Esther Honey Foundation

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                                 THANK YOU
Esther Honey Foundation Donors, Volunteers & Partners
                       for your 2009 support!

Your valued contributions allowed EHF to provide 82 volunteers, including 39 veterinarians, and more than $70,000.00 USD in veterinary supplies to the Esther Honey Foundation Animal Clinic in 2009.

If not for the ongoing and long-term partnerships between EHF and our supporters, the 25,775 animals we have treated, including 11,353 spayed/neutered, would not have received care.
We look forward to your continued support in 2010 because simply put: we could not do it without you.

     Thanks, as always, for your generous support,
        Cathy Sue Ragan-Anunsen, Founder & CEO

Ever wonder what goes on 'behind the scenes" in the US office that enables
the EHF Animal Clinic and Cook Islands EHF VET TREKS to provide service? ►READ

STATESMAN JOURNAL
TARAH CAMPI's feature article

Foundation improves lives of animals

"Cathy Sue Ragan-Anunsen spends a lot of time in front of her computer. But it's not leisure time. Ragan-Anunsen is the founder and CEO of the Esther Honey Foundation, which brings veterinary care to animals on the Cook Islands in the South Pacific. Back in Oregon, Ragan-Anunsen is busy sending e-mail, making phone calls and handling finances about 10 hours each day, seven days per week. That's what it takes to direct a nonprofit from thousands of
miles away."...

THANK YOU NEW ZEALANDERS

Thank you NZ veterinarian Jacqueline Pryce

Veterinarian Jacqueline Lorena Pryce, Cambridge Veterinary Services New Zealand, and her husband, Gareth, were enjoying a Cook Islands holiday when they stopped by the EHF Animal Clinic where Jacqueline’s Cambridge colleague, Dr. Richard Willis, volunteered for several months last year.
RIP post surgery

Their arrival could not have come at a better time for Rip, a sweet injured dog in need of immediate orthopedic surgery. Flight schedules resulted in a weekend gap between the departing experienced vet and the arriving veterinarian. Doctor Pryce, assisted by vet nurse Kelly Clayden, filled that gap perfectly by providing skilled care for the darling Rip!

Thank you Kumeu Veterinary Service

The Esther Honey Foundation Thanks Kumeu Veterinary Service for their recent donation of a microscope to the Foundation.

This new addition to the clinic equipment replaces our older model and improves our diagnostic capabilities.

EHF is also grateful to volunteer Kerry Lukies for working with the US office to transport this donation and additional supplies needed for the new scope!

Thank you vet Alex

It's Christmas 2009 in the islands for vet Alex

Alex Elson has dealt with most of the health problems that afflict small animals, but this summer, the Whitianga vet is likely to encounter a peninsula post alex

new one.

Ms Elson is spending three weeks over Christmas and New Year as a volunteer vet in the Cook Islands. She expects there will be the usual cases, such as skin problems, accidents and neutering, but has been told there could also be a problem with fish poisoning. In certain conditions, a disturbance on the reef at Rarotonga causes toxic plankton to get into the food chain.

Ms Elson has just finished a two-year stint as a part-time vet in Whitianga and left for the Cook Islands on Sunday. “I’ve decided that I’ll do volunteer work from now on,” she says. She began her career in England and has been a vet for about 35 years. After settling in Whitianga eight years ago, she initially worked part-time in Thames. The idea of going to the Cook Islands came when she read about the Esther Honey Foundation in a vet magazine. The organisation was founded by American animal advocate Cathy Sue Ragan-Anunsen in 1994 after a holiday in the Cook Islands.

While she was in Rarotonga, Ms Ragan-Anunsen befriended a dog named Honey and learned that there were no veterinary services in the country for its thousands of cats and dogs. In 1995, the foundation opened a clinic in Nikao. It’s staffed by volunteer vets from around the world and caters for animals in Rarotonga and outlying islands.

“I’ve never been to the Cook Islands and I thought it sounded like me,” Ms Elson says. She hopes to do some diving and possibly some horse-riding. Back home, a house-sitter will look after her pregnant horse Charity, her cats Roland and Rupert and her chickens. Her three pugs, Milly, Stanley and Lenny, will go into kennels.

Thank you NZ rescuers

... for taking these lovely Raro dogs into your homes and into your hearts!

Thank you Simon Godall

►Dog Guru shrugs off ‘shrink’ label
Cook Island News

"There are no ‘magic tricks’ involved in training dogs. This is according to internationally qualified and recognised dog behaviourist and trainer Simon Goodall who is on the island this week. Goodall owns Dog Guru, a New Zealand dog training and behaviourist company. While on the island Goodall, will meet with 18 dog owners to help them learn basic commands to teach their dogs good behaviour..."

Thank you Simon for working with EHF to improve the quality of life for the Rarotonga dogs and community.

Thanks Pio Terei for dropping by

NZ's Pio Terei was on Rarotonga to film for Maori television and graciously came by the EHF Animal Clinic to visit with EHF Volunteers.

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            97% of EHF's 2008 Expenditures went directly to our Animal Program Services

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