Happy Hills Animal Foundation's December
Newsletter
3143 Happy Hills Drive, Staley, NC 27355 |
Happy Hills is a non-profit animal rescue group in Staley, NC. You are receiving this newsletter because you’ve contacted Happy Hills for more information. Our website is at http://hhaf.org and our email address is info@hhaf.org. If you are interested in volunteering with us, please e-mail us to join our volunteer list. Articles or suggestions for our newsletter are welcome! Thanks to Donna for the online version at: http://www.hhaf.org/newsletter.html
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UPCOMING EVENTS:
ADOPTION FAIRS
December 18, 1pm - 4 pm at Petsmart on Bridford Parkway at Wendover Avenue in Greensboro. Please e-mail suzanne@misonline.biz if you can help.
See photos from the Dogfest event 10-16: http://www.hhaf.org/events/dogfest2005/index.html
OTHER ACTIVITIES
Christmas Photos with Santa
Satruday December 10, and Sunday December 11, 11am-4pm, Petsmart, 265 Eastchester Drive, High Point.
Come get your pet's photos taken with Santa and for each package Happy Hills gets a $5 donation.
Book Launch
"Lessons In Stalking...Adjusting to Life with Cats" by Dena Harris, at the Green Bean on Elm Street in
downtown Greensboro on Thursday, Dec. 1st from 7-9 pm. A portion of the proceeds will be donated to Happy Hills.
The Liberty Christmas Parade will be December 3, 2005 2:30 PM. We usually take a decorated trailer and people walking dogs in this parade. If you would like to walk a dog or help decorate the trailer, please contact Lisa at lisasparks@hotmail.com.
The Staley Christmas Parade will be December 10th at 3 pm. If you would like to participate, please contact Lisa at lisasparks@hotmail.com
Real Simple's Festival of Giving
The Four Seasons Town Centre has invited HHAF to take part in the Real Simple's Festival of Giving. This event will take place on Sunday, December 11, 2005 from 2pm until 7pm. The Festival of Giving is an extraordinary event of shopping and entertainment. Special store discounts, gifts, door prizes, music and free gift-wrap will all be included to make shoppers feel like a million bucks. Tickets for admission to this event will be $5. Real Simple's Festival of Giving is designed to help local non-profits raise money. HHAF will sell tickets to the general public, with 100% of the proceeds benefiting our organization. Each group has the ability to sell as many tickets as they wish (there are no limit on quantity sold). There are 100 tickets on the way and we can order as many more as needed. Contact Lisa at lisasparks@hotmail.com for more information or to get tickets to sell.
Health Checks
Special thanks to Allison who is going to oversee health checks until a permanent coordinator can be found. Health checks will resume the second Saturday of each month at 10 or 11am (depending on the best time for the majority of volunteers). If you would like to participate or want more info, please e-mail Allison at boba5fett9@disinfo.net.
Dog Scouts
Happy Hills now has a Dog Scouts program. Meetings are the first and third Sundays of each month at 3 pm at Happy Hills. Visit http://www.hhaf.org/dogscouts.htm for more information.
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MEMBER'S CORNER
Katrina Victims
See http://www.hhaf.org/Katrina.html for updates on Kelly's trip to volunteer in Louisiana with the hurricane victims. One of the dogs she brought back is still in need of a foster/forever
home, see http://www.hhaf.org/details.php?id=2.
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Lassie Come Home
Lassie Come Home now has the ability to engrave Pet ID Tags and Collars from our office. The tags can be engraved on both sides (or one if you prefer). The collar buckle can be engraved for those who don't like the jingle of tags. All proceeds from the sale of the tags goes directly to Lassie Come Home to pay for advertising, phone bills, supplies etc. Please pass this information
on to your friends and family who may be interested in a pet tag or collar. Click here to view samples of tags.
Kitten Korner - Available for Adoption!
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Help Happy Hills Visit or use any of the links below to make purchases and a percentage of your purchase will be donated to Happy Hills! Mouseover the links for details and click to visit the site and make purchases.
