Hi fosters and
volunteers,
Hope you’re enjoying the rain and that your pets aren’t
melting- I know many of them are made of sugar!
We had a great week- FIVE dogs were adopted at the
last mobile adoption! Nineteen new volunteers joined us at the volunteer
orientation this Saturday and many have already signed up to help out! Our “Home
for the Holidays” promotion ($10 adoption donations for cats 6 months and
over) has already led to two cat adoptions including Xander! Our humane education
program kicked off this week (see picture) and we reached over 50 kids with a
message of responsible pet ownership and safety around dogs. We’ve got two more
classes this week and are looking forward to heading into more schools.
Coming up, we still have openings for Santa Paws, but
they’re going fast! All of the openings are listed here.
If you’re in Marin, we could really use help on December 1st.
(We’ve also got a great opportunity for cat lovers in Marin- let me know if
you’d like more info- think KITTENS!) We’ve also added a mobile dog adoption to
the awesome event at Bay Street in Emeryville on December 7th, so if
that’s your thing, let me know.
A little nudge for volunteers- if you aren’t tracking
your hours, this is a great time to start doing so. Please let me know if
you need a new password for our volunteer database.
You can bookmark that link and you can also access it from the “volunteers” tab
of www.hopalong.org. Right now we’ve got
over 4,000 hours of service logged just since March! (I’ve been keeping track
of the hours that I know you’re doing, but I know there’s even more!) Fosters,
we keep track of your hours slightly differently, so need to log into the
database for this purpose. These hours cumulatively are amazing for grants and
really, it’s pretty awesome to know that you’ve contributed to 4,000 hours??
I’m very proud!
And of course, YOUR appreciation party is coming up
on December 5th. Go ahead and RSVP
so we can say thank you in person! Remember, dinner is provided this year!
Thank you guys for everything, and see you soon!
