Second Chance: Matching Challenge + Chancey

14 Aug Second Chance: Matching Challenge + Chancey

Chancey

Hi everyone, my name is Chancey, a homeless dog here at Second Chance Humane Society with exciting news to share. Just a week after pushing Phase Two of its capital campaign,”Building Second Chances,” for the construction of new dog facilities, Second Chance has received a matching challenge donation in the amount of $20,000. The anonymous donor has asked that the challenge be called “Honor a Pet You Loved Challenge” and will match the next $20,000 in donations to the campaign, yielding $40,000 towards the project.

Currently the campaign has succeeded with 59% ($337K) of funding fulfilled on the $588K project designed to increase capacity for housing the region’s homeless dogs from 12 to 35 dogs in a purpose-built facility designed to create a low stress home-like environment. The project also includes the ability to develop an onsite medical facility and expand emergency/disaster relief capability.

The matching challenge is a great opportunity for donors of various levels to double their investment and really make a difference in this campaign which is  all about expanding our ability to save more animals’ lives and assure that our organization can keep up with the needs of the region.

I am thrilled about the new funding and hope its generosity initiates the donor momentum we need to start building the upgraded facility this year. Also, Second Chance is hosting presentations to talk in-depth about its capital project in both San Miguel and Ouray Counties for interested donors to learn more about it – contact them about a presentation near you.

Hopefully I will be adopted before the new facility arrives but it will make a difference for those who follow after me. Speaking of me, I am a very sweet Border Collie Lab mix who has had my share of tough luck. I am a Hurricane Sandy stray survivor and now find myself homeless again. Despite this, at six years of age I still have the heart and soul of a teenager. I am well trained and very polite girl (you don’t survive what I have and not learn a thing or two about life…).  I am fiercely loyal and just need a family to love and call my own.

Editor’s note: It’s no secret. The Telluride region is dog heaven. Well, pet heaven. Unless you are one of our furry friends who gets caught in the maw of neglect and abuse. Then heaven is on hold until Second Chance Humane Society comes to the rescue. Second Chance is the region’s nonprofit dedicated to saving animals’ lives and promoting responsible pet parenting and human-animal bond. In her weekly blog, executive director Kelly Goodin profiles at least one, generally two of the many animals now living at the no-kill shelter, Angel Ridge Shelter, a dog and a cat, hoping to find them loving permanent homes. The column is sponsored by Ted Hoff of Cottonwood Ranch & Kennel, who from time to time exercises his skills as a dog whisperer, partnering with Kelly and her staff to help train a particularly challenging animal.

By the by, there is no better place to park your pup than Cottonwood whenever you head out of town (for locals) or are heading to town and staying somewhere that does not allow pets. Consider joining Ted’s Very Important Dog (VID) Club for added benies. (Details on Ted’s website.)

Second Chance Humane Society Animal Resource Center and Thrift Shop are both located in Ridgway, but service San Miguel, Ouray & Montrose Counties. Call the SCHS Helpline at 626-2273 to report a lost pet, learn about adopting a homeless pet, or about the SCHS Spay/Neuter, Volunteer, Feral Cat, or other Programs. View the shelter pets and services online: www.adoptmountainpets.org.