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A WIN FOR ANIMAL RIGHTS ACTIVISTS
ELIZABETH FELDHAUSEN Provides A Safe Haven For Animals With Special Needs
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Photography MIKE PETERS, IAN SUTHERLAND, SARAH KLOEPPING, TIMOTHY CLARY, MIRKO LUI AND THE PRESS-GAZETTE PHOTOGRAPHY STAFF
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Live, Love, Bark! Bezio Turns Her Passion For Her Rescue Animals Into A Career
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Animal Rights Activists Claim Major Win In Ringling Brothers Closing
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YOU Spotlight: Giving Second Chances. Local Shelter Rescues Special Needs Animals ON THE COVER: Elizabeth Feldhausen Photo by Mike Peters
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from the editor There’s a few things you get when you adopt a creature into your home. Enormous amounts of unconditional love, plenty of laughter and cherished memories are just a few of many more. It also comes with a fair amount of patience, commitment and care on the part of the new owner. While it is immensely rewarding, it can be arduous labor with lots of love required. I, for one, will admit that escapades through the wilderness sure wouldn’t be the same without my puppy, Galileo, by my side. When I sit next to a river to read my books, it brings a smile to my face as I watch him play close by. Furry family members make a world of difference. They can enhance an adventure ten-fold as well as instantly lift your
spirit after a rough day. April is prevention of cruelty to animals month which is a cause that tugs on a number of heart strings. According to People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals, circus animals live a tragic life of domination, confinement and violent training methods. While displaying a distorted view of wildlife, the animals are forced to perform due to fear of being abused by whips, electric prods, bullhooks, tight collars, muzzles and other painful tools. Steps have been taken regarding the treatment of circus animals due to quite a few people standing up for what they believe in. Continue turning these pages as you learn more about a win for animal rights activists that will take effect in May. A small move helps enact big change. It’s up to us to make a difference for those who can’t speak up for themselves.
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Giving Second Chances LOCAL SHELTER RESCUES SPECIAL NEEDS ANIMALS STORY BY COLLEEN RIORDAN PHOTOS BY MIKE PETERS 6 | www.greenbaypressgazette.com/you | April 2017
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Stepping into the cat café at Safe Haven Pet Sanctuary is like walking into someone’s home. The small shopfront on Main Avenue in De Pere is clean but cozy. Perfect for cuddling with a kitten or two. “I just wanted to find a way to bring people in here.” Elizabeth Feldhausen gestures around the room. “I had noticed them popping up in California and New York. A lot of people come in for the café aspect: coffee, Wi-Fi and just hanging out with the cats. We have regulars who come in every week to socialize with the new cats. More often we have cat lovers coming in and meeting their new best friend.” What sets Safe Haven Pet Sanctuary apart is the type of animals it helps. The sanctuary is a no-kill, cage-free animal rescue, protecting vulnerable special needs animals from euthanization. They try to rehabilitate them and help them find new homes. Feldhausen opened the new adoption center and cat café in December 2016, and it has been busy ever since. Through the adoption center, an online rehoming network, and foster families,
she cares for both cats and dogs. While waiting for adoption, dogs stay with foster families, but cats live at the De Pere center. “We usually have between fifteen and twenty cats at a time. But we usually flip cats pretty quickly,” she laughs. “So it’s like a revolving door of cats. We’ve had eleven cats adopted out in the last two months. It looks like two are going to be adopted out this week. It just keeps going.” Local shelters transfer special needs animals to the Safe Haven to give them a second chance at life. “You can’t expect an animal to live up to its full potential when it’s in a cage,” says Feldhausen. “That’s why I wanted everything to be cage-free. Especially if animals have anxiety or special needs, they need to be able to get used to a homelike environment with people coming in and out. I want them to trust. They get socialized here, which helps them get adopted.” Special needs dealt with can range from medical issues like diabetes and feline immunodeficiency virus (FIV) to injuries from abuse and neglect. “Many of the cats coming here have anxiety, or rather, they had anxiety,” she says, “from spending so much time in a cage. When they arrive here, we have to rebuild their trust. “Safe Haven is a homelike environment that you aren’t going to find anywhere else. It’s like coming into someone’s living room and hanging out with their pets. It’s just like a big family in a big house here. We treat it like everyone who comes here is a visitor coming into our home.” Feldhausen knows each SHELTER CONTINUED ON PAGE 8 >>> April 2017 | www.greenbaypressgazette.com/you | 7
your spotlight >>> SHELTER CONTINUED FROM PAGE 7 animal’s history, needs and quirks intimately. Her passion for their rehabilitation stems from experiences with a special needs pet she had while growing up. “One of our cats began having strokes and lost his ability to walk. Every vet we went to told us that he wasn’t going to make it much longer and should put him down. I decided to rehabilitate him myself. He relearned how to walk and lived for another five years.” “After that I realized that a lot of animals were put down for having special needs that they could recover from.” Feldhausen’s voice is full of pride as she tells the stories of the cats at Safe Haven. One particularly fluffy, long haired feline with a rather endearing bandy-legged stride named Willow was hit by a car several years ago. She spent most of her time in a cage for a few years and her muscles atrophied. After arriving at Safe Haven, Willow relearned how to walk in just a couple weeks. “At the time, she was just dragging herself. Then, all of a sudden, her back feet started
working. She taught herself. She was so determined. It was really goofy looking. She waddled terribly at first. A week or two later, she was walking and running almost like a normal cat.” Feldhausen believes that everyone should consider adopting a special needs pet. “Being adopted is something many of these animals never had before. Many came from a terrible past, never thinking they’ll have another chance. Instead of being euthanized, they are rehabilitated and get a new life.”
