If you live in the Houston area, or plan to be near Houston for Mother's Day, you should stop by the Moms & Mutts event for some family and canine fun! (click the 'read more' link in blue to get more details)
Great Dane Rescue of North Texas is grateful to everyone who had a hand in making this year’s DaneFest the best ever! Thanks to an amazing raffle item, an incredible volunteer team, some really great weather, and a whole slew of supporters who showed up by the bunches, we were able to raise over $8,000 to treat abused, neglected and abandoned Danes in North Texas!
This year’s DaneFest would not have been nearly as successful and would not have been nearly so much fun without the help of the following people:
| Heather, Geoff, Don and Lynn Hardin Susan and William Thomas Doris, and her son John, Huneycutt Eileen Anderson |
Stacie Everitt Len Holloway Kayrene Janak Lauren Murphy Nova Pickles Jana Sanders Mary Stewart Nora Stonecipher Lubo Tancevski |
And the following businesses:
Year after year, Carla and her team at Promos Distributors have made high-quality screen prints on high-quality t-shirts at deeply discounted prices for us. Because of Carla, we are able to raise serious money from the sale of DaneFest shirts and attendees get to go home with a souvenir that will last longer than a favorite concert t-shirt.
And the best has been saved for last...Great Big, Great Dane sized thanks go to Lea and Dennis Van Vleet with Dogs Unleashed Daycare for allowing us to take over their facility every year. They bend over backwards for GDRNT and we cannot thank them enough for their continued support of our rescue efforts.
Many thanks, too, to all of you who came out to support us last Saturday. We enjoyed visiting with you and playing with your dog(s) and really look forward to seeing you for DaneFest 2009!
You can see more pictures and read stories by clicking the words in blue below:
DaneFest 2008 Wrap-Up (you can see slideshows here)
DaneFest 2008 Pictures (you can see still pictures here)
I want you to meet Amy - an exceptional dog, but not in the traditional way. She will never be one of those search and rescue dogs featured on national news and it is not likely she will win awards in confirmation or agility trials any time soon, but Amy has won our hearts and we are so proud of all she has accomplished.
Amy’s story starts off like so many other dogs: born for the sole purpose of breeding, she was one of nine Great Danes we pulled from a bad situation southeast of Dallas.
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Many thanks to the good people at neighborsgo.com for paying special attention to our favorite presidential candidate, Guinness Murphy!
Here is a direct link to the shout-out from "Paws and Effect", the blogger who focuses on animal issues in the DFW-area through neighborsgo.com.
Dirty Dawgz Self-Serve Dog Wash & Spa is hosting several low-cost microchipping clinics benefitting Great Dane Rescue of North Texas (meaning money raised from these events will go directly to GDRNT's vet bills!).
If you are not familiar with microchips, here is a little information...
Many thanks to our cafepress guru, Ellen, for getting our Guinness for President store up-n-running!
We have bumper stickers, a yard sign, t-shirts and buttons.
We're flexible and willing to put Guinness' mug on, well, a mug - if you want. So if there's a particular style of t-shirt or other item that you like, but that we don't have for sale yet, just use the contact page to let us know.
As I mentioned in Ruby's post, you need a really hard shell to do rescue work. If not, then the constant barrage of unwanted animals would suck your soul dry.
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