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!