If you haven't already signed up, I would like to encourage everyone who has a dog or cat to get your name on the list for our upcoming Microchip Clinic on the 7th of December.
It will be held at Memorial Hall, from 1:00 PM to 4:00 PM. The clinic is being co-sponsored by Alex's House, a new dog rescue facility near Rosalia - and the Community Foundation of Greater Butler County. The Foundation is a public, non-profit 501(c)(3) organization, established in 2001 to assist those individuals and organizations in need, in the community.
The Foundation, in conjunction with Alex's House, has been generous enough to assist the people in Greenwood County with implanting microchips in their pets for the very low cost of $10.00.
Typically, having this procedure done for your pet can cost upwards of $75.00 (including the cost of chip resgistration). Registration in this clinic will be done for free, on site, after the implant procedure is completed. The chips are being provided at a discount price, by a company called 24PetWatch. You can go the the companies website at: www.24petwatch.com to learn more about the company, and the other valuable services they offer.
The microchip is about the size of a grain of rice, and is implanted with a needle & syringe in the fleshy area, between the back of the head and the top of the shoulder blades on the animal. In most cases, the procedure is no more painful than a routine injection. The chip lasts a lifetime, and the registration data base is Nationwide.
I would like to encourage everyone in our area to sign up for this wonderful program. The price is a real bargain, and the peace of mind in knowing that your pet will returned home to you if it should for some reason become lost, is well...priceless.
Please call me at (620)750-0302 to sign up, or if you would like more information!
Sunday, November 30, 2008
Wednesday, November 26, 2008
A Gift Worth Giving!
No...it's not diamonds! But it is just as valuable! It is the love and laughter that goes with inviting a new dog or cat into your home.
I won't bore you today with statistics. I'm sure most of you have heard them recited over and over again. But did you know that a pet can extend your life? Not to mention that adopting one from a rescue group, or your local animal pound, can definitely extend theirs!
As you look at the pictures posted here today, I ask each and everyone of you to try and look more closely at their faces. Each one of them, at some point in their young life, was loved and wanted. Now, they languish in our local pound, wondering what happened?
Some have been physicaly abused. Some have been abandoned. Some have simply wandered too far away from home, and got lost. But each and every one of them is full of love and hope! They only want to be with someone who will offer them what they most desire: Love and companionship.
So as we gather for this Thanksgiving and Christmas holiday period, let us not forget the forgotten. Let us remember that these lost souls didn't ask to be here. They didn't set about their small lives to be left behind. Once, they were were wanted. Once, they were loved. Once, they entrusted their very survival to their keepers, only to be betrayed. And yet, even now, they harbor no ill will or malice. They just keep wagging their tails, hoping for the day when they will be chasing that ball, getting that belly rub, or giving that face licking!
This year, as you sit pondering a gift that will bring smiles to you and yours for years to come, remember that the most precious gift is not a big screen TV or a diamond ring. It is a life filled with love.
Now that is a gift worth giving!
I won't bore you today with statistics. I'm sure most of you have heard them recited over and over again. But did you know that a pet can extend your life? Not to mention that adopting one from a rescue group, or your local animal pound, can definitely extend theirs!
As you look at the pictures posted here today, I ask each and everyone of you to try and look more closely at their faces. Each one of them, at some point in their young life, was loved and wanted. Now, they languish in our local pound, wondering what happened?
Some have been physicaly abused. Some have been abandoned. Some have simply wandered too far away from home, and got lost. But each and every one of them is full of love and hope! They only want to be with someone who will offer them what they most desire: Love and companionship.
So as we gather for this Thanksgiving and Christmas holiday period, let us not forget the forgotten. Let us remember that these lost souls didn't ask to be here. They didn't set about their small lives to be left behind. Once, they were were wanted. Once, they were loved. Once, they entrusted their very survival to their keepers, only to be betrayed. And yet, even now, they harbor no ill will or malice. They just keep wagging their tails, hoping for the day when they will be chasing that ball, getting that belly rub, or giving that face licking!
This year, as you sit pondering a gift that will bring smiles to you and yours for years to come, remember that the most precious gift is not a big screen TV or a diamond ring. It is a life filled with love.
Now that is a gift worth giving!
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