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Join Us And Help Raise Funds for a New Low Cost Spay/Neuter ClinicPosted Tuesday, August 26, 2008, at 10:41 AM
This project is just getting off the ground. This bike ride is the first fundraiser for the newly formed Spay/Neuter committee. Let's make this dream a reality in the Shelbyville-Bedford County area. Here are the details:
Poker Run Riding Hawgs for the Dawgs October 4, 2008 Rainout October 11th We hope to organize this event with mostly donations and all volunteers so all proceeds can go to a SPAY/NEUTER COMMITTEE Sanctioned by Bedford County Animal Control, Bedford County Humane Association and Shelbyville Animal Control This will benefit stray and abandoned cats and dogs and elderly, low income, etc. Starting Place: Parking lot beside BCAC 211 Lane Parkway (old Cannon Chevrolet/Celebration Nissan Bldg.) * Shelbyville, TN Stopping Place: Courthouse on the square in Shelbyville, TN Registration 8:00-9:45 a.m. Bikes leave at 10:00 a.m. (Hope to arrive back approx. 1:00-2:00 p.m. for drawings and prize, lunch available on the square. Non-riders welcome to attend lunch events. Donations will be accepted) Pre-Register at BCAC * 205 Lane Parkway * Shelbyville, TN 37160 * 931-685-1130 or 714 Industrial Parkway * Shelbyville, TN 37160 * 931-684-6552 Approx. 80 mile ride $20 to Register - Includes 1st Hand $5 for Extra Rider $5 for Extra Hands Lots & Lots of Door Prizes Food, Fun, Music Comments Showing comments in chronological order [Show most recent comments first] |
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"Poker run" makes me think.
Could we have poker games with all the entry fees and proceeds going to the critters?
Apparently,we have a number of folk who enjoy a friendly hand of poker and if they could have a flutter or two without breaking the law (or endangering their souls or their bank accounts) then that might save a few animals' lives and health and prevent unwanted pups and kittens from being conceived.
We might also promote obedience or "parenting" classes for prospective pet guardians and host visits from different groups that help animals.
One might be a group such as "Last Chance".
This organization rehabilitates humans and animals that have been written off as lost causes by training prisoners,the severly handicapped,etc. to take "useless","redundant" and "unadoptable" pets and teach them how to be therapy animals.
Animals once destined for euthanasia wind up assisting their new partners by detecting seizures,hearing the phone or door bell,helping them with their mobility or just giving moral support.
The human coaches can also help groom and socialize pound residents to help them be better suited for new homes and even train them in agility classes and canine and feline "good citizen" certification.
4-H,Scouts,and other youth groups have done similar work but there seems to be a bit of extra benefit when the animals get to re-educate and re-purpose the humans as much as the people teach the pets.
Last Chance,the Best Friends Animal Society (the ones that rescued and rehabbed Michael Vicks' victims -as featured on "Dogtown") and similar programs complete the work begun with neutering.
The goal is that no animal come into this world or leave it without having its needs met-including the need for love.
The birth control should limit the number of animals born to something approaching the number of capable,responsible homes for them.
The various adoption and rehabilitation programs seek to help the animals already here.
I hope that we can all co-operate to see that we achieve what is best for our animals - whatever we have to do to get the job done.