Reports have been filed with numerous area shelters, and up to this point, Ekko's family members have been performing the shelter checks. We’re now looking to spread this out among a team of volunteers that can each take on a part of this job. Can you perform any of the checks?
If Ekko is turned in to one of the area shelters, hopefully he’ll still have his tags, or hopefully shelter workers or volunteers will match him to the report. And we know that some shelters display online photos of their stray pets. But there are so many ways for things to go wrong with the process, so we don’t want to take chances. If at all possible, we want in-person checks at each shelter, several times a week. This can be one volunteer per shelter, or a different volunteer for each of several checks in a week. You just need proximity to a shelter during its operating hours, and the ability to identify Ekko if he’s there. Here are the shelters we'd like covered:
If Ekko is turned in to one of the area shelters, hopefully he’ll still have his tags, or hopefully shelter workers or volunteers will match him to the report. And we know that some shelters display online photos of their stray pets. But there are so many ways for things to go wrong with the process, so we don’t want to take chances. If at all possible, we want in-person checks at each shelter, several times a week. This can be one volunteer per shelter, or a different volunteer for each of several checks in a week. You just need proximity to a shelter during its operating hours, and the ability to identify Ekko if he’s there. Here are the shelters we'd like covered:
Can you perform any of these shelter checks? If so, please contact me in advance. This is one of many efforts that we do not want duplicated -- for the sake of the overall effort, as well as that of the shelter workers & volunteers, and the valuable time of the volunteers involved.
Nancy Despeaux
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I can check Fairfax on West Ox Road.
I was at Fairfax last night. Call first as they were not allowing anyone in to look at dogs due to an undiagnosed illness (per the young girl at the counter). Nancy Tarr will be checking into this to find out what is going on.
Has someone also contacted other rescue groups in the area?
Volunteers Needed - More fliers needed in the neighborhoods along the bike trail between Falls Church City and Bluemont, three to four blocks deep on each side. Objectively we need to area bordered by George Mason (East), Bluemont park/Wilson (South) , Rt 7 (West) and Haycock (North).
Kim G, thanks for asking. Volunteers should contact me directly so that I can assign this and many other outreach tasks. If volunteers are taking it upon themselves to reach out to other rescue groups, pet related businesses and the like, please contact me with that info, too, so that I won't assign outreach already accomplished to new volunteers looking to help.
Please see my appeal in the lower right hand menu of the blog for all Ekko supporters to communicate your interest and your efforts with me -- to avoid duplication of effort, and so everyone's time can be productive.
Nancy Despeaux
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