From: Pam
Date: Tue, 9 May 2006 20:34
Subject: Dallas Morning News pet adoptions
To: straydog147@yahoo.com
We have submitted some photos
of the dogs to the paper and I just got an e-mail that they have
added the Straydog website to the rescue organization list
when someone signs on to sponsor a pet. Their website is
www.dallasnews.com/petadoptions.
On the right hand side is a list of rescue organizations and Straydog
is at the bottom - click on it and it takes you to your website.
Hoorah!!!!
Pam
A Note from Bill ...
Right after Dad's passing I found myself continually going back in our "Table of Contents," clicking on SATURDAY, September 3, 2005, and looking at this photo of my dad and my daughter, Erin. So I decided to place the photo here once again on our homepage and leave it up for a while longer. ...
Subject: [dfwcares] Spay and Neuter: Ask the President for an action!
Please take a moment to sign this petition. The petition requests the President of the United States to get involved in the spay/neuter campaign by asking Congress to approve and fund spay and neuter measures nationally and encourage the American people to adopt pets from humane societies and animal rescues shelters. Thanks!
Lucy and Puppy (the two dogs Ofelia writes about below) have been together for five years, so it would be great if they could be adopted together, but the most important thing is for them to find good homes. The blond-mix is a seven-year old, spayed, vaccinated, friendly and sweet doggie, rescued as a puppy .
Puppy is the dark-haired mix, five-years old, spayed, vaccinated, also friendly and sweet. Both dogs have been around cats before.
They will be going to Adoption Day, possibly on the 23rd if we have enough volunteers to sit with them, and then Ofelia said she can bring them to our Adoption Day on the 30th.
The following story (now with photo) is repeated from our July 4th update ...
From: Ofelia Gipson, longtime Straydog volunteer and contributor
To: straydog147@yahoo.com
Subject: Appeal for Help
Date: Sun, 3 Jul 2005 18:12
Bill,
I'm finally getting around to writing regarding the situation that I called about over a week ago. I'm hoping that you (Straydog) can help my friend. She's hoping to find a home for her mother's two pups.
Her mother died almost two years ago, and my friend has continued to care for the pups at her mother's home while taking care of her own five dogs (most of which are strays that she has taken in) and which her husband will continue to care for. However, my friend was diagnosed with cancer shortly after the death of her mother and about two weeks ago, her doctor told her that she has about six months to live. She desperately hopes that she's able to find a home for the two pups as she made a promise that she would always take care of them.
I have never seen the
dogs but my friend says that they're both very good with people
(really starved for attention/affection at the moment) and that
they're about 5-6 years old and medium sized. I realize that your
shelter is "maxed" out but I'm hoping that your readers
would have some suggestions. A side note: I'm unable to take them
in as I have three babies of my
own.
Thanks for any help/suggestions that you may have. An hugs and kisses to all the furry babies!
Ofelia
Enclosed is a check for $500.00. We appreciate what you do and wish we could send more.
Don and I have decided that we want our memorials directed to Straydog when we pass away. Please let your readers know you have been given this information, as others may decide to do this as well.
Thank you for your great compassion.
Spanna, Degenerative Myelopathy
help and information: Spanna
(has good cart links)
Doggon' Wheels - Wheelchairs for pets, dog carts: Doggon'
Wheels
Dog Mobility - boots, harnesses, equiwrap: Dog
Mobility
WHEELCHAIRS FOR DOGS: providing mobility for dogs with hind leg
disabilities: Wheelchairs
for Dogs
Ty-Lift Enterprises® - Specializing in Patented Animal Transport
Units On Wheels: Ty-Lift
Dog Cat and Handicapped Pet Care Products Services Support and
Classifieds: Handicapped
Pet Care
Thanks very much to those who have printed out even just one copy of the above three pieces of our newsletter and have passed the newsletter on to (or mailed it to) a potential Straydog supporter. If you can, please print out two or three copies (or five or 10 copies) and distribute them to potential supporters. If all 300 of our daily readers printed out and distributed just one copy, Straydog would be exposed to 300 new people. If all 300 of you printed out and distributed 10 copies, we would reach 3,000 new people!
