Staff Writer
OAKFIELD — Ghosts and goblins and scary characters flooded the Oakfield Community Center Saturday night in an attempt to provide relief to some furry friends.
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WINNER — Six-year-old Emily Bubar models her costume during Saturday night’s Houlton Humane Society fundraiser at the Oakfield Community Center. She won best costume. A Halloween dinner and dance was hosted by the center to help raise funding for the over-populated Houlton Humane Society and its animals. Since the end of summer, the Society has seen a rapid increase in its unwanted pet population, namely cats, and Humane Society President Cathy Davis said the need for adoption of those pets is reaching a critical status.
“They’re coming in faster than they go out,” she explained. “I can adopt two cats and get six or seven come in on the same day. Right now we have 110 cats.”
The dinner and dance raised more than $900 for the Society, which Davis said will be used to help them get caught up on existing vet bills. Donations were contributed from the 75-plus people who attended the event. Travis James Humphrey and Tim “the Tune Man” Humphrey performed.
“It was a really good turn out under the circumstances,” she explained.
Davis said recently there have been several kitten dumps made, which has increased numbers. Of the 110 cats, living at the 263 Callaghan Road shelter, more than 40 of them are kittens.
In an effort to find homes for the animals, the shelter has been offering a two-for-one deal for adoptions, which means there is no adoption fee for the second pet. Also, there are cats currently residing at the shelter that came in spayed or neutered and vaccinated. Davis said those animals will be adopted out for no fee at all because the shelter did not have to seek any medical care for them.
Every animal that leaves the shelter is spayed or neutered prior to its adoption in an effort to reduce reproduction of unwanted pets.
For more information on the Houlton Humane Society call 532-2862 via e-mail at animal@pwless.net or online at www.houltonanimalshelter.bravehost.com.
