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Halfway Home Pet Rescue, Inc. (formerly known as Madawaska Lake Homeless Cats) is a 501(c)3 Nonprofit Organization dedicated to improving the quality of life for stray animals in Aroostook County by caring for them, providing medical care including sterilization surgery and finding good quality home environments. Responsible pet ownership education classes will be provided to area schools.


How did we do in 2011?

Incoming 2011279 cats came through HHPR. 96 were strays, 120 were owner surrendered, 32 ferals, 14 from low income situations, and were 17 born at HHPR.

 

Outgoing 2011

HHPR facilitated 195 adoptions in 2011. Unfortunately, we lost 33 kittens to disease, 4 cats required euthanasia due to extreme illness, 1 was returned to its owner, 28 became barn cats and the 8 low income situations received assistance.

 

How did we do in 2010?

incoming


214 cats came through HHPR. 73 were strays, 86 owner surrender, 31 ferals, 15 from low income, 9 born at HHPR.

 

 

 

outgoing

153 adoptions, 20 kittens died of disease, 6 required euthanasia due to extreme illness, 8 were returned to owners, 8 became barn cats and the 15 low income received assistance.

 

 

2012 Board of Directors

Norma Milton (Caribou), David and Ruby Bickford (Etna), Sandra and Garrick Milton (Caribou), Anne Price (Presque Isle), Sharon Watson (Fort Fairfield), Robyn Smith (Caribou), Zachary Earl Smith (Presque Isle), Verna Johnson (Stockholm), Kathryn Harnish (Houlton), Rob Lawless (Houlton), Carol Austin (Caribou).

 

2011 Board of Directors

Norma Milton (Caribou), David and Ruby Bickford (Etna), Sandra and Garrick Milton (Caribou), Anne Price (Presque Isle), Julie Damboise (Connor) and Gerald Nelson (Stockholm), Sharon Watson (Fort Fairfield), Robyn Smith (Caribou), Mike Loux (Caribou), Kelly LeBlanc (Caribou), Zachary Earl Smith (Presque Isle), Verna Johnson (Stockholm).

 

2010 Board of Directors

Norma Milton (Caribou), Jean Nadeau (Connor), David and Ruby Bickford (Etna), Sandra and Garrick Milton (Caribou), Anne Price (Presque Isle), Julie Damboise (Connor) and Gerald Nelson (Stockholm), Sharon Watson (Fort Fairfield), Robyn Smith (Caribou).

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Our Goals

Halfway Home Pet Rescue will strive to fill a profound need for additional shelter space, especially medical emergency shelter space, in central and northern Aroostook County.

  1. Halfway Home Pet Rescue will strive to adhere to strict veterinary guidelines adopting out healthy animals with a thorough medical exam, including leukemia testing, distemper, and rabies immunization when age appropriate as well as spayed and neutered animals that are cleared of all parasites.
  2. Halfway Home Pet Rescue will strive to maintain an area pet food pantry utilizing donated food and pet supplies for the purpose of helping low-income families keep their pets.
  3. Halfway Home Pet Rescue will strive to earmark $1000.00 of its annual budget to gain control of feral cat colonies with a spay/neuter/release policy (or re-locate to area farmers). Once controlled by spaying/neutering, statistics show that feral cat colonieswill be eliminated in 3-5 years through attrition. Also, it is shown that neutering feral cats decreases the number of cat fights that in turn decreases the risk of transfer of contagious diseases such as leukemia, rabies, and numerous other diseases to domestic pets.
  4. Halfway Home Pet Rescue will endeavor to write grants to sponsor spay/neuter clinics and/or vouchers for low-income, elderly and disabled families in Aroostook County.

Adoption

Our cats, over 4 years of age, are adopted free of charge to good homes; under the age of 4 years have an adoption fee of only $50.00.