1. ~~ “From the Heart” Spay-Ghetti Dinner
and $10,000 Total Raffle~~
Gallup-McKinley County
Humane Society Newsletter
SUMMER 2013
1315 B Hamilton Road off Hwy 491 - P O Box 550
Gallup, New Mexico 87305-0550 Ph. 505-863-2616
What a wonderful time we had at the “From the Heart”
Spay-Ghetti Dinner and Raffle held in February. It is said that
when you give—-you get back! Our big winner of the raffle
was John Killgore taking home $7000. Second place went to
Barry Butler and third place was Javier Marquez. All three of
these men have given generously to the Humane Society and
to our community! Congratulations to all our winners; especially
the animals! After all our expenses, we made just short of
$22,000 from the event. THANK YOU to everyone who pur-
chased tickets, attended the event, and supported our Humane
Society and the animals!
The cost of keeping animals off death row doesn’t come
cheap. The expense of vaccinating, deworming, flea and tick
control, and daily care while awaiting a new home, costs
around $280 per animal. We took in over 5,000 animals last
year. All around us, there are so many lives to be saved.
One transfer trip, to-and-from Denver, Colorado costs
around $600. Our old transport van blew the engine and we
were able to purchase a used
replacement van for $3500.
The rest of the funds will go
to saving as many animal
lives as possible.
All of these statistics
give credence to our need for
fund-raisers and the need for
support from our community.
We send out our special
thanks to everyone who
worked the event and those
who made spaghetti sauce. Also, Crystal Masingale did beau-
tiful work in transforming the Elks Lodge.
Thanks to Crystal and Felicia Hudgeons, also, for cooking
spaghetti, and to Steve Seeger for washing up many pots and
pans! Thanks to Ralph Richards of Earl’s Restaurant for cook-
ing chicken and letting us use
equipment.
Also, we thank Lennie
Hammitt and her niece, Char
Suina and Sheila Matt for
helping in the kitchen.
This event marked a
milestone for us, as we sold
600 tickets for the raffle. We
have never sold that many
tickets in the past.
Thank you Gallup and all
our friends for supporting the
animals and our efforts, and
for recognizing that the ani-
mals need our love!
After numerous years of people asking for a dog park,
our dream came true! We are so grateful to Mayor Jackie
McKinney and the City of Gallup for honoring the request of
the dog lovers in our community. This would never have hap-
pened without the huge donations made by the following peo-
ple:
 John and Michelle Kilgore – Land
 DePauli Engineering (Marc DePauli) – Design/plan/stake
 Bubany Lumber (John and Judy Kozeliski) – Fencing
 Rick Murphy Builders – Installation of Fence
 George and Joyce Kozeliski – Rules Sign
 Vernon Hamilton Construction – 300 tons of gravel plus
discount on another 300 tons
 Hinkley Signs –discount on Entry Sign
 Nikki Seay – Access easement
 City of Gallup Crews - construction and maintenance.
The people traveling through Gallup are also very grate-
ful for the park. We have had many out-of-towners bring their
dogs to the park for a break from traveling.
The Humane Society purchased 44 trees, and under the
direction of Eric Esparza, Humane Society staff and volun-
teers planted all the trees in one day! As a fundraiser to ben-
efit the homeless animals in our shelter, we are offering an
opportunity for you to purchase a tree “in memory of” or “in
honor of” a loved one, a pet, or to just purchase one to recog-
nize your family or business.
The price will include an engraved plaque or stone to
be placed at the tree of your choice.
The Price varies with the size and type of tree:
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~~The Beautiful Gallup Dog Park~~
Dr. Clint Balok along with Eric Esparza and
Lettie Munozscano in front of a beautiful pine
planted at the park entrance.
Bosco, an abused shar pei.
Seri had been kicked in
the stomach creating this
seroma. Seri is now
healed and adopted!!

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10 Austrian Pines @ $108 each
2 Purple Robe Locusts @ $90 each
3 small Weeping Willows @ $40 each
1 large Weeping Willow @ $230 each
4 Sunburst Locusts @ 240.00 each
4 large Bradford Pears @ $400.00 each
20 5 gallon Locusts @ $90
We will also be selling Stepping Stones, Benches and Ta-
bles for the park; prices are currently being gathered.
We wish to thank Eric Esparza and his group of students
and all the volunteers who participated in the tree planting. You
all made a huge project possible!
