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September 2015 Case Update

9/30/2015

September was another semi quiet month for the Foundation. We had five families apply and receive assistance — for a total of $702.93 given in aid. Below is a brief description of the cases we helped:

a dog with a terrible case of the growing pains
a cat who was bit by a spider
a dog who had been hit by a car and needed its hip put back into place
a dog with cancer, and we helped the owners help him cross the rainbow bridge
a dog who had been attacked by another dog, and we helped the owners help her cross the rainbow bridge
As of September 30: a dog who may have digestive issues and needs lab work done

Should you have any questions, or comments, please do not hesitate to contact us. Thank you for all that you do for Fur Kids Foundation and the families with pets in our community.

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September Volunteer(s) of the Month

9/30/2015

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All of you!
When we sat down to select one volunteer to highlight for September, we couldn't decide on one person. So, we are completely and utterly thankful for you all.

Volunteers are so critical to our mission at Fur Kids Foundation. You help us with every aspect of the Foundation and every cog is so important to the wheel that keeps us rolling. Some of our most energetic and enthusiastic volunteers are the busiest people we know, who selflessly give their time to help others. Whether you're helping us with our cases (which can put your emotions through the ringer), picking up trash at CAM-PLEX, setting up/tearing down and even creating and organizing events, picking up sloppy and wet dog poo in a pool or in the rain, reaching out to people to support us, donning a costume and playing with kids/animals for a few hours or flying in from Alaska to take photos at events, every hour you spend with FKF supports our mission to help keep families with pets healthy and happy in Campbell County, Wyoming.

We are so grateful that you choose to share your time, talents, and enthusiastic energy with us and can’t thank you enough! Your amazing, caring, animal loving hearts keep us going, and that is very humbling. Thank you.

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Help us by taking a quick survey

9/21/2015

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While most families can cope with the financial commitment involved in the day to day care of their fur kids, there are times when a pet gets sick unexpectedly or when a family has fallen on hard times. This is when they can turn to Fur Kids Foundation for help.

Created in November 2011, the Fur Kids Foundation is a 501 (c) (3) nonprofit organization that provides education and aid to promote the well-being of families with animals in Campbell County, Wyoming. Since 2012, we’ve helped more than 215 families, and we’ve granted more than $32,000 in aid. None of this is possible without your support.

We are reaching out to you today to ask you to help us create better fundraising events for you and your family/friends to enjoy with (or without) your fur kids. The Fur Kids Foundation volunteer board works very hard to make sure the majority of the money we raise is used to help families with animals in need. We are very happy to report that in 2014, more than 78 percent of the funds we raised went to keeping local animals and their families healthy and happy.

Please consider taking a few minutes to answer this survey and providing some suggestions. The survey will close on Monday, October 5 at 5 pm.

Thanks again for your support.

Take the Survey and help Fur Kids Foundation

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Foundation makes Nearly $6K with Pet-A-Palooza

9/14/2015

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Pet-A-Palooza, Fur Kids Foundation's largest fundraising event of the year, was PAWSOME—with nearly $6,000 raised to help families with pets who need access to emergency veterinary care! There were more than 300 attendees with their dogs at the event! We saw an increase in contestants at our attractions with 17 pets registered for Pawject Runway and 15 contestants for the Small Dog Showdown. And, our new Table of Treats and Trinkets sold out half-way through the event!

Please be sure to check out, tag yourself and share the photos of the event posted on Facebook. And, if you took photos at the FKF Photo Booth, check out this album on Facebook. Discs are available at Photo Imaging Center Gillette, located at 900 Camel Plaza, Suite C. You can print the pictures of your choice!

This event is very important to Fur Kids Foundation, as it’s the largest fundraiser that we hold. The volunteer board wants you to know that more than 80 percent of the funds raised at our events and fundraisers go toward helping families with pets with emergency veterinary care. Since 2012, we’ve helped more than 215 families, and we’ve granted more than $32,000 in aid. None of this is possible without your support.

We are truly grateful to the following businesses and individuals for their help and generosity at Pet-A-Palooza this year.

