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KITTENPALOOZA THIS WEEKEND! See page 3 for details

Newsletter
October 2020

Every Animal Should Enjoy Life!

Contents

• Holiday Pet Safety ..............................2
• Pawloween Costume Contest .......2
• Kittenpalooza Details .......................3
• Happy Tails: Success Story ...............4
• Contact Us/Hours of Operation.....5
• Pet of the Month: Available for
Adoption .............................................. 6
• Become a Monthly Donor............... 8
• Volunteering with EASEL ................8

Pets in the Home
with Children:

Maintaining Safety

Children and pets can make the
best of friends while they grow up with
each other under the loving care of
their families. But keeping your pets –
and children -- safe from unintended Spotlight on Our Volunteers:
stress and injury caused to your pet (as
a result of innocent behavior from your Michael Cruickshank
child) is an important part of enabling a
lifelong bond between both parties.
Far too many times in the news About three days each week for one
you hear about a beloved family pet When Mike Cruickshank first converted hour, and then for about two hours
that might bite under the wrong to Judaism, his rabbi, Adam Feldman, told each weekend, Mike spends his time
circumstances. This unintended him that the world has many holes, and volunteering to walk the shelter’s dogs.
consequence is a natural instinct for everyone has a responsibility to fill those His volunteering journey began more
your dog or cat, and teaching your holes the best way they can: that each than a decade ago with another area
children at an early age how to care person has his or her own unique talent or shelter. At the time, he had a bull terrier
lovingly for your pet can extend its skill that they can use to do their part. named Bumper who had not wanted to
life and allow tons of shared happy Mike has certainly found his, and the walk as much anymore, as she was aging
experiences. dogs at EASEL’s shelter are lucky because it (when she was younger, she could walk
Kids no doubt love to play with means they get a lot of exercise and outside forever).
animals. But they don’t necessarily play time as a result. “I had this void in my life,” he explains.
with them in the ways that animals “The one thing I am very, very good at “I was driving home, and I saw this kid
like, according to pediatric experts. doing is I can walk for hours on end with a walking a dog that looked like mine did
One common example is when young dog and not say anything,” he explains. “If when she was a puppy.”
children often try to innocently hug there is one thing I can do, it’s just go and Mike stopped to talk to the kid and
dogs and cats or pet their faces, which go.” learned that he had been walking dogs
can scare the pet into biting the child’s
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