We would like to add wood chips to use as ground cover to
help with the mud problem. If anyone has ideas for obtaining
wood chips, please contact Cosy or Sandra at the Humane Soci-
ety at 863-2616.
to lack of space, because of the partnership with Rescue
Waggin’®.
It takes a lot of time and money to prepare each pup
to go on the Rescue Waggin’®. They must be perfectly
healthy to make the trip. They have to be at least nine
weeks old with two sets of vaccinations, dewormed and
socialized. Three pages of paperwork per puppy is typed
up by Sandra McKinney and Betsy Vigil, then photos are
taken of each dog and submitted to Boulder Humane. The
entire staff at the Humane Society work attentively to keep
these pups healthy and happy while they await their trip.
In order to accomplish this one to two month process,
we try to get as many pups into foster care as possible. Our
foster families are heroes. Kris Gruda, along with her dedi-
cated husband Steve and their children, Paige and Ryan,
have fostered nearly 100 dogs. They take in one, two or
three litters at a time for a month or two, and faithfully care
for them. If they get sick Kris doctors them, if they cry the
kids hold them, if they are cold Steve heats their dog house.
And then the reward, at 4:00am every time a transport is
scheduled, sometimes in below freezing temperatures, this
entire family helps load up their foster pups along with the
foster pups of Dr. Oscar and Theresa Paloma, Vicky and
Arthur Poole, Sheryl McClure and her daughter Chentel,
Marty Orr and Sabor Biggs, Desirae Esquibel, Blair and
Nate Robinson, Gabi and Jeremy Boucher, Billy Harrison,
Latasha Baker, Judy Sweeney and family, Gloria Padilla
and family, Marissa Kim, and the Moore boys. Misty Tolson
and Cosy Balok are at the shelter even earlier to walk the
dogs before the loading begins aboard the beautiful Res-
cue Waggin’® van; sometimes as many as 50 puppies at a
time! Tears of joy and sadness flow each and every time.
It is a huge success story for us and for all the volun-
teers that work so hard to save these helpless lives. Our
thanks is little wet puppy kisses!
Thanks to all of you in our community who have sup-
ported the Humane Society in some way. You too have
helped save lives and have helped ease the pain of so
many sweet creatures.
Bear got old. Bear’s family didn’t want an old dog
that just laid around. How can one give up a family
member??? But that is just what happened to this old
boy. Bear lived in the Humane Society lobby for about
six weeks, keeping the staff company. Then one day
the drivers for Rescue Waggin’® came to pick up pup-
pies and Patty Henderson from Boulder, Colorado saw
Bear and fell in love with the old guy and adopted him.
Bear is going to have a loving forever home now in
Boulder, where he
can live out his days.
Thank you Patty
for recognizing that
there is still a lot of life
in this old boy! Bear
has worth as a com-
panion! We are going
to miss the old guy!!
When you look to
adopt, please remem-
ber that older pets
need love too!
~~LIVES SAVED~~
Established 24 years ago, the Humane Society has adopt-
ed out 32,000 animals from our little shelter. Each of these ani-
mals were spayed/neutered and vaccinated and placed into lov-
ing homes. Many of them were transported to other facilities in
Colorado and Arizona via horse trailer, truck, and airplane. The
animals were transported by volunteers who knew the animals
lives depended on taking them to areas that didn’t have the pet
over-population that we have.
The success of saving this many animals is due to some
very dedicated people in our community. Some of these com-
munity members have donated financially by faithfully participat-
ing in our annual fundraisers of dances and our $10,000 raffle.
Some have sent in their annual donation for 24 years. Many
honor their departed loved ones and beloved pets by making
donations to help care for these abandoned and abused lives.
People like Martha Khoury, a former Gallup resident now living
in La Jolla, CA, has donated much needed supplies. Many folks
donate newspapers on a regular basis. Many of our youth, with
the help of caring teachers, have created fundraisers and art
projects to benefit the animals. Students and adults come in
weekly to bathe and socialize the animals. A teacher from Gal-
lup High, Cynthia Hull, donates her entire Saturday each week
to walk every dog in our facility. Most of them are leash-trained
because of this wonderful act of kindness. The dogs so look
forward to their walks. Cynthia is happy because it keeps her in
shape while helping the animals and she doesn’t have to pay a
gym fee. If only the dogs could be walked daily.
