 | Background Information
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by
Frances
Jones
|  | LIGHTHOUSE ANIMAL RESUE
Lighthouse Animal Rescue of Atenas Costa Rica is competing to win a $1,000.00 grant to help care for the animals in their shelter and for the street animals they spay and neuter. This grant would help pay for some of those services.
www.petfinder.com and www.Theanimalrescuesite.com,
both located in the U.S . have teamed up to offer grants ranging from $1,000.00 to $10,000.00 to shelters who can get the most votes during the challenge. Of course the big money will most likely go to one of the large shelters in the U.S . but Frances Jones, director of Lighthouse, hopes to be able to win $1,000.00 for the "international" shelter with the most votes.
Right now a Mexican shelter is leading the way but Frances isn't worried as long as Lighthouse can stay in second place. "They are offering two $1,000.00 grants for the international shelters with the most votes." says Jones. "The Mexican shelter is WAY ahead. They're trying to win the $10,000.00 grant. They're offering a Caribbean vacation for two of their voters if they win. We can't afford to do that. All our money goes to the animals needs. But if we can just hang onto second place we'll still win a thousand dollars. That would mean so much for the animals we care for."
Frances has been doing rescue since she was four years old and she and her husband of 42 years have continued that work ever since they married in 1968. That's 60 years if anybody's counting!
Together they take in street animals, bring them back to full health, teach them about love, have them spayed or neutered and then find loving homes for them. Sometimes there are as many as 25 animals running in and out of their home and small finca.
The Jones' don't believe in caging or kenneling animals except for a few days quarantine when they first arrive at the shelter. Once they prove to be non-contagious they have free run of the house and walled finca and are treated just like a private pet. Sleeping on the couches and beds, relaxing in the Jones laps and receiving the love they have never experienced. No animal leaves until it is happy, healthy, and incapable of making any more puppies or kittens. They have even built a clinic room in their home in order to offer low cost castration clinics for people who cannot afford to pay a regular castration price. They use a local vet who gives them a special rate to do the surgeries.
 Flaca before and after |
| HOW YOU CAN HELP
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| | JUST A CLICK AWAY!
If you want to help Lighthouse you can do so by voting every day until April 18th. It is free. You don't have to join anything. You don't even have to give your email address. Just go to www.animalrescuesite.com and click on "shelter Challenge."
Type in "Lighthouse" for the shelter name and click on Costa Rica for the country. Then click on "search."
When the Lighthouse name comes up, click vote and wait for a confirmation question to confirm your vote.
You can also keep up with what's going on at the shelter and possibly find a wonderful new four footed best friend to adopt by going to www.mrbudbud.blogspot.com. ng
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