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LIVE, LOVE, BARK!
Bezio Turns Her Passion For Her Rescue Animals Into A Career STORY BY MEGHAN DIEMEL
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pril Is Prevention of Cruelty to Animals Month, and according to a 2016 statisticbrain.com report, 1,920 animal abuse cases were reported in the media last year. The ASPCA notes that while figures vary from state to state, national estimates show that approximately 6.5 million companion animals enter U.S. animal shelters nationwide every year. Meanwhile, there are an estimated 10,000 puppy mills in the United States, and about 250,000 animals fall victim to hoarding annually.
Brooke Bezio, 27, of Green Bay, takes the matter of animal cruelty personally. A parent to two rescue dogs and a formerly stray cat, she says the most important thing anyone can do to aid the cause is to spread awareness. “It’s really easy for people to act like it doesn’t happen or doesn’t exist and to just look past it, but I think everyone should be aware; letting each other know about it is really important,” she states. “Because of that, I do support adopting dogs, because a lot of that neglect and cruelty [has affected those] homeless dogs – dogs that are stuck in shelters or wandering the streets. I’m a pretty big advocate for adopting.” BARK CONTINUED ON PAGE 12 >>>
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>>> BARK CONTINUED FROM PAGE 11 Bezio’s dogs include her Boston terrier mix, Vader, and her pit bull mix, Serenity. Even Bezio’s cat, Figaro, came to them as a “rescue”; the cat was a stray that Bezio and her significant other, David Peters, gave a forever home. The couple also has a ball python. Her love for animals not only keeps her fulfilled at home, but it also led to a career change. Bezio originally went to college for digital media technology and worked early on in her career as a digital artist. However, when she rescued her first dog five years ago, she decided she wanted to work with animals
for the rest of her life. “He was just that important to me,” she explains. “I wanted to figure out how I could incorporate my artistic skills and my love for dogs [into a new career].”
It’s definitely more than a job for me. It’s a passion.”
Bezio decided dog grooming would be the perfect combination for her. She couldn’t find anyone to train her on the job initially, she states, so she started working at a kennel as an attendant. She was eventually accepted into Petco’s training program and after a period of time, she says they trained her how to perform haircuts.
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Bezio eventually found a permanent home as a groomer with Golrusk Pet Care Center’s east side location about one and a half years ago.
“We luckily stumbled across Brooke when we were hiring for the stylist position,” says Denise Lester, grooming supervisor for Golrusk. “Brooke has a passion for grooming. She takes a lot of pride in her work and wants the dogs to look their best. She is compassionate for the pets and has a way with them.”
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Bezio says that with love and patience, she is able to earn the trust of her furry clients.