In 2012 we adopted out 1200 animals. Sena Fitzpatrick
volunteered to take 92 animals (mostly adults) to adopt-a-thons
in Albuquerque and was able to find homes for all of them. Vol-
unteer Angela Cerci, worked diligently for hours networking to
make arrangements for 75 animals (mostly adults) to go to dif-
ferent shelters throughout Colorado. She arranged donations
from numerous people to pay for the trips to transport these ani-
mals which cost around $600 per trip.
Kris Gruda works hard at networking. Our facility has ar-
ranged transfers for almost 500 dogs and cats to go to wonder-
ful homes in Arizona, Colorado and other parts of New Mexico
so far this year.
In February of 2012 we were accepted into a partnership
with the PetSmart Rescue Waggin’® and in just 17 months,
677 animals have been transferred to Boulder, Colorado where
this awesome program guarantees adoption and a loving home.
We have not had to euthanize any puppies this year due
~~BEAR’S HAPPY TALE~~
Patty Henderson and Bear

3. What a blessing Martha Khoury is to our shelter! A
former Gallup resident, Martha now resides in LaJolla, CA.
But Martha has not forgotten her hometown of Gallup! So
many times, she has sent us office supplies, cleaning sup-
plies, food bowls, water buckets, candles, dog toys, hair dry-
ers, puppy formula, cameras for our officers, and even a
desk. It is like Christmas when the UPS man delivers all the
boxes! She has
also sponsored the
adoption of many of
our ‘residents’, mak-
ing sure the dogs
and cats get a good
home!
Martha even
treated our entire
staff to a lovely New
Years luncheon at
Don Diego’s.
We know
some of Martha’s
friends who live
here in Gallup and
they all tell us
“Martha is an ANGEL”! We certainly agree!!
Thank you Martha for all you do for our
shelter!!!!
Imagine losing your blind and deaf senior pet that had
been with you for many years. Well, that is exactly what
happened to George and Anne Galanis. During the terrible
wind storms, their fence was blown down and their little old
schnauzer wandered out of their yard. They searched all
night for her to no avail.
A concerned citizen saw this little old dog wandering
down busy Route 66 at night and picked her up and took her
home with the plan to take her to the Humane Society the
following day.
The next morning George and Anne came to the Hu-
mane Society looking for their little old dog. Tired and sad,
yet hopeful, they searched each kennel without any luck.
While George and Anne were searching the kennels in
the back, in came the concerned citizen through the front
door carrying a confused old schnauzer. “We found this
poor old dog wandering down Route 66 last night”. As
George and Ann came to the front of the facility, they saw
their precious old schnauzer in the arms of strangers and
the tears started to flow from everyone’s eyes, including all
our staff! When this little old blind and deaf dog smelled her
owners, she wiggled and whimpered with JOY!
This is why we encourage people to bring the animals
they find to the shelter. Had this concerned citizen not
brought in the lost old dog, the Galanis family would never
have experienced this happy ending.
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~~THANK YOU MARTHA KHOURY~~
This is Oreo helping us open one
of the many gift boxes sent by
Martha Khoury. Oreo and the
other dogs love the toys!!!!
~~HAPPILY REUNITED~~
~TASTE OF GALLUP—VOL. II~
After using 547 recipes in the first Taste of Gallup
cookbook, we still were not able to print all of the recipes
people wanted to share. It was such a huge success, we
are ready to start on Volume II and we need your help to
make the second edition just as great a success as the
first!
Please share with us your favorite recipes, cooking
tips and even home remedies, by e-mailing your contri-
butions to GMCHumaneSociety@gmail.com or you can
send recipes by postal mail to Humane Society, PO Box
550, Gallup, NM 87305, attention Sandra or Betsy. Start
sharing immediately!!
Some of the old-time recipes are difficult to under-
stand without some visual help, so we are going to do a
video tape of Luby Grenko making her famous Povatica,
Casey Balok-Gay making her delicious Baklava, along
with several other notable cooks. When the cookbook is
completed and we begin our sales, the FIRST 50 books
sold will receive a free DVD of the cooks in action! After
the first 50, the DVD’s will be available while supply lasts
for $5 along with the $25 cookbook.
Preparing this recipe book is a labor of love and is a
time-consuming process, so be patient and share your
recipes with us and you will see the results soon!!!
