Help Your Local Shelters

Wow! So I am so proud of the Girl Scout Troop in Macon, MO! A town neighboring ours.  Girl Scout Troop 9501 is working hard for the Macon, CO Animal Shelter.  They are walking the dogs, and the girls have created a lovely Facebook group to help their local shelter.  I am very proud of these young ladies and their hard work and dedication.  Please, keep it up! You are making a difference!
 
I've been worried about the Macon shelter and have been hoping that someone would start doing this for them soon.  So I am definetley thrilled to see what these young ladies are doing.  Maybe eventually we can work on a project together to help our shelters, and get some dogs adopted! I love it when people get involved and CARE about their local shelter!
 
Anything that helps save these dogs lives, is wonderful!
 
If you would like to check out their Facebook page, please look for it here: Macon Animal Shelter 
 
I am so looking forward to all of the wonderful things these ladies will be doing for their shelter.  Way to go Girl Scout Troop 9501! Keep up the great work!
 
Our own shelter in Moberly, will be participating in the local Veterans Day Parade on Saturday Nov. 10th.  I do not have a time or location as of yet, I am hoping to have that this week from the Shelter Volunteer who is heading up our participation in the local parades. 
 
We have a few upcoming projects that we will be tackling after Thanksgiving and I am very excited to start them! Have already been getting a bit of a head start, and have some other projects lined up for this spring as well! I am very excited for the upcoming events and such!!
 
I am loving all of the volunteers we've had coming out, we appreciate all of the hard work from everyone, you guys are wonderful! All it takes is one volunteer to get the ball rolling!
 
I am so very happy that a friend asked me to come to the shelter back in March/April of this year.  Going in to that shelter has been one of the best things that has happened.  I've met so many AMAZING people, have saved the lives of MANY dogs, and have been able to do so many amazing things I never would have gotten a chance to do otherwise.  Going into that shelter, and beginning to photograph those dogs, and then from there creating the Facebook page for the shelter, and this blog, and the Shelter Twitter page...it's all been amazing.  It's made a difference in the lives of dogs in our community.  It's helping them get adopted into loving homes, and not meet their fate in a horrible gas chamber. 
 
Every single volunteer that comes to help at the shelter, you are saving lives.  You are making a difference! You MATTER!
 
Get involved.  What do you have to lose?  Think about all that you GAIN!

 

New friends

A wonderful volunteer experience
You might even add a new furry member to your family that you didn't even know you were missing!
It makes you feel good to help others who need your help. 
You are doing a GOOD THING .
 
There are so many other benefits to volunteering at your local animal shelter!
 
There are so many WAYS inwhich you can help.
 

• Share our posts.  Share the dogs that we post on the page, tell your friends ABOUT out Facebook page, and about the shelter.  Tell them how to get to the shelter, and tell them when Volunteer days are and that EVERYONE is important.
• Tell people to adopt from the shelter, adopt, don't shop.
• Encourage people to spay and neuter their pets.
• Show up and volunteer your time to walk a dog.
• Sponsor a dog (you can pay all or part of a dogs adoption fee, or if a dog needs some kind of medical care you can donate to go towards that)
• When you have a birthday party or something have people donate items to the shelter in your name (my 5 year old daughter just did that this September, collected donations for the shelter instead of getting presents for herself.  If a 5 year old can do that, than so can an adult!). 
• Adopt from the shelter.
• Become a foster.
• Help transport a dog to a rescue group (or help pay for gas so someone can transport a dog to a rescue group!)
• Show up and volunteer at one of our events (either an adoption event, or help at a parade, or something like that).
• Donate.  The shelter always needs bleach, collars, leashes, food bowls, toys, dog beds, blankets, chew bones, dog treats, and money.  Donations are ALWAYS awesome!
• Do you have an idea on a fundraiser you can do for the shelter?  Are you a local group (Church/Girl Scouts/Boy Scouts/4H etc etc) that wants to get involved?  Call the shelter and see HOW you can help.  Your help is NEEDED, your help is WANTED.  All you have to do is take that first step!

 
Call the shelter at (660)833-7330 to find out how YOU can be of assistance!

 

Below are some of the sweetest dogs that are currently at our shelter needing YOUR HELP! Please click the photos of the dog to be taken to their photo on the Shelter's Facebook Page and their information.  Clicking the Map will take you directly to our Shelter's Facebook Page.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Again way to go to the Macon Animal Shelpter, good job ladies of Girl Scout Troop 9501 great job getting involved!

Mahala

Moberly, MO Animal Shelter

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Trick or Treat Trail

Halloween was a fun time for the volunteers at the animal shelter. Many of them got together down town on Reed Street in Moberly, MO to hand out candy with many other local businesses.  There were quite a few kids that came through! Several cute dogs came through too and were given their doggy biscuits for coming out.  Lots of kids wearing adoooorable costumes as well!

Wanted to share a few photos from yesterday!

Joyce, Jody, Emily and Shawnda ready to hand out some candy down town!

Joyce busies herself handing out candy, while Jody samples some of the  candy to make sure
it's absolutely fantastic.

Jody and Shawnda taking some time to act silly.  These ladies are awesome and such
great volunteers at the shelter!

Our table was a busy place!

You gotta watch out for that Shawnda, she steals candy from children

Look at this adorable kitten! Isn't she just precious! Love her costume!

Oooh! Look at those costumes! Everything from scary to sweet!

Shelter volunteer Tasha and her family stopping by the shelter table to say
and get some candy for that cute little boy!

Busily handing out candy to the many cute kiddos coming by the table!

Handing out candy to ninja's, and spider men, and lions and everything else in between!

A ninja turtle and a pumpkin stop by the shelter table for some candy treats!

Shawnda working hard to open that bag of candy!

We're watching you Shawnda.  Always watching you. 

Oooh a sweet little Fairy and a Grim Reaper stop by the table to get some candy!

We all loved this unique and amazing costume!

Look at this sweet little lady who stopped by the shelter table for a dog biscuit!
What a sweet heart!

Caterpillars, and witches waiting for some candy!

Jody you guys better hurry up and give that HULK some candy!!

Aren't they adorable!? Thanks for stopping by our table for some dog treats!

Check out this sweet little owly and her Mom who came by for some treats too

Look at that pouty puppy dog face! Better hurry up and give him some candy!

Strawberry Shortcake stops by with her mom and little sister for some candy treats too!

Our next event is the Veterans Day Parade on Nov. 10th.  We will be unable to have any shelter dogs with us, so people CAN walk their own dog in the parade, but be prepared for people to ask if they are up for adoption.  We would love for shelter volunteers to walk with us as FRIENDS OF THE SHELTER! Help pay your respects to our Veterans and help your local shelter too.

Will have more details about what time the parade starts and where we are meeting and what not at a later date.

We are also having a little baby shower for shelter volunteer Tabitha, as she is having a little boy and is due in December.  We thought it would be nice to have a little get together for her at the shelter.  She has been volunteering at the shelter since May and we are glad to have had her and her fiance Jeff volunteer with us! They even adopted a sweet and gorgeous dog from the shelter, her name is Sissy, and she is doing very well in her awesome Fur Ever home.

Don't forget that there are several dogs at the shelter looking for a home!

Mae