Answers to the “dog problem”. Fort Belknap Pet Care Week is coming to the Fort Belknap Tribes August 1, 2, 3. The week will be devoted to honoring “Utt” (Gros Ventre) and “Shunga” (Assiniboine) the traditional friend of the Gros Ventre and the Assiniboine people and will feature a free demonstration spay and neuter clinic for all residents of Fort Belknap and the surrounding areas. Stories about the long relationship on the plains between the Fort Belknap tribal people and bout pet care will be part of the week’s events during the clinics which will be held at the Bingo Hall at Fort Belknap Agency on Sunday August 1-2, and John Capture Center Hall in Hays on August 3, 1999.
Veterinarians and volunteers from as far away as Kentucky and Vermont, from Denver and Montana will bring their services to the tribes. Among them will be a co-founder of the National Spay and Neuter Coalition which promotes refining the science for improving techniques leading to safe, efficient, faster spay and neuter surgeries, especially high volume surgery. Volunteers from the Humane Society of the United States Billings offices, from the Flathead Spay/Neuter
Task Force, Kitty Keepers in have, and PAWS in Chinook will work side by side with volunteers from all areas of Fort Belknap. SPOT a project of the Montana Spay/Neuter Task Force offers help to Montana communities in solving their pet population problems. The goal is to create a community approach to solving the problems an individual area experiences when overwhelmed with homeless, unwanted pets.
To sign up pets for spay and neuter appointments and to volunteer to help, call Avis or Dan Kinsey at 353-3253 or Agnes at 353-3242, Carol at 353-3243. For the Hays, Lodge Pole areas you may call Janice Brockie at the John Capture Center at 673-3281.
We are asking for donations of old bedding or towels, linens, animal crates, apple boxes with covers, plastic liter bottles, (20 oz., 1 liter, 2 liter) these are used in lieu of hot water bottles. Anyone wishing to volunteer to help please call the above numbers to get your name on the list. This spay/neuter clinic is open to ALL RESIDENTS IN Fort Belknap and surrounding areas.
