Tehachapi's Online Community News & Entertainment Guide
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For those of you who are new residents of Tehachapi or aren’t familiar with our articles, our little store, our volunteers and our adoptable critters, this may help you get to know us in a slightly different light. We are a nonprofit volunteer organization that we call a humane society, because we are not a shelter, we are not connected to the city or the county and we have to rely on the generosity of donors, patrons and our own hard work to carry out the main four visions that comprise our mis...
Starting six years ago, Have A Heart has chosen two deserving graduating seniors yearly to receive cash scholarships to further their education and seek an advanced degree. Two $1,000 scholarships are presented to two seniors based on grade point average, extracurricular activities and leadership, faculty recommendations, and excellence in essay form related to each scholarship requirement. Our organization also requires a minimum of 12 hours of volunteer work at our resale store, fostering and...
Have you ever had a family pet that was so fearful of fireworks that they had a meltdown or escaped the house or yard and it broke your heart? As we have in the past, so Have A Heart Humane Society will microchip your dog or cat for FREE during the period just prior to the 4th of July. Starting Tuesday, June 21 through Saturday, July 2, bring your dog or cat to our shop, Rescued Treasures, next to Domino's and we will implant a microchip absolutely free. If your pet should disappear during...
The Tehachapi City Council began their March 7 meeting by recognizing Tehachapi's community service organization #loveTehachapi, which received the Regional Award of Merit for Community Involvement from the Kern Council of Governments (KernCOG). The group had been nominated for the award by the City of Tehachapi. Read the full story on page 3. Approved by the Council was an airport dust mitigation agreement with the Eastern Kern Pollution Control District for a grant to control dust at the east...
Control Alt Delete Computer Services, new location is now officially open. For over 21 Years, Guy Martin has been servicing the Tehachapi and surrounding areas with computer repair services for both Windows and Mac. Partnered with, and based out of Radio Shack, Guy has offered more than just computer repair services, including: audio conversion services from tape media to digital, digitizing VHS, VHS-C, Beta, Super 8, and even 8mm reels to DVDs. Guy also offers scanning and converting pictures...
You have all probably seen the "fold-and- assemble-yourself" cardboard pet carriers intended for normal-sized cats and toy-sized dogs. You may even have purchased one from your veterinarian to bring home your dopey little kitten or small puppy following spaying, neutering or some other minor surgery after he/she has been anesthetized. "Small," "dopey" and "box held by someone else" in the car are key words here. These cardboard carriers are not meant for larger cats or dogs larger than a...
As we get our morning started here at Have A Heart Humane Society, the first visitor we have is a sweet young woman who just found a stray little dog. She wants to have the pup scanned for a microchip, which we do immediately, but there’s no microchip! We start scrambling to find a temporary foster home, and until we find one we will house her here at the shop in one of our pens. Very cute dog, surely someone is looking for her! Of course, we will need to hold her for the mandatory two weeks t...
As the holidays approach, we humans are licking our lips in anticipation of the delicacies and huge amounts of comfort food that are headed our way. Our pets are not expecting all the luscious treats this time of year as we are, but once the cooking starts, their noses are on high alert – it’ll drive them crazy! This time of year, veterinarians notice an increase in cases of pancreatitis and other stomach and intestinal upsets due to the fact that dogs get fed food, either accidentally or by...
Claudia Baker, publisher of The Loop newspaper, presents a $300 check to Have a Heart Humane Society. The money was raised from the pies that were auctioned off from The Loop's Pie Baking Contest at the recent Apple Festival....
Within the last several years there has been some dialog about the “burnout” that hits people who work in many of the fields that tax their sympathies, their caring and their abilities to continue having positive outlooks. These are people who are continually providing help, care and compassion to people who are victims of outside forces, disasters or the sometimes impossible systems that impede their progress towards happiness and well being. They can be healthcare workers, teachers, police officers, firefighters, veterinarians, social and chi...
We have put out many articles about what we do, and we know many of you out there personally. You come into our shop, have adopted pets from us, have brought us little lost foundlings, and, most importantly, have had your family pets spayed and neutered at one of our clinics in the past. We usually spend at least one paragraph in our articles begging for help, asking for volunteers to spend a bit of their free time to further our cause and to add helping hands to lighten the load. Due to what...
The Have A Heart Humane Society, located here in Tehachapi, has been well known for years and we have been your "go to" organization when you adopt a pet, lose a pet, find a stray pet, or need to alter your pets so they don't contribute to the dreadful overpopulation here in Kern County. Have A Heart holds the concept of spay and neuter as just about the most important facet of our vision, and not one that we could let go of when things got tough! Instead, the "tough" (that's us!) got going and...
Have A Heart Humane Society is offering free microchips for your family dog(s) from now until July 3. Bring your dog in to Rescued Treasures, 1121 W. Valley Blvd., Tehachapi (next door to Radio Shack) to get a free microchip in case your pet gets frightened during 4th of July fireworks, whether it is a sanctioned pyrotechnics display or a neighbor who sets off firecrackers. One dog in five goes missing or gets frightened during fireworks and gets lost. Make sure your pet gets home to you! We are open Wednesday through Saturday, 10 a.m. to 4...
