Like the heroine in the Legend of Sleepy Hollow, this Katrina will also inspire people to lose their heads! She's beautiful, funny, with a heart as big as a pumpkin. Katrina would like a home with a fenced yard and her special someone will need great vet references. Headless horsemen and skinny school masters need not apply. Fifty lbs. and 2 years of age, Katrina survived Hurricane Dorian. Visit 1 Love's website to apply.
Summer of Love
1 Love 4 Animals rescued over 80 puppy mill dogs in the Summer of 2019. This Standard was photographed at Hickory Springs Farm Kennel before being adopted by a fantastic family in Malvern.
Bacteria-Infested Ponds Turn Deadly for Dogs
reprinted from Garden & Gun https://gardenandgun.com/articles/bacteria-infested-ponds-turn-deadly-dogs/
The recent deaths of a number of dogs around the South highlight the danger of toxic blue-green algae blooms
by CAROLINE SANDERS
August 15, 2019
PHOTO: NORTH CAROLINA DEPARTMENT OF ENVIRONMENTAL QUALITY
A summer evening swim in North Carolina turned deadly last week when three dogs died after playing in a pond thought to contain blue-green algae, toxic bacteria that grow in warm, still bodies of water. Wilmington pet owners Melissa Martin and Denise Mintz took Abby and Izzy, two West Highland white terriers, and Harpo, a “doodle” mix, to cool off after temperatures reached the high nineties last Thursday. Within fifteen minutes after leaving, the dogs started seizing as their nervous systems began to fail. Martin and Mintz rushed their pups to Eastern Carolina Veterinary Referral Animal Emergency and Trauma, but it was too late. All three dogs died.
Similar deaths have been reported in Lake Allatoona near Atlanta and Red Bud Isle dog park at Lady Bird Lake in Austin, Texas, and blue-green algae has been identified in lakes at a number of locations around the South and beyond, including Montgomery County in Maryland, Spotsylvania County in Virginia, lakes near Charlotte, North Carolina, as well as in Minnesota, Maine, and Montana.
Blue-green algae, or cyanobacteria, appears in fresh and brackish bodies of water, proliferating especially when the ponds or lakes are stagnant, shallow, warm, and full of nutrients such as phosphorus and nitrogen from various sources, including fertilizer. These conditions collided during the Southeast’s recent heat wave. “The environmental conditions have to be perfect: hot, humid, with no rain,” Dr. Kimberly Toombs, a veterinarian at the Wilmington clinic where the three dogs were brought on Thursday, told G&G. “Rain stirs up water and bacteria can’t grow. It’s been probably twenty days or so since we’ve had significant rainfall here.”
Elizabeth Booth, the watershed planning and monitoring program manager for the Georgia Environmental Protection Division, agrees. “It’s truly all about the environmental conditions,” Booth says. “We went out Monday [two days after the lethal bloom on Lake Allatoona] and sampled the water. The blue-green algae bloom had dissipated.”
While ingesting cyanobacteria will harm any species—humans included—dogs are particularly susceptible since they tend to play in the shallow ends of ponds, where the algae blooms typically occur, often lapping up water and later grooming it off themselves. According to the Center for Disease Control, if pets come into contact with blue-green algae, wash it off with clean water immediately and rush them to the vet.
“Toxic water will appear bright, pea soup green,” Booth says. But not all green water is deadly. The Georgia Environmental Protection Division has outlined a simple test that will help determine whether algae in lakes are safe: Fill a jar three-quarters of the way full with both surface scum and the water below, close the lid, and place in the refrigerator overnight. “If the algae settles out, it’s not an issue,” Booth says. If a green ring appears at the top of the jar, though, it’s likely toxic.
While this test is helpful, the safest advice is simple: “In hot, humid times of year, which for us is like March to November,” Toombs says, “dogs should stay out of any stagnant water.”
Remembering Our Tackle Michael Vick Campaign
We were reminded today that ten years ago Michael Vick was signed to the Eagles. At the time Main Line Animal Rescue Founder Bill Smith thought it would be great to turn a negative into a positive and help feed a few shelter dogs. The campaign was wildly successful (tons of food collected/distributed, and both ESPN and Wolf Blitzer praised our efforts). Bill is no longer with MLAR but his mission lives on at 1 Love 4 Animals, PA's fastest growing animal rescue.
First Taste of Freedom
This is what it’s like to be free for the first time. Free from the cage that held her for six years. Free from the puppy mill that profited from her mistreatment. Free now to find a home.
1 Love has two exquisite English Bulldogs available for adoption right now. Bulldog experience preferred. Visit our adoption page to apply. We’re calling this dog Martha.
Exploring New Frontiers and Discovering New Families
Anguilla puppies now available for adoption at 1 Love. Shown here being examined on the island before making the journey. What shall we name them? Columbus, Magellan, Lewis & Clark?
Happy Birthday, Grace!
Grace and her sisters and friends collected and bagged dog and cat food for our AniMeals Program. Grace asked her friends to bring pet food to her birthday party instead of presents. Kids making this world a better place for seniors and the pets they love. 1 Love’s dogs attended the festivities. Special thanks to Grace’s parents!
New Hope 4 joe
Joe started his first day of classes today at Absolute K9 in New Hope. This 1-2 year old Blue Pit has always loved people but has been dominant with other dogs. Sean (pictured here) of AK9 has helped many rescue dogs reach their full potential. If you or anyone you know would like a perfectly trained young dog, please contact us. billsmith4animals@gmail.com
Valentine's Volunteers at Bryn Mawr Hospital
1 Love 4 Animals’s volunteers and dogs visit the doctors, nurses, and patients at Bryn Mawr Hospital on Valentine’s Day. We brought the love and it was returned tenfold. Thank you, Bryn Mawr Hospital, and the dedicated staff of Saunders House. (Yes, we were there, too, with Doug the Wnder Dog and cupcakes from Sweet Freedom Bakery in Bryn Mawr.)
Heart to Heart to Heart
1 Love 4 Animals invites you, your friends and family to participate in our celebration of shelter pets by helping us create a giant illuminated heart (using flashlights and cell phones) on the grounds of the Radnor Clubhouse826 Providence Rd, Malvern, PA 19355 on Tuesday, February 12, 2019, 6:00 pm - 7:00 pm. Our heart will be filmed from above, promoted on social media, and will raise awareness to the plight of homeless animals throughout the Delaware Valley. The event is free. Coffee, hot chocolate, and cupcakes will be served. Participants will be asked to stand on a chalk outline of a giant heart with their cell phone flashlights so all the world can see how much our own rescue pets light up our lives! Kids are encouraged to participate.
On the same day/night, employees, volunteers, and rescue partners at Philadelphia's Animal Care & Control Team (ACCT) will form their own illuminated heart in their parking lot at 111 W Hunting Park Ave, Philadelphia, PA 19140 in a celebration of pet adoption two days before Valentines Day! Please join us at either location and encourage others to adopt and share the love with ACCT and 1 Love 4 Animals' (available for adoption) dogs and cats, bunnies and birds. Bring your cell phones or flashlights: 6:00 pm - 7:00 pm, Tuesday, February 12th. Cupcakes and coffee will be served. This event is free and everyone is welcome to participate.
Please confirm (so we know in advance how big our hearts will be) by emailing Bill Smith at BillSmith4Animals@gmail.com or contact Susan Russell of ACCT at srussell@acctphilly.org, or call ACCT: 267-385-3800