HSMC Day at Noodles & Company - DECEMBER 17, 2008
December 17, 2008
Place: Noodles & Company

Please join us at Noodles for HSMC Day.  A portion of all dinners purchase that evening will be donated to HSMC programs.  Stop in, eat and let us wish you Happy Holidays!

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Santa Paws & Mrs. Claws Open House
December 7, 2008
Time: 12:00 noon to 5:00 pm

Join us for our holiday open house. There will be tours of the new facility, bring your furry family member and have a photo taken with Santa (donation of $10 per photo requested)and meet our staff. We will be serving refreshments.

Please schedule an appointment for your pet photograph with Santa, as space is limited for this activity.

Happy Holidays to everyone!

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Love Lights Tree Ceremony
December 7, 2008
Time: 5:15 pm

HSMC will host its first love lights tree ceremony. For a "love donation",in an amount of your choosing, you can select from 3 diffent colored bulbs to celebrate the season or someone special in your life. WHITE bulbs are for memorials, RED bulbs are for adopted pets and BLUE bulbs are for tributes or anything you wish.

Please provide us with the name of the individual or pet you wish to honor. All names will be listed and memorials will be read at the tree lighting.

To obtain a love light bulb, please contact HSMC at 845-2810.

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REMINDER: Our New Location
November 22, 2008
7001 Packer Drive

Directions: Take either Hwy. 29 or Stewart Avenue west to 72nd Ave. Turn south onto 72nd Avenue and travel to Packer Drive. Turn east onto Packer Drive and travel approximately 300 feet until you see a sign for THE HUMANE SOCIETY and a road to the right. Turn right at the sign adn travel east on this road approx. 2 blocks until you see our facility.

Our new building is locaed between the Sunnyvale Park softball diamonds and Manmade Lake.

Questions? Call 715.845.2810

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NEEDED AT HSMC - URGENT
November 9, 2008
- URGENTLY NEED DOG/PUPPY / CAT/KITTEN FOOD
- URGENTLY NEED OLD TOWELS
- URGENTLY NEED PAPER TOWELING
- Cat litter (just the inexpensive clay - not clumping) HSMC is always in need of cat litter due to the large number of cats housed at the shelter.
- Wet dog / cat food
- WHITE COPY PAPER - 8.5 x 11
- BLEACH
- PEOPLE TO ADOPT CATS AND DOGS (we are full)!!

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ADOPT A SENIOR PET MONTH
November 9, 2008
"No Time To Teach New Tricks? Adopt a Senior Pet!"

The American Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals (ASPCA) and Petfinder.com celebrate November as Adopt-a-Senior-Pet Month. The upcoming holiday season may be an excellent time to put some balance in your life and adopt a senior pet. Senior pets can and do bond very strongly with adopters. Many seem to understand they have been given another chance at a happy life and are grateful for the opportunity to love someone and be loved in return.

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Welcome New Volunteer - Volunteer Coordinator
November 3, 2008
HSMC has our first-ever volunteer, Volunteer Coordinator. We are pleased welcome Terry Carroll to that position. Terry is a long-time HSMC volunteer and animal lover who recently retired. With a little more time on her hands, we were pleased that she accepted our invitation to help develop our new volunteer program - Pet Pals.

Terry will be coordinating volunteer applications, setting-up volunteer trainings, meeting, and scheduling of events that need volunteer participation. We will be updating our files and developing a data base with all of our volunteers outlining special gifts & talents, times available, types of volunteer experiences you are interested in and providing training opportunities. Our goal is to have 1,000 volunteers and Friends by 2010!

Volunteers are the backbone of HSMC! We could not exist without these very special people who give of their time & talents.

To be a Pet Pal volunteer, please contact Terry by email at jcar620558@aol.com. Or contact HSMC by phone at 845-2810 or by email at info@catsndogs.org

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Empty Bowl Dinner
November 3, 2008
HSMC is hosting its first Empty Bowl Dinner...to participate, please contact HSMC at 845-2810

Date: November 27
Time: Anytime
Place: Comfort of your Home
Cost: $25.00 per person
Reason: to fill empty bowls in support of HSMC

An Empty Bowl Dinner is not a dinner at all.
An Empty Bowl Dinner never really takes place.
An Empty Bowl Dinner has a date & a time,
An Empty Bowl Dinner never really takes place.
An Empty Bowl Dinner has a guest list, invitations & an RSVP.
An Empty Bowl Dinner never really takes place.
An Empty Bowl Dinner is black tie & lace.
An Empty Bowl Dinner never really takes place.
An Empty Bowl Dinner has a purpose & a cause.
An Empty Bowl Dinner saves lost cats & dogs.
An Empty Bowl Dinner is a fundraiser you see.
An Empty Bowl Dinner only requests a donation from you & from me.
An Empty Bowl Dinner means you may stay at home & relax.
And an RSVP today means in the future,
An Empty Bowl Dinner never really has to take place.....

Thank you for your support & Happy Thanksgiving from all the cold noses with warm bellies that your RSVP donation will make possible.

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On a Journey.......Begins!
November 1, 2008
Our critters are on a journey and you are their travel agent. Help our critters travel around the world beginning in October thru February 2009.

Send our critters to family and friends and encourage them to send the critters onward to their family and friends. The critters that have traveled the furthest and their original travel agent will win On a Journey prizes.

Pick-up your critters and their passport in October for just $5.00. And send our critters around the world!

Watch upcoming events for more details.....

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