Right now it is just
a yellow bus. We re-
moved the word
SCHOOL so as not to
confuse the issue. The
seats have been re-
moved and permanent
crates installed so we
can use the bus to
transport animals. We
hope to get assistance
from the UNM-Gallup auto body class or from a high
school class to have the bus painted.
Wouldn’t it be fun to have animal graphics painted
on the bus, too?! We would like to put out a call to
local artists who would be willing to volunteer their time
to add some whimsical characters to our bus after it has
new body paint. Please contact us at the Humane Soci-
ety if you are interested in painting our bus!
We are tremen-
dously grateful to Ri-
co Auto Complex for
their help in obtaining
this bus. Thank you
Marty and Mickey
Menapace for this
wonderful contribu-
tion to our shelter!!
THANK YOU RICO AUTO COMPLEX

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Our condolences and blessings to those who
have lost a loved one or a precious pet.
We thank you for remembering the
Humane Society at such a time of sorrow.
IN MEMORY OF JAMES PARISH
Dick & Virginia White
IN MEMORY OF CHARLENE CRESTO ESPARZA
Dick & Virginia White
IN MEMORY OF H. V. DENNERLIEN
Joe & Margaret Bolf
IN MEMORY OF JOE MESICH, SR.
Joe & Margaret Bolf
IN MEMORY OF KEN HOLLOWAY
Pat Holloway & Terry Currier
IN MEMORY OF KATHY & GALEN BOWLES
Lisa Bowles
IN MEMORY OF DIXIE TANNER
Dick & Virginia White
IN MEMORY OF PAUL DAVIS
Dick & Virginia White
IN MEMORY OF RALPH JORDON
Dick & Virginia White
IN MEMORY OF IDA SANCHEZ
Ruth M. Gonzales Baca
Sandra Garcia
Josephine Yurcic
Belle & Dennis Baretinicich
IN MEMORY OF MARY JANE ASHCROFT
Josephine Yurcic
Dick & Virginia White
IN MEMORY OF ROGER BIGGS, JR.
LiVon Bagh
Dr. Oscar Paloma
Sandra & Jackie McKinney
IN MEMORY OF BOB DUNCAN
Josephine Yurcic
IN MEMORY OF MARK JOHNSON
Josephine Yurcic
IN MEMORY OF DARBY SILVA
Bill & Barbara Rucker
IN MEMORY OF LOUIS BORTOT
Joyce & David Lebeck
~~MEMORIALS AND RECOGNITION~~ IN MEMORY OF JIM McAVOY
Dick & Virginia White
IN MEMORY OF JOHN BARRAZA
Dick & Virginia White
IN MEMORY OF KAYE GRUDA
Sandra & Jackie McKinney
Julie Ramirez
Gallup Lumber Family
Randy Wells & Michelle Kulish
Nancy J. McDevitt
Pinnacle Bank
Ann Doucette
IN MEMORY OF JUDGE LOUIS DePAULI
David & Joyce Lebeck
IN MEMORY OF MRS. CARRIE WINFIELD
John & Theresa Dowling
IN MEMORY OF TOMAS HENIO
Judith Rapping
IN MEMORY OF BOB SIEBERSMA
Thunderbird Jewelry Supply
Dr. & Mrs. Philip Kamps
Jeanne Kamps
Rosemary Trimmingham
The Bell Group
Ruth Ann Monroe
Rosanne & Jerold Power
Gallup Lumber Family
Mr. & Mrs. Dan Dible
Jeannie Fuhs
IN MEMORY OF STEVE TOMLJANOVICH
Josephine Yurcic
IN MEMORY OF JOHN JEKIELEK
Josephine Yurcic
Bill & Betty Armstrong
Sandra & Jackie McKinney
IN MEMORY OF TED BENDER
Betty Chapman
IN MEMORY OF JUANITA KEZELE MITCHELL
Dan and Mary Ellen Marrello
In Memory of TAFFY
Madeline Jennings
In Honor of BLACK DOG
Advanced Technical Services
In Honor of MANGO, KIWI & PEACHES
Patricia Sheely
IN MEMORY OF DANO GRAVES
Paul & Joyce Graves

5. Page 5 Gallup McKinley County Humane Society Newsletter
It has been a long time coming, but the Humane Society is finally entering the 21st Century! Gone are our ledger
books which were totally hand-written! Gone are the index cards we must use to mark each animal’s kennel. Gone are
the hand-written receipts! Life is getting streamlined at the Humane Society and Metro Animal Control!!
