Petersburg Humane Association

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Photos of a tabby cat on a colorful quilt and a cocker spaniel on a lawn

Did You Know?

Sexually intact animals are more likely than altered animals to quarrel with others. Reduce conflict among your dogs or cats by spaying and neutering them. Petersburg residents who cannot afford to fix their pets can apply for financial assistance from PHA. There's no excuse for unwanted litters.

Contact PHA
e-mail:
pha@petersburghumane.org
phone:
907-518-1091

Looking for a Pet?

Check our listing of pets looking for homes. If you have something particular in mind, call us and we'll put you on our list to call if we find a match. Or let your heart be your guide and give one of our current homeless pets a good home! Call 518-1091 and leave your phone number and a message. We'll call you back.

PHA Annual Meeting

The Annual Membership Meeting for the Petersburg Humane Association will be held Saturday, April 20, at 7 p.m. in the Moose basement. The business portion of the meeting will consist of voting on proposed changes to the bylaws, electing new board members, and finding out what PHA has been doing this past year and is planning to do this year. Final voting in the Kids Art Contest will also be held and winners will be announced. If you know any kids from pre-schoolers to high schoolers, urge them to enter a drawing or painting of their pet. The biggest vote-getter in each of the five age divisions wins a prize donated by a local merchant. There's even a door prize for the adults in attendance.

Shelter Construction Project

The site of the shelter and dog park is a beautiful location between the airport and Sandy Beach Park. It is mixed muskeg and scrub timber, receives a lot of sun (when the sun is out) and is relatively flat. It's surrounded by more muskeg and the whole area is popular with dog walkers. It is well away from the nearest homes.

Planning for our new animal shelter and work on the surrounding dog park continues. The design of the shelter building is in high gear. The board has selected a floor plan and is preparing a fundraising campaign to raise the money needed to build and equip the structure.

Petersburg has a dog park!

The small dog portion of the park, for dogs about 25 pounds and smaller, is fenced and features graveled trails with gentle slopes as well as more rugged wood-chip-topped trails winding under the trees. Dogs are free to play off-leash within the fenced area. Their owners can play with them or sit on benches scattered around the park and watch them.

The all-dog portion winds through the lightly wooded muskeg of the former Tent City and is also fenced. Work continues on it as volunteer help is available.

Dog walkers are welcome to use the park at their own risk.

Fund Raisers

The Flamingos Are Here!

A month-long visit by a flock of pink flamingos invites residents to "flock" their friends and neighbors to aid Petersburg's needy companion animals. For a $10 donation to PHA, you can send the flock to a friend's yard for a day. If you find the flock in your yard, you can donate $10 to have it removed and if you want it moved along to a specific yard, another $10 will make that happen. If you'd rather not be "flocked," anti-flamingo insurance is a bargain at only $15. Petersburg's Junior Girl Scouts are donating their time to move the flock from yard to yard. Pictured in transit below are Ruby Massin, Julie Olsen, McKell Heppe-Worthington, Annie Christensen and Jaden Perry. (Click on the picture for a larger version.)

Pick.Click.Give

Alaska's Pick.Click.Give program lets you donate part of your Permanent Fund dividend to any charity that has joined the program - such as Petersburg Humane Association. Even though the deadline for applying for your dividend check has passed, you can still add or change what you want to give through the program. Simply go to http://www.pfd.state.ak.us/ and click on the green box in the right-hand column.

2013 Petersburg Pets Calendar

A long-haired silver and gray cat graces the cover of the 2013 Petersburg Pets calendar. The 2013 calendars, shown here, are for sale for $15 at Petersburg Rexall Drug , the AP&T office, the Waterways Vet Clinic and from PHA board members. If you live out of town and would like to buy one, please send your address and a check to PHA for $17 (to cover calendar and shipping) to PHA, Box 1417, Petersburg, AK 99833. All proceeds support PHA's day-to-day activities.

Catnip Cat Mats

Two colorful fabric mats are inspected by a gray cat. These mats are mini-quilts featuring fun cat-print fabrics and a "secret" pocket for the included organic catnip. Cats love them, cuddling, kicking, chewing and generally whooping it up with them before curling up with them to sleep off all the activity. The mats are available for $20. Contact PHA by phone or email. Or send your address and a check for $22 to PHA, Box 1417, Petersburg, AK 99833. All proceeds go to the new shelter construction fund.

Help Wanted

Shelter Volunteers:

Love of animals, especially cats, necessary.

Regular shelter care volunteers must be able to commit to a regular schedule. Dependability essential. Another volunteer is needed for Saturdays.
Volunteers are also wanted to fill in as needed for those on regular schedules.
Animal socializers are also very welcome most any time.

Fosterers:
Love of dogs and/or cats necessary. Must be able to have pets in home..

Contact PHA at 518-1091

The primary purpose of PHA is to prevent cruelty to animals and needless destruction of healthy pets. Taking unwanted animals "out the road" and letting them go is sentencing them to a cruel death. If you have animals you can't find homes for and can't keep, please call 518-1091 and give us a chance to help. Better yet, have your pet neutered and avoid the problem in the first place. Help is available with this, too.