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Press Releases
- November 30, 2005 - Home 4 the Holidays adoptathon
- October 18, 2005 - Bow Wow Ween
- September 16, 2005 - APS hosting first birthday party and official dedication ceremony
- March 21, 2005 - APS finds loving homes for over 330 animals since opening in October.
- October 12, 2004 - Opening of brand-new animal adoption center
- September 2, 2004 - Barbara Long has been chosen as the Association of Pet Dog Trainers (APDT) Outstanding Trainer
November 30, 2005
The Animal Protection Society of Orange County (APS) will be hosting its fourth annual Home for the Holidays adopt-a-thon event December 9-11, featuring pet photos with Santa Paws at two locations. The APS Dog Training Program will also be hosting a dog training seminar December 10-11. Details are below:
- December 10-11, 2005 : Click To Calm: Healing the Aggressive Dog, presented by Emma Parsons. This two-day seminar will teach you to help your dog respond calmly to stressful situations. To register or for more information, please visit www.animalprotectionsociety.org.
- December 9-11, 2005 : Fourth Annual Home for the Holidays Adopt-a-Thon! APS will have extended hours all weekend long to unite more amazing cats and dogs with wonderful new families! This year's goal is to find great homes for 25 animals in one week, up from 18 last year. Go to www.animalprotectionsociety.org for directions to the APS Felicité Latané Animal Sanctuary.
- On Friday, December 9th, the APS Adoption Center will be open from 10 AM until 9 PM and along with the weekend-long adopt-a-thon will host an open house from 5-8 PM. Come tour our beautiful, progressive facility and enjoy some treats and beverages!
- On Saturday, December 10th, the adoption center will be open from 10 AM until 9 PM ; come out and adopt your newest family member! Santa Paws will also be in town on December 10th posing for professional photographs with you and your pets! Santa will be available for portraits at two locations, first at Prudential Carolinas Realty in Chapel Hill on the corner of Estes Drive and Franklin from 10 AM until 1 PM , then at the adoption center from 3-6 PM .
- Sunday, December 11th, will be your last opportunity to take advantage of our extended hours in order to find your furry-pet match. Please come out and see us at the adoption center from 10 AM until 5 PM .
Founded in 1962, the Animal Protection Society of Orange County (APS) is the leading animal rights organization for Orange County and surrounding areas, with a mission to build a compassionate community for animals. The 50-acre APS Felicité Latané Animal Sanctuary houses a premier dog training program serving 1,000 dogs and their owners per year, a three-acre dog park with 175 members, a low-cost spay/neuter clinic providing 2,000 spay/neuter surgeries per year, and the new APS Animal Adoption Center which opened in October 2004. During its first year of operation from July 2004 to August 2005, the adoption center saved and adopted out 558 homeless dogs and cats from the public animal shelters in Orange , Durham , Chatham , and Caswell counties. Overall, APS serves as a resource center to help local shelters and their communities reduce animal euthanasia and increase their animal adoption rates. APS is a nonprofit organization and relies entirely on modest program fees and donations from the public.
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APS Press Release, October 18, 2005
The Animal Protection Society of Orange County (APS) and Whole Foods of Chapel Hill will be cohosting the First Annual BowWowWeen from 2-6 PM on Friday, October 28 th, at the Whole Foods store in Chapel Hill on Elliot Road off Franklin Street. BowWowWeen replaces the Whole Foods/APS Dog Wash and will feature a parade for kids and dogs, keepsake photos that will make perfect holiday gifts, pumpkin painting, and other fun Halloween activities. APS and Whole Foods encourage people to show up with their children and dogs on leashes, with or without costumes, for structured fun and tasty treats.
Founded in 1962, APS is the leading animal rights organization for Orange County and surrounding communities. The 50-acre APS Felicité Latané Animal Sanctuary houses an extensive dog training program, 3-acre dog park, low-cost spay/neuter clinic, and the new APS Animal Adoption Center which opened last year. During its first year of operation from July 2004 to August 2005, the APS Adoption Center saved and adopted out 558 homeless dogs and cats from the animal shelters in Orange, Durham, Chatham, and Caswell counties, helping all these shelters to increase their adoption rates. For more information about APS and directions to the sanctuary, please go to www.animalprotectionsociety.org or call (919) 304-2300.
