Janna Hage of The Dalles Named EARS Regional Director
SACRAMENTO, CA (August 22, 2008) – United Animal Nations (UAN) is pleased to welcome Janna Hage of The Dalles, Oregon as a Regional Director with its Emergency Animal Rescue Service (EARS), which shelters and cares for animals displaced by natural disasters and other crises, such as criminal seizures and hoarding cases.
As an EARS Regional Director, a volunteer position, Hage will monitor disasters that may affect animals in Alaska, Idaho, Oregon and Washington; network with emergency management and animal control agencies in those states; and work with local authorities to operate temporary shelters for displaced animals as needed. In June, Hage spent one week leading a team of EARS volunteers at a temporary shelter for animal flood victims in Cedar Rapids, Iowa.
“Janna brings significant experience in shelter management, animal care and disaster response to the EARS volunteer leadership team,” said UAN Director of Programs Karen Brown. “She will greatly increase our ability to serve communities in the Pacific Northwest and support our emergency response efforts across North America.”
Hage became an EARS volunteer in 1999. In October 2005, she deployed with EARS to care for animals at an Arkansas sanctuary whose owners were charged with cruelty and neglect.
Hage is the founder and executive director of Home at Last Humane Society, a non-profit shelter in The Dalles that took over the municipal animal control contract and reduced the community’s euthanasia rate from 80 percent to 9 percent. In 2003, Home at Last Humane Society staff and volunteers operated an emergency shelter for more than 65 animals displaced by a local fire and cared for 50 cats from a hoarding situation for three weeks.
“I have spent much of the last decade helping animals in crisis and I look forward to furthering that work with United Animal Nations,” Hage said. “I am grateful for this opportunity to promote emergency preparedness in Oregon and surrounding states as a member of the EARS team.”
UAN has more than 4,000 EARS volunteers in the United States and Canada, including eight regional directors. Since 1987, UAN’s EARS volunteers have responded to more than 80 disasters, including a series of wildfires in Butte County, California in 2008; s tornado that destroyed Greensburg, Kansas in 2007, Hurricane Katrina in 2005; and wildfires in Missoula, Montana in 2003.
Founded in 1987, United Animal Nations is North America ’s leading provider of emergency animal sheltering and disaster relief services and a key advocate for the critical needs of animals.
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