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EASEL News: April 2020

Tips to Keep Your Pets Safe While Outside This Spring

with April showers, rain that screens are firmly and securely attached
accumulates in puddles often to prevent your pets from accidentally
contains run-off from these escaping or injuring themselves.
chemicals and could make our
animals sick if they drink from New Friends

them. Spring is a time for new life …
Pets are also not immune everywhere, baby animals are being born.
to spring allergies. If you And while baby animals of all kinds are
suspect your pet may be irresistibly cute, they only stay little for so
suffering from allergies, please long and many, like rabbits and chicks,
consult with your vet, as require specialized care as they grow. If
allergic reactions can be very you plan to adopt some new furry friends,
dangerous for animals. make sure you have researched what they
will require as they grow and are prepared
Holiday Food to handle them at all stages of their life. As
While we should always always, we want animals to find their fur-
exercise caution and avoid feeding our ever homes, not just their fur-now homes.
The days are getting longer, the weather is
getting warmer, trees are budding, flowers pets food meant for human consumption,
Our Bingo Event Has a
are starting to bloom…spring is well on its it is especially important when it comes dolor consequat n
way! While many of use welcome spring to food traditionally served during Easter
with open arms, you may not have thought and Passover celebrations. Fatty meats New Date!
about what the change in season means for can be dangerous to our furry friends and
our furry friends. the chocolates and sugars found in spring EASEL’s Spring 2020 Handbag
We’d like to provide some safety tips and candies are especially toxic. Another staple Bingo fundraiser has been resched-
tricks to help keep all the members of your of spring home décor is the colorful plastic uled for Sunday, June 14 at 3 p.m. at
family, especially the furry ones, safe and grass often seen in Easter baskets. This the West Trenton Ballroom in Ewing,
happy this spring. material, if ingested by our pets, can lead to New Jersey.
intestinal blockages and require surgery.
Flowers in Bloom Outdoor Activities Ticketholders who purchased
Spring is often synonymous with flowers tickets for the April 3 event can use
in bloom, which, if you suffer from allergies, After being cooped up all winter and those same tickets to gain entrance
may not always be a welcome thing, but during the COVID-19 outbreak, many people into the June 14 event.
for our pets, it can be especially dangerous. will celebrate by spending much more time
Easter lilies, for example, are incredibly toxic outside. It is important to make sure your Ticketholders who purchased
to cats. Just one nibble from the petal, leaf pets are up-to-date on all of their shots, tickets for the April 3 event and
or stem can lead to kidney failure or even as well as flea, tick and heartworm control can’t make the rescheduled date
death. Other flowers, like rhododendron and medications. of June 14, can contact Annette
azaleas are also toxic to our pets. The ASPCA Also, if you let your animals spend more at easelfundraising@gmail.com to
has a list of all plants that are poisonous to time outside in the spring, please make discuss refund options.
animals, along with photos of the plant, to sure they are microchipped and that your
Thank you so much for your
make them easier to identify. contact information is up-to-date. If you non nunc rutrum eget tempor neque
Gardening is a favorite springtime adopted from EASEL, all of our animals have pellentesque.
patience and understanding as we
hobby for many of us, but we should be been microchipped and details should have worked to reschedule our bingo.
cautious about the products we use to care been given to you in your adoption packet. Mauris ac tempor leo. Mauris eleifend,
for our plants. Many fertilizers, herbicides If you like to open your windows and doors
and pesticides are toxic to our pets. And in the spring, please make sure that the

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