Good afternoon!  I wanted to use the blog today to request donations to benefit the animals at South Bend Animal Care and Control (SBACC).  As many of you know, I am the volunteer photographer for our the South Bend shelter.  My daughter Kaitlyn and I spend several hours every week exercising, training, and taking adoption photos.  Kaitlyn and I are officially members of the volunteer group CARE (Community Animal Rescue Effort) http://www.careofsouthbend.org/.  CARE serves SBACC in many valuable ways by providing daily enrichment and exercise to the animals, finding and transporting animals to rescue organizations, working weekly adoption events at the Erskine Petsmart, and raising funds to pay for veterinary care of animals with injuries or illnesses that would otherwise be euthanized.  This is a wonderful group of people passionate to help our city animals.  (And we are always looking for more volunteers!)

 

 

 

 

 

Donation Request #1:

As a way to enrich the kennel experience of the dogs, we are building “busy boxes” as an extremely low cost way to give them intellectual stimulation.  This means we need:

• cardboard boxes of all shapes and sizes (up to 18”x18”) We’d love all of your cereal, cracker, butter, soda, deodorant, and all other smaller cardboard boxes!  You don’t need to break them down!
• toilet paper and paper towel cardboards
• We’d take any donations of Pupperoni, the best junk food for dogs to get them interested in and working through the busy boxes.

Donation Request #2:

CARE is holding a garage sale to raise funds in August.  We are collecting donations for this sale.  The money raised will go to the “Hope and Second Chances” emergency vet fund for the shelter animals.  The address of the garage sale and where to make donations is on the flier!

Donation Request #3

If you are an animal lover and would like to donate directly to the cause…http://www.careofsouthbend.org/donate-and-volunteer/#donate

You can like SBACC on Facebook at https://www.facebook.com/South-Bend-Animal-Care-and-Control-SBACC-129957831131/

You can search through the photos of our adoptable animals at https://www.southbendin.gov/government/service/adoptable-pets.  If ever you are interested in any of our wonderful adoptable animals, please don’t hesitate to contact me!  I would happily talk to you about what I know about them and offer to join anyone at the shelter to meet animals.  We have marvelous families here at WF and I’d love to see any of our animals go home with a Wee Friender!

Have a great evening!  Tami

 

 

 

 

 

 

Breakfast: whole wheat English muffins with cream cheese and oranges

Lunch: whole wheat pasta with chicken, apples and cauliflower

Snack: Rebekah’s homemade strawberry jam and organic whole milk yogurt

Wee Sprouts: carrots

Photos from WF today: WF 6.27.16