Shelter Shorts November 2012

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November 2012SHELTER SHORTS is a monthly newsletter intended to keep Rivers and Bluffs AnimalShelter volunteers and supporters connected. With everyones hectic schedules, we knowit is often difficult, if not impossible to attend monthly meetings or to work at all of ourfundraisers.

Everyone is invited to submit articles for the newsletter. To do so, please call Bev at608-326-2914 or email her at [email protected] meetings are held on the 3rd Thursday of every month at the Prairie du

Chien City Hall. Meetings begin at 6:00 p.m. Please use the back door. Everyone iswelcome and encouraged to attend.The next meeting will be held on Thursday, December 20. The December meeting willbe at Huckleberrys Restaurant and will be our annual Christmas Party. More informationon the Christmas Party can be found further in this newsletter.

In an effort to make Shelter Shorts more attractive and user friendly, the layout willchange. Brian Cipra and Bev will work together to design a new look for Shelter Shorts.

The new design will hopefully be ready by the December issue of Shelter Shorts. The listof members will no longer be included in SS. Renewals and new members will be listedin the month that membership dues are received. Donation amounts will no longer beshown.

Upcoming Events and Fund Raisers

Wake Up Santa will be held in the Community Room of City Hall on Saturday,December 1. We will wake Santa up promptly at 8:30 a.m., followed by breakfast and anassortment of activities, including Santa Bingo, Pin the Nose on Rudolph, Santa Says,Santas Secret Gift Shop, and Santas Workshop. The volunteer list is nearingcompletion, but if there is anyone who would still like to help, please know that we will

not turn anyone down. Wake Up Santa is a fun event to help with. We will meet at 7a.m. on Saturday morning. We will turn the Community Room of City Hall into aChristmas Wonderland on Thursday afternoon, November 29th at 4:30 p.m. Everyone isinvited to help. According to Jill, registrations are starting to come in.

Tractor Supply Gift Wrapping and Bake Sale is scheduled for Saturday, December15th from 9 a.m. 3 p.m. If you can bake your favorite holiday treats for the bake sale,please reply to this email or call Bev at 326-2914. They can be dropped off at TractorSupply that morning at 9 a.m. Please have them packaged and priced to sell. We willalso sell home-made dog treats, dog tugs and slip over the collar holiday bandanas.

Pet Food Pantry donation boxes have been out in the community for about 2 weeks.Personally, I was

afraid that the pet food pantry would never take off. The box in Piggly Wiggly is theonly one that I

monitor a few times a week as I am in there often. For the first week, the bag of dogfood that I put in

was the only thing in the box. I had put off checking on the other boxes because I wasafraid that they


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would be empty. I could not have been more wrong. The people in this community areawesome! I

would like to thank any of you who donated food, promoted it in any way, or allowed meto put the boxes

in your business. Prairie Cinemas box was full as was the box in Tender Care. I

stopped in atSouthwest Vet, True Value, Piggly Wiggly and Tractor Supply on Saturday morning.When I walked

into Southwest Vet, I could not believe my eyes. The box was filled and the bench onwhich the box was

setting and the floor in front of the bench was also full of pet food. True Value had 5large bags of pet

food and Piggly Wigglys box was also full and there was $10 cash in the box which Iused to purchase 1

bag of dog food and 1 of cat food. Tractor Supplys box was a bit disappointing as therewere only 2

small cans of cat food in their box. I had to run into Piggly Wiggly again on Saturdayafternoon, andthere was one more bag of cat food. To date, I have collected 382 pounds of dry cat and

dog food as wellas many cans of pet food and 2 large bags of rawhide chews and milk bones. This

morning, Sue Ridersponsored a free skate at River City Roller Rink with admission being a donation of pet

food. Ourmascot, Chance (aka Linda Bedward) was also on hand to skate with the kids. Sad to

say, that mygrandson, Tristan, Kaitlyn, and 3 of Sues nephews kids were the only ones to

participate. My dogsVegas and Nicki were also present. Vegas got to burn off all of her excess energy by

running with thekids as they were skating. Tristans first time on skates was a huge success and I know

we will be back.Vegas and I demonstrated the fine art of canine jump roping, and we surpassed our

previous record of 14rotations with a total of 28. She was awesome to say the least.

