Wednesday, February 1, 2017 The Nugget Newspaper, Sisters, Oregon
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Dogs rescued from meat
trade arrive in So. Oregon
By Ryan Pfeil
Mail Tfibune
MEDFORD (AP) — The
new digs for eight dogs that
arrived at the Southern Oregon
Humane Society last weekend
include amenities the pooches
never have had before.
“They’ve never had beds
before. Their entire life,” says
Kailani Miranda, SoHumane
animal behavior supervi-
sor. “Never had blankets or
anything.”
The quality of life for
canines Maverick, Renata,
H u go, Klaus , B a s hful,
Tommy, Darby and Petunia
certainly has improved. They
were recently rescued from
the dog meat trade thriving in
several Asian countries such
as China, South Korea and
Vietnam, according to the
Animal Welfare Institute.
The AWI estimates mil-
lions of dogs are killed for
food annually, typically kept
in poor, unhygienic living
conditions such as “cramped
rusty, cages stacked on top
of each other” as they wait,
the website says. Many of the
animals die from dehydra-
tion, disease, broken bones or
suffocation.
The Thailand-based Soi
Dog Foundation, which part-
nered with SoHumane for the
rescue, has a primary mission
of capturing stray dogs, then
sterilizing and vaccinating
them before release, a method
of controlling overpopulation.
But the organization also
operates a shelter and animal
hospital, which takes in ani-
mals that have been abused or
are unable to survive on their
own because of age or illness.
“They rehabilitate the dogs,
bring them to their facility, get
them ready to be adopted and
then they adopt them out all
over Canada and the United
States,” SoHumane director
Karen Evans says.
SoHumane got involved
with the rescue at its annual
Toast for Tails fundraiser
event, where Ashland resi-
dents Jeff Rinkoff and Janis
Rosenthal donated the airfare
portion of a travel package
that brought in $7,550 for the
organization. The winning
bidder, Las Vegas resident
Heather Heath, was able to
travel to Thailand, where the
Soi Dog Foundation is based.
Heath picked up and “chap-
eroned” the dogs back to the
San Francisco airport, where
SoHumane officials waited
to greet the dogs and trans-
port them back to the Rogue
Valley. They arrived Saturday.
“That was really exciting,”
Miranda says. “They spent
way too long in those crates.
The flight got canceled, and
they had to stay an extra night,
so to get them and get them
safe and comfortable, it felt
really good to be able to get
them off the plane.”
Rosenthal got involved
in doing her part to fight the
dog meat trade after seeing a
TV news story with graphic
images of dogs being weighed
before they were sent to
slaughter.
“I felt like the blood
drained out of me. It was the
most horrific thing I have ever
seen,” Rosenthal said.
Miranda said the animals
are doing well. Some, like
Maverick and Klaus, are more
shy, while others, like Renata
and Hugo, come right up to
their cages, noses twitching
and tongues lolling greedily
for kisses.
SoHumane’s Saving
Train program has rescued
dogs from high-kill shelters
in California and Hawaii. In
effect since 2006, the program
has saved 7,590 dogs. But this
is the first time it has received
animals from Thailand.
PHOTO BY SUE STAFFORD
OSU professor Dr. Gregg Walker provided instruction and practice using skills in constructive confrontation for
the C4C skill-building forum.
DISCOURSE:pAttendees
learned about
responding to conflict
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(passive-aggressive); and
proactive.
Two guiding principles
when addressing conflict
are situation improvement
(reframing problem-solving)
and firm flexibility. Walker
also shared his principles of
FAAITH: fairness; access;
accountability; information;
inclusion; transparency; and
honesty.
“We respond to conflicts
by confronting, accommodat-
ing, or avoiding. Both accom-
modation and avoidance are
passive. Confrontation can be
aggressive and competitive,
or assertive and collaborative.
The latter approach is gener-
ally the most constructive,”
Walker told the audience.
Both of Walker’s presen-
tations were filled with perti-
nent information and valuable
skills to be employed when
engaging in constructive
confrontation. Attendance
was more than 50 people
on Wednesday evening and
approximately 30 for the
Thursday-morning workshop.
The
role-playing
Wednesday night involved
a real estate agent and the
owner of the brokerage, with
participants pairing up to
address a set of issues causing
conflict between the two.
Thursday morning, 12
participants acted as a com-
munity board meeting for the
first time to discuss the estab-
lishment of their mission
statement regarding a large
donation of land to the city.
After both role-plays, the
participants discussed what
the conflicts were, what
worked and what didn’t, and
how utilizing the constructive
skills presented by Walker
worked to bring about posi-
tive results.
The general consensus of
those who attended the work-
shops was that Walker’s pre-
sentations were informative,
helpful, and fun.
The next C4C quarterly
free skill-building forum will
be held at the end of April
at the Sisters Fire Station
Community Hall.
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