Memorial Day Celebration - Rolling Acres Memorial Gardens
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Memorial Day Celebration - Rolling Acres Memorial Gardens
Vol. 28 No. 1 Spring 2015 12200 N.W. Crooked Rd • P.O. Box 12073 Kansas City, MO 64152 President & Editor: Nancy Piper Phone 816-891-8888; Fax 816-891-8781 www.visitrollingacres.com memorial gardens for pets Any Day Can Be Memorial Day - by Nancy Piper Most of us were brought up with rituals which follow the death of a human – visitations, funeral services or memorial services, perhaps burial in a cemetery. When our beloved pets die, we do not have rituals to fall back on. So often we do nothing. However, rituals help us heal, by helping us accept the reality of death, but acknowledging the loved one’s existence and meaning in our lives. You do not have to wait until Memorial Day or a special day to memorialize your pet. It doesn’t matter when you have a ceremony, a celebration, an event to honor your loved one who has passed. It can be months or even years later. The significant part is to do something to recognize the importance of your pet in your life, to help you in your journey through grief. The ceremony could be something formal in a chapel; it could be in your living room, on your patio, around a fire pit, or anywhere that is meaningful to you. Gather friends who knew your beloved companion. Tell stories, read poems, play music, do Memorial Day Celebration May 24th & 25th 12 am - 5 pm 12200 N. Crooked Road, Kansas City, MO 816-891-8888 Pet Memorial Center Dedication Sunday at 2pm Light Refreshments See the Memorial Bricks Give yourself peace of mind with our Pre-Arranged Planning Service, and save money, too, with a 15% discount. All bronze and granite memorials are 15% off, also. Carol Powell’s memorial to her horse Blue (Continued on page 6) Blinded Dog Roadrunner’s Recovery Has Been ‘Amazing’ Written By Robert A. Cronkleton, www.kansascity.com, 1/28/2015 The KC Pet Project took advantage of Wednesday’s nice weather to share an update on Roadrunner, the dog who needed to have his eyes removed because of alleged severe abuse. “Until now we have only been able to share stories and pictures with the media,” said Tori Fugate, manager of marketing and de- Vice President: Gary Piper velopment for Kansas City Pet Project, which runs the city’s animal shelter. “We wanted to show how well he is doing and show how his recovery has just been amazing,” said Fugate. “He is just doing great.” Believed to be a Tibetan spaniel, the 12(Continued on page 5) Until one has loved an animal a part of one's soul remains unawakened. What’s Inside Any Day Can Be Memorial Day ............................................ Page 1 Blinded Dog Roadrunner’s Recovery ................................... Page 1 Pet-happy Stephens College ... Page 2 Culling Cats May Do More Harm Than Good .................... Page 3 Calendar of Events .................. Page 4 Piper Family Update ............... Page 4 Outbreak of dog flu spreading across Midwest ....... Page 5 We are on Facebook!! Search for Rolling Acres Memorial Gardens & Click on “Like” and become a fan. 1 Homeless People’s Pet Food Project Can You Help? Donations are lowest in the summer In September 2001, Rolling Acres Memorial Gardens for Pets started soliciting contributions for homeless people’s pets, either pet food or money for pet food. This was after it came to Nancy Piper’s attention that many homeless people also have pets. Some of their concerns are food for their pets, veterinary care, and the after life care of their pets – the same as ours! We have been able to provide pet food to Uplift Organization, among others, since September 2001. We will also take blankets, towels, or clothing to them along with the pet food. If you have anything to donate, just bring it to us, and we’ll deliver it for you. In 2014, with the generous and overwhelming assistance of the community, Rolling Acres Memorial Gardens for Pets provided 2,224 pounds of dry pet food, 576 cans of canned pet food, 242 bags of cat and dog treats, as well as pet beds, pet carriers, toys, collars, leashes, pet brushes, and combs to Homeless Peoples’ Pets. The need for this support has been increasing in recent months. Rolling Acres thanks the public for their help in this year-round project. We need more food and more funds for our yearround project. A basket for food donations and a money donation jar will be set up at our Pet Memorial Day Open