Purdue engineering grad and animal lover Ryan Newman won the Daytona 500. He is one of the nice guys in that sport.
http://www.nascar.com/news/headlines/official/rnewman.relief.2/index.html Statesville, NC -- The Ryan Newman Foundation is joining forces with Project HALO, a national animal rescue organization from Charlotte, NC, to plan a rescue trip to Gulfport, MS to deliver animal supplies and rescue pets at the end of the month.
Nextel Cup driver of the No. 12 ALLTEL Dodge Ryan Newman explains, "It's so sad to think about the families who lost everything they own to Hurricane Katrina, and now they're living out of their cars just trying to hang on to the pets that they love. My wife, Krissie, and our foundation director, Rosalie De Fini, are planning to take truckloads of food and supplies down to Gulfport and bring back dogs and cats. If I were in that situation, I would do everything I could to keep my animals. This rescue mission to Gulfport is the least we can do to help those families with pets."
Krissie Newman says, "We want to do everything we can to help the families with animals and the homeless pets who are victims of Hurricane Katrina. The Ryan Newman Foundation is donating $4,000 to the Humane Society of the United States Disaster Relief Fund. Ryan donated autographed items to the Greg Biffle Foundation for their Racing for Victims of Katrina eBay auction. Penske Racing is donating pet food and supplies to Project HALO, and Alltel donated $57,000 to the American Red Cross. Tom Johnson Camping Center is loaning us the use of an RV for our pet rescue trip. We can use all the help we can get from NASCAR fans and pet lovers to raise money for our rescue mission to Gulfport to save the animals. It's going to be a group effort."
On September 26, the Ryan Newman Foundation will deliver truckloads of Purina pet food, water, animal care supplies and veterinary supplies to the Humane Society of Southern Mississippi in Gulfport. Krissie Newman and Rosalie De Fini
http://www.ryannewmanfoundation.org/news/2006/07112006.htmRyan Newman Foundation Kicks Off Big Fix in New Orleans
(New Orleans, LA—July 11, 2006) NASCAR Nextel Cup Series driver of the #12 Alltel Dodge, Ryan Newman, and his wife Krissie have been named spokespeople for the National Spay/Neuter Response Team (NSNRT). Their first project for the initiative was welcoming the Big Fix Rig into New Orleans, Louisiana.
Krissie Newman traveled to New Orleans with Ryan Newman Foundation Executive Director Rosalie De Fini on July 11 to christen the Big Fix Rig, a new 53-foot mobile spay/neuter clinic capable of performing 120 cat sterilization surgeries per day as part of the effort to reduce pet overpopulation nationwide. Welcoming the Big Fix Rig into Louisiana kicks off a major spay/neuter program in the Gulf Coast.
Leading animal welfare organizations—the ASPCA, PetSmart Charities, the Humane Society of the United States, International Fund for Animal Welfare, and United Animal Nations—have joined in an effort to fund $3.2 million in support of spay/neuter programs in the hurricane affected areas of Mississippi and Louisiana. Last year’s Hurricane Katrina exposed the public to a growing pet overpopulation problem in the Gulf Coast, with nearly 80 percent of all pets in the region unaltered. Partnering with nonprofit organizations the Humane Alliance’s National Spay/Neuter Response Team, Spay Louisiana, Mississippi SPAN, and Humane Society of South Mississippi, the project will operate a spay/neuter voucher program, two permanent high-volume spay/neuter clinics and the Big Fix Rig to provide as many as 20,000 pet sterilization surgeries in the first year.
Ryan Newman explains, “Krissie and I are proud to have been asked to be the spokespeople for the National Spay/Neuter Response Team. Across the nation, county animal shelters have to put dogs and cats to death because there aren’t enough homes for all of the puppies and kittens being born each year. The only statistically proven way to stop the animal overpopulation epidemic is by spaying and neutering pets. We have to prevent unwanted breeding to save lives.”
The National Spay/Neuter Response Team is an initiative of the Humane Alliance, which is a nonprofit public, low-cost spay/neuter clinic in Asheville, North Carolina. Humane Alliance operates a high-volume spay/neuter clinic in Asheville that has sterilized 150,000 animals since its inception 12 years ago and reduced the euthanasia rate in their community by an astounding 82 percent. Through their NSNRT initiative, they have already helped groups across the country begin operations for 12 model clinics in just one year.
According to Quita Mazzina, director of Humane Alliance, “In this country we spend one billion dollars annually to pick up, house, and destroy homeless animals. If only five percent of that total were allocated to spay/neuter programs, we could open 250 public, low-cost spay/neuter clinics across the country and sterilize more than four million animals each year. Instead of our county tax dollars being used to kill animals, we could be using those funds to prevent unwanted litters and therefore prevent the needless deaths of homeless animals.”
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