Pet Adoption Day Hosted By SWMOK9's On Aug. 16th

Orschelon’s Farm & Home will be the site of another Pet Adoption Day on Saturday, August 16th in front of the store from from 10:00 am to 4:00 p.m.

The event is hosted by the Southwest Missouri K9's, which CCAS Board member Connie Foster is a part of, and will be a regular event held every other Saturday.

Rescue Groups will have pets available on site to meet and adopt.

Orschelon’s Farm & Home is near the north west corner of Highway 65 and 14 across from Campbell Ford, in Ozark, Missouri.

• For a map of the location ---> Click here

Volunteer ‘pet wranglers’ will be needed to walk and water dogs available for Adoption. Anyone who would like to help and work this event and know which weekends the events will be held in the future can email Connie at: cfos@mchsi.com or Kathy at 417-766-1148 or by email at: secy53-ccas@yahoo.com.

Shelter Meeting Dates Rescheduled for Aug. 11th

The meeting for Annexation & Zoning of the proposed Shelter site has been postponed until Monday, August 11. The Board of Aldermen will decide to either deny the annexation or approve it.

At that time it will go to the Circuit Court for a ruling on whether it is reasonable & necessary to annex the site. If the court ruling is in our favor, the city will have to put it to a Public vote in the City of Nixa to pass the ordinance.

No discussion regarding Special Use Permit will be allowed at this meeting.

7/9/08 UPDATE: The City of Nixa sent out notices on June 24th, 2008 to property owners regarding the postponement of the annexation.

"It is my understanding of this letter that if the City does want to annex the land then their voting powers are over the annexation," said CCAS Board member Kathleen Copeland, who did receive a letter.

"If they still want to annex the land it has to go to Circuit Court for a judge to rule it is necessary and reasonable to annex the property."

If the court gives a favorable ruling then the City has to put it up for a public vote in Nixa. If it passes the public vote with a majority of votes cast (not a majority of registered voters), then the land will be annexed. If all goes well, will have to be put back on the agenda for a Special Use permit application to the city of Nixa.

Supporters may speak in our favor on the Annexation & Zoning only on August 11th at 7:00 p.m. Plans have been submitted for a shelter location in Nixa. The CCAS Board would appreciate the attendance of as many of our supporters at the meetings as possible.

All meetings will be held in the Nixa City at the Nixa City Hall, 715 W. Mt. Vernon St., Nixa, Missouri

For a directional map to Nixa City Hall ---> Click here

CCAS Lost And Found Pet Forum Now Active

Due to the overwhelming emails concerning lost and found pets, the Christian County Animal Shelter has developed an online forum for pet owners to find lost pets, or those who have found animals, to reunite owners.

The CCAS Lost and Found Pet Forum is not responsible for lost or found pets, or mis-information that may occur from improper use of this forum, as it is just a conduit for allowing pet owners to be reunited with their animals.

• To go to the CCAS Lost and Found Pet Forum ---> Click here

A link to the forum will permanently located in the left hand column.

Local Lost And Found Search Directory Available

We have put together a list of web sites where you can list and find lost animals in the Christian County area. Included are phone numbers for city shelters, Humane Societies, and contact numbers for areas that do not have an Animal Control officer. Click here for the Lost and found Directory. Other useful links: Shelter Medicine Ozark Vet Clinic

CCAS Thrift Store Grand Opening A Big Success

The Christian County Animal Shelter Thrift Store's Grand Opening Day was a huge success!! We appreciate the many compliments on how nice the store was and the quality of the merchandise we had.

A big THANK YOU! to many of the volunteers and supporters who helped get the store up and running, and to the several merchants who contributed items or services to The Thrift Store.

• Click for a list of items accepted at The Thrift Store

The Thrift Store, with proceeds going to benefit the Animal Shelter and its building and operating expenses, is located at 205 N. Main in Nixa, Missouri  65721. The phone number is 417-725-6583.

Store hours will be from 10:00 am to 5:00 pm - Monday thru Friday and 10:00am to 2:00 pm - Saturday.  The store will be closed Sunday.

Items need to be dropped of during business hours or call to make special time arrangements.

Volunteers are always needed to help out at the thrift store.

Call Me No Name (And Stripey)

I haven’t felt so good this morning. I found some pieces of deer meat in the ravine behind my field. Of course I ate as much as I could because I’m always so hungry. Now I have been sick.

“What’s wrong with you, mangy stray?” a voice said.

I looked in the direction of the voice and saw a rather large black animal with white stripes and a bushy tail.

“Something I ate didn’t agree with me,” I replied. “I saw what you ate,” said the animal, which I decided to call Stripey for lack of anything better. “That stuff has been there for awhile and the people who put it there are poachers. You shouldn’t eat anything you find in that ravine unless it’s berries or live things that you hunt for yourself. Even Quasimodo the owl knows that! I mean, you could get full of worms if you eat stuff like that.”

“Yeah, thanks,” I said. “What kind of dog are you anyway?”

“Dog. DOG! I’m not a dog. I’m a magnificent striped skunk and, if I so choose, I could make you smell so bad the smell might never go away.”

“Skunk, huh?” I said. “I never heard of that, so I guess I’ll take your word for it. Do you get lonely?”

“No,” Stripey said. “I do not get lonely. I live in the wild and I know most of the other animals around here. No, I don’t get lonely.”

“Oh,” I said. “I just thought you might get lonely for some people who would be kind to you. I get lonely like that.”

“That’s too bad,” Stripey said. “I don’t know any people, but I’ll try to keep you from being too lonely. I’ll be your friend.”

Stripey was as good as his word. He was a companion to me. He was as good a companion as he could be considering that he was a skunk and I’m a dog.

One morning a week or so after I met Stripey, I woke hungry as I always am, and I went to the long hard thing that people called a road. When I’m hungry, it sometimes helps to drink some water. As I was crossing the road to get to the small puddle that was in the opposite ditch, I noticed something in the road.

It was Stripey, and he was no longer moving. I knew that animals like Stripey was now were called road kill by the people who rode in the big metal machines. I’ve suspected that the big metal machines cause the road kill although I had never seen that for sure.

I knew that Stripey, my new friend, was dead and that he would never move again.

“Could I become road kill someday? Maybe someday I won’t be watching so well and then somehow I would become road kill,” I thought. “I wonder if it hurts to become road kill. I wonder if it hurt my friend Stripey. I don’t know.”

“Why do I have to be cold and hungry and why do the machines make road kill? Did the machine kill Stripey? Why? Are there machines with people who don’t make road kill? Maybe those people could love a dog like me. I don’t know.”

Call me No Name.

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