The Team

IDEXX Volunteers Work for the Animals!

Every day dozens of animals – horses, cats, goats and others – receive life-savings tests and medications at the Maine State Society for the Protection of Animals.  Veterinarians for the Society  read more »

Dunkin Donuts supports MSSPA

Dunkin Donuts Designates MSSPA to Receive Donations

Thank you to The Wolak Group, owner of numerous Dunkin Donut franchises, which has generously selected the Maine State Society for the Protection of Animals as the local charity to receive customer donations from its store collection boxes in Yarmouth, Falmouth, Portland, Gorham and Westbrook stores from now through December 1st  read more »

Candy and Julia

MSSPA’s newest fund-raiser – Julia Stanton

Start with one talented and compassionate young woman, add a fiddle, multiply by several barns full of once-abused or neglected horses, a group of goats, don’t forget the cats or pot-bellied pigs, subtract self-interest, then divide into local farmers’ markets and the result is the MSSPA’s newest fund-raiser – Julia Stanton!  read more »

Girl Scout Coloring Book

Girl Scouts Create New Coloring Book for the Animals!

Following the tenets of their creed, to make the world a better place, members of Junior Girl Scout Troop 1307 of Gorham, Maine have turned intent into action, while also providing untold hours of entertainment for kids, by producing a brand new coloring book for the Maine State Society for the Protection of Animals.  read more »

Laredo smells hay

Laredo smells hay - and success - in the air!

Take a large measure of fertilizer and apply it liberally to the hay fields in the fall. Service the tractor, mower/conditioner, baler, and all the hay carts; get them under cover. Locate your snow shovel; you will need it over the winter.  read more »

Buy a Bale Letter

Buy a Bale Letter from Marilyn L. Goodreau

Every year the Maine State Society for the Protection of Animals feeds out more than 25,000 bales of hay. Right now the MSSPA is providing for more than 90 horses either at the farm or in community placements. Each horse eats approximately one bale of hay per day.  read more »

Vote for the MSSPA as a Write-In Candidate in Bangor Savings Bank’s Community Matters More Grant Making Initiative

Please vote to help the animals sheltered here at the MSSPA!  Go to http://www.bangor.com/cmm and fill in your name, email and zip code; scroll down to our region (Greater Portland/ Lewiston/ Auburn)  read more »

Support a Stall and provide a loving home for a horse in need for an entire year

The Maine State Society for the Protection of Animals provides superior, rehabilitative care for nearly 100 horses at its facilities throughout Southern Maine. This care includes specialty feed, all necessary medical attention, ongoing dental and hoof care, exercise needs and socialization. For $3,000 a year, less than $9 per day, you can help the Society care for a horse for twelve months.  read more »
Marilyn and George

Hall Implement generously donates lawnmower to MSSPA

On any business day you can find three generations of Halls busily working at Hall Implement Co. in Windham, Maine. Founded in 1961, the family-owned and-operated John Deere dealership has thrived through good and difficult economic times.  read more »

Keybank supports MSSPA

Community is Key to helping abused horses

On Tuesday, May 25th, KeyBank closed its doors to banking business and set about a different kind of business for the afternoon. KeyBank employees wearing red t-shirts emblazoned with “Neighbors Make a Difference” went into local communities to deliver volunteer service of many kinds. The Maine State Society for the Protection of Animals was very fortunate to have an afternoon’s assistance from KeyBankers Kathy Morrell and Alyson Trempe.  read more »