{"id":102943,"date":"2019-04-24T13:01:25","date_gmt":"2019-04-24T17:01:25","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/madisoncountycourier.com\/?p=102943"},"modified":"2019-04-24T10:43:52","modified_gmt":"2019-04-24T14:43:52","slug":"theres-no-place-like-home-ninth-annual-fur-ball%ef%bb%bf","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/madisoncountycourier.com\/?p=102943","title":{"rendered":"There\u2019s No Place Like Home: Ninth annual Fur Ball\ufeff"},"content":{"rendered":"\n
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Pictured are Stevens-Swan Humane Society\u2019s longest-term residents, Carl, Triss and Duke.<\/strong> <\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n

The ninth annual Fur Ball presented\nby Staffworks to benefit Stevens-Swan Humane Society will be another unique\nexperience for event goers and animal lovers. This year, \u2018There is no place\nlike home,\u2019 except at Yahnundasis Golf Club from 7 to 11 p.m. May 17, 2019.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Each year Event Chair Jackie\nRomano and her committee create an event like no other with flair, fun and\nfundraising for our local animal shelter at its heart. This year\u2019s theme\n\u201cThere\u2019s no place like home\u201d will transform the Yahnundasis into a scene from\nthe Wizard of Oz.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

This\nyear\u2019s Fur Ball hosts, or wizards, David and Lisa Corasanti, have been longtime\nsupporters of Stevens-Swan Humane Society. Supporters like them have helped\nhundreds of animals every day. With a budget exceeding $1 million, it\u2019s only\nwith the generosity of the community that SSHS can continue to care for those\nanimals that don\u2019t have a home\u2026yet.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

SSHS finds itself at full capacity daily,\ncaring for about 85 dogs and 200 cats. Some of the animals end up spending months\nor years with the shelter. Three residents, Carl, Triss and Duke are the\nlongest-term residents at the shelter. Together, they add up to more than 3,000\ndays, or eight years, in the shelter.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Carl, a\n7-year-old canine, has been calling the shelter his home for more than 700\ndays. Carl\u2019s previous owners were moving and could not take him with them. They\nturned him into the shelter in October 2016. Carl needs to be the only dog in\nthe home; however, he has the sweetest demeanor with people. While Carl looks\nsad in his kennel, his temporary home, he is a playful puppy outside.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Triss, a\nfemale short-haired cat, is the longest-residing feline at Stevens-Swan Humane\nSociety. Her \u201ccattitude\u201d shows, as she likes to do what she wants and doesn\u2019t\nlet anyone get in her way, even if her desire is a dog bed with a large dog\nalready in it. She is spunky and looking for the perfect home to go to after\nmore than 900 days living at the shelter.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Duke is\nthe longest-term resident, spending more than four years with the shelter as\nhis home. At 7 years old, he has lived more than half of his lifetime at the\nshelter. Recently, Duke was diagnosed with three low-grade, cancerous mast cell\ntumors. The tumors have been removed, but there is no guarantee that more won\u2019t\nappear. Duke may have some special needs, including a home with no other pets\nor young children, but he deserves a home just like all the others.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

A house\nis only a house. It becomes a home because of the family and the love that is\nwithin that home. That is what these animals want and deserve: a home with a\nfamily to care for and love them. Stevens-Swan Humane Society and its no-kill\nmission, make it possible for more animals to fill homes and hearts with their\nfurry love. In the meantime, the care provided by SSHS\u2019s amazing staff makes\nthe shelter as close to a home as they can, and it\u2019s only possible because of\nour community\u2019s donations.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Stevens-Swan\nHumane Society depends solely on donations in order to care for more than 2,000\nstray and abandoned animals each year, providing food, shelter and multiple\nveterinary care and services.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cThis\nshelter serves as a temporary home for these animals,\u201d said Diane Broccoli, executive\ndirector of SSHS. \u201cJust like any home, we have our day-to-day bills, including\ncaring for the pets, but we also have to maintain our building. That\nmaintenance is an expense above and beyond our more-than $1 million annual\nbudget. Events like the annual Fur Ball help us raise the extra funds needed to\nmake our shelter a safe place for our animals.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

All\nproceeds from the ninth annual Fur Ball will benefit Stevens-Swan Humane\nSociety, providing the home and care for thousands of animals waiting for a\nplace to call home.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The evening will include complimentary champagne, beer\nand wine, delicious food stations and heavy passed hors d\u2019oevres, desserts and\na night of dancing to music from live band Stage Road.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Tickets\nare $75 per person or $125 per couple and can be purchased online at stevens-swan.org,\nby calling 315.738.4357 ext. 0 or by visiting the shelter at 5664 Horatio\nStreet, Utica. Contact SSHS if you would like to join some of the generous\nsponsors or would like more information about how your donation helps hundreds\nof animals every year.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The\n2019 \u201cFur Ball\u201d is brought to you by presenting sponsor Staffworks and other\ngenerous supporters and sponsors including The Fountainhead Group, Save of the\nDay Foundation, Roser Communications, PJ Green, WKTV, Putrelo Building\nEnterprises, Inc., Gilroy Kernan & Gilroy, and Carbone Auto Group.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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