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NEWS:
Volunteers e-mail List
Homepage located at http://groups.yahoo.com/group/hhaf/ or send an e-mail to mailto:hhaf-subscribe@yahoogroups.com to join.
Heartworm Pups
We have 2 heartworm positive dogs that need your help. Snoopy and Bobby Jean both need to be treated.
Donate through Network for Good
or Paypal
or mail a check (best option) to:
Happy Hills Animal Foundation
3143 Happy Hills Drive
Staley, NC 27355
Mark it for Snoopy or Bobby Jean, and thanks!! |
Snoopy |
Bobby Jean |
Fire News
We are trying to build a bathroom area and new cattery. To do this we need all the new or unused
cinder block we can get donated or a reduced price (500+ blocks). We will also need electric wire, plumbing pipes, lights, switches, exhaust fans, doors, etc. Complete list:
- 400 ft Romex Electrical Wire Indoor
- 200ft Romex Electrical Wire Outdoor
- 3 Steel doors (Outside Doors)
- 2 20 gallon Hot water Heaters
- 100 ft. 4 inch PVC Pipe
- 50ft 1 1/2 inch PVC Pipe
- 200ft Hose for water supply
- 6 FrostFree Hose bibs (outdoor)
- 50 20ft #4 or #5 Rebar
- 100ft 4" Poly Drain Pipe
- 250 40 or 601bs Bags of Premixed Mortar Type M
- 2 commercial washing machines (Can be used but in good shape mechanical
wise)
- 2 commercial Dryers (Can be used but in good shape mechanical wise)
- 3 A/C heater Units 20,000 BTU each in good shape
- 6 Outdoor Ceiling Fans not previously installed.
Pet Insurance
Petfinder is providing pet insurance free of charge for 30 days for anyone adopting a pet through Happy Hills. This is wonderful for our adopters. They get to use the veterinarian of their choice. It covers all the classic shelter possibilities like: Kennel cough, upper respiratory infections, ear infections, parvo, and mange. It also covers things like motor vehicle accidents, fractures, poison ingestion and more.
For details click:
VOLUNTEERS NEEDED
Right now we especially need a coordinator for health checks and one for fundraising (see details below).
HEALTH CHECK COORDINATOR
We need someone to coordinate the volunteers for the once a month health checks. If you'd like to help, please contact us at info@hhaf.org.
FUNDRAISING/VOLUNTEER COORDINATOR
We are looking for a dedicated volunteer to run fundraisers to help pay vet bills and raise money to rebuild. If you are interested, please e-mail us at info@hhaf.org.
ADOPTION FAIR TRANSPORTERS NEEDED
We DESPERATELY need people to take pets to adoption fairs.
Will you help even once every couple of months?
WEBSITE VOLUNTEERS
We still need one person to post our animals to Yahoo group lists and another to post dogs to pupforum.com. If you'd be interested, please contact Kitty at kitty@hhaf.org. You get to volunteer from home, flexible times. Computer access and ability to receive e-mail needed.
SPECIAL PROGRAMS
FOX 8 SCHEDULE
Anyone able to help transport?
December 20th live at noon.
Fox 8 does not put you on TV. You just have to take the pets there and back.
FUNDRAISERS NEEDED
There are 3 pages of super fundraising ideas at
www.nvo.com/frr/theshelterproject.
We also have dog treats that groups can sell:
fundraising-dog-treats.com
Can anyone help run one or more projects in their neighborhood to help?
PROMOTE A PET
We are inviting all of you to join in our Promote a Pet program. Pick a pet, talk to your friends and co-workers about that pet, print and put up posters, put an ad in the paper, if you are nearby pick your dog up (and flyers or cards to give interested folks) and take them for a trip to Petsmart, downtown, anywhere they can be seen. Use your imaginations! Then when your pet is adopted, tell us what worked best and we'll report that to our other Promote a Pet participants!
Thumbnail posters of all our adoptable pets are available at
www.hhaf.org/catprint.php and www.hhaf.org/dogprint.php if you would like to put them up at your post office, vet office, pet supply store, etc.