Thru special funding from the City of Gallup, we have been able to purchase computers and a computer program
“ShelterPro” specifically designed for shelter and animal control tracking. Our officers now have lapel cameras to film dan-
gerous situations plus new communication radios with longer
range (we no longer have to share a frequency with the Solid
Waste department!) We also have new telephones that tie us
directly into the City Offices. The City Electrical Department up-
graded outlets and wiring for us, too.
And for the animal’s listening pleasure, we now have music
throughout the facility. At night we can turn on classical music
which is best for soothing the animals to sleep. During the day
we can play light music to sooth us while we work!
What a joy to be up-grading our work-world. We send out
our huge thanks to the Mayor and City Council for their approval
of the funding, and to all the City staff who have helped make
this happen: Rick Snider, Joe Eckert and Suzanne Begaye, your
tireless work is greatly appreciated! THANK YOU!!!
~~ENTERING THE 21st CENTURY~~
What a difference love has made for this sweet momma dog! She does not look
like the same dog! Lilly was rescued from the streets of Gallup. It was obvious that she
had been used simply for breeding. Her shoul-
ders were hunched from being confined in a small
cage designed only for breeding plus her teeth
had been ground down to almost nothing to stop
her from biting the male dogs. She was skinny to
the point of starvation, her ribs and spine ex-
posed. She also had infected teats from so many
litters and no veterinarian care. She had sores
on her body and was totally deaf. Poor Lilly was
simply down-trodden and very close to death’s
door! Enter networking to find a rescue shelter.
Happily, she is now rather full-figured,
living in a loving home in Colorado. Lilly originally
went to Pam to be fostered with plans to place
her in a different forever home. But Pam is what
we call a “Failed Foster” as she fell in love with
Lilly and decided to adopt her and not send her
on to another home.
We extend our gratitude to Evergreen
Animal Protective League for help with this sweet dog. We also send our gratitude to
Angela Cerci for her work in getting Lilly transferred to Colorado so that she could find
love and a forever home! And thank you Pam for giving Lilly that loving home!
Serving Gallup and the
surrounding area since 1919.
220 S. Fifth St
Gallup, New Mexico 87301
What better way to
make a weekend get-
away than to load up the
dog and the camping
gear in a GMC Denali
truck?
See us today and
we will place you in the
driver’s seat of a new
2013 truck!!
~~A VERY HAPPY TALE~~

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Discount Spay-Neuter Clinics
( low-income )
Every Wednesday: 505-863-2616
Pick up an application at the Humane Society Shelter and
make an appointment to have your pet spayed or neutered.
TheGallupMcKinleyCounty
HumaneSociety
P.O.Box550
Gallup,NM87305-0550
U.S.POSTAGEPAID
PERMIT#631
NON-PROFITORGANIZATION
GALLUP,NEWMEXICO
~~SUCCESSFUL ADOPTION STATISTICS~~
For the year 2012, we took in a total of 5,874 animals, of which we were able to find homes for 1,140 of
those animals, and we transferred 603 animals to other facilities . For 151 fortunate animals, they were joy-
ously returned to their families! We had 45 critters that were released back into the wild; this includes feral
cats, skunks, foxes, birds and even a snake! Our officers had the very difficult job of picking up 156 animals
that were dead on our streets and highways and we put 11 animals on rabies watch.
But for the very sad and difficult part of our job, we unfortunately had to euthanize 1,208 animals that
were unadoptable because of injuries or illness, and yet another 1,668 animals were euthanized simply be-
cause we could not find homes for them.
Yes, those adoption statistics are wonderful, but the other stats wrench our hearts daily. We would not
have these sad statistics if only we humans would do our job to have our pets spayed or neutered. We offer a
discount spay and neuter clinic each Wednesday. Please be a RESPONSIBLE HUMAN and schedule your
pet to be sterilized so that they do not contribute to the sad part our job every day.
Carrying a full line of Pet Supplies:
Dog Food, Snacks, Pet Doors, Collars, Leashes,
Cable, Chain, Dog Houses, Kennels,
Cat Food, Flea & Tick Collars, Cat Litter, Scoops,
Bird Seed, Suet Treats, Feeders,
Corrals, Gates and Panels, Fencing, Stock Tanks.