Daisy was one of the first dogs adopted when best Friends first came here over a year ago. She was adopted by Mary and her family. Mary was a volunteer, then became staff (our receptionist + plus) and is now our adoption coordinator….as we recently said goodbye to the most wonderful Patti Prefetti who has moved away. Recently Daisy lost her battle and Mary and family let her go. Mary wrote this and I wanted to share it with all of you:
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Updates by kerry on Jul 27, 2008. There are comments.
Sanctuary animal updates:
Since our last update on June 18th the following animals were adopted: Bagel, Lila, Scout, Brady, Kyle, Grace, Morgan, Amber, Dexter, Joy, Sparkles, Rudolph, Samara, Savannah, Lenny, Studley, Romey, Donald, EIGHT puppies, and two cats Leo and Alice! 28 animals went to new homes. Great job everyone!
Thank You Volunteers
We have SO MANY people to thank this month. I decided to make this mailer almost solely about that. I just don’t know where in the world to start. Volunteers have been coming down in droves and doing all sorts of work here at Pets Alive. The transformation at the sanctuary has been amazing and awe inspiring. I so apologize if I neglect to mention someone. So much happens here in a month that your head spins and some days if I am not in I just walk by something and stop dead and say OH MY! WHO DID THAT??? WOW! So please forgive me. We’re going to rectify that so we can acknowledge all the people that go above and beyond.
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Updates by kerry on Jul 27, 2008. There are comments.
Hi Everyone…Matt here.
Look…we all know who does all the work around here. Who worries herself sick, text messages me in the middle of the night because she’s worried about a dog, a cat, the gravel in the driveway, whether we left the garage door unlocked, or some other terribly important thing that has kept her up all night.
This last dog transport was a nail biter. I have to admit that even I was worried at some juncture, and I never worry about anything — I have Kerry to worry for both of us.
So I’ll start at the beginning. It was a dark and stormy night. No…wait a minute. It was the winter of my discontent. No…no good either. All this happened, more or less.
Patty Perfetti is an adoption machine. She and Mary do a terrific job fielding the hundreds of calls and emails we get each week. The quicker we adopt the quicker we can save more animals. With that in mind we want to make sure our animals go to the best possible homes, so the process is pretty intense.
Kerry got an email from Phyllis at the Circle of Hope rescue in Jackson, Tennessee. Phyllis takes in dogs whose time is up in area kill shelters and places them in foster homes until they can be adopted. Since she has no shelter, when she runs out of foster homes dogs begin to die. And she was full.
Kerry got a list of the dogs in the shelter and huddled with Janet, Patty and Mary to figure out how many we could take and how quickly we could take them. I was busy doing some other chore that escapes me right now, but it’s just as well as I tend to take all of the dogs now and worry about where to put them later. Choosing the animals we take in is by far the worst part of our job, because we are pretty much deciding if they live or die. We both stay up nights sometimes thinking about the responsibility and the implications.
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Animal Rescue by Admnistrator on Jul 11, 2008. There are comments.