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Straydog Inc., The Arnolds' Happy Home for Strays, a No-Kill Dog
Shelter
P.O. Box 1465, Gun Barrel
City, Texas 75147 * (903) 479-3497 * EMAIL: straydog@straydog.org
* When Straydog
is in red, we're running out of funds to sustain our mission.
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Straydog, our
Happy Home for Strays
(The hexagon is the
"Big Play Yard," which we usually refer to as "the
park")
(Photo taken in May 2002, when Pat still had another whole year
ahead of her)
Bill Arnold's Daily Straydog
Log
SUNDAY APRIL
4 2004
Erin's Adoption Day Report
...
No adoptions yesterday but
several potential adoptions pending
First, the man interested in possibly adopting either Emily or
Shawna for his two-year-old daughter never showed up at PetsMart.
Perhaps he decided on a puppy for the little girl and adopted
a pup from someone else. We would appreciate it if people would
call if their plans change so we can possibly alter our decisions
on which dogs to take along to Adoption Day.
Many families were interested in many of the dogs this Adoption
Day. We'll have to see if they come back next Saturday with their
other dogs and move forward with the adoption process. We may
have even met a family that is willing to foster a dog. Next week
could be a record adoption week if some of these potential families
come back and if everything works out.
A little girl
gives Jordan a hug with Consuelo handling the sweet, gentle dog.
Puppies Holly
and Grace with Volunteer Sheri
This young man
is hoping to adopt one of these pups next Saturday.
Holly and Grace
get their picture taken with the Easter Bunny.
Volunteers and
dogs wait for the van to take them back to Straydog after Adoption
Day.
More Adoption Day Photos
Garage sale scheduled for
the 17th is shaping up
Items are being collected by employees and volunteers for our
the upcoming garage sale to benefit Straydog Inc. Please see the
"Garage Sale" notice below and call Sue Knudsen for
pickups and further information.
Kroger and Tom Thumb shopping
"share cards"
Kroger and Tom Thumb shopping "share cards" are available.
Let us know if you'd like one of each. Kroger and Tom Thumb will
donate 1% of your purchases to Straydog Inc. when you show them
your card at the checkout counter.
Prince is staying in one
of our hospital kennels and is doing okay
First thing tomorrow morning we will make the appointment for
Prince's tumor to be surgically removed. Prince doesn't seem to
be in any pain right now, and he's enjoying his stay inside.
April
2004 Newsletter
The following three
pieces of our newsletter are being printed now.
Our mailing to the
2580 names on our mailing list will commence as soon as we receive
the finished product from the printer, Merrill Corporation, who's
donating the printing of the newsletter and the envelopes.
(1) April
Newsletter, First 4-Pager
(2) April
Newsletter, Second 4-Pager
(3) April
Newsletter, a Front & Back 2-Pager
If
you, dear reader, have a big enough list of people to pass out
(or mail out) our newsletter to, you can simply call your local
copy center (a Kinko's, for example) and tell them to go to this
website (www.Straydog.org) and print out as many copies as you
want of the three PDF files via the above three links. Then you
can have the copy shop deliver the copies to you or you can go
pick them up and do your own mailing of our three-piece newsletter.
(And please never worry about the copyrights to our website materials.
We want as many people as possible to make copies
and distribute them!)
Garage Sale
All proceeds
to benefit Straydog Inc.
Saturday, April
17th 8 am - 2 pm
4544 Jenkins Drive - Plano (Texas)
We need donations of all kinds (kids toys, clothing, household
goods, books, CD's, and all the normal yard sale goodies). If
you have items, and are unable to bring them to me prior to the
sale, call Sue Knudsen at 972-208-7841, and we will try to arrange
pick up. Also needed - helpers to price items prior to the sale,
and helpers the day of the sale! Call Sue at 972-208-7841 if you
can help!
DONATIONS
Straydog Inc. is a 501(c)(3) Tax-Exempt
Non-Profit Corporation
To make a donation
to Straydog,
our Happy Home
for Strays,
you may mail a
check to:
Straydog Inc.
P.O. Box 1465
Gun Barrel City, Texas 75147
or
We now have the
capability to take
Visa, Master Card
and Discover Card
donations over
the phone or by email.
You may call us
at 903-479-3497 or
email the info
to: straydog@straydog.org
Special
thanks to those who have called in and/or emailed in credit/debit
card donations. All we have to have is:
(1) the credit card number,
(2) the name on the card,
(3) the expiration date,
and
(4) the billing address.
It
is really simple, and we don't pay a very high fee for this Internet
credit card service. After I go to the credit card service website,
I type in my organization name and password, and once in their
site, I plug in the information the contributor has given to me,
and the Internet credit card people transfer the donation instantaneously
into Straydog's bank account, which is Straydog's operating fund,
which is Straydog's only fund. Thanks to everyone who is helping
us!
903-479-3497
Previous
Daily Updates
Bill
Arnold's Daily Straydog Log
CHRONOLOGICAL TABLE
OF CONTENTS OF PREVIOUS UPDATES
(Click on any day
below to see the update of that day)
LAST WEEK
SUNDAY March 28 2004:
Erin's Adoption Day Report ...
