As this wonderful Christmas Season approaches and 2009 comes to an end, we not only celebrate our blessings but pause also to look back on what we have achieved throughout the year.
When we hold our Annual General Meeting early in the New Year, you will receive a detailed report on all of our results but I will tell you now that The Ark has had a very successful 2009.
We settled into our new facilities very nicely with tremendous help from our staff and volunteers. However, what is more important is that we rescued and re-homed a very impressive number of our four-legged friends and we are very proud of our results.
Now, the only thing left for me is to wish all of you a wonderful holiday with your families and friends and good health in the coming year.
WANTED URGENTLY!
People interested in the welfare of dogs housed at the ARK kennels are wanted urgently for at least one morning or one afternoon a week. You are needed to clean kennels and groom the occupants.
If you have time to spare please call The Ark on 435-4108 or email ark@caribsurf.com
Mornings would be from 8 am to 11 am
Afternoons would be from 2 pm to 5 pm.
NEW WEBSITES OF INTEREST
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This site is having trouble getting enough people to click on it daily to meet their quota for getting free food donated every day for abused and neglected animals. Please go to the site and click on feed an animal in need The corporate sponspors/advertisers use the number of daily visits to donate food in exchange for advertising. Send this message to all your friends and help starving animals.
Today we'd like give you another important opportunity to help us end the largest commercial slaughter of marine mammals on the planet. Take a moment to sign the pledge to boycott Canadian seafood. Once you've signed, we'll let you know how to make the right choice when purchasing seafood.
How Do I participate in the Rehoming Programme?
You can be the owner of a lovable pet. We have a rehoming programme at The Ark where we try to place as many lost and stray animals within a loving and nurturing home.
We are always looking for new members! You can have a Lifetime Membership, Annual Membership whether you are a resident of Barbados or not. For more information, please see our membership form.
The Ark held our first Christmas Market at Lion Castle on Saturday 7th November. This event was the brain-child of Liz Cole, our Vice President and the foundation of planning was well on the way when, due to an emergency, Liz had to drop everything and head for Florida.
Final planning fell to Jo Gamblin and there were approximately 40 participants who had stalls selling wonderful items from jewellery to beautiful plants.
With a hard-working, dedicated group of volunteers, The Ark ladies produced over 300 delicious teas and there were quite a few people who came back for seconds!
Mitch Moore organised the collection of entrance funds at the gate and there was great help with the parking from a cheerful band of "Ark men".
All in all, a very successful evening with many ideas to make the event bigger and better for 2010! Many visitors expressed their hope that this will be an annual event.
Our very special thanks to Kent and Liz Cole for their generous donation of the Lion Castle Clubhouse which made a delightful venue for the Market.
PET PATROL
The Sanitation Service Authority will remove
dead animals struck in vehicular accidents
or that might have died at home from natural
causes. The public HOTLINE for reports is
426-4625.
TURTLE PATROL
If turtle tracks or activity are seen, please call
the HOTLINE at 230-0142 to make a report.
POISON ALERT!
Did you know ...
This is a very sad case - great dog and great owners,
who had no idea that raisins could be a toxin. The
dog was a 56 pound mixed breed Labrador, 5 year old
neutered male, who ate half a cannister of raisins.
Poison Control said as few as 7 raisins or grapes could
be toxic. Many people give their dogs grapes or
raisins as treats, including handlers. Any exposure
should give rise to immediate concern.
Over a period of three days this
dog was hospitalized but in the
end, due to acute renal failure,
his owner had to euthanize him.
Infinite Love
NEW FORMAT NEWSLETTER Our quarterly Newsletter is now in Adobe Reader .pdf format. For those of you who do not know what this means, do not be unduly worried. This just means it will be simpler for you to read the newsletter online if you so wish or download it to your computer and print it as usual. To do this however, you will have to download Adobe Reader to your computer, it is a free tool used all over the world for this very purpose.
Just click the link to the Newsletter and if you are browsing with Internet Explorer and you have Adobe Acrobat already installed the newsletter will open right up in your browser window. It's that simple!
If you do not have Adobe Reader just follow the link below and install it on your computer.
This new format will allow you to get your newsletter faster and looking more attractive.
Book Sales are every 1st Tuesday of each month at Big B Supermarket
Please give us all of your "finished-with" books which are in good condition to help us with this, a major Ark Fund Raiser. All proceeds go to the Spay and Neuter Programme.
To donate books contact: Sandy (428-4266), Jo (428-1803) after 7pm (or leave a message), Liz Cole (438-6898).
