News Archives: Volunteer News 5/11: 2008-05-11
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**Dog Wash Saturday at Kroger, Cantrell and Polk, 9-2; We need help setting up at 8:30. Let me know which shift you can do...we need lots of help at our dog washes! And we could use donations of flea shampoo.** We will be doing offsite adoptions at Murray Park , by the Dog Park, on second and fourth weekends. See info below, and contact Laura if you can help. This is a good chance to show adoptable dogs in foster care, too. Offsite Adoption Event at Murray Dogpark - Sat 5/24
Shift 1 - 10-12
- need 2 volunteers to participate in featuring adoptable dogs/pups; willing to pick up from shelter and transport 1-2 dogs each to Murray dogpark
Shift 2: 12-2
- Offsite Adoption Event at Murray Dogpark - Sun 5/25
Shift 1: - 10-12
Shift 2: 12-2
Dogs should be bathed at the shelter before going to events. You can take them in the back door by the clinic entrance, and bathe them in the grooming room.
Laura will be at the event for both shifts. If interested, please contact Laura at laurajade76@yahoo.com and let me know, too. Even if you don't want to take a dog, stop over and give the volunteers with dogs a little break! And if you know who you want to take, please let me know. Kay needs a list of the dogs that are going.
**Puppy Love , if you are interested in helping with this great program, contact Leah at leahcapel@sbcglobal.net for more info. This is the schedule for the next several months:
1st Saturday: Briarwood 10:30 a.m.
2nd Saturday: Parkway 10:00a.m.
3rd Saturday: Presbyterian Village 10;00 a.m.
4th Saturday: Parkview 10:30 a.m.
Meet at the shelter a half hour before, to get your puppy ready.
Volunteers remember, please, to pick up poop in the Dog Park when you have dogs out.
And..Scout Troop 395 made real progress today in laying stone paths at the entrances to the dog park. This is part of a plan to keep the dog park from being too muddy. Drainage has been improved, and gravel and topsoil will soon be added to low spots.
**Birthday Party This Sunday...May 18, 1:30 Need help. Also May 25!
Remember to use your Kroger Card! They don't help us if you don't use them! If you don't have one, we just got more at the shelter. If you don't know how they work, let me know and I will explain this painless way to make money for the shelter.
**If you would like to learn a new skill and help our dogs get adopted, sign up for our Dog Training Classes, by contacting Phyllis at Phyllisnewt@hotmail.com These four-week courses teach our dogs the basics of canine "good citizenship", make them ore adoptable, and the dogs and trainers have a lot of fun.A new series of classes will start soon; contact Phyllis if you would like to be part of it!
** For those of us who don't get to see our dogs on Channel 4 on Thursdays at 6:15 AM, you can now go to our website, click on "Our TV Stars at Ch 4" (under News) and see a video clip of the spot.
**We have some really nice HSPC merchandise available, some just for volunteers, some for everybody. Go to our our website, click on New Merchandise and check it all out. Shirts, totes, bibs, license plate frames, dog outfits, hats.. some with our logo, some with beautiful designs by Little Rock Artist Les Waite. AND FOR VOLUNTEER GEAR, go to www.cafepress.com/hspcvolunteers
**Check our website for information on buying a page, or sponsorship, of the 2009 DayPlanner. We are already selling pages, so don't wait too long...last year we had to turn away people, or the book would be too thick!!
**Dr Medlock, our staff vet, has put a green binder up front, for volunteers to write down any illness or problems that they might observe. She promises to look at it first thing when she comes in.
**Super Suppers schedule:
10% to be donated to the Pulaski County Humane Society on these dates. You must mention that you are purchasing to support the shelter.
Friday, May 16
Saturday, May, 17
Friday, May 23
Saturday, May 24
**Christine is again going to do our Critter Camps. These are the dates, if you know any children over 8 that would enjoy it, or if you would like to help:
Dates:June 6, June 20, July 11, and August 1 (11am-3 pm all days)
**Adoptions: Max (again); Tiffany; Sally; Wesley (Westie #48), lots of Puppy Mill dogs, and some kittens
**Next volunteer orientation: Monday May 12 at 6:00PM at the shelter.
And check our website www.warmhearts.org.
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