T.A.I.L.S. - The Alliance in Limiting Strays

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General Meetings
Third Wednesday of every month
Norwalk City Hall, 7:30 pm

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TAILS Pet Care Forum
FREE PET ADVICE!
April 6th, 2006, 7-9pm
Community Room, Norwalk City Hall, 125 East Avenue, Norwalk

Come one, come all to the 4th Annual TAILS Pet Care Forum! 

On Thursday, April 6th, at 7:00pm in Norwalk City Hall’s Community Room, a panel of four professional animal care experts (2 veterinarians, 1 Animal Control Officer and 1 dog trainer) will be happy to address concerns and curiosities regarding everything from: Fluffy’s eccentric behavior to should I vaccinate every year, from Heart Worm concerns to Litter box problems, from laws regarding leashing dogs to what is the actual risk  of rabies to many more topics of the attendees’ choice. Emcee for the  evening will be Ann Karrick of TV’s For The Record and on-air talent  with WEBE,WICC, & WFAS. The event is free and is part of the TAILS Spay  Day program of events hosted by the group, a local non-profit group based out of Westport (and working throughout Fairfield County) to reduce the suffering and euthanasia rates of dogs and cats through their spay/neuter programs.

The panel includes: 

  • Dr. Michele Lamothe, DVM, Broad River Animal Hospital, Norwalk

  • Dr. John Caltabiano, DVM, president of Tait’s Every Animal Matters (TEAM), Westbrook

  • Mary Ellen Walsh, dog trainer, owner of The Grateful Dog

  • Officer Peter D’Amico, Animal Control Officer, Westport.

The Forum is part of the series of events which the group kicked off on 
February 28th and includes a month of events surrounding Spay Day (a 
nationally recognized program originated by the Doris Day Animal 
Foundation), with the Pet Care Forum as just one of several activities 
taking place. As part of TAILS Spay Day, the organization is aiming to 
complete 140 dog and cat spay/neuters to help end the pet overpopulation problem. With the help of local businesses, veterinarians and individuals, T.A.I.L.S hopes to reach their fundraising and spay/neuter 
goal for Spay Day 2006.

TAILS is extremely grateful to have as our sponsors the following 
organizations and veterinary practices whom have already pledged their 
support for 2006: 

  • Animal Welfare Club-Staples High School, 

  • Animal Welfare Club - Darien High School, 

  • Ann Karrick (television host & producer of For The Record with Paxson Communications, and on-air radio talent for WEBE108, WICC600, WFAS AM & FM), 

  • Broad River Animal Hospital, 

  • Brooks Community Newspapers, 

  • Cannondale Animal Clinic, 

  • Choice Pet Supply, 

  • Communication Ink., 

  • Countryside Veterinary Hospital, 

  • The Grateful Dog, LLC, 

  • High Ridge Animal Hospital, 

  • Norwalk Animal Hospital, 

  • Norwalk Veterinary Hospital, 

  • The Petco Foundation, 

  • Saugatuck Tax Group, Inc, 

  • Tait’s Every Animal Matters (TEAM Mobile Feline Unit), 

  • The Pet Hospital of Stratford, 

  • Westport Animal Control, 

  • Westport Animal Hospital,

  • The Westport Woman's Club 

  • The Volunteers who staff TAILS.


For more information on this and other TAILS Spay Day events, or to 
become a sponsor or participant, please call 203-222-1992 or email us at info@tailsct.org.

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T.A.I.L.S. Launches 3rd Annual Spay Day Event To Help Animals

Dr. Patricia Hart & Dr. Lynne Becker of County Veterinary Hospital in Fairfield join Spay Day Director Dorrie Harris during the recent presentation of the Hospital’s Certificate of Appreciation for their outstanding generosity and commitment to helping animals. 

More details in the Events Section

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Number of spays/neuters per year

With your help we have been able to provide more assistance then ever.  The chart above shows the number of animals T.A.I.L.S. have spayed or neutered by year.  As you can see, we are dramatically increasing our assistance.  

We don't want the number to go flat for the remainder of the year.  Please consider a donation today to the address below (or by clicking the How You Can Help Link above) so we can continue providing our services.  For the last two years, we have surpassed the previous years total in June, doubling the number of animals we have spayed or neutered by the end of the year.  We thank everybody for their assistance in helping us grow.

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Spay Day Update - Thursday, March 25 - From an update by Dorrie Harris, concerning the Spay Day success today: 

We did manage to get 20 cats to TEAM <<a mobile spay/neuter clinic>> today.  We had 8 domestics, 12 ferals - 7 females, 5 males.  ALL of the feral females were pregnant.  Hope that's not a trend.  TEAM was very happy with the fact that we got the pregnant ones and congratulated us on having stopped literally hundreds of thousands of cats from being born in the future.

Looking at some numbers - Say the average litter is four cats, so seven females would give us 28 kittens, ferals average 35% female kittens, assume two litters per year.

Time Females Males New females New Males Total Cats
Start 7 5 10 18 40
One Year 41 67 57 107 284
2 years 235 429 329 611 1,628
3 Years 1,354 2,506 1,896 3,520 9.312
4 Years 7,800 14,476 10,920 20,280 52,524
5 Years 44,928 83,428 62,899 116,813 308,128

Three hundred and eight thousand one hundred and twenty eight cats?  That's assuming 4 kittens per litter.  Make that five kittens per litter (the average is between four and five for ferals) and you are talking just over 1.3 million cats possible from these 7 females. 

Now at the end of five years, there will be 7 females and 5 male cats

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Held in March, the Pet Healthcare Question and Answer Forum was a great success. A panel of local experts answered audience questions about pet healthcare at Norwalk City Hall.   Moderated by Lauren Collier, Host of Pet Talk and Cablevision News12 Metorologist, several dozen people came out with questions.

Left to Right, Dr John Caltabiano, DVM, Tait's Every Animal Matters, Dr Paula Belknap, DVM, Cannondale Animal Clinic, Officer Peter D'Amico, Animal Control Officer, Westport, and Karen Rasmusssen, President, TAILS answer questions at the Pet Healthcare Q&A Forum.  Photo credit Dorrie Harris.

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Between Feb 24 and March 31, The Alliance In Limiting Strays is sponsoring over 65 Spays/Neuters as part of SPAY DAY 2004.  We need your help to do more.  

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Spay Day 2004

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Building on the previous years success, Spay Day 2004 was a tremendous success for T.A.I.L.S. 

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Garden Party - held on June 7th - A tremendous success!

Online Shopping Mall, Hundreds of stores, linked on the right

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Online Credit Card donations are back, in the How You Can Help Section.

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About T.A.I.L.S.:
To serve the community as a charitable organization that promotes spay/ neutering of animals and provides financial support to humane organizations and individuals in pursuit of this goal. We are dedicated to vigorously promoting and educating the community about the importance of spay/ neuter to reduce, and eventually eliminate, the killing of unwanted dogs, cats, and other animals.
 

 

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T.A.I.L.S.
The Alliance In Limiting Strays
P.O. Box 2277
Westport, CT 06880
203-222-1992
info@tailsct.org

     
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