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Dog owners enjoyed sharing a meal with their wet-nosed fuzzy friends at Paws on the Veranda Sunday morning at Cafe at Adele's in Carson City. This annual fundraiser is a Sunday breakfast and lunch event at Adele's where dog owners and their dogs can enjoy each others company to benefit the Carson Tahoe SPCA.

Dog owners enjoyed sharing a meal with their wet-nosed fuzzy friends at Paws on the Veranda Sunday morning at Cafe at Adele's in Carson City. This annual fundraiser is a Sunday breakfast and lunch event at Adele's where dog owners and their dogs can enjoy each others company to benefit the Carson Tahoe SPCA.

Citizens of Carson City please help us in removing all goat heads (aka puncture vine) from our fair city. Five of us removed 8 bags in only one hour along the Linear Ditch Trail on Thursday.

The spiky seedpods injure dog and cats paws, and cause flats in bicycle tires. The best way to get rid of it is by removing the plants before they produce seeds. That is what it is doing right now.

A 51-year-old Carson City man was arrested Saturday at a La Miranda Street residence on a felony charge of domestic battery with strangulation, a Carson City sheriff's deputy said.

Fourth of July celebrations abound in the Carson City area. Fireworks can be found in Carson City, Reno, Sparks, and at both north and south shore of Lake Tahoe. There are several daytime events going on as well, so grab the kids, friends, and family and have a great Independence Day weekend!

Friday, July 3:
July Third Fireworks and Beach Party at the North Tahoe Events Center on Kings Beach, North Lake Tahoe (4pm-10pm, free; vendors, contests, games, music and more; Fireworks 9:30pm; FRIDAY)

Saturday, July 4:

Carson City:

Presented by Petco Foundation, Nevada Humane Society’s Duck Race and Festival is swimming back for a 6th year with a goal to adopt 30,000 rubber ducks to benefit homeless pets. The community is encouraged to adopt a rubber duck now then spend a fun-filled day in the park to cheer on their duck as they race down the Truckee River. The grand prize is a 2015 Toyota Corolla generously donated by Dick Campagni’s Carson City Toyota Scion.

The shameless behavior of the "Republicans" in the recently concluded 78th session of the Nevada Legislature -- their vote for the biggest tax and budget hike in the State's history being first and foremost among their record of mis- and nonfeasance -- and the angry reaction to it by the State Party and the loyal Republican rank-and-file, raise an important question.

What is a Republican? What does it mean to be a Republican? If the RINOs and conservatives are both "Republicans," then the term badly needs to be defined.

The Beagle Bill or “Calvin’s Law” and also known as SB 261, was signed into law Tuesday in Carson City by Nevada Gov. Brian Sandoval. The legislation requires dogs and cats from research facilities to be made available for adoption. It was authored by State Sen. Mark Manendo, in honor of Calvin, a beagle that was rescued from a research facility in California, rehabilitated and placed in a caring home.

The Nevada Department of Agriculture says it has tested positive for the first laboratory-confirmed rabid bat found in Washoe County. Bat rabies is endemic throughout Nevada. The agency's Animal Disease Laboratory notes that between six and 20 bats annually test positive for rabies, usually between the months of May and October. However, in recent years positive bats have been confirmed as early as February.

Vicky of Carson City took out her trash last Saturday night and returned with a box of dirty, cold, scared, and hungry kittens. Alerted by tiny meows of distress, she found four tiny kitties stuffed inside an old box next to her apartment dumpster. Although she had never owned a cat, she has a kind heart. So Vicky took them home, fed and cared for them as best as she could, then contacted Catmandu.

Two pitchers who are being counted on to deliver postseason victories locked up in a pitchers' duel on Friday at Edmonds Sports Complex in Carson City.

Just remind yourself that these April showers bring May flowers, and the balmy spring weather is returning in just a few days. This weekend has indoor and outdoor activities aplenty, so you can choose the degree of wind and rain you want to deal with.

With April 15 looming on the horizon, Nevada Humane Society is offering you the perfect Tax Day Tax Break — a companion of the four-legged kind.

During the month of April, Nevada Humane Society will offer no-cost spay and neuter surgeries, plus free rabies vaccinations in Carson City and Washoe County as part of Community Cat, PetSmart Charities’ spay/neuter campaign to alter free-roaming cats.

If left unaltered, unowned feral and stray cats produce large quantities of unwanted kittens each spring, flooding local animal shelters and leading to higher euthanasia rates.

Do you care deeply about animals? Would you like to make a difference in the lives of cats and kittens in need? Please lend a paw and respond to the call of service. We need you and the kitties and cats need you. Morning cleaning duties, office help, cat transport and many other opportunities available. Please call (775) 297-3419.
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If you have the kind of luck that brings rain as soon as you wash your car, please drive over to Squeaky’s Car Wash at the corner of Highway 50 E and Lompa Lane. It’s their opening weekend and they are offering free car washes and raising funds for the Carson City Community Counseling Center.