“The first thing I really had to learn was just basic handling skills for dogs,” she reflects. “You can’t come on too strong, and you can’t move too quickly; you have to get to know the dog a little bit. Every single dog is different.” Grooming dogs is not an extravagance for the pet owner, it’s a necessity, adds Bezio. “When humans evolved and started breeding dogs, we now have all these dogs that just can’t take care of themselves; dogs that won’t make it out in the wild by themselves, and that’s why I enjoy doing what I do.” Bezio says every dog needs their toenails clipped because the longer they get, they will push up the pad and start to curl. Hair grooming is important because dogs with longer and curlier hair can suffer from matting. When the dog’s coat becomes matted, there is nowhere for the moisture to escape from the skin. “Under all that fur the skin can actually become infected and you can have a lot of skin issues if you don’t keep up on something like that,” furthers Bezio. In addition to performing breed specific haircuts, or knowing how to best capture the preferences of the dog’s owner, Bezio says she also cleans the dog’s ears and checks them over during the hair drying process for lumps, warts and/or cuts the owner can’t see without the aid of a blower. “She is a very creative young lady and is always coming up with fun and new ideas to bring to the business,” adds Lester. “Her new, fresh ideas to grooming will help keep Golrusk the best!” Bezio says that though it may seem cliché, she lives by the motto, “Be the change you wish to see in the world.” She says that whenever she doesn’t like what she sees, she does what she can to change something. No doubt, that aspiration led her to recently becoming a volunteer with Happily Ever After, the no-kill animal rescue in Green Bay. Bezio stresses that she became a groomer because of her love for animals, so she wants dog owners to know their pets are in good hands. “I know sometimes people are afraid to leave their animals with strangers, because they think we’re going to be too rough with them, and that’s the opposite case,” she says. “I’m 100 percent there to help. We are animal people; we would never try to harm them intentionally. “It’s definitely more than a job for me,” she adds. “It’s a passion.” April 2017 | www.greenbaypressgazette.com/you | 13
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Animal Rights Activists Claim Major Win In Ringling Brothers Closing STORY BY TREVOR HUGHES
Animal rights activists claimed a major victory after Ringling Bros. and Barnum & Bailey Circus said it would halt its show in May after 146 years.
The move came as circuses and animalperformance shows across the country have struggled with declining attendance and shifting social pressure brought to bear by activists who argued the animals were sometimes poorly treated. Ringling Bros. and Barnum & Bailey Circus removed elephants from its performances last May, and the company said ticket sales then dropped drastically. The company had long battled animal rights activists
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in costly court skirmishes — winning a $15.75 million judgment against them in 2015 — but apparently lost the larger fight over public opinion. “IT’S OVER,” actress and animal rights advocate Pamela Anderson posted to her 1.07 million Twitter followers. PETA, which has crusaded against animal treatment, lauded the decision and said the trend should accelerate. “All other animal circuses, roadside zoos, and wild
animal exhibitors, including marine amusement parks like SeaWorld and the Miami Seaquarium, must take note: Society has changed, eyes have been opened, people know now who these animals are, and we know it is wrong to capture and exploit them.” Circuses have long been a part of the American social fabric, bringing exotic animals to small towns across the country, giving awestruck children a taste of the wilder world beyond. But the past three decades, in particular, have seen a growing concern for the health and welfare of wild animals who spend their lives in captivity. Most people didn’t realize what went on behind the scenes, said Jan Creamer, the president of Animal Defenders International, which has conducted undercover investigations into circuses for 20 years. Even if only some circuses treated the animals poorly, people began to believe that simply keeping them in captivity and forcing them to perform was its own kind of cruelty, she said.
“People were shocked at the day-to-day casual violence,” Creamer said. “We didn’t know any better. Now, we do. As Ringling has found out, people are better educated and … recognize suffering and cruelty in other species. They don’t want to see animals suffer for 15 minutes of entertainment.” Feld Entertainment, which owned the circus, said ticket sales dropped after the elephants were retired to the company’s breeding and research facility. The company didn’t specify what will happen to the remaining animals, which include tigers, lions, horses, dogs and camels. “The circus and its people have continually been a source of inspiration and joy to my family and me, which is why this was such a tough business decision to make, company CEO Kenneth Feld said in a statement. “The decision was even more difficult because of the amazing fans that have become part of our extended circus family over the years, and we are extremely
grateful to the millions of families who have made Ringling Bros. part of their lives for generations.” The company’s two circus shows, Out of This World and Circus Xtreme, have 30 shows left, including appearances in Atlanta, Brooklyn and Boston. The final shows are May 7 at the Dunkin’ Donuts
Center in Providence, R.I., and May 21 at the Nassau Veterans Memorial Coliseum in Uniondale, N.Y. The company said it would help its circus performers transition to new roles but didn’t offer specifics about how many employees might lose their jobs. Feld Entertainment said in a statement that the spirit of the circus would live on through the company’s other shows.
