Sunday December 9, from 10am to 4pm, come to Petsmart on Johnston Street and have your pets photo taken with Santa! For every photo package sold that day, Petsmart will donate $5 to AHS/ Cat Ranch! Adults and children are encouraged to be in the photo with their pet!
Tickets are still available for the AHS / Cat Ranch Fall Raffle Fundraiser!
Drawings will be held on November 30, 2007. The Prize List includes the following:
“Llivia Complete Skin renewal System Gift Set” $390.00 Value
Oakley Sunglasses $130 Value
$50.00 Gift Card from Winn Dixie
$50.00 Gift Card from Home Depot
Tupperware Surprise Pack $100.00 Value
“Cat Pay The Devil” A Joe Grey mystery hardback book autographed by Ms. Murphy
197 Piece Wooden TreeHouse Playset $100.00 Value
Bath & Body Gift Basket $25.00 Value
Bird Feeder $20.00 Value
5″ TV/Radio $25.00 Value
Doggie Treat Christmas Gift Set $30.00 Value
Bread Basket from Great Harvest Bread $35.00 Value
Raffle tickets are $1 each or six tickets for $5.00. We will be selling raffle tickets outside of Petsmart on Saturday November 17 and 24 from 11:30am to 3pm. Tickets are also available via our website – send email to raffle@acadianahumane.org and you can purchase the tickets via Paypal.
This Saturday, October 27, is the annual “Bark In The Park” event co-sponsored by Lafayette Animal Aid and the Krewe Des Chienes. The doggie-oriented and perfect-for-a-family-outing event is from 11am to 2pm at Girouard Park in Lafayette, Louisiana. There will be several doggie contests, including best costume. AHS will be there selling bottled water and soft drinks as well as animal-related items and tickets for the ongoing Fall fundraiser.
Bring the dogs and the kids and join the fun!
Shirley Rousseau Murphy, author of the Joe Grey cat detective mystery books, has graciously donated six of her books to AHS/ Cat Ranch to use for their fundraising efforts. They are hardback editions, with beautifully illustrated jacket covers, and personally signed by Ms. Murphy.
Ms. Murphy’s books have won 7 Muse Medallion awards for Best Cat Novel of the Year from the Cat Writer’s Association. A life long cat lover, she has this to say about cats:
“To imagine our lives without cats stirs such an empty feeling. To imagine our human world without any animals at all, is, for me, to imagine a vast and empty void sterile in the extreme. No bird, no beast. No warm fur to stroke, no mute friend who is yet so eloquent, no eye of another species in which to gaze and speculate, no wondrous and tentative communication with one who is not like us. To be surrounded only with other humans–who are often very dull–to encounter no other form of intelligence or joyfulness or wit, seems to me unthinkably tedious. ”
Please visit her delightful website http://www.joegrey.com!
Thank you very much, Ms. Murphy, and we look forward to the next Joe Grey mystery, “Cat Deck The Halls” coming out this month!
The Acadiana Humane Society and Cat Ranch attended Sterling Izuzu’s Take This Puppy Home Event in Lafayette this morning. You can see the Izuzu Puppy Truck in the background. They are getting the public to fill the truck up with dog and cat food, pet treats, pet bowls, pet toys, and other pet supplies to donate to the local animal rescues. We brought two of our fully vetted fosters. Aleu, our Husky mix that we rescued from Roicy Duhon Animal Control about a year ago, can be seen in this picture.
Buddy, a terrier mix, can be seen in this photo. Bernie of KPEL Radio fell in love with Buddy. She said he looks a lot like her rescue dog Buddy.
ARF, the Animal Rescue Foundation, was the only other animal rescue in attendance at today’s event. Here you can see Nancy Tabb Marcantel of ARF doing an interview with Bernie of KPEL Radio during the live remote today.
If you see this specialy marked Izuzu truck parked in front of Petsmart or the Izuzu dealer in Lafayette, please stop by and donate cat food, dog food, pet treats, pet toys, or pet supplies. The items collected will be donated to area rescues such as Acadiana Humane Society and also ARF.