If you consider yourself adventurous, then the Rocky Mountain Oyster Fry in Virginia City is for you. It’s not nicknamed the Testicle Festival for nothing! If you need some liquid courage, take part in the Ball Breaker Saloon Crawl. The annual St. Patrick’s Day Parade heads down C Street at noon.

Final-inning comebacks don't ever get old, even for 10th-year Western Nevada College coach D.J. Whittemore.
Even after College of Southern Idaho decisively swung the momentum to its side by scoring the tying run in its last at-bat and forged in front on Mikey Ortega's home run an inning later, the Wildcats didn't flinch Friday in the first game of a Scenic West Athletic Conference baseball doubleheader.

There are many victims of crimes committed by drug abusers as witnessed in the recent burglaries in Carson City. Along with the victims whose homes were burglarized and whose sense of safety in their homes was destroyed; the drug abusers’ family bonds are broken; their children neglected, displaced, frightened and confused.

With the assistance of Greater Nevada Credit Union, your spare change can help change the lives of homeless and at-risk cats in the Carson City Area. Collect it in a jar or in a container and in a week or two take it to the GNCC nearest you. Put your change through their coin-counting machine, then take the slip to a teller and tell them it's for Catmandu. Your donation will be deposited directly into our account.

Just 50 cents provides:

Breakfast or dinner of canned food to 8 kitties
Dry kibble for 5 cats
1 dose of antibiotic to help a sick kitten

If you are looking to take advantage of National Make a Friend Day, try one of our many art galleries to spark up a conversation with a stranger. You may also strike it rich while listening to Dave Leather play the blues at Comma Coffee, or tonight, during the first of many Jazz Jams that Sassafras will be home to. It’s also National Shut-in Visitation Day, so you could always make a new friend at one of Carson City’s nursing homes.

Looking to meet your match made in heaven? Why not try Furry Speed Dating? This unique event pairs people and pets during a true — you guessed it — speed dating affair.

Join Nevada Humane Society on Saturday, Feb. 14 to meet some of the most eligible dogs and cats in the shelter. They’ll put their best paw forward and try to impress prospective adopters who will meet multiple eligible furry bachelors and bachelorettes with the goal of falling in love.

In only two weeks a few volunteers sold lotion bars from Jordan Essentials Bath and Body products and raised $300.00 for the cats at CATMANDU! I want to thank everyone who participated and also those who bought lotion bars. It was fun and easy and the bars will be here for Valentines Day!
If your organization could use some extra money call or email me to organize a unique,fast,and easy way to do it.

Monica Marcinko
775-283-8908
monicam6599@aol.com
www.myjestore.com/monicamarcinko

Warmer weather may still be months away, but Nevada Humane Society wants you to Beat the Heat by spaying your cat in advance of her heat cycle and preventing unwanted litters from being born this spring.

We at Catmandu send a heart-felt thank you to all the volunteers and donors who helped us throughout 2014 to provide a safe and happy place for homeless cats in our community. Thank you to everyone who donated critical funds, supplies, food, time and energy!

Nevada Humane Society has teamed up with another local business in support of helping homeless pets find loving homes — this time partnering with a pet store that, as of October, stopped selling puppies.

Pets R Us, a retail pet store located in the Meadowood Mall, will be hosting its first ever adoption event this Friday, January 16 from 12 Noon to 5pm. This event is the first of its kind since the business made the decision to end the sale of puppies in October.

We are looking for volunteers to help with our Have A Heart Valentine fundraiser to help raise money for the rescue efforts of Catmandu cat rescue.

Since opening the doors to the first cate in March of 2014, Catmandu has forever given homes to 83 cats and kittens. As of now there are currently 47 in residence ready for adoption.

The Nevada Humane Society says 1,322 dogs, cats and small animals went home during the Home 4 the Holidays Pet Adoption Drive. The number surpasses the goal of 1,000 animals as well as the 2013 adoption numbers, 1006 animals, for the event.

Carson City had a total of 118 pets — 46 cats and 72 dogs — adopted as part of Home 4 the Holidays that ran from Nov. 21, 2014 through Jan. 4.

New Year’s Day was especially important for Nevada Humane Society in 2015 — not only has the goal for Home 4 the Holidays been surpassed, but NHS in both Reno and Carson City celebrated the first pet adoptions of the new year!

In Reno, the first cat adopted was Tabby; the first dog, Harley; and the first rabbit, Raiden. In Carson City, the first adoption was Sally the dog. Each of these animals went home with loving families and will now be looking forward to a happy 2015 in a new home.

Nevada Humane Society wants you to ring in the New Year by making a resolution to neuter your male dog or cat during their Happy Neuter Year campaign.

Sponsored by PetSmart Charities, the largest funder of animal welfare efforts in North America, the Happy Neuter Year campaign will provide a limited number of $20 neuter surgeries for male dogs and cats during the month of January.

Nevada Humane Society will join the ASPCA, The American Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals, and Subaru of America for the annual year-end Subaru Share the Love event through the holiday season. As part of this national effort, Nevada Humane Society and Michael Hohl Subaru have teamed up to create offsite adoptions at the Carson City dealership this Saturday, Dec. 13 from 11 a.m. to 3 p.m.