Thanks to Linda and Sue for giving up a Saturday morning and also to Sue for offeringthe use of

the rink. On Friday evening, December 7, the PdC Area Girl Scouts will have theirChristmas Party at

Hoffman Hall. The Girl Scouts will bring pet food donations to the party. Santa,Chance, Bev and her

therapy dogs will be in attendance to accept the donations and hopefully get a picture fora newspaper

article. Pet food will be delivered to the food pantry on Thursday or Friday of this week.Again, thanks


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to everyone who donated to this program which I hope to continue throughout the year.

Rivers and Bluffs Christmas Party will be held at Huckleberrys Restaurant onThursday, December 20 in conjunction with the December meeting. We will order offthe menu at 6 p.m. with the meeting to follow while our food is being prepared.

Everyone will be responsible for their own meal and tip. If you would like to participatein a gift exchange, please bring a gift with a value of $10. If you bring a gift, you will gohome with one. We will also be collecting pet food for the pet food pantry at theChristmas Party. Please RSVP by replying to this email or by calling Bev at 326-2914 orJill at 326-4870 by Friday, December 15th. The party is an excellent time to renewfriendships and enjoy each others company without working at a fund raiser. I hope tosee many of you there.

Dog Obedience Classes will tentatively start on Saturday, January 5. Classes will beheld indoors at Tractor Supply and will last for 6 weeks. Class time is 10 a.m. Dogsmust be current on all vaccinations and be on a topical flea and tick treatment. Cost of the

class is $60 and all proceeds will benefit Rivers and Bluffs Animal Shelter. Forregistration information, please call Bev at 326-2914. Class size will be limited.

Nelson True Value will be revamping their pet department in the near future. DonnaTeynor and Oscar asked me if we would be interested in doing some type of event topromote it. We could do a food stand, dog demonstrations, or basically anything wewould want to do. This promotion will be held in January. I told them we will discuss itand I will get back to them.

Bingo Anyone? There were a number of positive responses to the question of usingBingo as a fund raiser for RABAS. More research will take place and I hope to have areport concerning cost of equipment, date and location availability, regulations, bingolicense cost and requirements, number of volunteers necessary per game and any otherquestions prepared by the March meeting.

Adoptions, Losses, People Looking for a New Pet, Pets in Need of a Forever Home

Dale and Clara Huston sadly said good-bye to Patches, a stray cat they had befriended.They finally had tamed it enough to get it into a pet carrier so it could be vaccinated andspayed. But Patches was diagnosed with a fatal feline disease and was euthanized.

Because of Dale and Claras loss, they adopted the one remaining cat that Tender Careneeded a forever home for. Clara says their new addition is a perfect fit. This adoption isthe 12th cat that Tender Care has found a home for in the last few months.Congratulations to Dr. Jami and her staff.

Brenda Wilson also just acquired a new kitten. It was a stray living near Brendas home.Brenda made the decision to make the kitten her own and give it a forever home. Brendaand the kitten are very happy with this decision.


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Don and Eileen Klatt are looking to provide a forever home to a small to mid-sized adultdog, ideally about 4or 5 years old, house trained and with no separation or barking issues.If you know of a dog in need of a home, please reply to this email.

Tender Care Animal Hospital is looking for a home for a lab mix. This dog will need

plenty of tender loving care and lots of socialization and some training.

Ongoing Topics

Phoneraiser please continue to save your old cell phones and ink jet cartridges. Dropthem off at Tender Care Animal Hospital or bring them to the monthly meetings. Werecently received a check from Phoneraiser for $55.44. Thanks, Donna for taking chargeof Phoneraiser.