House. Rolling Acres thanks everyone for their help in this year-round project. You are just awesome! At pet-happy Stephens College, some dogs and cats come with a scholarship By Mará Rose Williams, The Kansas City Star, 03/31/2015 COLUMBIA , MO Molly Wallace darted across the campus green at Stephens College one day recently last week 3/18 to fetch one of her roommates. Minutes later, she returned, a little out of breath, wearing a smile and trotting behind an 8-month-old, tail-wagging beagle mix. “Daisy is the best roommate ever,” Wallace said — doesn’t snore, play loud music or hog the bathroom. A group of potential students touring campus bent down to pet Daisy, who couldn’t resist getting in a few face licks. “It blows my mind how well mannered she is,” said Wallace, 21, a Jefferson City sophomore majoring in marketing and communications. Stephens, a private school for women, has opened its dorms to pets — dogs, cats, birds, lizards, potbelly pigs, even hedgehogs — since 2004. (Sorry, no snakes or spiders.) The pets-indorms program started as a way to help students ease into college life by letting them bring a bit of home to campus. But in just the past two years, some students have started receiving scholarships from Stephens for fostering a homeless dog or cat. About 30 of the 500 students living in the school’s residence halls are in the pro- gram. Basically, students get $3,000 a year to feed, care for and help their four-legged roomies find a permanent home, said Wallace, who in two years has fostered seven or eight dogs. “I went through five dogs the first semester,” she said. She’d had each about a week before they were adopted or returned to the shelter during the winter or summer break. About half of Stephens students living in dorms have pets, either their own or foster animals, said Alissa Pei, student life director. “Our pet policy has earned Stephens the reputation as the most pet-friendly campus in the country,” she said. A 2011 Kaplan survey of 359 college admis- sion officers found about 38 percent of schools permit some pets in dorms. A quarter of them allow reptiles. Only 10 percent allow dogs, and 8 percent cats. All the foster animals at Stephens come from Columbia Second Chance, a no-kill shelter that pays for all the animals’ food, toys, leashes and litter. The students scoop poop, get their animals to a veterinarian if they’re sick and take them to Second Chance pet adoption events. Some students even create Facebook pages for their pets to help them get adopted. Jennifer Niewald, a junior, is fostering cats for the first time this year. Her charge right now is a 9month-old calico named Nutmeg. A few days ago, Nutmeg found a spool of burlap yarn Niewald had been using for a craft project. “When I came home the yarn was all over the place,” said Niewald, a fashion marketing and management major. “Oh, well, she’s a cat. That’s to be expected.” Niewald has fostered two other cats, Firecracker and 911. “We called her Nine,” Niewald said. Nine got her name when she sneaked into someone’s house, hid in a closet and had a litter of kittens. When the homeowners found her, they called 911 and police took (Continued on page 6) “I am fond of pigs. Dogs look up to us. Cats look down on us. Pigs treat us as equals.” ― Winston Churchill 2 Culling Cats May Do More Harm Than Good by Anna Salleh, ABC Science Online Shooting or trapping feral cats may increase their numbers, a new study has found. The accidental finding, made during research into the ecological impact of feral cats, emphasizes the need to monitor the effects of culling programs, say wildlife biologist Billie Lazenby of the Tasmanian department of primary industries. "You may be inadvertently doing more damage than good," she says. Feral cats are often culled because they threaten biodiversity. But, says Lazenby, the effectiveness of culling has only really been studied on islands rather than in mainland areas, where new cats can come in and replace those that have been removed Lazenby and colleagues were carrying out research in the tall forests of southern Tasmania. Their study was designed to compare small mammal numbers in sites where feral cats were allowed to roam free with those where the cats were reduced through culling. The results are still being analyzed, but in the meantime, the researchers discovered something surprising. As part of their study, they used remotelycontrolled baited infrared cameras to verify a fall in cat