Dedicated to raising funds and awareness for pet rescue organizations nationwide, an event in Cranbury, NJ on Saturday, August 15 may be the answer for those wanting to help animals in need or thinking about adopting a companion animal. Purina Pro Plan's "Rally Across America" tour will stop at 35 Broadway Road, Cranbury, between 9 am-4 pm on that town's "Because your dog is worth it too" day.
The campaign's goal is to facilitate 300,000 adoptions nationally by the end of 2009. This year marks the third tour since 2005, when the program started. A major fundraising tool is the Rally to Rescue T-shirt collection, which can be seen and purchased on line.
The website (http://www.rallytorescue.org/) indicates that a number of pet rescue groups from the greater NY and NJ area will be in Cranbury. Organization reps will talk about how people can help animals in need and visitors can learn about local pet rescue efforts and sign up to volunteer if they'd like. Pro Plan dog trainer Melissa Heeter will offer live training sessions with her rescued dog, Viola, and cats and dogs can be adopted from the pet rescue organizations.
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Monday, August 3, 2009
Monday, July 27, 2009
2 good shelter stories
A couple last thoughts about animal shelters . . . for now, anyway.
First is an update on the “McDonald’s boxer” that Valerie Noble and I tried to save on July 15. Soon after she reached the Trenton Animal Shelter, the word was she’d go to a boxer rescue group. But then it got even better: when Valerie phoned to learn whether that had happened, she was told the boxer had been adopted! A woman who came in to register saw the dog and that was it. “Our” boxer left with a new collar, going to a new home.
Next is an excerpt from a haunting-but-(ultimately) happy book that Bobbie, the great children’s librarian at Labyrinth, introduced me to:
“. . . Most Friday afternoons on his way home from school, in that time before the weekend when lonely people realize just how lonely they are, George visited the dog shelter. And he always seemed to end up by the last cage in the last aisle . . . where the dogs no one wanted went for a final week before their journey to heaven. George felt at home there. In the dark gloom, he found a place where everything seemed lonelier than he was. . . .”
George finds a dog in that last cage, the two immediately relate, and . . . ! Plus, a kindly shelter manager plays a part in the story.
The book, which Bobbie and I agreed has a horrible title, is The Big Little Book of Happy Sadness. It was written and illustrated (beautifully) by a Brit, Colin Thompson, who is reportedly color blind. (Kane/Miller Book Publishers, Inc., La Jolla, CA, c. 2008)
A lovely gift for a child, the book suggests there are friends out there in the world and people and animals need one another.
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First is an update on the “McDonald’s boxer” that Valerie Noble and I tried to save on July 15. Soon after she reached the Trenton Animal Shelter, the word was she’d go to a boxer rescue group. But then it got even better: when Valerie phoned to learn whether that had happened, she was told the boxer had been adopted! A woman who came in to register saw the dog and that was it. “Our” boxer left with a new collar, going to a new home.
Next is an excerpt from a haunting-but-(ultimately) happy book that Bobbie, the great children’s librarian at Labyrinth, introduced me to:
“. . . Most Friday afternoons on his way home from school, in that time before the weekend when lonely people realize just how lonely they are, George visited the dog shelter. And he always seemed to end up by the last cage in the last aisle . . . where the dogs no one wanted went for a final week before their journey to heaven. George felt at home there. In the dark gloom, he found a place where everything seemed lonelier than he was. . . .”
George finds a dog in that last cage, the two immediately relate, and . . . ! Plus, a kindly shelter manager plays a part in the story.
The book, which Bobbie and I agreed has a horrible title, is The Big Little Book of Happy Sadness. It was written and illustrated (beautifully) by a Brit, Colin Thompson, who is reportedly color blind. (Kane/Miller Book Publishers, Inc., La Jolla, CA, c. 2008)
A lovely gift for a child, the book suggests there are friends out there in the world and people and animals need one another.
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