* Rover and Kerry tentatively adopted at Saturday
Adoption Day [PHOTOS];
* My thoughts on publishing this website in Spanish
bring an offer to help;
* Thanks to Pam B. (and others) for your generous
early donations via credit card!
MONDAY March 29 2004:
* I've released to print the three pieces of our
upcoming mailing;
* Thanks to Ofelia for volunteering her Saturday
to help us move files;
* We'll be picking up Jackie, the Jack Jones rescue,
from our vet clinic this afternoon;
* An email about an upcoming garage sale to benefit
Straydog.
TUESDAY March 30 2004:
* Jackie came home to Straydog from the clinic
yesterday afternoon [PHOTOS];
* Thelma and Louise spend half the day in Puppy
William's former kennel [PHOTO];
* Introduction of Colby and Macy [PHOTOS];
* Many thanks to Canine Commissary for donating
a van load of dog food;
* Do any of our readers know how to attach a search
engine to this website?
WEDNESDAY March 31
2004:
* Five dogs make the long trip to Tyler to see
Dr. Reeves [PHOTOS];
* Thanks to Blind Stevie and Little Pete for sending
a super donation;
* Thanks to Kerry Sullivan, who came out yesterday
with lunch for everyone [PHOTOS];
* Jack Jones was very happy we'd named his rescue
"Jackie" [PHOTOS]; [MORE PHOTOS LINK];
* Some of yesterday's emails:
* Online Bill Paying
* Free Search Engines
* Creating Spanish symbols on computer
THURSDAY
April 1 2004:
*
An email from Renate, who's concerned with would-be adopters
not being aware of the almost certain change in the personalities
of Thelma and Louise as they grow into adulthood [PHOTO];
*
Thanks, Renate for the very important advice, which has to do
with why our adoption policies are so strict;
*
Old Man Rocky is not doing well again.
FRIDAY
April 2 2004:
*
An email concerning Straydog Volunteers at Water Stop #12 (Mile
23) at the Texas Marathon last Sunday, March 28th and their $1000
donation [PHOTOS];
*
Thanks so much, Kelli, Barbara and the rest of the Water Stop
#12 Volunteers!
*
I heard from Merrill Corporation (the printer) that two of the
three pieces of our April Newsletter have been printed and that
everything should be ready by Monday;
*
Old Man Rocky's making a comeback [PHOTOS]!
*
Jack and Jill need sunblock on their noses [PHOTOS].
SATURDAY
April 3 2004:
*
Adoption Day is in full swing as we post at noon; results tomorrow;
*
Prince is bleeding from the rectum this morning;
*
A neighbor of Juana's called her about a sick dog who didn't
make it through the night.
PREVIOUS
WEEKS (TABLE OF CONTENTS of
Previous Updates)
*Adoption Day Every Saturday -
We take a van load
of dogs to PetsMart in Plano (Texas)
on Central (U.S.75) at Parker every Saturday, and we are there
from
11:00 a.m. till 3:00 p.m.
S A T U R D A Y S !
Please contact us via email or phone if
you would like us to bring to PetsMart
a special dog you've seen on this website, or make an appointment
and
come out and see the dog(s) you're interested in right here at
Straydog.
*Our
Dogs for Adoption listed
on Petfinder.org,
kept up to date by volunteer
and member of our Board of Directors, Susan Southerland, Esq.
* Click here to see several
ways to make
Tax-Deductible Donations
to Straydog Inc.
*Click here for Straydog Webcams,
which show live still photos from
five different cameras,
with alternating periods of still frames from Pat Arnold's 1998
video
The late Pat Arnold's
1998 Straydog Video
Still frames of Pat's 1998 video (without
sound) can be viewed by clicking on this Webcam link. Whenever
this tape is rewinding, this link leads to five rotating live
cameras trained on various sections of our Straydog campus so
you can keep an eye on what's going on here at Straydog. Our son,
Joe, is in the process of securing an Internet "radio station"
(which will cost Straydog Inc. only $15 per month), and Joe will
have the streaming audio of Pat's tape "on the air"
at night and audio from our walkie-talkie system "on the
air" during the day. After the tape has been edited and copies
are made (VHS or DVD), we'll be happy to send you a free copy.
Just let us know if you'd like a copy, and please specify VHS
or DVD.
Here are four still photos I pulled off
the video by right-clicking on the captured still frames. We encourage
viewers to do the same thing and email us any really good photos:
The above photos
are stills pulled from Pat's video. At eight frames per second
there should be approximately 57,600 such still frames on the
two-hour tape, and every time the tape is replayed, an entirely
new set of 240 different stills is captured and broadcast, a new
frame every 30 seconds.
Number
of Visitors to this Website
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T
h a n k s !
Thanks
so much to all of our contributors! We couldn't keep this operation
going without you. Pat always said you all would continue to support
us, and you have. And we at Straydog continue to rescue, care
for and adopt out homeless dogs exactly the way Pat would have
wanted. Thank you so much for your continuing support! ... Bill Arnold