Ok, here’s a just-for-fun competition.  I need a name for our new puppy, and I’m looking for your suggestions.  If you win and you happen to have a website, I’ll put a link to it on my site.  Happy thinking.

If it helps, she so far will be a blond or fawn color.

Well, it seems that 2 of Tia’s pups didn’t make it and a third one is sick and Laury doesn’t think that she’ll make it through the night.  It’s the little blond one that we were hopong for.  Laury said theat even if the pup makes it, she probablky won’t be a very healthy dog.

So I emailed Laury and asked if there was any chance of us getting a little blond female from another female’s litter.  I’m waiting for a response right now and will let you know what she says.

Well, the S.H.S. (Steinbach Humane Society) is off to a great start!  We’re organizing a fund raiser called Pets At The Park and getting a wonderful board of directors together.  We’re still working on our grant proposal and gathering foster home applicants.  We’d like most of the animals in foster homes in order to socialize them and have them getting daily love and attention.  We’re also raising awarness in the community by holding a logo contest.

We’re very excited and can hardly wait to get a building in order to properly care for the animals that come in.   Along with simply being a pet rescue center, we will also become the local animal control departmen, as right now there is one man who is the pound.  He catches animals, holds them for a short period and then disposes of them.  HORRIBLE!  We would be catching them, having them vet checked, working with any social/behavioral issues and then working to return them to their owners or spaying/neutering them and finding forever homes for them.

A couple of weeks ago, an aquantence of mine sent me a reply email.  She replied to all my general questions like “How are you doing?”, “What’s new?” and so on.  She said that the animal shelter that she had tried so hard to get off the ground hadn’t made it and that all the financial stress fell on her and she had to close that chapter of her dream of starting up an animal rescue center.  Well, I wasn’t having that.  I told her that I wanted to help.

So we’ve been working together for about a week now gathering information and getting a new plan together to get this shelter off the ground.  We’re both very excited and our partnership is perfect as she isn’t afraid of public speaking and I have a marketing major.  At present, we’re working on writing up a grant proposal to bring befor our city council to request funding in order to purchase a piece of land and set up a structure to house a good number of animals.  We have adoption applications and contracts as well as foster forms.  We’ve only been at this for about a week really and already we’ve got a lot together.  We’re having our first official meeting tomorrow to iron out some details and come up with a more bullet-proof plan.  She’s getting sponsors lined up and I’m working on fund raising ideas.  Hopefully soon, Karen’s life-long dream of starting up her own animal rescue center will be a reality and the Steinbach Humane Society will be up and running.

I recently joined a friend of mine in an effort to get a animal shelter in our city. It’ll be a long process I’m sure, but worth it. Here are a few videos to show what is driving me to do this.

There’s a new movie coming to the theater. It’s cute and adorable and looks pretty fun. As a fan of the Chihuahua breed, I will definately be going to check this movie out. Here’s a sneak peek.

Black Angus aka Angus Sings Harmony is the father to the pup we’re getting in September.  Mia is the mother.  Here’s the latest on Angus from his border.  Laury writes;

“Laud’s Angus Sings Harmony a 5 year old 4.6 pound black male just started his show career this weekend and now has 3 points…”

We still haven’t picked out a name for our future pup yet.  There’s a few I really like, but we’ll have to see her and find out what her personality is like before we settle on the name.

I will shortly be closing Pup Apparel to the public, except for retailers.  June will be my final month of oporation as it is.  Starting on July 1st, a retail registration number will be required in order to purchase the products.  I appreciate all the business, and am currently working on a way to offer my quality products to you in another way.  Thank you all again and have a wonderful day!

I’ve found the perfect way to count down the time until we get our new Chi pup. It’s found at Ticker Factory.com. It’s a totally cool way to keep track of anything.  I love it and recommend it.

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