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 Founded in 1994, MAAN, the Michigan Animal Adoption Network, is a 501(c)3 non-profit organization for animal rescue in the Metro Detroit area. We frequently engage in special promotions and fundraising efforts. The Network is always looking for new and different ways to raise money for spay/neuter,
to continue its rescue efforts, to find homes for homeless pets and to educate the public
on animal issues.
MAAN has several adoption programs to enable animals to find new permanent homes. MAAN also founded the Animal Care Network, which is the first and only program that
involves direct street work and door to door welfare checks on pet owners in low-income areas.
  The Animal Care Network (ACN) is a dedicated group of volunteers spending time seven days a week in low-income areas in suburban Wayne and Oakland counties providing relief and assistance to pet owners with indoor and outdoor pets. The Animal Care Network provides a community service to pet owners and hosts low-cost shot clinics and spay/neuter clinics. The Animal Care Network has won national acclaim and attention for this unique program that actually hits the streets looking for animals that need rescue or assistance. Please consult the events page for clinic dates -more-
Please visit the following Pet Supplies Plus stores to
view our adoptable cats. They are on permanent display in
the stores until we find them their forever homes.
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Pet Supplies Plus
42241 Garfield Road
Clinton Township, MI 48038
Phone: (586) 228-0090
| Pet Supplies Plus
23700 Greater Mack Avenue
St. Clair Shores, MI 48080
Phone: (586) 771-1710 |
CATS We have cats of every size, shape, color and age, and all are
loving and ready to be placed in new homes. The adoption fee is
$125 and includes all necessary vet care, including
sterilization.
All prospective adopters must complete an adoption
application. It takes a minimum of one business day to process
an application. For more information, contact the Michigan
Animal Adoption Network office at (248) 545-5055.
Download the adoption application
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DOGS We have wonderful, friendly dogs for adoption. All of our dogs are spayed or neutered, current on vaccines, heartworm tested and on heartworm preventative. The adoption fee for our dogs is $250.00.
If interested in meeting with a dog, please call the Michigan Animal Adoption Network office at 248-545-5055 to make an appointment. All prospective adopters must complete an adoption application. It takes a minimum of one business day to process an application. For more information, contact the Michigan Animal Adoption Network office at (248) 545-5055.
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Download the adoption application
A special thanks goes out to the following sponsors. Without their generous support, our adoption program would not be the success that it is.
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St. Clair Shores Sentinel (MI)
CBW, MAAN form relationship to help canine pals
JULIE SNYDER C & G Staff Writer
Published: January 20, 2010
Camp Bow Wow owner Tony Caruso is being hailed a hero by some metro Detroit
animal shelter officials. Caruso, who runs the luxury canine day care and
overnight boarding facility on Nine Mile in St. Clair Shores, was in the midst
of a major fundraiser in early December when he learned that volunteer members
of the Michigan Animal Adoption Network and the Animal Care Network were asked
to immediately vacate the rent-free office and adoption space it had used for
the past two years at the All American Pet Resort in Roseville.
MAAN President Marie Skladd said the news came on the same day as Camp Bow Wow's
dog food drive for ACN. When she arrived at the facility that cold December
morning to help out, she was still in shock. She told Caruso what had
transpired.
"I knew immediately that I wanted to help them," Caruso said.
"I think it was fate." Skladd said she was thrilled and relieved.
"My first concern was our foster dogs on location," she said. "Each animal that
comes to us has its own individual needs. We look to find the right owner for
the right animal, and we wait until we do so." Of MAAN's four foster dogs, three
were taken in by foster families, and one, a young shepherd mix named Murphy
went to Camp Bow Wow. Caruso said Murphy quickly acclimated himself at Camp Bow
Wow and has been enjoying the company of the other dogs.
Skladd said it was a delightful sight to see.
"He introduced Murphy into the pack so he could understand, and within minutes
he was playing with the dogs," she said, adding that the move from the pet
resort in Roseville was a result of a franchisor takeover.
Founded in 1994, the Michigan Animal Adoption Network is a 501 (c) (3) nonprofit
organization for animal rescue in the Detroit area.
MAAN frequently engages in special promotions and fundraising efforts on behalf
of the animals. Skladd said MAAN continually strives for new and different ways
to educate the public, raise money to continue its street rescue efforts and
find loving homes for homeless pets.
To date, MAAN and ACN have placed more than 4, 500 dogs and cats through the
Adopt-A-Pet program and have visited over 90, 000 addresses to offer assistance
like food and dog houses.
Caruso said he recently went out on the streets of various metro Detroit cities
to assist the network in aiding some of the hundreds of dogs in need by
providing food and building dog houses. He was astonished to learn just how many
dogs need that extra care.
"After seeing what they do, I was even more committed to helping them," he said.
Caruso, who also houses foster dogs to help the Grosse Pointe Animal Adoption
Society, will be getting another canine through MAAN within the next couple of
days.
Individuals interested in adopting a foster dog housed at Camp Bow Wow must
first go through either MAAN or GPAAS.
Caruso said the December fundraiser eventually netted more than 2, 000 pounds of
dog food and $150 for the organizations.
