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Please take extra special care of your animals during this heat wave.
At Caring Hands, we believe all animals should live indoors, like any other member of the family.
If your animals are kept outside, do not chain them.
Make sure they have access to a cooler shaded area and plenty of water.
Check on them frequently.
Absolutely do not leave your animals in a car even for very brief periods of time.
The temperatures we are experiencing can be deadly to companion animals.
An eight-week-old kitten recently found this out firsthand. He came to Caring Hands Humane Society with two badly burned paws and suffering from severe heat exhaustion.
We named him Sulley and treated him with antibiotics and antiseptic foot soaks for the wounds on his feet, as well as subcutaneous fluids for dehydration.
He seemed to respond at first. We really thought he would recover.
We rarely see burned feet, but heat exhaustion and dehydration are both common and deadly. In fact, that was what ultimately caused Sulley’s death.
His body was too exhausted to rally fully and he declined — eventually succumbing completely to his trauma.
His symptoms were typical of heat exhaustion. We were unable to bring him back around and he passed away on July 21.
Sometimes, despite everyone’s best efforts there is no happy ending.
You can however, prevent this from happening to your pets.
Please take extra special care of your animals this summer.
If you have any questions or need advice, please call us at 283-0839.
Caring Hands Humane Society would like to thank everyone who has donated.
Thanks to your help we are able to turn things around for many, many animals.
We wish we could have turned things around for Sulley.
Those interested in donating to help the animals who will come to CHHS this summer may do so online, by mail, by phone or, of course, in person.
Caring Hands Humane Society is at 1400 S.E. Third St. in Newton. Our Web site is www.caringhandshs.org.
— Sincerely,
Jack Brand,
public relations coordinator for Caring Hands
Humane Society
Please take extra special care of your animals during this heat wave.
At Caring Hands, we believe all animals should live indoors, like any other member of the family.
If your animals are kept outside, do not chain them.
Make sure they have access to a cooler shaded area and plenty of water.
Check on them frequently.
Absolutely do not leave your animals in a car even for very brief periods of time.
The temperatures we are experiencing can be deadly to companion animals.
An eight-week-old kitten recently found this out firsthand. He came to Caring Hands Humane Society with two badly burned paws and suffering from severe heat exhaustion.
We named him Sulley and treated him with antibiotics and antiseptic foot soaks for the wounds on his feet, as well as subcutaneous fluids for dehydration.
He seemed to respond at first. We really thought he would recover.
We rarely see burned feet, but heat exhaustion and dehydration are both common and deadly. In fact, that was what ultimately caused Sulley’s death.
His body was too exhausted to rally fully and he declined — eventually succumbing completely to his trauma.
His symptoms were typical of heat exhaustion. We were unable to bring him back around and he passed away on July 21.
Sometimes, despite everyone’s best efforts there is no happy ending.
You can however, prevent this from happening to your pets.
Please take extra special care of your animals this summer.
If you have any questions or need advice, please call us at 283-0839.
Caring Hands Humane Society would like to thank everyone who has donated.
Thanks to your help we are able to turn things around for many, many animals.
We wish we could have turned things around for Sulley.
Those interested in donating to help the animals who will come to CHHS this summer may do so online, by mail, by phone or, of course, in person.
Caring Hands Humane Society is at 1400 S.E. Third St. in Newton. Our Web site is www.caringhandshs.org.
— Sincerely,
Jack Brand,
public relations coordinator for Caring Hands
Humane Society
