Hello and good morning!
I would like to start this morning with a HUGE THANK YOU to Rose Norkus for inviting us to participate in the Altamont Fair last week. Though the attendance at the fair it's self was down, I think that we had a great response at our booth. We were able to raise a total (between our 50/50 drawing and donations) $1078.00!! The 50/50 drawing was a total of just over $700 which our winner Rich Foster generously donated his winnings (over $350.00) back to Waggin' Tails Pet Rescue. We can't thank you enough Rich for being such a support to us and the animals in our care!! We would also like to thank all of our wonderful volunteers for helping us and putting in their time to help us accomplish this goal on such a stifling hot week. We couldn't have done it without you all!
I would also like to wish Rose our best wishes on her recovery. Though I do not have all of the details I do know that she was not well last week and have not heard any updates as to her health as of yet. Please if anyone knows, let us know. Thank you.
We have a number of great things happening within/to our group. This year alone, our goal was to rescue and find homes for 150 animals. We have nearly done that (if not already). We have also been able to assist our local community with litters of stray kittens totaling 35 kittens. We are still working on catching the moms who have been able to avoid us thus far :-( . We have also helped with taking in a number of owner surrenders as well. And have been successful in finding nearly all of them their new forever homes (we still have a few kittens and adult cats).
We have also been invited to a number of different businesses to host adoption clinics on location. In order to be able to do this, we are asking anyone interested in volunteering to please contact us. Along with these invites, we are also invited to and planning on hosting a couple of events of our own. Of which we will also need a number of additional volunteers.
This would be a great project for the whole family as well as seniors, empty nesters and retirees too. Please contact us if interested and feel free to spread the word too to anyone that may be interested in helping out. Keep your eyes peeled on our Events page for details.
We will again be at Dawgdom in Downtown Saratoga the second Sunday of September. We hope to see you all there! We will have another 50/50 drawing that will be drawn at the end of the day. Need not be in attendance to win as the winner will be called and notified. A few of our "kids" will be there as well to greet everyone and hopefully find their new forever family.
Though we are "closed to intake" at this time it is simply because we want to be able to continue doing what we do and help as many animals and families as we can. Because of this, we are giving our few wonderful foster homes a break as we have all been going full boar this year and most have been doubling up at times too. We don't want to burn anyone out either. We are hopefully going to be able to open our homes again soon. Again, a call out to anyone interested in fostering an animal in need to please contact us. The more foster homes we have the more we can help. Please consider helping us help them.
On that note, I'll let you all get back to what you were doing and wish you all a great day!
I look forward to hearing from and seeing you all again soon!

Well now I know what I promised a while back that I would be more on top of this and give more updates on a regular basis. I am sorry that I have not done what I have said that I would.
We have been VERY busy here as we have had a number of owner surrenders come in and applications galore. Which is a wonderful thing. We have been able to pre-approve many families for future animals that may come into our care.
As for our foster homes. What a wonderful group of people. I know I have said it before but I will say it again, we couldn't do it without you!!!! We would like to thank and welcome a couple of new foster volunteers as well. Welcome Aboard!! You have been wonderful and very generous with opening your hearts and homes to some of our "kids".
At this time, we unfortunately are closed to "intake" at this time. What this means is that we are unable to accept any animals into our group for a few reasons. Due to the restrictions that we have with the number of foster homes available, we are totally full right now. A few of our foster home are even doubled up. We have a number of cats and kittens as well with calls coming in each day. Part two is that everyone needs a break now and then. We have been going full boar all year and many of our foster homes are going on vacations (have a great time!!) and are unable to foster for a while. Myself, well I am in the same boat as well as many in our group. We will be taking a "couple of weeks off" so to speak to get caught up and reconstruct. In order to do this, we ourselves are unable to foster. As I mentioned, everyone needs a vacation sometime. Don't worry though, we will be back in full swing soon enough.
In the meantime, we have many many events coming up. Please keep an eye out on our events page for what is going on and where we will be. Next week for example, we will be at the Altamont Fair all week. Though at most times we will not have the animals that are looking for homes on site, we will be available to answer all your questions and are looking forward to meeting you all. I personally will be there all day from 11am to 8pm on Tuesday (opening day). I will bring with me someone to keep me company for the day. Most likely it will be the twins........our little manx mix kittens that are still looking for their new forever home if you can believe it. I can't promise that they will be there all day as it is a long day for any little ones.
Last month we were invited again to Saratoga. We had a great day and a wonderful turn out. We met so many wonderful people and were even able to raise nearly $150.00 between our 50/50 raffle and donations. We would like to thank Sara the owner of Dawgdom for inviting us back. Dawgdom is a wonderful little dog boutique that you should all check out.
We are planning our next yard sale fundraiser too. We do not yet have the date set in stone but will let you know soon. It looks like it will be in September this year. We will again be accepting donations for sale but not yet please. We will advertise on our events page and probably on Craigslist as well for dates and times for drop off and the dates of the sale.
As for a couple of the kids in our group that are still looking for homes. There is Tracker our wonderful little guy who we can not believe is still with us. He is still a puppy at only about 8 months old now and just as friendly and lovable as they come. He is however quiet a high energy little man so any family interested might want to keep up :-). There is Bentley a little Lhasa mix that is only about 3 yrs old or so. He came from a puppy mill and has been in foster for some time. He is now ready for his new forever home. Housebroken and get along with other dogs and children this little man is still quite shy and would do best in a home with another small dog. Actually let me refraze that, he NEEDS a home with another small dog. The foster home he is currently in has a small dog and he has attached himself to him like glue.
I guess that is all for now as I am being paged by Barney telling me it is way past dinner time and he want to eat before he passes out.
We look forward to seeing you all at the fair and speaking with you all.
Have a great night!