December 2022
We hope you all enjoyed a happy, healthy Thanksgiving and are looking forward to the holiday season! One fun way to kick-off the holiday season is to participate in our 3rd Annual Holiday Basket Raffle going on now through December 9. Click here to view our baskets, generously donated by our board members and friends. You can purchase entries until midnight on Friday, December 9, and the winners will be announced on Monday, December 12. Good luck, and thank you! |
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SB 164 ASSIGNED TO HOUSE COMMITTEE; GETS FIRST HEARING
SB 164 seeks to designate the most egregious felony and first-degree misdemeanor animal cruelty offenses as “violent offenses" and ban the use of gas chambers to euthanize domestic animals. |
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Click here to read SB 164
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On November 29, OAWF Board President Sharon Harvey from the Cleveland Animal Protective League and Past-president Lori Carlson from the Licking County Humane Society joined Senator Jay Hottinger and other friends to provide proponent testimony in the House Agriculture and Conservation Committee on SB 164, a bill that seeks to strengthen Ohio law on the most egregious forms of animal cruelty and ban the antiquated use of the gas chamber to euthanize domestic animals. We are hopeful that this bill, which passed the Senate unanimously in June, will pass the House during this short legislative session.
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Member Benefit: If members would like to receive legislative updates as they happen, please email ohiofedhs@gmail.com and ask to be added to the list for advocacy alerts. |
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2023 WEBINAR BUNDLE
Now through January 31, 2023, Ohio Fed member organizations can purchase a Webinar Bundle for $200 to cover unlimited webinar registrations for your organization in 2023 (certain exclusions apply). BONUS: Webinar Bundle also includes unlimited access to all recorded webinars in our online library (unless a speaker requests not to be recorded). |
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We plan to once again offer 10-12 webinars in 2023 on a wide range of topics. If your organization frequently supports our educational webinars, a Webinar Bundle can save your organization money; enable you to offer training to more of your staff and volunteers; and drastically cut down on time spent requesting or processing registration fee payments.
Member Benefit: The Webinar Bundle is only available to current Ohio Fed members. |
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NEWS FROM AROUND THE FED
- Congratulations to OAWF Board Member Katelyn Lehman of the Wayne County Dog Shelter and Adoption Center on earning her Certified Animal Welfare Administrator (CAWA) designation from The Association for Animal Welfare Advancement! CAWAs are an elite group of professionals committed to excellence in the management and operation of local animal welfare and control organizations. Way to go, Katelyn!!
- Congratulations to the 16 people representing 14 Ohio counties who passed our Humane Society Agent Training in October. Thank you for stepping up to protect the animals of our state in this way. We commend and appreciate you!!
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Do you have news to share? Click here to submit your news for the next issue.
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DO YOU KNOW A NON-MEMBER? WE BET YOU DO!
To be truly effective in our mission, we need members from across the state. Today, we have members in 54 of Ohio’s 88 counties, and we are focused on recruiting members from counties that aren’t currently active in the federation.
Do us a favor? Review our membership list. If you interact with a shelter or other animal welfare-related organization in a county that’s NOT on the list, please encourage them to join Ohio Fed. Now through the end of the year they can sign up for a 3-month free trial to check us out with no strings attached!
Click here for a list of all organizational members. |
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Coming in January: All you need to know about search warrants. Dana Pannella with the law firm of Holland & Muirden is working on two webinars for us next month: one on the 26th for law enforcement that will focus on the procedural side of search warrants, and one on the 19th for anyone who has ever heard someone say, "Why can't you just go get that dog?!?!" (Details and registration coming soon.)
Member Benefit: Ohio Fed members receive discounted registration fees on all of our educational programs. |
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THANK YOU!|
We wish to thank Petco Love for their continued sponsorship of our webinar program!
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SPREAD YOUR KNOWLEDGE
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Help your animal welfare peers by sharing your tips, advice or experience with a program or initiative. To get started, just send us an email with a brief description of the topic and we’ll get back to you.
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