Newsletters

Thanks to everyone who made Lady-dog's surgery possible!
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December 2007 Straydog Holiday Letter

Please print out several copies of this 2-page letter and distribute them to your animal enthusiast friends:

Click here to download the PDF file of Page 1.

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Fall '07 Straydog Newsletter

We ask that our website visitors please print out as many copies as possible and
pass them out to your animal enthusiast friends and acquaintances.

Click on each page to download its ready-to-print PDF file:

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Summer '07 Straydog Newsletter

Links to our Summer 2007 Straydog Newsletter - with each of the 12 pages as a separate PDF file.

Link to our Summer 2007 Straydog Newsletter with all 12 pages in a single, gigantic PDF file.

Spring '07 Straydog Newsletter

has been printed and mailed to our list of contributors.

We ask that our website visitors please print out as many copies as possible and
pass them out to your animal enthusiast friends and acquaintances.

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March '07 Straydog Newsletter

has been printed and mailed to our list of contributors.

We ask that our website visitors please print out as many copies as possible and
pass them out to your animal enthusiast friends and acquaintances.

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December '06 Straydog Newsletter

Printed as a contribution to Straydog by

Alvin J. Bart & Sons, Inc. - New York A.J. Bart, Inc. LITHOGRAPHERS - Dallas, Texas

www.ajbart.com

Our thanks and deepest appreciation for the generous contribution of the printing and shipping of this newsletter.

We ask that our website visitors please print out as many copies as possible and
pass them out to your animal enthusiast friends and acquaintances.

(We mailed out 2,600 copies to our contributors and have enough extra copies to mail you one
or five or 10. Please send us your address and the number of copies you would like.)

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September 2006 Straydog Newsletter:

COVER:

w w w . S T R A Y D O G . o r g

Aerial photos of the Straydog campus in May of 2002. Today, September 1, 2006, there are kennels in all the vacant areas except the park.
Straydog Inc., a Texas Non-Profit Corporation * With 501(c)(3) Tax-Exempt Status from the IRS * DONATIONS ARE TAX DEDUCTIBLE
P.O. Box 1465, Gun Barrel City, Texas 75147 * (903) 479-3497 * EMAIL: straydog147@yahoo.com

We're in the red, because we've rescued too many dogs in too short a period of time, faster than we've been able to adopt them out, causing expenses to exceed income.
We're learning to say "No" to new rescues, but it's going to take a while to get caught up, and we very much need your continued financial and moral support.

Pat Arnold and I (Bill Arnold) came here to our Straydog site in the country outside of Gun Barrel City, Texas in October 1994 with 11 spayed and neutered dogs. Soon with the occasional nearby abandonment of a dog, plus occasional rescues while we were on the road driving somewhere, plus the rescues called in to us from people we knew in the Dallas area, the population grew to 20 dogs. When our population reached 24 dogs, while Pat and I were still paying all the expenses ourselves and going broke fast, The Dallas Morning News somehow heard about us and our desperate situation and published a feature story about our shelter. Within a week more than $40,000 was donated as a result of that one newspaper article of March 13, 1997, but instead of holding the funds to take care of the dogs we had already rescued, we continued to rescue more dogs, allowing our shelter to grow and grow, and soon Straydog had a population of 40 dogs. Our focus continued to be (and still continues to be) taking extraordinarily good care of our rescued dogs (which is very expensive), while at the same time trying to adopt them all out, and while continuing to struggle to raise more and more funding to pay for our ever increasing population. Soon Straydog had a population of 50 dogs, and then 60 dogs. Each plateau became our limit, but each limit was soon broken. We were at 65 dogs when Pat suddenly died of a brain aneurysm on June 1, 2003. We, the remaining members of the Arnold family, tried to maintain the 65-dog limit, but just as when Pat was still with us, there always seemed to be just one more homeless, helpless doggie we would welcome in through the Straydog gates. And now as of August 2006 we have 110 dogs at Straydog, adoptions are slow (which is easy to understand as there are so many "surplus" dogs out there, 15,000 being put to death every day in the kill shelters), and although we're still receiving solid support from our contributors, we're raising funds at a slightly slower rate than the rate of our rising expenses.

OUR PLAN:

(1) We must and will stop rescuing more dogs until we've adopted out a sufficient number to greatly lower our expenses. We need your help: If you rescue a dog, please take care of the dog yourself until we are out of this financial crisis and can possibly find a spot for the animal.

(2) We must and will more aggressively try to adopt out more and more dogs, faster and faster. Please help us find more ways to adopt out dogs.

(3) We must and will lower expenses. Although we believe we are managing (and always have managed) Straydog very efficiently (especially because we have never had the expense of a heated and cooled kennel building for all the dogs), we will focus even harder on cutting costs everywhere at Straydog. We welcome your scrutiny of our methods and welcome any and all suggestions for cutting costs at Straydog.

(4) We must and will expand our fund-raising efforts. We welcome (we actually beg for) your help in finding ways to raise more funding for Straydog.

Click here for the PDF (ready-to-print) version of our

Newsletter Front Cover - PAGE 1

Click here for PAGE 2 (A letter to contributors from Bill Arnold)

"The Story of 3-Legged Montana"

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Please print out as many copies as you can of the above newsletter and pass them out.

Or if you'd like us to send you 10 or 20 or more copies of the printed booklet, please let us know.

Emergency Fundraising Mailer

(1) Click here for the front of our 2-page Emergency Mailer (PDF, printable version).

(2) Click here for the back of our 2-page Emergency Mailer (PDF, printable version).

MAILING COMMENCED MONDAY, JULY 31, 2006

Please print out and pass out
the above two pages.

SPRING 2006 16-Pg. NEWSLETTER

Click here for the entire 16-page newsletter.
(This pdf file is gigantic, so you need a fast connection.)

Please print out copies and mail them to friends.

We must expand our donor base in order to
rescue more dogs and to lessen the load on each of us.

MARCH 2006 NEWSLETTER

Here are links to both the HTML version and to the PDF (paginated) version:

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Click here for PAGES 7 & 8 (PDF version only)

PDF (print-ready) version of all eight pages:

Click here for the PDF version of PAGES 1 & 2
Click here for the PDF version of PAGES 3 & 4
Click here for the PDF version of PAGES 5 & 6
Click here for the PDF version of PAGES 7 & 8

Please print out copies and mail them to friends.

We must expand our donor base in order to
rescue more dogs and to lessen the load on each of us.

DECEMBER 2005 NEWSLETTER

Links to the PDF files (ready to print)

Click here for Pages 1 & 2

Click here for Pages 3 & 4

Click here for Pages 5 & 6

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Straydog emergency newsletter entitled

Hurricane Rita evacuates
our entire Straydog Shelter!

We provide the links to the ready-to-print PDF files so that you, our readers, can print

out copies and distribute them to all who may be interested.

Printable PDF files of each of the four pages of our newsletter:

*Page 1 - Hurricane Rita Evacuates Straydog

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Straydog Summer 2005 Newsletter

Printable PDF files of each of five 2-page sections of our
previous newsletter (which many of you never received
as Hurricane Rita interrupted our mailing process):

*Pages 1 & 2 - Straydog Summer 2005 Newsletter

Spring 2005 Newsletter (DECEMBER '04 - MARCH '05)

Adobe PDF version (slow download):

Page 1: http://www.straydog.org/Month200503/200503NewsLetter/200503NewsLetter01.pdf

Page 2: http://www.straydog.org/Month200503/200503NewsLetter/200503NewsLetter02.pdf

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