Special thanks to Crystal who has been putting up posters of our pets that have been at Happy Hills the longest.
OTHER WAYS TO HELP
SHOP ON LINE??? CHECK THESE OUT...
iGive - If you shop online Happy Hills is registered at iGive www.igive.com/html/refer.cfm?causeid=17532. Each new person who registers at iGive.com and shops within 45 days can raise an additional $5 for Happy Hills, on top of earning up to 26% of each purchase!
To qualify, new members must make 1 purchase via iGive.com within 45 days of joining. They make it easy, with over 400 familiar stores (like Amazon, Lands' End, PETsMART, Apple, Office Depot, and Best Buy) to choose from! So far, iGive has raised $484.06 for Happy Hills!
To register visit:
Greater Good - http://www.greatergood.com/partner/hhaf
SPECIAL DONATION NEEDS
Envelopes size #10
Postage stamps
Shade Cloth
Snap hooks
A hard drive, 6 gig or larger (e-mail
Kitty@hhaf.org for info)
Dry cat food (Iams, Science Diet, or
similar high quality brands)
Plastic storage bins with lids….any size
HP Officejet 300 ink:
51626A (Black ink only. Currently using the Staples brand equivalent)
Brother MVC-3420C ink:
LC-31BK
LC-31C
LC-31M
LC-31Y
Cat litter (cheap clay is fine)
Exercise pens/fold up cages for adoption fairs
4-way Cat vaccines
7-way dog vaccines
Bordatella vaccines
A van, panel truck, or old bus to transport pets in
More at
http://www.hhaf.org/needs/index.html
Buying something on our list for yourself?
Buy 2 and donate one.
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Some of our
adoptable pets:
Egypt needs a foster
home, can you help?
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GENTLY USED CLOTHING AND HOUSEHOLD GOODS NEEDED
We are signing up with Consignment shops to help raise money for the shelter animals. If you can't help with money, then go through your closets. Donate any of the following items so we can sell the items and give the money back to the animals for whatever their needs are and to help improve the shelter. We are asking for everyone to help. We’ve raised about $400 through this so far.
Gently used clothing, name brands etc.
Women’s, men’s, & all age children’s apparel
Household linens, Towels Etc.
Household decorations
Working household items
Working Toys
All Consignment shops are taking Winter items at this time. Please call with any questions at 336-622-3620.
And bring items to:
Happy Hills Animal Foundation
3143 Happy Hills Dr.
Staley NC 27355.
Help Us Help The Animals!
RECYCLING PRINTER CARTRIDGES
This one is easy! We are collecting empty inkjet and laser cartridges for recycling. Each one is worth $1-$4 in donations to help our pets! You can bring empties to our adoption fairs, drop off at Pet Supplies Plus, bring them to Happy Hills, or contact us if you need a mailer and you can mail them to the recycling company direct. Get your workplace involved and watch the donation amounts climb!
For a list of cartridges eligible and what they are worth, visit www.cashforcritters.com/cartridgelistings.htm
We’ve already received over $300 from this program!
PAST EVENTS - ADOPTATHON!!!
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Cat Quotes
"Managing senior programmers is like herding cats."
- Dave Platt
"Cats are smarter than dogs. You can't get eight cats
to pull a sled through snow."
- Jeff Valdez
"There is no snooze button on a cat who wants breakfast."
-Anonymous {So true! My cats walks on me! - LadyHawke}
"Thousands of years ago, cats were worshipped as gods.
Cats have never forgotten this."
- Anonymous
"In a cat's eye, all things belong to cats."
- English proverb
"As every cat owner knows, nobody owns a cat."
- Ellen Perry Berkeley
"One cat just leads to another."
- Ernest Hemingway
"Dogs come when they're called; cats take a message
and get back to you later."
- Mary Bly
"Cats are rather delicate creatures and they are subject
to a good many ailments, but I never heard of one who
suffered from insomnia."
- Joseph Wood Krutch
"People that hate cats, will come back as mice in their
next life."!
- Faith Resnick
"I have studied many philosophers and many cats. The
wisdom of cats is infinitely superior."
