Former Mayor, SQSPCA Director Named As Oneonta Trailblazers ONEONTA – Former Mayor Kim Muller and Susquehanna SPCA executive director Stacie Haynes were announced as the winners of the 2020 Trailblazer Awards, Mayor Gary Herzig announced this evening. The annual awards, given in honor of Women’s History Month (March), the Woman Trailblazer Award recognizes a woman in the Oneonta area who has enhanced the visibility and importance of women through her employment, volunteering and community engagement.…
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OUR Stacie Haynes Among Top 10 U.S. Animal Defenders Animal Legal Defense Fund Singles Out Local Director For List Of Best HARTWICK SEMINARY – Stacie Haynes, Susquehanna Animal Shelter executive director, has been named one of America’s Top 10 Animal Defenders by the Animal Legal Defense Fund, based in San Francisco for serving on “the front lines of enforcing animal protection laws.” These animal protection heroes will be honored this week, National Justice for Animals Week. Here’s is the citation:…
Dog Fighting Suspected 19 DOGS SAVED FROM ‘TORTURE’ IN FRANKLIN By LIBBY CUDMORE • Special to www.AllOTSEGO.com SIDNEY – Erin Insinga, shelter director, Delaware Valley Humane Society, described the scene of a rescue in Franklin as “like something out of a horror film.” “I have never seen animals in such conditions of pain, torture and neglect,” she said through tears. “These dogs were stacked like pieces of furniture in a dark room.” Cages were soaked with vomit, urine and feces.…
$3.3M Raised To $5m+ Goal Shelter Raises $236K, Benefactor Adds $30K By LIBBY CUDMORE • Special to www.AllOTSEGO.com COOPERSTOWN – Stacie Haynes couldn’t believe the size of the check Staffworks founder Anita Vitullo handed her. “I just about fell out of my chair,” the Susquehanna SPCA executive director said. “Last year we got $95,000 and I was nervous that we wouldn’t beat that!” The Save-a-Life campaign offers shelters a matching donation of up to $10,000, and this year, Vitullo added some…
SQSPCA Awarded $266K At Annual ‘Save-A-Life’ Campaign SEE FULL STORY IN THIS WEEK’S HOMETOWN ONEONTA & THE FREEMAN’S JOURNAL…
EDITORIAL Everyone Wants Fair Deal For Animal Shelter, County Drop The Threats, Negotiate An Agreement The issue’s been hanging out there for a while: What role should the Otsego County Board of Representatives play in funding the Susquehanna Animal Shelter? Schoharie County’s contribution is $75,000 a year to its shelter. Delaware County splits $88,000 among two shelters. Until now, Otsego County has contributed nothing. The county has been allocating $5,000 a year. It is not a donation, but a fee…
Zoe Cancer-Free, Cornell Tests Find COOPERSTOWN – Zoe, the dog rescued from Exeter Center after she chewed off her own leg, has been declared cancer-free by veterinarians at the Cornell University Hospital for Animals, executive director Stacie Haynes reported just moments ago. “According to the pathology report, the complete surgical excision is expected to be curative,” said Haynes. “They believed it was just a fatty mass, which is common in dogs her age. Zoe is cancer-free.”…
$5K Raised For Zoe As Biopsy Results Await By LIBBY CUDMORE • Special to AllOTSEGO.com COOPERSTOWN – At first glance, you wouldn’t know Zoe was a miracle. “When I went to visit; she was jumping and playing like any normal dog,” said Stacie Haynes, Susquehanna SPCA executive director. “If you didn’t look at her leg, you wouldn’t think she was any different.” Just two weeks ago, the 9-year-old German shepherd was found chained outside of 605 County Highway 22, just…
‘A THANKSGIVING MIRACLE’ Zoe On The Mend After An 11-Pound Tumor Is Removed Dog Cared For At Butternuts Farm; Biopsy Will Determine What’s Next By JIM KEVLIN • Special to www.AllOTSEGO.com HARTWICK SEMINARY – “A Thanksgiving Miracle” arrived at the Susquehanna Animal Shelter a few minutes ago. That’s how Zoe, 9, the German shepherd who was found with a front leg chewed off in Exeter Center last week, was described by SQSPCA Executive Director Stacie Haynes as the two arrived…
$100K Goal, $129K Raised Susquehanna SPCA Exceeds Grant-Matching Challenge COOPERSTOWN – The Susquehanna SPCA fundraisers didn’t just meet the $100,000 challenge proposed by the C.J. Heilig Foundation. They exceeded it. On Sept. 16, the C.J. Heilig Foundation announced a dollar-for-dollar matching challenge grant of $100,000 to assist the SQSPCA in its Shelter Us capital campaign to help build a new animal shelter. By the Friday, Nov. 1 deadline, donations and pledges generated by the Heilig match had topped $129,000, exceeding…