Have A Heart Humane Society presented a $1,000 scholarship on May 27 to a very deserving senior from Tehachapi High School, Emma Barrett. The requirements for our scholarship are similar in many ways to the scholarships from other local organizations in that the candidate must be an exemplary student, have outside interests and extracurricular activities, be held in high esteem by more than one faculty member and write an excellent essay in response to specific prompts ... all of which Emma...
Cat and Kitten season has begun and there is no shortage of beautiful cats and kittens to adopt! The COVID pandemic has had an effect on the cat population in several ways. First of all, the usual number of spay and neuter clinics were cut way back due to prolonged closures, rise in the prices of supplies and, in our case, retirement and change in services. All of this resulted in less spays and neuters - hence, more cat population. People lose their employment, often their homes, and...
The cute little resale shop that benefits Have A Heart Humane Society is beginning to return to its original operating days and hours. The COVID-19 pandemic took its toll on everyone. It shut us down completely for several months, then limited our open days, and now we feel safe enough to be open Wednesday through Saturday, 10 a.m. to 4 p.m. Saturday is still adoption day. We are looking forward to opening on Tuesdays as soon as we can. Rescued Treasures is the name of the resale shop that is...
Michael T. McCallion, devoted and loving husband, father and friend, passed away on February 28 in Tehachapi. Mike was born on December 30, 1938 in Brooklyn, New York to Gertrude and James McCallion, the oldest of their five children. After high school, Mike joined the Army and served in the Korean War and was a member of the Honor Guard Company. When he returned home, he met and married his love and lifelong companion, Edna Trotter, on April 22, 1962. With Edna's support, he attended the City...
For almost a year now, things have been really unusual for our community. Many people have been home more and at work less. I think maybe our pets have been thrilled to have us home. But when they do accidentally get out and go roaming, there really aren't the same authorities out there to pick them up and get them to safety. Due to the pandemic, most of the animal shelters are either closed or on limited working hours, and it has become difficult to go through the steps we used to take to try...
It is with great sadness that I must tell you all that the Tehachapi Humane Society will be closing at the end of the year. It is mainly due to a lack of funds and volunteers. There is only a handful of women running it and it has been this way for years. We will not issue any more spay/neuter vouchers after November 30. Kern County Animal Services has some programs that will help fill the void left from our closure. K.C.A.S. has low income spay/neuter vouchers available for Kern County residents (living in unincorporated areas of the county)...
Harold Albert Philip, Jr. "Snake" was born on February 22, 1935 in Santa Monica, California. He was the only child of Harold Albert and Isabel Marie Phillip. He was raised in Santa Monica, through grade school. His parents moved to Torrance, California before he entered 7th grade. Snake picked up his nickname while playing football at Torrance High School. He played positions of both wide receiver and defensive lineman. From the way he ran when carrying the ball down the field, one of the other...
It is with great sadness that we announce that Royleen Marie McGarrity, beloved daughter, sister, godmother and friend; passed away on August 6, 2020, due to complications of diabetes. Royleen was predeceased by her parents Roy and Emilie Pasquini. She is survived by her brothers and sisters-in-law, Gerald and Teresa Pasquini and Richard Pasquini and Sara Bilimoria; her godson and nephew Dante Pasquini; as well as her much loved nephews and their wives, Jefferey and Milo Pasquini, and Anthony...
Now that we are having our lives change from total quarantine lockdown to little ventures out as some businesses open and some of us even go back to work, we at Have A Heart Humane Society have a few concerns. Our pets have been used to our being home and around for close to three-and-a-half months. Now while this may have irritated your cats (haha), your dogs have LOVED it! They may have a little trouble understanding or adjusting to your new hours away from home. Try to keep giving your pets that little bit of extra attention when you get...
Have A Heart Humane Society congratulates the 2020 graduating class of Tehachapi High School and is very proud of the efforts of these persevering students, in the face of unprecedented adversity and a school year that ended like no other senior year in educational history so far. As an organization, Have A Heart presents two scholarships yearly to graduating seniors to honor our Founder, Chelley Kitzmiller, who spent her life helping animals live a better life, and whose love of writing...
If you came by Rescued Treasures Resale Store toward the beginning of the COVID-19 quarantine, you probably noticed that our little resale shop had a few days where we closed, thinking we could do reduced hours and a staggered schedule. Then came mandated lockdown, so we are doing the “right thing.” We had to face it anyway. We as an organization are in the high risk group – with one exception, we are almost all senior citizens! Luckily, right before the lockdown, all our puppies and dogs got adopted into loving homes and almost all of the k...
Have a Heart Humane Society would like to thank Bank of the Sierra for a very generous grant of $3,000 funded to us on April 19, 2019. The monies we received help to fund our continuing spay and neuter efforts right here in Tehachapi. As more and more people find out about the low-cost spay and neuter clinics we offer, they fill up really fast. This just goes to show how desperately this service is needed in Tehachapi, Mojave, Rosamond and California City. Even with the world in turmoil right now, we are still getting calls and emails daily...