- Hippolyte Taine
"There are many intelligent species in the universe. They
are all owned by cats." - Anonymous
"There are two means of refuge from the miseries of
life: music and cats."
- Albert Schweitzer
"The cat has too much spirit to have no heart."
- Ernest Menaul
"No heaven will not ever Heaven be;
Unless my cats are there to welcome me."
- Anonymous
"Time spent with cats is never wasted."
- Colette
"Some people say that cats are sneaky, evil, and cruel.
True, and they have many other fine qualities as well."
- Missy Dizick
"You will always be lucky if you know how to make
friends with strange cats."
- Colonial American proverb
"Cats seem to go on the principle that it never does
any harm to ask for what you want."
- Joseph Wood Krutch
"Cats aren't ! clean, they're just covered with cat spit."
- John S. Nichols
"Do not meddle in the affairs of cats, for they are subtle
and will p**s on your computer."
- Bruce Graham
"The smallest feline is a masterpiece."
-- Leonardo Da Vinci
"Cat's motto: No matter what you've done wrong,
always try to make it look like the dog did it."
-- Anonymous
"Women and cats will do as they please and men
and dogs should relax and get used to the idea."
-- Robert A. Heinlein
"In order to keep a true perspective of one's importance,
everyone should have a dog that will worship him and
a cat that will ignore him."
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Fickle felines have colorful history
The word cat is very similar in almost all European languages. In
French, it's chat, in German, katze, and in Polish, kot. All
domestic cats descended originally from the North African wildcat,
thanks to Egyptian domestication.
Most cats are named Kitty because when we call them, we use the name
with the "ee" sound at the end. There's a better chance your cat
will respond more readily to her name if it ends with the "ee"
sound. So next time you're picking out a name for your cat, and like
the name Scissorpaws or Honey bear, consider naming her Kitty.
Chances are she probably won't come until she's ready to anyway, no
matter what name you call her.
Do black cats bring bad luck? The belief that black cats are bad
luck started back in the Middle Ages when cats were associated with
witchcraft and black magic. During the 14th century, it was thought
that witches kept cats to carry out their evil work. Some believed
that witches could actually turn themselves into cats. These ideas
probably got started because of the cat's natural air of mystery and
cunning ways and because it is active at night. Black cats may have
seemed especially dangerous because they're even harder to see in
the dark than other cats.
These beliefs made the Middle Ages a bad time for cats. Often if a
witch was killed, her cat was killed also. It was also common to
sacrifice cats in order to rid the town of any evil spirits.
People also believed if a black cat crossed your path the cat was
marking a path to the devil.
Lucky for the cat, people began to understand that cats were keeping
control of disease by catching rats. Cats soon began to earn more
respect, however, some of the old superstitions about cats are still
believed today.
There is a breed of cat, the Manx, that often does not have a tail. Manx
cats have been around for nearly 500 years. The breed comes from the
Isle of Man, a small island just off the west coast of England.
There are many legends to explain how the Manx lost her tail. One
story says that when Irish soldiers invaded the island they cut off
the tails of the cats for trophies. Another story is when entering the ark
the Manx cats were so busy playing they almost didn't get in on
time and the closing door caught their tails. Other stories tell of a cross
between a cat and a rabbit, a match not possible. In reality, the
Manx has no tail because of a genetic mutation.
Not all Manx cats are tailless. They can have a short stump of a
tail or even a long, full tail. Cats with no tail are
called "rumpies." Those with a short tail or half a tail are
called "stumpies," and those with a complete tail are known
as "longies."
The gene that gives the Manx cat no tail also gives her a shorter
spine and longer hind legs than other cats. This causes Manx cats to
walk with a little hop. With her long back legs, hopping gait and no
tail, it's easy to see how some people think the Manx is part
rabbit.
There are 35 breeds of cats recognized by the Cat Fanciers
Association.
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www.hhaf.org/shopping.htm
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Thanks!!
The Staff and Volunteers at Happy Hills
Happy Hills Animal Foundation, Inc.
3143 Happy Hills Dr.
Staley, NC 27355
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