Calling all dog lovers! “Petunia” needs a home (View video here)

January 30, 2021
By: Dwayne Page

Calling all dog lovers!

“Petunia” needs a loving home. Can you make room in your heart for her?

The DeKalb Animal Shelter has been Petunia’s home since October. In fact she has been there longer than any other pet lately. It’s time she had a forever home of her own. Petunia is again the WJLE/DeKalb Animal Shelter featured “Pet of the Week”

DeKalb Animal Shelter Director Megan Moore and employee Emmaly Bennett with Petunia from dwayne page on Vimeo.

“Petunia is our senior shelter resident. She is 8 years old and is spayed and up to date on all her vaccinations. Petunia loves people especially kids and enjoys a couch or lap to sit on. She does prefer to be the only pet in the household because she is very stingy with her love and affection,” said Shelter employee Emmaly Bennett.

“Because she has been here so long we have had a donor sponsor Petunia so her adoption fee is only $50 and it covers everything including the costs of her spay and vaccinations so she is ready to go home with you,” added Shelter director Megan Moore.

If you would like to meet “Petunia” put in an application on the shelter’s website //www.dekalbanimalcoalition.org/ and you will be called to set up an appointment. For more information call 615-597-3647 or send a message on facebook or email.

January 30, 2021
By: Dwayne Page

The DeKalb County Tigers, who had beaten the Watertown Purple Tigers 77 to 69 in Smithville last month, were not as fortunate Friday night as they lost at Watertown 66 to 62. The Lady Tigers, who had lost at home to Watertown 54 to 47 in December, fell short again Friday night 44 to 41.

The DeKalb County Lady Tigers drop to 7-11 (2-8 district) and the Tigers slip to 7-10 (3-7 district).

DCHS will host Grundy County today (Saturday) for Senior Night starting with the girls game at 3 p.m. followed by the boys game and WJLE will have LIVE coverage.

Friday night in the girls game, the Lady Tigers trailed Watertown 11 to 9 after the 1st period and 24 to 19 by halftime. DC grabbed a 30 to 29 lead after the 3rd period but fell behind in the 4th period and lost 44 to 41.

Ella Van Vranken scored 19 followed by Kadee Ferrell with 10, Megan Cantrell 4, Madison Martin and Cadee Griffith each with 3 and Xharia Lyons 2.

The Tigers found themselves down 17 to 11 after the 1st period of the boys game and trailed 26 to 24 at halftime and 47 to 34 after the 3rd period before losing to the purple Tigers 66 to 62.

Brayden Antoniak scored 14. Jordan Young 13, Luke Jenkins, Evan Jones and Stetson Agee each with 10 and Elishah Ramos with 5.

DISTRICT 8AA TEAM RECORDS AND STANDINGS

BOYS:
Upperman: 16-4 (9-1)
York Institute: 12-8 (7-1)
Watertown: 13-5 (6-4)
Livingston Academy: 10-8 (5-2)
Cannon County: 11-11 (4-5)
DeKalb County: 7-10 (3-7)
Smith County: 6-11 (3-7)
Macon County: 3-14 (0-10)

GIRLS:
Upperman: 23-0 (11-0)
Macon County: 14-4 (8-2)
York Institute: 16-4 (7-2)
Watertown: 16-5 (5-5)
Livingston Academy: 13-6 (4-3)
DeKalb County: 7-11 (2-8)
Smith County: 6-11 (1-9)
Cannon County: 3-16 (0-9)

DCHS 2020-21 UPDATED SCHEDULE:
Saturday, January 30: ^Grundy County-Home- 3 p.m. (Senior Night)
Tuesday, February 2: *Cannon County-Home- 6 p.m.
Saturday, February 6- *Livingston Academy- Away- 6 p.m.
Thursday, February 11: *Smith County- Away- 6 p.m.
Friday, February 12: Red Boiling Springs-Away-6 p.m.

January 30, 2021
By: Dwayne Page

For all the homeless, abandoned, unwanted and forgotten pets, shelters and rescues are the only chance they get at having a happy life.

At the DeKalb Animal Coalition Shelter every effort is made to finding dogs and cats a new forever home but sometimes they need help. That’s when animal rescues often come to the rescue.

In an interview with WJLE Friday, DeKalb Animal Shelter Director Megan Moore and shelter employee Emmaly Bennett explained how that works.

What does rescue mean?

“It is a question we receive often here at the shelter and we wanted to shed some light on what exactly it means. We partner with a variety of local, out of state, and breed specific animal rescues in order to provide more and sometimes better opportunities for the companion animals in our care to find their forever homes,” said Director Moore.

“Some rescues have adopters already committed to taking our dogs and cats prior to them ever leaving our shelter. Some go straight to a foster that provides a loving, nurturing home environment while their pet waits for their adopter. Others are transported out of state to a foster or adoption facility. All the rescues we work with are no kill and choose which animals they are able to help and that is particularly vital when we have animals that need special care, socialization, or are not adjusting to shelter life very well,” she continued.

“ We are thankful to have the contacts and opportunities to work with rescues. It allows us at the DeKalb Animal Shelter to maintain our low kill policy while still serving our community to the best of our ability. We only have so many kennels so the more adoptions and rescues we facilitate the more availability we have to take in pets in need within our community,” said Bennett.

Why do rescues take animals from our shelter?

“Due to much stricter spay and neuter laws and enforced animal registrations the areas that our rescues transport to are generally the northern states and don’t have the overpopulation problems that we have here. Adoption facilities are in need of a variety of cats and dogs to fill their shelters. Adopters patiently wait for new pets to become available. The partnership has provided success in reducing euthanasia in local shelters throughout the Upper Cumberland,” added Bennett.

“We hope this information helps you understand a little more about what we do and how much we care. As always you can find current adoptable pets on our website at https://www.dekalbanimalshelter.com/ and apply directly from their photo. We are open by appointment only due to COVID but you can call us at 615-597-3647 or send us a message on Facebook,” said Moore.

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