. He is quite so-

cialable, loves our trips to the

dog park, always has kisses

and a wagging tail for everyone

he meets.

The Tail Wagger

TAPEWORMS — There are 2 common types, TAENIA and

DIPYLIDIUM. All these tapeworms require a specific intermediary

host. Taenia most dogs get from eating guts, most often from rabbits

or fish, and Dypilidium is from ingesting infected fleas. Tapes mostly

deplete vitamin B12 and with heavy infestations may cause mucoid

diarrhea.

HEARTWORMS — Spread by mosquitoes from infected dogs,

these spend time in the tissues, can migrate transplacentally and

wind up as juveniles maturing to adults in the heart and pulmonary

vessels. Signs and effects vary with worm burden, from inapparent to

death. These worms lay live larvae into the bloodstream, where they

are picked up by new mosquitoes and retransferred to another dog.

Treatment is expensive and risky for heavily infested dogs. Prevention

is reliable with good owner compliance. Heartworms will very

occasionally infect humans.

COCCIDIA — Protozoal parasite that replicates inside cells lining

the intestine. Bloody diarrhea and malabsorption are the result.

Oocysts are shed in the stool and become infected after being in the

environment for a day or two. These are ingested and develop to

maturity in the small and large intestine.

GIARDIA — Chronic Protozoal intestinal infection, with loss of

nutrients and diarrhea. Cysts are shed in the feces and are

immediately infective by the oral route. They develop to Trophozoites

in the upper small intestine and attach to Enterocytes, damaging

them in the process. This leads to Maldigestion, Malabsorption and

Diarrhea.

HYGIENE IS OF THE UTMOST IMPORTANCE AS THERE IS

EVIDENCE THAT THESE MAY INFECT HUMANS

OLIVER’S STORY . . . OLIVER and his family were left behind

and in dire straits. Oliver being the worst

case, was badly burned

by an evil hand. The in-

jury you see here is after

5 weeks of painful treat-

ment. He was only 3

weeks old when WHHS

rescued him. He is safe

and happy now under the care of one of our

loving foster-moms.

COMMON INTERNAL CANINES

PARASITES BY DR. BARBARA PAGE, DVM

W ARM HEARTS HUMANE SOCIETY provides

documentation of a healthy animal from our

Veterinary Hospital. Just FYI, these are the

most common internal parasites we deal with

here in Arkansas. For more information, the

companion Animals Parasite Council has an excellent web-

site, found here: www.capcvet.org.

ROUNDWORMS — These are very common in puppies and may

also infect humans. Life cycle in young animals- less than 3 months

of age. The very thick-shelled eggs are swallowed, hatch, penetrate

the intestines, migrate thru liver and Lungs, are coughed up,

swallowed, back to intestines, mature, eggs are passed, repeat. In

older animals, these worms may not complete the entire cycle, but

wind up in various tissues with arrested development. They can then

later be mobilized in the pregnant bitch, and either wind up in her

intestines maturing or migrate across the placenta and develop in the

puppies prior to birth. Fatal infections can occur in young puppies. In

humans, the migrating larvae tend to migrate aberrantly and can end

up in any tissue and may cause death.

HOOKWORMS — All too common in any age dog, though older

animals are more resistant. Infection can occur through the ingestion

of infective larvae or their penetration of the skin. They go through

migration through liver and lungs to the intestines where they

mature. In animals more than 3 months old, maturation is arrested in

somatic tissues and in the lining of the intestines. These arrested

larvae are activated after removal of adult worms from the intestine

or during pregnancy when they accumulate in the mammary glands.

Therefore, neonates are infected as they first nurse. These worms are

blood-suckers and cause anemia and sometimes death. In humans,

infective larvae can penetrate the skin and cause intense itching.

Occasionally they will penetrate to deeper tissues and cause

problems there.

WHIPWORMS — Thick shelled eggs are passed in the stool and

become infective in 2-4 weeks. They are ingested, hatch and mature

in the lower small intestine, upper large intestine and cesium. Eggs

are shed intermittently and with light infections, may be difficult to

find. Whipworms cause intermittent bloody, mucolid diarrhea. These

can be difficult to reach without systemic anthelmintics, because

medication can bypass the Cesium.

SAVING HOPE By Kathleen Lamb

WHAT A SORRY SIGHT two of our volunteers encoun-

tered when they went to check out a call on an abandoned

dog. A sweet little "leather" dog;

mange so bad she was only skin,

left in a back yard by people who

heartlessly moved away with no

provision for her. One of the volun-

teers took her home, even though

she is already 'full" with fosters,

and she is now named Hope, be-

cause now this little innocent has

hope. Her foster mom delights at watching the other dogs

entice her to play, which she didn't know how to do. Equally

gratifying has been her slow but steady return to health. She's

growing fur, and looking less like a lizard each day! Hope is a

great little dog; If you are considering making a donation, be

aware that your money will go directly to her medical care

and upkeep, as well as our other fosters. Now there is hope

for Hope.

A SAVIOR FOR WILD ANIMALS As you know WHHS is located in the Ouachita Mountains

and therefore we occasionally run across baby animals, ap-

parently abandoned. That happened to one in our community

and we did not know what to tell

her. We knew the mother would not

come back because she had been

hit by a truck. Luckily, our vet gave

some advice; namely, DO NOT DIS-

TURB the babies. We pursued and

the Forestry Service gave us a

name of an authorized deer

adoption service. This gentleman

takes the baby deer to his facility and raises them until they

can be released back into the forest.

Check with your Forestry Service. It is against the law to

harbor a wild animal.

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Baby Splash

Splash Now 12-11 78 lbs

BARLEY AT ADOPTION

AND NOW, STILL GIVING

LOVE KISSES WHHS SALUTES OUR VETERINARIANS,

VOLUNTEERS, AND OUR COMMUNITY You have seen some articles that illustrate the amount of

abuse some of our rescues receive. Taking animals with these

types of injuries to a vet can be the only immedi-

ate action. However, without the constant loving

care of our foster homes, these animals would not

live.

Warm Hearts is homed in a large rural, forested

area. When animals are literally thrown away,

they are put in immediate danger. They can be

somebody’s lunch, or starve, or die from their inju-

ries, or the weather. We work on an overloaded

situation and cannot possibly take all the ani-

mals, although we reach out to neighboring socie-

ties and shelters or in the end, take them into an

already overloaded situation, or not at all. You ask

‘How can this cycle be broken?’

SPAY/NEUTERING, COMMUNITY INVOLVMENT, EDUCATION

Without the community support donating their time, food,

and funds, Warm Hearts would be in jeopardy.

Our switchboard is answered daily by one of our volun-

teers. It’s a hard job, because sometimes we have to turn

folks away. We use our voucher funds to help with spay/

neutering. This lady is a busy, busy person. Thanks B.J.

JOIN A HUMANE SOCIIETY TODAY — YOU WILL BE WELCOME!

SEE

HOW LOVE

GROWS

—

BEFORE AND

AFTER

RESCUE

Maisey Mudpie, one of the storm puppies, getting her first kiss from forever-mom and one year later Birthday!!

BARKLEY

NOW

ALL GROWN

UP

TEDDY

COBIE—AT TRANSPORT DAY

AND HOME

THIS IS VIVA

ALL GROWN UP