PARIS — Responsible Pet Care is looking for new friends. The animal shelter in Paris wants to form a Friends of RPC committee. The main function of the committee is to have a core group of people to help plan and work at fund raising events for the shelter. The new task force needs planners, organizers […]
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Responsible Pet Care seeks homes for shelter animals through holiday video
PARIS — Jessie wants a home to live out her golden years. Gigi wants a big house with a yard. Lynnette wants to live with people who will respect her privacy. All they want for Christmas is a warm, caring home. They are just a few of the 107 kittens and 13 dogs currently sheltered […]
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Paris shelter building pavilion for dogs
PARIS — Construction of a pavilion named for a longtime champion of homeless dogs is underway at the Responsible Pet Care animal shelter. “It will be named for Jackie Stoutamyer, who lived and worked locally. She was a champion for dogs and her passion for them was lifelong,” shelter President Shirley Boyce said. “She saw […]
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Harrison town manager embattled in cat feud defends comments
HARRISON — Embattled Town Manager George “Bud” Finch defended comments he made earlier this week suggesting he was indifferent to animal welfare as taken out out of context by the media. A story from WGME 13, which ran in the Bangor Daily News on Friday, quoted an animal welfare advocate who said Finch told her that […]
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Norway thrift shop getting makeover
NORWAY — Construction and renovation work at the PAWSibilities Thrift Shoppe at 132 Waterford Road is underway. Last year, the Planning Board unanimously approved a building permit for Responsible Pet Care to renovate a portion of its thrift shop and add a restroom. The request was made after the group moved its animal shelter to […]
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Paris animal shelter featured in national magazine
PARIS — The Humane Society of the United States has featured the Responsible Pet Care of Oxford Hills in its latest edition of Animal Sheltering magazine. The bimonthly, full-color publication ran an article in its January/February 2014 edition titled “They’ll Always Have Paris.” The article describes the plight of the shelter in Norway, the community’s […]
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‘Tower’ at Pawsibilities from former Stephens’ mansion to be removed
NORWAY — A tower set to be removed from the Responsible Pet Care thrift store on the Waterford Road during renovations once graced the C.A. Stephens laboratory by Lake Pennesseewassee. Charles A. Stephens, a noted author of young adult and children’s books and a medical doctor and scientist, built his large, rambling “laboratory” at Pennesseewassee Lake […]