APS Press Release for October 12, 2004
The two-day open house will provide a chance for everyone to tour the new progressive adoption center, seek advice from APS dog trainers, view demonstrations by APS dog trainers, purchase a special edition APS open house T-shirt, and order wall tiles for the new building in honor or memory of beloved pets. Of course, if you’re looking to adopt a new pet, there will be adoptable dogs, cats, puppies, and kittens each just hoping to complete your family.
Also during the open house, Tellington Touch (TTouch) practitioners will be training at the APS Learning Center next door to the adoption center. Open house attendees are encouraged to observe this practice and get more information about TTouch.
The 50-acre APS Felicité Latané Animal Sanctuary is located at 6311 Nicks Road, which intersects with Mebane Oaks Road, a quick ride off 54 from Chapel Hill and Carrboro or 85 from Durham and Burlington. The adoption center will be anchored by APS’ premier dog training program with agility fields and a dog park (go to apsdogtraining.org for more information) and the Nicks Road Veterinary Clinic providing low-cost spay/neuter services (call 304-2337). The sanctuary also features an administrative office building and a barn and corral for large animals.
The new APS Adoption Center will have eighteen dog rooms, two roaming cat rooms, and a kitten room. APS hopes to save at least 600 dogs and cats during the center’s first full year of operation. Over the summer, thanks to dedicated volunteer foster parents and without an adoption facility, APS continued to adopt out dogs and cats, with cats located at Dubey’s in Chapel Hill and PETsMART in Durham. APS appreciates the generous support provided by Dubey’s and PETsMART over the years and particularly over the past few months during its move from the Orange County Animal Shelter to the 50-acre APS Felicité Latané Animal Sanctuary located in western Orange County.
At least in the immediate future, APS will not be accepting surrendered animals, but will concentrate on homeless shelter animals. An animal intake committee made up of staff and volunteers with expertise in animal behavior will be selecting highly adoptable dogs and cats the staff will match for compatibility with new owners who will want to keep them forever. In a first for the area, APS will be offering regular Saturday training sessions for people with newly adopted dogs that will help keep animals and their new owners happy with each other. These training sessions will be made possible for the first 350 dogs adopted at the center through a grant from PETsMART Charities.
“People are getting very excited about our new animal adoption center,” says Kay Flaminio, Executive Director. “Adoption centers are springing up in animal-loving communities across the country, including Raleigh and Richmond, Virginia, and we’re fortunate to be at the forefront of an emerging national movement to save more and more animals through public education, provision of low-cost spay/neuter services, and progressive adoptions and dog training based on new understanding about animal behavior. We’re just so happy to be able to help our community this way and appreciate all the support that’s been extended to us over the years by our volunteers and generous donors.”
For a full list of open house activities, please visit animalprotectionsociety.org or call Amy at (919) 304-2300.
APS Press Release, September 16, 2005
The Animal Protection Society of Orange County (APS) will be hosting its first birthday party and official dedication ceremony for the APS Adoption Center at its APS Felicité Latané Animal Sanctuary on October 1st. The public is invited. APS moved its operations out of the Orange County Animal Shelter on June 30, 2004, and opened its own animal adoption center last October. During its first year of operation from July 2004 to August 2005, the APS Adoption Center has saved and adopted out 558 homeless dogs and cats from the animal shelters in Orange, Durham, Chatham, and Caswell counties, helping all these shelters to begin significantly increasing their adoption rates.
APS will celebrate the adoption center’s birthday with an afternoon of events at the sanctuary:
- From 1-3 PM, the APS Dog Training Center will host Doggie Daze, with a variety of training challenges for dogs and their humans managed by APS’ incomparable dog training instructors. All leashed dogs are welcome, especially APS alumni.
- From 3-5 PM, the APS Adoption Center will host its first birthday party and official dedication ceremony, with a reception for all of its donors, volunteers, and other supporters, unveiling of donor plaques, and a special performance by the APS Drill Team.