First email from a reader who printed out and mailed out copies of our April newsletter
Thanks a lot to longtime supporters Deana and Jim Hanson, who followed my suggestion to make copies of and mail out to friends the PDF files of our newsletter--with color photos too!
It probably won't happen anytime soon, but the technology is here to do away with mass printing and mass mailing altogether. It's already possible to read and print out entire books on the Internet.
We encourage others to do what Deana and Jim have done:
Bill,
We printed newsletters, and Jim put them in the mail today. Good luck! Please let us hear from you if your shelter runs short on anything. We'll try and help.
Deana and Jim
If you 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!)
Expanding (or growing) our list of contributors will be our salvation
If a mailing list of 2,500 people can almost sustain our operation as it has, just think what a mailing list of 3,000 or 3,500 contributors could do.
Emailed report from Sue Knudsen on Saturday's garage sale:
Subject: Garage Sale Report
Date: Sun, 18 Apr 2004 16:07:08 EDT
From: Sue Knudsen
To: straydog@straydog.org
Dear Bill,
On behalf of all the Garage Sale contributors and volunteers I'm thrilled to be able to send you the proceeds from yesterday's sale: $1,622.90!
The sale was a huge success, thanks to the incredible generosity of kind folks who drove many miles (from Waxahachie, Coppell, Ennis, Cedar Hill, and all parts of Dallas and Plano) to bring donations. Special thanks to Mary Anne Hifler and the folks at CB Richard Ellis for donating 10 computers for this sale.
My deep gratitude to an extraordinary team of sales folks who worked tirelessly to turn the donations into dollars: Britta, Cathy, Jan, Lucy, Claire, Pat, Melissa, Susan, Ginny & Mike, Steve and Mardi. You "Green Shirts" were amazing! And to my Bill, for his encouragement, support and hard, hard work...thank you!
Also, thanks to Kara Tolany-Stephens, who stopped by during the sale and offered to donate a wonderful office copier to Straydog, on behalf of her two canine kids, Buster and Lola. The equipment will be a wonderful tool to help you spread the news of Straydog! And we now have our next fundraiser under way--the raffle of a deluxe, custom-made dog bed with mattress, made and donated by Cindy Gipson, Ofelia and Kerry's daughter! Thank you, Cindy!
Still have two very fine pieces of antique furniture as well as silver plate flatware that were donated. We did not get the right buyers for these items yesterday but will continue to market them.
Hope that this news will encourage you, Bill, along with the Straydog caregivers, to keep up the wonderful but difficult work you are doing.
Sue Knudsen
*Our
Mission & How We Got Started
*"Goodbye, Danny Boy."
- An
example of the only acceptable use of euthanasia
* The Neal Fort articles upped our readership! Every bit of media exposure gives us a boost!
We really want to thank Neal a lot for getting Straydog and our website address mentioned. Every mention on broadcast TV and radio and every mention in print is a potentially big step and always increases our audience.
Email with photo of Helen and Winston sent by Darla Fort on October 21, 2003
Dear Bill,
Just wanted to share this picture with you (and the crew) of Helen and Winston. Their relationship is truly unique and beautiful to watch. It's getting very chilly here in Montreal and we are anxious to head back to Texas. The dogs have a brand new house and humongous backyard (fully fenced of course) waiting for them. We picked a lot with no trees in the back so Helen has an open field of grass to run freely. Hope all is well there; we think of you everyday.
Much love,
The Forts
A nice letter (accompanied by a nice donation) from Kurt Delloch in Canada (sent Nov '03)
Dear Bill Arnold:
My wife and I enjoy and have often visited your website since first hearing of it while watching a TSN football game (Neal Fort Story) back in September. This sanctuary you and your wife created and you continue to devote yourself to is truly inspiring. It is at this time of year (Nov-Dec) that we normally scrape together some cash and make a small donation to our local SPCA, which is where we have always gone for our family pet. This year we have managed a donation for your shelter as well, as your efforts are too admirable to ignore. ... Peace.
Sincerely,
Kurt Delloch
We at Straydog thank Kurt and his wife very much for the letter and donation!