News Archives: Volunteer News 5/18: 2008-05-18
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**Dog Wash Saturday at Kroger made $1027. We had good weather, a good turn out, and great help. Thanks to Justin and Jessica, Dan and Jamie; Joanna; Joe; Dani; Jennifer; Robert; Lori and Wilson; David, Molly, Lauren and friends (hope I remembered everyone!) And thank you for donating shampoo.. and especially Pat, who donated enough to probably last us through the summer!** 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 May 24
Shift 1 - 10-12
- need 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 before going to events. You can take them in the back door (by the clinic entrance) and bathe them in the grooming room. Please let Laura and me know by Wednesday if you plan to go, and if you know which dog you want to take, or if you want Kay to pick one for you. Kay wants to know by Wednesday. Laura will be there for both shifts. Contact her at Laurajade76@yahoo.com
**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 no more than three dogs per volunteer (in the HSPC Dog Park).
**Birthday Party Sunday...May 25, 1:30 Need help.
**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 more 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!
Congratulatons to our Graduating dogs (and their trainers) for Saturday May 17
Roxy Girl/Susann
Maryam/Debbie
Sigmund/Alexis
Peter/Sandy
CeeCee/Indigo
Lawrence/Pat
Adopted before graduation:
Marlena/Karen
Tiffany/Nikki
Kep/Linda
The trainers are also starting our Teacher's Pet promotion this weekend, and will have the bulletin board up in the shelter lobby starting on Friday. This promotion will feature three dogs from the training classes, elected by the trainers, as "Teacher's Pet." This will give three of our training dogs additional exposure to try to assist with adoptions and the first three are Pablo, Peter and Andy.
** For those of us who don't get to see our dogs on Channel 4 on Thursdays at 5:45 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. The deadline is getting near, and we still have available pages...
**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 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: We adopted out 21 animals Saturday! Many of them were puppy mill dogs, and also: Beanie; Felix; Shelby; Pablo; Wally; Peter Pan;Turley; Morgan Daisy; Kep; Walt; Emilie...br>
And check our website www.warmhearts.org.
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