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When Miranda Lambert Asks, Fans Deliver STORY BY KENDRA MEINERT | PHOTOS BY SARAH KLOEPPING “Amanda, Miranda.” “Miranda, Amanda.” Introductions might have sounded a little like that when Amanda Reitz met Miranda Lambert at the Resch Center. Reitz, the founder of Happily Ever After Animal Sanctuary in Marion and Ashwaubenon, was invited backstage to meet the country singer before her sold-out concert on March 2. But it wasn’t just a celebrity photo op. It was a chance to say thank you. Lambert had asked fans coming to her show to pitch in and fill the little red wagon parked in the Resch lobby with cat and 16 | www.greenbaypressgazette.com/you | April 2017
dog food, gift cards, toys and other supplies needed at the shelter. It’s something Lambert, a noted animal lover and founder of her own animal nonprofit Mutt Nation, has been doing on each stop of her Highway Vagabond Tour to help local animal rescue groups. When Lambert asks, fans listen. That Radio Flyer red wagon was buried beneath a mountain of donations before the lights ever went down in the arena. Marcus Reitz, who handles branding and development for HEA, accompanied his sister backstage for the brief meeting
with Lambert. “(Miranda) was very appreciative of the work we do, and it was kind of interesting watching Amanda, because she thanked Miranda obviously,” Marcus Reitz said. “It’s a big thing for her to tie her name to an event like that, because it produces the outcome that it did. The emotional impact that left on Amanda … She just kind of broke down standing there.” The drive netted more than $900 in cash and gift cards for HEA, along with 1,200-plus pounds of dog and cat chow as well as canned cat food, toys (even a couple of cowboy boot squeakies) and cleaning supplies. A crew of five from HEA spent the time it took Aubrie Sellers and Old Dominion to play their opening sets packing it all up. “We literally filled to the gills the Suburban that we had along and then a Honda Pilot was also nearly full,” Reitz said. “It was a pretty cool thing.” Lambert, who has seven rescue dogs and 22 animals total, had specifically requested a no-kill shelter to partner with, Reitz said. Even Lambert’s camp seemed impressed by the showing from northeastern Wisconsin. On her Facebook page, they posted a photo of the Resch pile and wrote: “Look at all the great pet supplies that were donated in Green Bay! Y’all are making a big difference for your local shelters!” “For Green Bay to get a shout-out like that is really cool. Ultimately, I think that speaks to what our community does each and every day,” Reitz said. “We’re so fortunate that the community gives the way that they do. It’s very rare that we have to purchase food. It’s primarily special dietary things and that when we do, so this really just continues to keep those bowls full every day and the bellies full. It’s certainly going to be felt within the care that we’re able to provide everybody on a daily basis.” Everybody who brought a donation to the concert was en-
tered in a drawing to win two upgraded seats and a chance to meet Lambert. The donation drive originally started out with 500 entry forms but HEA requested a second supply of 1,000 more and put a pretty good dent in those, Reitz said. The winners were a grandmother and her granddaughter. To thank Lambert, HEA presented her with their version of a little red wagon signed by about 50 of the shelter’s volunteers. It was stuffed with personalized treats for her dogs, cat treats, an HEA hat and T-shirt and a letter of thanks written by one of the volunteers on behalf of the animals at the shelter.
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Your Dog Might Be Much Smarter Than You Think STORY BY TRACI WATSON Can’t remember where you set down your coffee a moment ago? Maybe you should ask your dog. Dogs can remember their owners’ actions, even when those actions are trivial, a new study says. Some canines can summon up what people were doing a full hour earlier, to the surprise of the study’s authors, who say the finding is more than a mere curiosity. 18 | www.greenbaypressgazette.com/you | April 2017
It was already clear that dogs “have emotions similar to ours (and) they have a memory system similar to ours,” says study co-author Claudia Fugazza of Eötvös Loránd University in Hungary. “Our study basically shows dogs can remember events pretty much like we do.” That dogs could perform remarkable feats of memory didn’t completely shock Fugazza and her colleagues. They
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Claudia Fugazza and her dog demonstrating the do as I do method. Photo Courtesy Of Mirko Lui
had already found that after dogs see their owners perform a simple action, such as touching an umbrella, the pets easily mimic that action, even 24 hours later.
researchers report in Current Biology.