Skladd said Caruso's food donation drive also helped because MAAN recently lost
their main food provider, who donated 8, 000 pounds of dog food each month.
Skladd also said Caruso's generosity made the last-minute move easier, and MAAN
and ACN volunteers are quickly adjusting and looking for a new place of
operation.
"We're just thrilled," she said.
"We were terrified about what was going to happen to the dogs and cats.
We were able to get the cats housed at two Pet Supplies Plus stores, but then we
were like, 'What about the dogs?'"I know we're going to help a lot of animals
this year with our partnership," Caruso said.
Skladd agrees.
"We're comforted to know that there are so many great and caring people in
this," Skladd said. "They immediately stepped up to provide double the adoption
space for our animals." For more information on how to donate to MAAN or for
more information on adoptable animals, call Chris Wisswell at (248) 545-5055 or
go to www.mi-aan. org.
Copyright, 2010, St. Clair Shores Sentinel (MI), All Rights Reserved.
Pet day care welcomes shelter dogs
Kennel to house adoption candidates
BY JOHN WISELY
FREE PRESS STAFF WRITER
Posted: Jan. 8, 2010
Tony Caruso runs a business to make dogs feel at home. Now, he's helping them find one.
Kennel owner Tony Caruso, 33, pets rescue dog
Murphy, with golden Labrador Sonny Vicaro,
left,
and Bernese mountain dog Rufus Dobbins at Camp Bow Wow in
St. Clair Shores
on Thursday. (KIMBERLY P. MITCHELL/Detroit Free Press)
Caruso, who runs Camp Bow Wow, a premium dog care facility in St. Clair Shores, has opened his doors to the Michigan Animal Adoption Network, a nonprofit that finds homes for abused and neglected animals. Last month, the group lost its storage space at another facility because of an ownership change. That's when, Caruso said, he thought he had to help. "I can offer to do this," Caruso said. "I can't not do it." Caruso and his staff met over the holidays with Marie Skladd, the president of the network, and her team. Caruso already boards dogs from the Grosse Pointe Animal Adoption Society. "The teams just immediately clicked," Skladd said. "He's fixed on assisting and benefiting the animals. He is doubling our space." The network deals with about 50 animals a day, though fewer than a dozen typically are boarded at one time. Most are kept in foster homes. Caruso will house dogs awaiting adoption. He and his clients already have donated more than 2,000 pounds of food to the network. His first tenant from the adoption network, Murphy, a high-energy German shepherd, arrived Thursday. "Murphy would do really well with a jogger or someone who could work out some of that energy out," Skladd said. All the rescue dogs kept at Camp Bow Wow will get the same exercise and care routine given to the paying customers. . Caruso said that makes for healthier, happier dogs that will be easier to place in permanent homes. Contact JOHN WISELY: 313-222-6825 or jwisely@freepress.com
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Animal Care Network finds animals in need
By By CHARLES CRUMM of The Oakland Press
December 28, 2009 PONTIAC – While shoppers headed back to the malls and stores after Christmas Saturday and Sunday to snap up after-Christmas deals or to exchange presents, others had a different mission.
Volunteers from the Animal Care Network planned to make stops in neighborhoods in Pontiac checking on the welfare of outdoor pets.
“We are going to be delivering food, dog houses, straw, collars and chains,” said Marie Skladd of Farmington Hills.
“We are going to make sure every house we visit is outfitted for the elements,” Skladd said.
The first stop Saturday was at a house on Forest Street in Pontiac, to make sure a German Shepherd named Lady had enough food and straw in her outdoor pen.
It was the first of some 20 stops that day for the volunteers, who provide animal assistance services throughout the week.
Over the course of a year, the volunteers will make between 9,000 and 10,000 house calls, primarily in Pontiac and Inkster.
 Saturday’s schedule called for stops in the neighborhoods just north of downtown Pontiac by Skladd and three other volunteers.
While most stops involve delivering food and straw for outdoor pets, some calls are check-ups from tips provided.
At one address, they looked into a report of three dogs outside with no shelter or straw, and where no one is reportedly home.
At another address, they pulled out the materials from the back of their two vans to build a doghouse.
The Animal Care Network spends time seven days a week in low-income areas in Wayne and Oakland counties.
Relief is also provided for indoor pets as well as outdoor pets.
Often, people on pensions or fixed incomes run short of money at the end of the month, and the organization assists with food and other needs.
Animal Care Network’s own statistics show the need to be increasing over the past decade, perhaps as the economy began tanking.
Volunteers made 9,895 calls for assistance in 2009, steadily up from 985 a decade ago.
The Animal Care Network also hosts low-cost shot clinics and spay/neuter clinics.
It estimates that since 1994 over 4,268 cats and dogs have been sterilized within the metro area since 1994, resulting in a decrease in the number of unwanted strays.
Part of the Michigan Animal Adoption Network, more information is available about the Animal Care Network online at www.mi-aan.org or by calling (248) 545-5055.
Contact staff writer Charles Crumm at (248) 745-4649 or charlie.crumm@oakpress.com.
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