numbers with culling. Although the number of cats being cagetrapped and euthanized fell -- implying the culling was successful -- the camera monitoring suggested cat numbers were rising. "In the areas that I had tried to reduce cat numbers I recorded an increase in cat numbers," says Lazenby. "I actually had more cats running around on those sites than beforehand." "We recorded a 75 to 211 per cent increase in the minimum number of feral cats known to be alive in the culled areas." The results are published in a recent issue of the journal Wildlife Research. Lazenby thinks the unexpected observation may be explained by the fact that dominant cats are often bolder and more confident and so more likely to explore traps than subordinate cats. "If you remove a dominant individual from an open population you're likely to get a few subordinates coming in to check out the territory that's been freed up," she says. So once the "trappable" dominant cats had been removed, this allowed an influx of many more subordinate animals, she says. "That's why we observe this spike in cat numbers following our culling operation," says Lazenby. She says within a year the cat numbers in the culled areas stabilized to the original numbers. While culling is only ever a short term solution unless it is ongoing, this is the first time it has been shown to cause an increase in cat numbers. "What we really should be focusing on when we talk about managing introduced species like feral cats is reducing their impact," says Lazenby. "But it's really important that we keep in mind that you don't always reduce impact by reducing numbers, as one individual might cause 90 per cent of the damage." Lazenby says that using fences to exclude cats, or increasing the number of hiding places (such as log piles) for small prey may be more effective strategies to protect biodiversity in some cases. She says the study highlights the importance of monitoring to check the outcomes of management strategies. "It's not unusual to have these unexpected outcomes," she says. "This soldier, I realized, must have had friends at home and in his regiment, yet he lay there deserted by all except his dog. I looked on, unmoved, at battles which decided the future of nations. Tearless, I had given orders which brought death to thousands. Yet here I was stirred, profoundly stirred, stirred to tears. And by what? By the grief of one dog." - (Napoleon Bona- parte, on finding a dog beside the body of his dead master, licking his face and howling, on a moonlit field after a battle. Napoleon was haunted by this scene until his own death.) Save Cans to Help Rescue Groups Help Pets One of our community service projects is saving clean aluminum beverage cans only (pet food or other cans will not be accepted by the recycling center) to recycle by selling them to help raise money for our local animal rescue groups. We admire the rescue groups for all they do for the animals. It takes a lot Rolling Acres raised $4,684 from the sale of of dedication and passion to do what they do. cans from Memorial Day 2007 through December 2014, with the help of our friends, This is one way we can help them. families, and clients. Our current recipient is Please bring your aluminum drink cans to us. Excelsior Springs Friends of Animals. We will take them to recycle and donate the money to a different rescue group in turn. It People are constantly bringing us cans, even doesn't matter how many you bring - even leaving bags of cans outside our front door one will do - they all add up to help! We also when we're closed! We love it! have a Donation Jar for the current rescue Thanks for helping us help people help pets. group in our lobby. 3 Calendar of Events May May 17 - Woofstock - Save the date for the 8th annual WOOFSTOCK 1Mile Dog Walk/5K Run featuring a family festival filled with pet-related vendors, contests, prizes and fun galore! All proceeds benefit the Northland Animal Welfare Society (NAWS). pcnaws.org May 24-25 - Rolling Acres Open House Rolling Acres Memorial Gardens Memorial Day. See front page for details. May 30 - Pooches on the Parkway - Bring your favorite canine companion to this year's Pooches in the Park. New location this year, Rotary Park at Railroad Lake. Rotary Park is located 600 NW Vesper, right behind Zarda's BBQ. Saturday, May 30th, 9:00-3:00, 1 mile walk starts at 10:00 AM. Come join the fun! To pre-register and receive reduced fees for the walk and additional information