But for that test, which Fugazza calls “Do As I Do,” the dogs knew their job was to remember and repeat their owners’ deeds. What could dogs remember, Fugazza wondered, if they didn’t know they were supposed to remember? That’s no academic quibble. When the dogs were cued to remember their owners’ actions, they were relying on what’s known as semantic memory. Humans use it to learn lessons in school and to accumulate facts about the world, such as the capitals of all 50 states. On the other hand, if the dogs were remembering without any expectations that the memory was useful, they would be relying on something close to episodic memory. That’s the memory of past experiences, such as what you ate for lunch yesterday. Previously thought to be the sole province of humans, episodic memory is closely linked to self-awareness. To figure out whether dogs can form such memories, Fugazza and her colleagues devised a twist on the “Do As I Do” test. They enlisted human-canine pairs who had already learned the “Do As I Do” test and once again had the dogs witness their people perform a simple action, such as touching an umbrella. But instead of being asked to imitate that action, the dogs were trained to lie down. As a result, the dogs didn’t realize they would need to retain information about their owners’ actions, or so the scientists think. But when the dogs were told “Lie down!” and then, unexpectedly, “Do it!” – the command to imitate their humans – they could still imitate the actions their people had performed, showing that they remembered an unremarkable past event. More than a third could do so after an hour, the
Other animals have demonstrated episodic memory. But this is the first time that non-human animals have shown the ability to record complex events, the researchers say. Other scientists agree. “The use of complex behaviors in this work is remarkable,” JonathonCQ Crystal of the University of Indiana, who was not involved in the research, says via email. Remembering a past event requires mentally traveling back in time to retrieve that event, which is difficult to demonstrate in species that lack spoken language. But “this paper does that as well as can be done with animals,” says Thomas Zentall of the University of Kentucky. Fugazza has three dogs, including “an 18-year-old border collie. Who knows what he remembers (from) 18 years of life?” she says, adding that her work shows “we should treat dogs in a way that implies that we know that they remember what we do to them.”
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Hiking Oases For Families And Pets STORY AND PHOTOS BY IAN SUTHERLAND Do you have the winter blues? Well, fret no more! Warmer weather in Wisconsin is right around the corner. It’s just about time to put away those winter boots and lace up your favorite pair of hiking shoes. The Green Bay area is home to many pet friendly areas but instead of taking your pup to the same old dog park, how about hitting the trails this spring. If you are looking for some great river views both urban and rural, the Fox River Recreational Trail may be for you. It is a great trail for hiking, biking, inline skating and much more. The Fox River Trail runs from Green Bay to Greenleaf for a total of 25.8 miles. The Fox River Trail is one of 1600 rail-trails constructed by Rails-to-Trails Conservancy, an organization that is working to create a network of trails from former rail lines and connecting corridors.
The “northern” or Green Bay trailhead is located downtown just south of the Mason Street bridge. For approximately 5 miles the trail runs along the urban area of the Fox River. Along the trail there are many restaurants, shops, parks and there is also a museum. One of the first stops along the trail as you enter the Allouez area around the 1.25 mile mark is St. Francis Park. Here you will find a small gazebo accompanied by pleasant river views. As you come upon the De Pere area of the trail, you enter the popular fishing spot Voyageur Park. The park is known for the De Pere Riverwalk. It is a unique wildlife viewing pier where you can see a variety of wildlife such as pelicans, bald eagles, cormorants, sturgeon, salmon and much more! The Riverwalk also connects the previously inaccessible Locktender’s Island with the rest of the park.
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The trail continues for a few miles along the river until reaching the Rockland Road area. Here the trail traffic becomes less as this part of the trail becomes more rural and the pavement turns to crushed stone. Around the 6 mile point on the trail, just south of De Pere, begins the equestrian section of the trail. Horseback riders can be seen riding from the nearby bridle trails that continue to the end of the trail in Greenleaf. While passing through several small communities along the trail, you will reach the southern trailhead in Greenleaf. Although the southern trailhead is located in Greenleaf, the trail actually continues another 6 miles into Forest Junction, which connects to Friendship State Trail and leads further south to Brillion.
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4 1. Registration volunteers Aina VanderMeuse, Wendy Harvey and Christi Marcks. 2. Displaying a shirt freshly stamped with her hand print, Brianna Juern of Green Bay made a pledge to be kind, and with it a donation to Project Give, a non-profit that helps organize and carry out charitable projects. 3. Cassie Tebo and her daughter Faith got to know Joy Reinhard and her daughter Aimee Bohm at the H.E.R. Women’s Event. 4. Gaye Plansky browses at one of several vendors on hand during the H.E.R. Women’s Event. 5. Sisters-in-law Gina Christenson and Becky Laser. 6. Lynn Geiser and her four year old daughter Rory made a floral head piece together at the event.
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