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Town of Mansfield
Animal Welfare Committee
Minutes for September 15, 2011
Sharon Baker Ana Molina - Villella MatyAndreivs Chuck MacKean
Chairman Vice- Chaitnnan Clerk Member
Lori Zola Erika Ceivasio,D.V.M.
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Carol Kosel
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Present: AWC: Sharon Baker, Mary Andrews, Ana Villella, Lori Zola, Carol Kesel
ACO: Jeff Collins
The Animal Welfare Committee meeting was called to order at 7:35 p.m. at Mansfield Airport.
Approve Minutes '4
Motion: To approve minutes from August 18, 2011. Passes.
Dogs
A better system is needed to follow up on dog adoption applications and on medicines given to
dogs.
9 Carol Kosel volunteered to be the coordinator for adoption applications, to interview
applicants, and to notify of approval or denial.
• Justine Spinelli volunteered to track Frontline and Heartguard on a calendar that Ana
will post in the dog area. Jeff will have incoming dogs tested at the vet, and then
given their first Heartguard treatment. Justine will administer Heartguard after that.
Frontline treatment will wait until the dog has been at the shelter for ten days, unless
it's a dog that needs immediate treatment, in which case Jeff can treat the dog
initially.
*Mr. Puggles has been hearhvorm tested, so he can start on the Heartguard regi pen.
*Frontline and Heartguard treatments should be marked on cage charts as wel�` s on tine
calendar.
Fire Cats
Roberta is converting from oil to gas, and has no heat in the home yet. Dig Save must revisit and
approve. Refrigeration is in, but still no sinks. Lori will follow up for weekly reports.
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Storage
Ana has done some organizing in the storage room to reduce the space taken by Celebration
paraphernalia. She will continue to work on organizing the storage room. Jeff noted that the
storage pod can be sealed against mice so that some items could eventually be stored there. Lori
offered her attic for storing some items.
Foster I{itten Repot
• Millie's Litter — Three remain with Emilie: Clyde, Joey, Katie. They will come to the
shelter after their next vet appointment. Clyde has had eye treatment. Joey and Katie
need to be combo retested because they were positive initially.
• Ruby's Litter — Four kittens.
•Christine's Litter — Two black, female kittens, Posey and Petunia, being fostered by
Christine Leemon. The two males died.
• Melissa's Litter — Cody, Ford, Marco, Chastity are about six weeks old, and are
fostered with Sharon.
• Laila — coming to the shelter after vaccination.
•Magic — adoption pending.
*Lori put colored collars on kittens in the shelter playroom, and will continue doing that
in the future to avoid mix -ups.
*Jeff requested more specific information on exactly where stray kittens and cats are
coming from.
Medical
Mojito — Lori found a new surgeon, Dr. Dave Clark, for Mojito's leg since the previous vet has
not committed to a date. Lori will follow up with the vet and owners.
Lyshre— Sharon will order more for the cats.
Amber — Vet suspects a neurological birth defect that affects spinal cord and makes her walk
wobbly, but he said Amber should be fine as an indoor cat.
Gunther — Carol sent x -rays to the new owner, but has not heard back from them on how they
want to proceed with Gunther's leg problem.
Pepper — Ana will take him for a recheck on Tuesday, and possibly have stitches removed. He has
not been eating well because of the cone he's wearing.
Medicating Shelter Anhnals —Jeff said that the only medicines volunteers should be giving to
shelter animals are Heartguard, Frontline, Lysine, Panacur, and possibly Drontal.
Prescription medicines should be given only after an animal has seen a vet.
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*Bite Incident —Jeff will have Enuna evaluated after she bit a visiting dog at the shelter,
he will also contact Cairin Terrie Rescue to ask if they might take her. The shelter
dogs were off leash in the outside, enclosed pen at the time. Jeff will post new
regulations on dog safety for all volunteers to follow. MSF offered to pay the $683
vet bill for Ginger, the bitten dog.
• Supplies — Jeff is keeping spare bags of litter and food, and will make regular runs to
BJs for more. Currently there are 350 Ibs of litter and two 14 lb. bags of cat food.
Jeff requested we notify him when supplies are low. One of the kennels is the
storage area for litter.
•Feral Kittens — Jeff reported a litter of 5 — 6 week kittens in the Frances Avenue area.
He will try to trap them, and Saturday morning volunteer, Colleen, will foster and
socialize them.
Adjournment
Motion: To adjourn. Passes
Adjourned: 9:15 p.m.
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