contact the Parks and Recreation Department at (816) 228-0137. More at: http:// business.bluespringschamber.com/ June June 14 - 28th Annual Dog-n-Jog - Your dog's favorite day is just around the corner! Join NBC Action News Chief Meteorologist Gary Lezak with his weather dog, Stormy, KFKF Radio's Debbie Erikson and Q104 Radio's TJ McEntire for a fun and entertaining morning including the 1 & 2 mile race, 1 mile walk, an agility course, and petthemed vendors http://www.hsgkc.org/ August August TBD - Art Unleashed Calling all animal and art lovers¦ Art Unleashed is the event for you! It takes place every fall. Hundreds of original petthemed art pieces are auctioned off in both a silent and live auction. Join the Humane Soci- ety of Greater Kansas City and wonderful artists in 2015 for the 18th Annual Art Unleashed. The night also includes a celebrity emcee, delicious food from several Kansas City food donors, and adoptable pets! http:// www.hsgkc.org/ Fall - Dates to be determined Golf Classic - The annual Golf Classic is an enjoyable day filled with food, golf, an auction and more food. Participate in a friendly competition to help save the animals. Come out to play a game with a team of four. The event will go on-- rain or shine- - and we'd love to have you. And don't be surprised if you run into a few furry friends on the course. - http://hsgkc.org/ September September 13 - National Pet Memorial Day - Rolling Acr es Memor ial Gar dens 12:00—5:00pm—Blessing of the Pets/ Balloon Release @ 2:00pm. September 19 - Paws in the Park in Parkville, MO. Friends of Parkville Animal Shelter. www.parkvilleshelter.com September TBD - Dippin Dogs KC Par ks in conjunction with NAWS at The Springs Aquatic Center, 9400 N. Congress Ave., see www.pcnaws.org for more details. Piper Family Update All our kids have been fine this year! Every- ple cats who are getting older and are starting one is going strong! Well, we do have a cou- into kidney failure. But aside from that, all is well! We have a new cat in the office. He came to us with the name Buster. I call him Buster Benjamin, or Buster Ben. He is a rescue from a small town up in Iowa. A friend of mine brought him down to us. Raven & Nancy Also, Gary has a new horse, a gaited horse, named Kingston. I rescued a horse from the Longmeadow Rescue Ranch in Union, MO, which is part of the Humane Society of Missouri. Her name is Raven. She is black, 4 years old, and very sweet. Buster Ben REMINDER: Please limit the number of flowers you place on your graves, as our grounds crew does move the flowers and other grave decorations every week, when they mow. Also, please do not place breakable items on the graves, especially during mowing season, since it creates a hazard for our grounds people. Do not use wires or rebar or nails to fasten down your arrangements. These items create a hazard for our mowing equipment as well as our personnel. The mowers or weed eaters can pick up the wire and throw it right into a person’s leg. Thank you for your consideration. 4 Roadrunner’s recovery has been ‘amazing’- continued Fugate said. Donations have covered his medical care. pound dog allegedly was thrown from the Roadrunner’s former owner, 36-year-old third-floor balcony of an apartment building Kimberly Anderson, remains in jail awaiting in the 1200 block of Independence Avenue in a trial. She is charged with animal abuse, a November. Surgeons removed his damaged eyes and repaired his broken pelvis. He has been healing in a foster home and was neutered last week, Fugate said. “He’s doing great,” Fugate said. “He is adjusting very, very well. He gets along great with the two other dogs in his foster home. He loves playing with them, and he loves playing with toys.” “He’s just acting like a normal dog,” Fugate said. “He is very cautious when he moves around and walks Roadrunner around in case he bumps into something. But if he bumps into it, he corrects himself.” felony, and animal abandonment, a misdeShe said that once Roadrunner is in a space meanor. for a little bit of time, he can tell where he According to court documents, a witness told needs to go. police Anderson threw the 12-pound dog “Just watching him walk around the office is from the balcony. pretty remarkable how well he has adjusted,” The witness also said that Anderson wrapped (Continued from page 1) a leash around the dog’s neck, picked him up and slammed him to the ground. She allegedly choked the dog a second time and then kicked