Another year begins and here we are trying to keep up with our new resolution to get the newsletters out to you in a timely fashion, plan more classes and events, and make greater progress toward our goal of a facility of our own where we can save the animals and educate the community. You may have wondered where we have been. We were not on vacation, and we were not mad at you. We just got so busy with all the rescued ones, and were so short staffed, that it was all we could do to just keep up with animal care and office work. Newsletters and classes got put on the back burner, and our only fundraiser was our Pet Photos with Santa “Bob” (as always, a big success and lots of fun for all). We have a few new active members who we really are counting on the make a difference in the coming year. Katherine, for one, who is both a rehabber and a whiz with Quickbooks, has been with us for most of the past year and has been invaluable. Diane is still with us, our diehard office manager for over 11 years! Lori still does most of the animal care at the main facility, and although we have lost many rehabbers to relocation, new babies and new jobs, we continue to rehab thousands of wild ones annually. In return for all the wildlife medical help from the Selden Emergency Clinic, we took in many strays with special needs from them and were able to help a large number of dogs and cats who were in need of medical care and rehab before they were well enough to be placed. These domestic animals have to be cared for in foster homes as we have no shelter. Many have viruses that require isolation until treated, and this is very hard to do for anyone with other pets. We truly appreciate the few volunteers who can provide this care. The small furries and exotics continue to need rescue. Guinea Pigs, rabbits, pet birds, domestic ducks and chickens, snakes and lizards are found and unclaimed all year round. These are taken in, cared for until healthy, and then placed in new homes. Many are too sick to save, some are elderly and do not have a long life left. There is a lot of heartbreak involved in this work, and permanent homes are hard to come by. Please keep us in mind if you think you have room in your home and your heart to help one of these critters.
We want to thank you all for hanging in there with us through 2007, and continuing to support us with your holiday donations and membership dues. We need to develop a reliable system to keep you all updated as to our plans. So we are asking you all to let us know how to contact you through our member email database. Please send an email to petline@petline.org. Just put “member” in the subject line, and your name, address and phone number in the text section. We will compile this into an auto notification list for any events we plan, and we promise that this list will remain private – never shared with any other businesses or services. Please do this now, while you remember, and do it even if you have done it in the past, as this will be a new and updated database. Thank you.
Jan 1st, 2008
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