U.S. Bones Please continue to order cat and dog treats from USBones.com. Theydonate 25% of each order placed to RABAS. A check was received for $6 from U. S.Bones.

Dr. Donna Higgins Wildlife Photo Gallery is on display at her office downtownPrairie du Chien. The 12x12 wildlife prints in borderless clip frames are availablefor $35 each. Donna will donate $25 to RABAS for each print she sells. They arebeautiful and would make an excellent Christmas present.

Kwik Trip Gas Cards continue to be our best fund raiser to date. From October 23through November 14, our profit on the Kwik Trip Cards was $474.00. This isapproximately $6,000 annually that we are raising without any expense, very little time,and no one is buying things they really do not want or need. Thanks to everyone whocontinues to support us through the purchase of these cards. I would like to encouragemore of you to help us reach our goal of an animal shelter through the purchase of thesecards. Cards can be delivered to you on the same day or the next by replying to this emailor by calling Jill at 326-4870 or Bev at 326-2914. Cards are sold in increments of $25,$50 and $100 and make excellent Christmas presents. Remember, we make 10% of thecost of the card. Thanks also to Jill for her time in keeping track of the cards anddeposits.

www.riversandbluffsanimalshelter.org is Rivers and Bluffs Animal Shelters website.Thanks to Randy P. for keeping this website up to date.

Therapy Dogs International teams continue to make a difference in the community.

Kathy and Digger brighten the lives of the residents weekly at Prairie Maisson. Deb andher dogs Jasmine and Sami visit Bluff View 2nd graders every Monday and Tuesday toencourage the love of reading. Bev and her dogs have received approval to start visits toWyalusing Academy. Visits will start the first week in December. Paula and Maggieremain on medical leave. Please keep them in your thoughts and prayers so they can soonreturn to what they love doing enriching the lives of others less fortunate.
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Volunteer hours will be collected by Randy P. at monthly meetings or you can emailyour hours to Randy at [email protected].

Planning Meetings will be held in conjunction with board meetings on the 2nd

Thursday of the odd numbered months.

Treasurers Report

Current Balance November 15, 2012 - $109,792.96Checking Account Balance - $8,950.25; Total C.D.s- $100,842.71One thing to note if we do not have land by spring of 2013, we will need to repay the George Family

Foundation back the $10,000.00 that we received from the Foundation 3 years ago. It was given to us

with the stipulation that it would be used for land purchase and that we would have 3 years to

purchase it.

Membership Renewals Memberships are good for one year. There are 5 different levelsof membership:$5.00 student; $15 Individual; $25 Family; $50 Sponsor; $100 Patron; $500 Benefactor.

Some members choose to donate a fixed amount every month. Thanks to everyone foryour financial support.

Donations

All donors are recognized in Shelter Shorts and a thank you note is written.Sharon Willoughby & Bryce Hinsch

New Members and Renewal Memberships

Membership renewals are current through November 15th.Sharon Willoughby & Bryce HinschBev PozegaReminder: Annual memberships should be renewed 1 year from the month in which you joined.

Continued Monthly Pledges

Don & Eileen Klatt

Thanks to everyone who volunteered this month. Thanks to everyone who supported us through

donations, and memberships. There are many jobs that continue to get done without recognition.

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River and Bluffs Animal Shelter Membership Form

Student - $5.00 ____ Sponsor - $50.00 _____Individual - $15.00 ____ Patron - $100.00 _____Family - $25.00 ____ Benefactor - $500.00I would like to make a monthly pledge of : ________ per month for a total of

$_______ per year.

Name:___________________________________

Address:_________________________________

City/State/Zip_____________________________

Email:____________________________________ Phone Number:______________________

Please mail membership form to: River and Bluffs Animal Shelter

PO Box 421, Prairie du Chien, WI 53821
mailto:[email protected]:[email protected]


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Shelter Shorts November 2012