75 Years of Trust
Since 1929, the residents of Newport County have placed their trust in The Potter League for Animals to offer unwanted, lost, and abused animals a safe haven, a place of comfort. Over time that trust grew to include teaching our children kindness toward animals, helping elderly and low-income families with pet care crises, offering dog training classes rooted in humane methods, and being the dependable animal resource center for our community.
Chances are you’ve been to the shelter—maybe to adopt a new pet or to volunteer to help care for our animals. Possibly an elderly relative benefited from a visit to their nursing home from a Potter Pet. Perhaps you came to us in a time of need—for pet loss grief counseling or to relinquish an animal that could no longer be cared for. Each year 20,000 visitors pass through our door and turn to the Potter League as a trusted partner.
Approximately 2,000 animals find shelter here at the Potter League annually. Some are in dire need of training, a few are dangerously aggressive, some are very old, and others are seriously ill or injured. Yet no companion animal from our service area is ever turned away. And our staff and volunteers are successful in finding homes for every adoptable animal in our care.
The shelter on Oliphant Lane, built nearly 30 years ago, was not designed for this wide variety of activities and the high volume of visitors. Built on the old fashioned “dog pound” model of the 1960s, we’ve stretched the resources of our shelter to the breaking point. And our animal housing—small steel cages crammed in an unventilated room for cats and damp, concrete and chain-link kennels for dogs—is way behind the best practices integrated in today’s modern animal welfare facilities.
For more than 75 years, the Potter League for Animals has been a trusted provider of care for animals. Now is the time to honor that trust with a new shelter.
The animals need your help. For more information about participating in the Honoring Their Trust capital campaign contact:
Christie Smith
or Pat Heller
Potter League for Animals
Telephone: 401-846-0592