him, leaving him outside. A pretrial conference is scheduled for later this week. She was being held in the Jackson County jail on $10,000 bond. For now, Roadrunner will continue to stay in a foster home. “We are hoping to make an announcement soon about his future and what is going to happen,” Fugate said. “He has been medically cleared now.” She said there has been a lot of interest in him from all over the United States. “We have a lot of other pets that can be adopted,” Fugate said. Because the Super Bowl was on that weekend, KC Pet Project had a Super Dog Adoption Special of $40 for adoptions of most of its dogs Friday through Sunday. For more information about adoptions or donating to the KC Pet Project, go to kcpetproject.org or call 816-513-9821. Read more here: http://www.kansascity.com Outbreak of Dog Flu Spreading Across Midwest Written By Chris Proffitt, Sarah Swiss, theindychannel.com INDIANAPOLIS -- A strain of canine influenza has hit the Midwest, infecting more than 1,000 dogs so far and resulting in five fatalities. The virus is spreading throughout Chicago and into Wisconsin. While there are no confirmed cases in Indiana, the Indiana State Board of Animal Health said Tuesday that northwest Indiana veterinarians have treated infected dogs from Chicago. za, it's very contagious," said Dr. Sandy Norman with the Indiana State Board of Animal Health. "If your dog isn't sick but you're planning on boarding your dog or using doggy day care, it would be a good idea to get the canine influenza vaccine. So you should call your vet to see if that's available to them." Three Chicago-area PetSmart stores have temporarily closed their pet hotels to stop the spread of the virus, which is often transmitted through contact at dog parks, day cares and kennels. Chicago ABC affiliate WLS said although humans cannot spread the flu to dogs or vice versa, it is still possible for people to spread the germs -- so it is a good idea to wash your hands and keep areas clean. The dog flu cannot be spread to humans, but among dogs, it is highly contagious and local vets are concerned. While vets say that most infected dogs show mild symptoms, those that become seriously ill often get pneumonia. "It's transmitted just like we'd transmit influenza from dog to dog by secretions, by sneezing and coughing. And like our influen- The canine flu was first identified in 2004 and there have been periodic outbreaks since then. Do not go where the path may lead, go instead where there is no path and leave a trail. – Ralph Waldo Emerson 5 Any Day Can Be Memorial Day - continued (Continued from page 1) whatever that is right for you to express your grief. It doesn’t matter how long your pet has been gone from you, this is something that will help you with your grief. Other ideas for memorializing your pet: ♥Plant a tree, bush or flower in one of your pet’s favorite places or where you can see it from a window in your house. Invite friends to attend the planting event. This can be a time to share stories. ♥Have a candle-lighting ceremony. Place a lit candle in the middle of a table. Each person attending would take turns, lighting his/ her candle from the center candle and sharing a memory of the departed pet. End with a song, a prayer or a poem. ♥Set up a memorial area in your home, with pictures, the pet’s urn (if applicable), hair clippings, paw prints, toys, collar and leash, awards won, favorite treats, anything meaningful to you to memorialize your pet. ♥Create a memory book, shadow box, or wall hanging from special mementos of your pet. ♥Make a photo album, scrapbook, or a collage of your pet’s pictures. ♥Write a story, poem or song about your pet. ♥Write your pet’s name and an endearment or remembrance on a balloon, then release the balloon, perhaps with a favorite song playing. ♥Use your artistic abilities to create something in memory of your pet; a sculpture, a painting or drawing; a piece of handwork like needlepoint or embroidery. ♥If you kept your pet’s tags, use them on your key ring, hang them from your car’s review mirror or your bathroom mirror so your memory of your loved one will be near. ♥Place a bench in your yard, patio, or special place with an inscription dedicated to your pet. ♥Create an announcement of your pet’s death to hand to people who inquire about your pet. You can let them read the announcement if you are not up to actually telling them. ♥Donate a book to the local library in honor of your pet. Write your