There were quite a few gorgeous dogs that were there! All kinds big and small, they were all very beautiful and unique!
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| Willow and Atticus who were with a rescue group were looking for their FUR EVER homes today. Very gorgeous doggies! Very friendly! Not every day you see a full sized poodle sitting next to a German Shepered! Gorgeous dogs like these end up in shelters and rescue groups more often than you think!!! |
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| This handsome boy kept watching me as I was taking photos so he posed for a pic. He's a handsome boy and I hope he found his fur ever home! |
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| This handsome dog was having fun just lounging about enjoying the attention from all the volunteers! |
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| This gorgeous little doggy reminded me of my own two gals at home! |
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| Gracie says: "Where were today? I waited for you for to come and take me home, but you didn't come for me. I'm a good girl, so I will wait for you to come, and wuv me and make me your doggy" |
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| Addie says "I waited for you to day. I hoped you would come and adopt me. I need you to wuv me and make me your doggy. I will take a wittle doggy nap and wait like a good girl for my Fur Evers home" |
Addied and Gracie did not find their Fur Ever homes today, but we aren't giving up and neither are they. We have no doubts that there is a great fantastic home out there for each of them. They are fantastic gals who deserve not just ANY home, but the PERFECT home.
I was so glad to get to meet several people from other rescue groups today, it was great to finally get to put faces with names of people I talk with on Facebook on a regular basis about the dogs.
I heard a lot of positive comments from these groups about how far our shelter has come in the past several months and they look forward to working with us. That is a win win for everyone! Especially, the dogs!
We also had the pleasure of seeing Darla and Doug and Chance again! These were dogs that were originally from the shelter, but were rescued from the shelter by a couple of rescue groups. Dogs Deserve Better rescued Chance from the shelter after he escaped his life of being on a chain. They had been trying to get him for quite awhile now and when he finally ened up in the shelter they were able to get him. We were glad to see him go to a great group! Darla and Doug were taken by Second Chance rescue group. I was so glad to hear the two of them had gone to a rescue group together! We had the funniest little southern love story between Darla and Doug. While at the shelter Darla just loved Doug and just wanted to sit next to him. The two of them are actually in a foster home together from what I heard today so that just makes the love story all the more cuter. It was great to see them today and see how well they were doing. I hope they find their fur ever homes soon!
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| Little Miss Darla! I know the volunteers at the shelter miss her! But we're all glad to know she's at a great rescue group. |
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| Mr. Doug the sweet little cutie corgi mix! Unfortunately, I found out he has tested positive for heart worms, BUT he is with an awesome rescue group that will get him on the proper treatment. |
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| Chance is looking amazing! When he came into the shelter he had sores on his ears from being bitten by flies before he ended up at the shelter. Now his sores on his ears are healing up nicely and he is just spoiled rotten. |
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| Tina the ACO of the Shelter takes Addie on a little walk around the park. Yes beach balls were available for the dogs to play with. |
Recently, one of our shelter volunteers donated a MUCH needed dryer!
There are many things that you can do to help the shelter.
Do you have a birthday coming up? If so then perhaps mention to your family and friends that they could make a personal donation to the shelter in your honor. Perhaps pledge to pay the adoption fee for one of the kennels? $25 will cover the adoption fee of a puppy that has been wormed and given parvo shots. $10 will cover the costs of an older dog that has had no shots. That's about what one might spend on a birthday presents.
Perhaps if you have a birthday party you could put out a donation can and ask relatives and friends to bring a dollar to put in the can to donate to the shelter, or to bring a dog toy or dog leash to take to the shelter as a donation (BTW that is something my 4 year old daughter is wanting to do for her 5th birthday party in just a couple months, of which my husband and I glady approve of!).
Back to school is starting soon, why not ask your school or class if they can do a shelter drive? Encourage children to bring in an item for the dog shelter. A small bag of dog food, a dog collar, dog leash, cute dog sweater, bag of dog treats, dog toy, dog brush, dog shampoo...etc etc. Many things could be donated that can be found at the dollar stores.
Do you have a Church group or other Youth related group? (Girl Scouts/Boy Scouts) Why not get your group out to the shelter to help out? We could always use some helping hands! Maybe you could do a car wash or dog wash to raise money for the shelter?
Funding is vitally needed for the shelter.
These dogs often times need medical care. That takes money that the shelter doesn't always have readily available. It would be wonderful if we could afford to spay/neuter dogs BEFORE they left the shelter. A lot of shelter/human society's/rescue groups DO get to do this for the dogs that come through there, but our shelter is so small we are not able to do so, but we would love to be able to do this! It is VERY important to spay/neuter your pets, it helps keep the # of "unwanted" pets in the shelter down, which keeps shelters from getting over crowded which is very dangerous!
Speaking of fundraisers and such....
Mark your calendars and start going through your closets and garages! Aug. 18th there is a garage sale at the VFW. The Moberly shelter will have a table and they are asking for people to donate items to the shelter (please drop the items off at the shelter prior to the yard sale, you have from now until Aug. 18th to get your donations in!) The shelter will be selling these items at the yard sale to raise money for the shelter. We appreciate any and all of the donations!
Also Aug. 4th is Bazaar Days in downtown Moberly. Look for the Moberly Animal shelter to be there as well! They will have some of their dogs out there from the HOUNDS Program that have graduated and are looking for a FUR EVER HOME! The Bazaar is on Reed Street and starts at 8am on Aug. 4th
If you have any other great fundraising ideas for the shelter, please leave us a message on our FB page! (just search for Dogs for Adoption: Moberly, MO Animal Shelter)
There are also some really cute little leash/collar slip ons that would be wonderful for the shelter to have! They are about $1 a piece unfortunately the web site address I was given for them isn't working so I will have to try and find that later and post it! If someone would love to order some for the shelter that would be great! The covers can be slipped over leashes or onto collars and say "ADOPT ME" they come in plain yellow or pink and blue (for easy gender display for potential adopters!) These would be very useful for the dogs that come out of the HOUNDS Program and are in Foster homes. When they go out and about around town it would be an easy way to advertise that they are adoptable.
I would like to thank everyone today that attended the adoption event and helped the Moberly shelter! Thank you for the information you have us today and for the positive feed back. This was our first adoption event and it was great to see the other groups in action and take pointers from them so we can better help the dogs at our shelter.
We look forward to participating in more adoption events.
Mahala Dixson
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