Final presentation in Powerpoint intro class, August 4, 2010

1. Paying Forward? Humans Helping Animals…some useful information? Information collected by Lynn Canada CSWP-C Powerpoint Presented August 4, 2010

2.  Disclaimer Your own research will provide comfort working with any of these groups….or volunteer and get “insider” knowledge…or, like me, call on them to help an animal and see how they perform.

3. 15 minutes of info…. Some examples… Share the Love The Animal Rescue Site Ecotourism Volunteer Vacations Amazing Acres Farm (Holly Springs NC) Piedmont Wildlife Center (Durham NC) Wake County SPCA Carnivore Preservation Trust (Pittsboro NC) Lemur Center (Durham NC) Creative Learning About Wild Species (CLAWS) (Chapel Hill area) Food Help / Education Fun

4. Who we can help… With Food With Support

5. Scott Morgan's newly formed charity, Share the Love, plays the middle man just as Second Harvest does for human food donations First warehouse in NC set up Using his connections with the shipping industry anticipating the growth of Share the Love Goal - connect with the higher quality pet food manufacturers Goal - provide rescues and shelters with high quality pet foods, not the frequently used shelter foods full of by-products, animal fat, and risky chemicals http://www.truthaboutpetfood.com/articles/share-the-love.html http://www.sharethelovenc.org/ Pilot Mountain NC

6. CLAWS, Inc. is a nonprofit organization that is dedicated to helping wild and exotic animals, through educating the public as well as rescuing and rehabilitating those animals in need. Our educational programs and wildlife rehabilitation are done on a local basis: however, our exotic animal rescue has spanned the entire country. Chapel Hill NC http://www.nc-claws.org/

8. Conservation

10. http://lemur.duke.edu/

12. wildcats are not used for entertainment purposes

13. no trade exists for wildcats or their parts

14. all wildcats prosper in sustainable, native habitatsPittsboro NC

15. http://www.theanimalrescuesite.com/

16. http://www.imom.org/In Memory of Magic Since 1998, IMOM has funded non-routine veterinary care for more than 1800 companion animals. Mission Statement "Helping people help pets". To better the lives of sick, injured and abused companion animals. We are dedicated to insure that no companion animal has to be euthanized simply because their caretaker is financially challenged.To educate on the importance of spay and neuter in relation to proven health risks for intact animals. And to offer financial aid for spay and neuter to caretakers who cannot afford to have their pet spayed or neutered. NJ

17. http://www.paws.org/People Helping Animals WA 1967 - PAWS was founded and incorporated as a not-for-profit agency. Founding members ran a thrift store to raise money for spay and neuter surgeries to help end pet overpopulation.

18. Farm Animals http://www.mvfas.org/ VT Founded in mid-2003 by Dr. John Pastore (Inn owner, animal lover and Boston cardiologist), the Mountain View Farm Animal Sanctuary is a non-profit Vermont corporation dedicated to providing farm animals, especially ones with a difficult past, with a good future and a chance at a long and healthy life. http://www.uselessanimalfarm.org/ FL

19. Farm Animal Help and Education http://www.getoutsideandlearn.com/ Holly Springs NC http://www.woodstocksanctuary.org/ VT

20. Tough Breeds Of Livestock Disappearing Pineywoods cattle remain from the earliest days of Spanish control of what is now the southeastern United States usefulness to local populations as sources of meat, milk, hides, and oxen persists today Cotton patch geese used extensively to weed cotton fields in the early 1900s avidly consume grassy weeds and leave alone broad-leaved plants like cotton Pine Tacky saddle horses local Spanish-type horses, found in the deep South only three have been discovered and identified to date Gulf Coast or Native sheep adapted descendants of old family flocks from the coastal deep South trace back to an Iberian origin and are now being registered by the Gulf Coast Native Sheep Alliance A Boer goat descendant Local goats early extinct, largely due to crossbreeding to the imported Boer goat identified strains are exquisitely adapted to the local area Swine remnants of an old Iberian type, usually black or grey in color, and poorly muscled historically desired as a source of lard and cured meat often earnotched, several have fused toes (mulefoot) and wattles (fleshy appendages) on the neck http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2008/02/080213104634.htm http://www.perc.org/articles/article243.php http://www.albc-usa.org/ The American Livestock Breed Conservancy, Pittsboro NC Dr. Phil Sponenberg with a Spanish-style Choctaw horse. (Credit: John McCormick, Virginia Tech)

21. Manatees and Pelicans, oh my…. http://www.savethemanatee.org/rescue.htm Save the Manatee Club Maitland FL http://www.pelicanharbor.bizland.com/ Pelican Harbor Seabird Station Miami FL Sea World Orlando FL

22. http://www.conserveturtles.org/

23. http://montanahorsesanctuary.org/ MISSION STATEMENT:Montana Horse Sanctuary is creating a world in which all horses are sheltered, loved, cared for and understood. The Sanctuary provides refuge, rehabilitation, and placement of horses as well as a wide array of educational opportunities for horsepeople. The Sanctuary also provides assistance to horse owners in crisis.

24. Ecotourism Responsible travel to fragile, pristine, and usually protected areas that strives to be low impact and (often) small scale. Purports to educate the traveler; provide funds for conservation; directly benefit the economic development and political empowerment of local communities; and foster respect for different cultures and for human rights. Held as important by those who participate in it so that future generations may experience aspects of the environment relatively untouched by human intervention.[1] Ecotourism may appeal to ecologically and socially conscious individuals. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ecotourism

25. Some Ecotourism websites… www.ecoclub.com www.ecotourism.org

26. Volunteer Vacations Study Climate Change in the Arctic Repair Trails in the Montana Wilderness Explore Old Europe in a New Way (British Trust for Conservation Volunteers) Explore the Rockies on the Colorado Trail (volunteer maintenance) Help Preserve Cheetahs in Namibia Sail the Sloop ‘Clearwater’ Volunteer in the Deep Sea Support Trails Across the Country Help Organic Farms Across the Country Study the Sea in Belize Explore and Preserve the Pacific Crest Trail http://www.thedailygreen.com Helping people do better at caring for themselves and their world http://www.housecarers.com/ Vacationing as a volunteer – information-packed article http://www.kansascity.com/2010/07/28/2112822/vacationing-as-a-volunteer.html

27. …and…finally…should you need to help your dog expend some energy…. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2Ftz2ER896o&feature=related