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Deja loves attention!! hillsidespca 75 views Deja is a young 2 year old female Pit Bull terrier, who was recently taken on cruelty from an alleged rescue, where she was chained outside with a heavy tow chain. She is a...
For the Love of Pinkie! hillsidespca 918 views Poor Pinkie has spent the last 2 years of her life at a shelter. She came in with severe mange, and was only about 8 months old. She is now still waiting for a home and ne...
Sweet Senior Beagles Need Homes!! hillsidespca 272 views These sweetie pie Beagles need homes from the Hillside SPCA, Pottsville PA. 4 adorable Beagles that have been at the shelter for months!!! For more information please co...
Hamsters Needing Homes! hillsidespca 1,299 views UPDATE - All the hamsters have been placed in new homes! For more available hamsters or any other pet, check out www.petfinder.com ! These Syrian hamster babies are bein...
Stormy Needs A Home Again!!! hillsidespca 3,194 views Update!!!! Poor Stormy is back at the shelter, her owner passed away. We are heart broken, she sat at her owner's side for 2 whole days waiting for him to wake up, and nev...
Lucy's Birthday hillsidespca 1,370 views Lucy and Blackie are home! Lucy waited 6 and a half years at the shelter, and now she's finally living in a home! And she is absolutely adored, there's no doubt about that....
National Homeless Animals' Day hillsidespca 462 views Hillside SPCA held a candlelight vigil to commemorate National Homeless Animals' Day, to remember all the homeless animals that don't make it in shelters.
Cat Crisis! Hillside SPCA hillsidespca 783 views We are in the middle of a cat crisis, and we need help immediately. Please help us out. We are an animal shelter in Pottsville, Pennsylvania, you can go to myspace.com/hil...
Candie the Pit Bull hillsidespca 1,151 views Candie the Pit Bull, at Hillside SPCA
Emmitt - Male Beagle hillsidespca 1,124 views Emmitt is available at Hillside SPCA, Pottsville, PA. For more info, email maureen0789@yahoo.com . UPDATE! Emmitt has been adopted!

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Hillside SPCA is a no-kill animal shelter located in Pottsville, PA. We are always packed with animals waiting for adoption, and right now have about 100 dogs and 250 cats. We are not limited to them though, and have had guinea pigs, rabbits, hamsters, fish, horses, goats, chickens, and more.

Hillside is unlike most other SPCAs in that our dogs are treated more like our own pets rather than just a homeless, forgotten animal. They get to run together all day, and everyone goes in their kennel or condo at night. They get lots of toys to play with and tons of treats to snack on. They get 2 meals a day with wet and dry food.

And most importantly, no one ever has to worry about being euthanized simply for being there 'too long'. The only time an animal is put to sleep is when they are too sick or injured to be treated, or they are too aggressive to be rehabilitated. Those that don't get adopted will eventually go home with one of our workers. Some residents have stayed at Hillside for over 10 years, and those ones that don't make it are never forgotten.

Every dog gets their shots and deworming when they enter our shelter, and we try to get as many spayed and neutered before adoption. We will get an animal whatever veterinary care they need, even when our finances are stretched as tight as can be. In the months of July and August 2007, we had 3 dogs needing leg amputations after being found as strays that were hit by cars, and 2 needing emergency surgery for pyometra (an infected uterus). When an animal gets sick or injured they also need medication.

All these things add to our rising bills, but Hillside runs completely on donations. We get no money from the state for any of our services. We rely entirely on our amazing and generous donators, without whom we would not be able to exist! It is a constant struggle, and we all work very hard to raise more money for the shelter with fundraisers, yard sales, and more.

What we need most, and which we hope these videos may help, is adoptions. We had to stop taking animals from out of our county because we are just too full, but that doesn't stop people calling from as far away as New York because we are the closest no-kill shelter they can find. Although we try our hardest to give each animal the life it deserves, we are faced every day with the fear that, 'if we get one more dog in today, we might have to put someone to sleep to make room'. But we manage to shuffle the dogs around and make room somehow. And at the end of the day, we all go home and cry.

Please do not buy from a breeder or pet store. Adopt from your local animal shelter, and spay or neuter your pets! For every puppy or kitten born, another dies to make room. And for every human that is born, 7 puppies and kittens are born. There's obviously not enough homes for them all, which is why 7 to 10 million animals are killed in shelters every year in the US. The ones that make it to Hillside are lucky. Please don't breed or buy while shelter animals die!

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