pet’s name on the bookplate inside the front cover of the book. ♥Have a professional artist create a painting of your pet from a favorite photo. ♥If you have a fur clipping or a whisker, place them in a locket to wear. ♥Buy a memorial stone to put in your yard or flower bed or under a tree close to where he played. You can personalize it as you wish, with name and dates of birth and death and/or an endearment as well as perhaps an emblem such as a paw print or doggie bone. ♥Have items imprinted with your pet’s photo: a t-shirt, sweatshirt, mug, note cards, pillowcase, or sweater to mention a few. ♥Use your imagination to come up with other special ways to memorialize your special pet. Any number of these suggestions can be done as you travel through your grief. The memories of your beloved pet and the love you shared will always be a part of you. Your pet will always be memorialized in your heart. Pet-happy Stephens College- continued the animals to the Second Chance shelter. That’s where Niewald came in. “I love taking care of animals,” she said. And cats usually stay in the dorm room and are “pretty low maintenance.” Dogs are out and about more, and are conversation starters, Niewald said. “If you don’t know someone and you stop to pet their dog, you might start talking to them, too.” The shelter’s staff screens students and animals for placement and figures out pretty quickly whether a student is more a cat lover than a dog lover. “But we don’t know these kids all that well,” said Valerie Chaffin, the shelter’s executive director. “We place dogs and cats with students based on the animals’ personality. We know if a dog is a barker, a leaper or a couch potato, and whether a cat is a whiner or shy.” Sometimes “we make a mistake,” Chaffin said. If a student isn’t taking care of a pet, “we will take the animal back and they lose that scholarship.” Fostering an animal “is not for everyone,” Pei said. A few times, students have fallen in love with their foster pet and ended up adopting them while still in school. More often, it’s students who are graduating who adopt their foster pet. Wallace said she’s gotten pretty tight with Daisy. But it was a little, partially blind pug named Boss that nearly tripped her up. “That was my first almost foster fail. That’s what you call it when you adopt your foster.” She has managed to maintain a perfect foster parent rep mainly because she loves taking care of the animals. “It’s not about the scholarship. I would do it regardless,” she said. “It just makes you feel so good when you see them adopted, knowing you helped them find their forever home.” Read more here: http:// www.kansascity.com/news/local/ article17059661.html#storylink=cpy REMINDERS: We clean off the cemetery on the first of March and the first of November, or within a few days thereafter. If you want to save any of your grave decorations, please remove them before these two dates. Thank you. If you move, please let us know your new address, so we may update our records and you will still receive our newsletter. 6 Dear Friends at Rolling Acres: Spring 2015 Lake Feature Fund: Enclosed please find: ______ $100 Gold Level Donation My donation to the Rolling Acres Memorial Gardens For Pets Funds, to pr ovide maximum security and greater peace of mind, in the amount of $___________. Please remember our Trust in your will and bequeaths. My contribution to the Feature Fund: $________ for new trees, flowers and other beautification items. Aluminum Fence Plaques ______ $ 50 Silver Level Donation ______ $ 25 Bronze Level Donation “Angel with Pet” Bronze Statue ______ $250 Gold ______ $100 Silver ______ $ 25 Bronze Memory Bricks for Memorial Courtyard ______ $100 per brick per pet For Office Use Only FF ____________________ Date ___________________ __________________________________ (Name) __________________________________ (Address) _________________________________ (City/State/Zip) _________________________________ (Phone) Mail to: $________ for an aluminum Memory Fence Plaque (8” x 5”) - $75.00 per pet $________ for an aluminum Memory Fence Plaque with picture (12” x 5”) - $95.00 per pet memorial gardens for pets P.O. Box 12073, Kansas City, MO 64152 Flower Service Program We are proud to continue our Flower Service Program, another convenient step for those who wish to ensure regular grave decorations. In this program, a yearly fee will ensure that the grave of your loved one will be decorated with silk flowers, according to your wishes. You may choose as few or as many flower placements as you like. The Deluxe Grave Blanket, as well as a 22” wreath is available for winter decorations. The grave blanket is made of evergreen boughs, decorated with a bow, a bell, pine coves and various winter season decorations. The 22” wreath is made of mixed evergreens and pine cones, and is also decorated with a bow. The Grave Blankets and Wreaths are normally placed the week after Thanksgiving. Please decide the number of times you would like your grave(s) decorated, select the dates and the types of flowers. Send us this form, along with your check. 