Thanks to Community Animal Network for its work

Last year in the Daily Pilot, we began reading the pleas for help

from Dianna Pfaff-Martin, who runs and manages the Community Animal

Network.

I, being an animal lover since childhood, have taught my children

the value of respecting and caring for animals. We, as a family,

decided to get involved and help, and what a great experience we have

had.

We have volunteered to become foster parents to cats and kittens

needing homes until a permanent home can be found, and we have helped

at pet adoptions at Russo’s Pets in Fashion Island on weekends.

Most of these cats and kittens would have faced euthanasia at

shelters or been killed on the streets if Pfaff-Martin would not have

stepped in. The shelters almost always euthanize pregnant cats and

sick animals. My oldest daughter put in her required community

service hours for school at the weekend pet adoptions and she still

volunteers for fun on weekends.

Russo’s Pets and Fashion Island are to be commended and patronized

for volunteering the space to the Community Animal Network to find

quality homes for these animals that would otherwise face eminent

death and a terrible quality of life until death. The Daily Pilot

also is to be praised for publishing and supporting this very

worthwhile charity.

Last year, the Community Animal Network placed 600 pets in

permanent quality homes. These placements would not have been

possible without involvement from these (and some other) fine

businesses and a group of the concerned community.

Even if some readers are not animal lovers, the Community Animal

Network helps you, too, by trapping and picking up feral cats when

possible, animals that some irresponsible previous pet owner failed

to spay or neuter or simply left behind when they moved.

Thank you again to the Daily Pilot for getting word out to the

public of the need in this charity and many other charities in need

of help. This volunteering family stepped up to help because of you.

KRISTY NEUBO

Newport Beach