- All weekend long, the APS Adoption Center will also host an adoptathon to encourage visitors to meet and interact with our outstanding dogs and cats, give one (or two) a good home, and find out more about our ground-breaking work to help local shelters at our progressive facility.
“We invite all of our supporters and members of the public to come out on October 1 st and see what we’re about,” says Kay Flaminio, APS Executive Director. “APS has been the leading animal rights organization in our area since 1962, and we’re looking forward to our future.”
For directions to the party or more information about APS, please call (919) 304-2300.
APS Press Release for September 2, 2004
Barbara owns her dog training business, Paw In Hand Dog Training, which promotes humane, reward-based training. A founding member of the APS Dog Training Club, she continues to teach classes for APS, mentor new trainers, and coordinate continuing education seminars. Barbara also coaches the APS Dog Drill Team, a group that performs in parades and competitions.
Barbara is a charter member of APDT and the Carolina Trainers forum. In 2001, she became a Certified Pet Dog Trainer (CPDT), the first trainer in North Carolina to achieve this certification. She has attended all APDT conferences since their first conference in Orlando in 1994. More recently, she was the co-presenter of the “Team Freestyle” session at the 2002 conference in Portland, and presented the “Fun Field Trips” session in Orlando in 2003.
Barbara has served two terms on the board of directors of CARE (Chatham Animal Rescue and Education) and currently volunteers on its animal welfare and humane education committees. She also currently serves on the Chatham County Health Department's Animal Control Program Review Team. She and her dogs, Selkie and Thatcher, enjoy presenting responsible pet care classes to the third graders at Chatham elementary schools. Barbara was also profiled in the book Careers with Animals by Willow Sirch.
APS Press Release, March 21, 2005
The Animal Protection Society of Orange County (APS) found warm, loving homes for 333 homeless, adoptable dogs and cats between July 1, 2004, and February 28, 2005. APS moved the base of its operations from the Orange County Animal Shelter to the APS Felicité Latané Animal Sanctuary on June 30 th. Since then, APS has opened its own animal adoption facility and worked closely with local animal shelters and rescue groups to help save as many animals as possible in Orange County and surrounding communities.
Of the animals adopted out so far, 112 were dogs and puppies and 221 were cats and kittens. Many of the adoptions took place between July 1 st and October 23 rd when APS was waiting for the APS Adoption Center to be completed and didn’t have an adoption facility. Dedicated volunteer foster parents and the PETsMART in Durham helped with the transition, and Durham PETsMART continues to house cats and kittens for adoption through APS.
The animals adopted from the APS all originated at one of three local animal shelters. An average of 74 percent of the animals came from the Orange County Animal Shelter. The APS still feels a strong loyalty to the shelter it managed for 25 years. The rest came from the Animal Protection Society of Durham and the Chatham County Animal Shelter.
The APS low-cost spay/neuter program through the Nicks Road Veterinary Clinic has also been busy. The clinic performs more than 200 spay/neuter surgeries per month, all subsidized by APS as a service to the community. Low-cost surgeries cost an average of $60 and the clinic also performs $20 surgeries for people with low income, $20 surgeries for people with feral cats, and free surgeries for people with pit bulls. Surgeries can be scheduled by calling (919) 304-2300.
Also nestled within the APS Felicité Latané Animal Sanctuary is the APS Dog Training Program, which offers courses, seminars, and a large dog park. Through a grant from PETsMART Charities, APS is piloting a unique program through which every person who adopts a dog from the APS Adoption Center receives follow-up phone calls from training experts and is eligible for a free three-week life skills course that teaches the basics of owning a new dog and enhancing the human/animal bond. The APS Life Skills Program allows APS to rest assured that new adoptive families will have the tools necessary to keep their dogs healthy and happy in their new homes.
“Our programs and facilities become more successful every day,” says Kay Flaminio, APS Executive Director. “We invite community members to visit the APS Felicité Latané Animal Sanctuary and learn more about the services we provide and other ways to get involved with the vital mission of our organization. APS has been the leading animal welfare organization in Orange County since 1962, and we look forward to continued growth.”
For more complete descriptions of APS’ programs, to review the current dog training schedule, or see dogs and cats currently available for adoption, go to www.animalprotectionsociety.org or call (919) 304-2300.
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