1) When do you want flowers placed on your grave(s)? ______ Valentine’s Day ______ Easter ______ Memorial Day ______ Fourth of July ______ Pet Memorial Day ______ Thanksgiving ______ Christmas ______ Special Day ___________________ ______ Special Day ____________________ For Office Use Only FP ____________________ Date ___________________ Do you want a 22” Winter Evergreen Wreath? ______ Yes Add $28.00 2) Select the type of flowers you want: I would also like to order: ______ Roses ______________ (what color?) ______ A Foam Vase Insert $1.50 ______ Seasonal ______ Green Plastic Vase with Insert $4.00 ______ Poinsettias ______ Bronze Memorial Vase $660.00 ______ Lilies Sales tax is included in all prices. ______ Other _________________________ ______ Other _________________________ I have enclosed my check or money order for (We must reserve the right to substitute, depending on the selections available to us) $ ____________________________________ Prices: Bouquets for ______ 1 Day $14.78 ______ 2 Days $29.57 ______ 3 Days $42.00 ______ 4 Days $53.00 ______ 5 Days $66.00 ______ 6 Days $78.00 _____________________________________ (Name) _____________________________________ (Address) _____________________________________ City/State/Zip ______ 7 Days or more @ $13 = __________ _____________________________________ (Phone) Do you want a Winter Evergreen Grave Blanket? _____________________________________ For the graves of ______ Yes Add $39.00 _____________________________________ 7 memorial gardens for pets 12200 N.W. Crooked Rd • P.O. Box 12073 Kansas City, MO 64152 Rolling Acres Mission Statement Our mission is to serve those who think of their pet as one of the family by providing compassionate, dignified, and ethical after-life care for their pet. USEFUL TELEPHONE NUMBERS Spay and Neuter Assistance Emergency Services: Great Plains SPCA ....................................................... (816) 333-PETS ASPCA Animal Poison Control Center ......................... (888) 426-4435 5428 Antioch Road, Merriam, KS 66202 www.kcpets.org HOPE, Inc ..................................................................... (913) 651-7335 728B Cherokee St., Leavenworth, KS 66048 kansashopeinc.com Humane Society of Greater Kansas City ....................... (913) 596-1000 5445 Parallel Parkway, Kansas City, KS 66104 www.hsgkc.org Leavenworth Animal Welfare Society ....................... (913) 651-LAWS www.lawspet.com 300 S.W. Noel Suite B, Lee’s Summit, MO 64063 NAWS Spay and Neuter ............................................... (816) 336-1888 3400 NW Vivion Rd., Riverside, MO 64150 www.pcnaws.com Spay and Neuter Kansas City ........................................ (816) 353-0940 www.snkc.net STOPP Clinic ................................................................ (816) 313-7729 10109 East 63rd. (@ Blue Ridge Blvd.), Raytown, MO 64133 8 8141 North Oak Trafficway, Kansas City, MO 64118 Blue Pearl Specialty & Emergency Medicine Lee’s Summit, Missouri ......................................... (816) 554-4990 3495 N.E. Ralph Powell Rd., Lee’s Summit, MO 64064 Northland (Missouri) ............................................. (816) 759-5016 139 NE 91st St., Kansas City, MO 64155 Low-Cost Spay & Neuter Services, Inc ......................... (816) 525-5401 1116 E. 59th St., Kansas City, MO 64110 Animal Emergency Center ............................................. (816) 455-5100 Overland Park, Kansas ........................................... (913) 642-9563 11950 W. 110th St, Ste B, Overland Park, KS 66210 VCA Mission Animal Referral & Emergency Ctr ......... (913) 722-5566 5914 Johnson Drive, Mission, KS 66202 Lost Pet Assistance Lost Dog Registry .......................................................... (816) 333-0020 KCPetConnect.com ....................................................... (913) 674-0350