Please give a huge round of a-paws to the following businesses and community members—please be sure to thank them for their wonderful support when you see them, or do business with them: Animal Medical Center of Wyoming; Annabelle's Cookies Gourmet Dog Treats; Basin Electric Power Cooperative; Campagna Family; Karen Clarke; Cloud Peak Energy; Jamie Pedersen, ERA Priority Real Estate; First Interstate Bank; First National Bank of Gillette; Forever Faithful Pet Crematory; Gillette Optometric Clinic; Johnson Family; Junker Family; Lynde Family; Masters of Ceremony; Billy Montgomery; Powder River Office Supply; S&S Builders, LLC; Sit Means Sit Central Wyoming; Susan McKay CPA LLC-Susan McKay & Crystal Ninas; Thunder Basin Veterinary Clinic PC; and the Wallace Family.
Volunteers are the life-blood of Fur Kids Foundation and without them, we wouldn't be able to help as many families as we do. We are truly grateful to the following: Andi, Brandon, Cody, Crystal, Elora, Erik, Felicia, Karolyn, LeAna, Linda, Lynn, Manda, Mary, Michelle, Peggy, Rachel, Rebecca, Sierra, Tara, Teri, and Tiffany.
Campbell County 4-H Dog Agility for coming out, setting up the agility course, and donating half of their proceeds to Fur Kids Foundation.
Michelle at Explore Paw Photography for flying in from Alaska to take pictures of the event!
Forever Faithful Pet Crematory for hosting the Pet Blessing, and giving participants a chance to remember their cherished pets who have crossed the rainbow bridge.
Gillette Community Theatre for offering up their face painting skills to festival attendees for a donation.
Gillette Petco and Sit Means Sit of Central Wyo. Dog Training for doing dog demonstrations at the event.
Joe's Pet Depot SA for providing the winning baskets for the Small Dog Showdown.
Sierra at The Knotty Salon for taking over and quite successfully revamping our fashion show into Pawject Runway. She organized the event, ran it onsite, found some wonderful judges and gave away $150 at the event to winners. Thanks to these judges for helping us out that day as well: LaKesha Brown, Kelsey Conley and Alissa Focht.
Will Langley for creating the Fur Kids Foundation photo frame for the photo booth that Crystal and Tiffany ran during the event for a donation. We’ll have photos uploaded to the Foundation’s Facebook page shortly!
Masters of Ceremony (Erik Bergquist and Jaylen) for all the support given to Fur Kids Foundation over the years. This is the third year that Erik has volunteered his time to emcee this event! He brings so much to Pet-A-Palooza and we are very thankful for it.
Michelle Miller who won the 50/50 Raffle drawing, and donated $137 back to the Foundation!
Manda Peyton for her ideas for all her extra hard work on the Table of Trinkets and Treats and the Small Dog Showdown – both were new to the festival this year and thought up by Manda!
Powder River Office Supply for donating the ink pads and the paper for the Dog Paw Print Art that festival attendees enjoyed with their pups.
Silent Auction and Table of Treats and Trinkets Donors: Animal Medical Center of Wyoming; Annabelle's Cookies; Austin Family; Barkbox; Bauman Family; Biers Family; Calhoun Family; FCA Country Store; Flightline, Inc.; Forever Faithful Pet Crematory; Gillette Acupuncture; Good Reasons Dog Treats; Halvorson Family; Hockett Family; It Works! with Bobbi Link; Joe's Pet Depot; Law Family; Lazy KT Designs; LIMU with Angel Dobitz; Kelley Family; Kimball Family; Magpie Designs; Moen Family; Nootie; Peyton Family; Seppala Family; Skip To My Lou Catering, Haley Belecky; SodaPup; Sylvester Family; Tractor Supply, Gillette; Tufvesson Family; and Fur Kids Foundation board members.
Vendors: Animal Medical Center of Wyoming; Annabelle's Cookies; Forever Faithful Pet Crematory; It Works! with Bobbi Link; LIMU with Angel Dobitz; Joe's Pet Depot; Petco Gillette; Sit Means Sit of Central Wyo. Dog Training; Skip To My Lou Catering, Haley Belecky; and Wyoming Basset Hound Rescue.

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August 2015 Case UPdate

9/1/2015

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August was a quiet month, and a much needed break for our case managers. We had six families apply for assistance, and were able to help four of those families keep their pets healthy — for a total of $529.56 given in aid. Below is a brief description of the cases we helped:

a dog with sinisitis, pneumonia
a cat who was pregnant and had complications with its pregnancy
a puppy with a bruised lung, who, unfortunately passed away
a dog who was in a fight and sustained severe lacerations to his body

Should you have any questions, or comments, please do not hesitate to contact us.

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Volunteer of the Month: Megan Taylor

9/1/2015

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The Fur Kids Foundation board of directors wants to give a huge shout out to Megan Taylor as the August Volunteer of the Month!

Megan has been a wealth of ideas since joining Fur Kids Foundation. She is spearheading an upcoming fundraiser the Foundation hopes to hold over the holidays where participants can make dog and/or cat toys. She's in discussions with a local business right now, and we hope to release more details about the event shortly. She also has some interest in forming a Disaster Animal Response Team (DART) in Campbell County, and has been helping the board collect information on how we can potentially partner with other entities in our community to make this happen. Megan has helped the Foundation sit at booths at local pet stores, even after spending her entire morning working at the Saturday farmers' market. Thank you Megan for giving us so much of your spare time. We can't wait to hear more ideas from you!

Have you seen a volunteer go above and beyond? Let Mary or Felicia know at volunteerfkf@gmail.com.

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Plunge-tastic!

9/1/2015

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Our Pooch Plunge made some HUGE waves on August 29! We saw more than 200 dogs, and likely more than 400 people, come through the City Pool. We also made more than $1,300! If you attended, please share your images or videos with on our Facebook page, and be sure to tag yourself in the pictures our wonderful photographer and board member Mary took.

Shout out to nearly 20 volunteers who helped us at registration, guarding the dogs and people, and the silent auction table. You guys are our rock: Brandon, Rachel, Mary, Tara, Cody, Rebecca, Felicia, Peggy, Leah, Phyllis, LeAna, Lanie, Randy, Heidi, Robynn, Jessica, Manda, and Diane.

Thanks to Kay Friedlan and her life guards for helping us put on this event, as well as helping us supervise all of these people and their dogs.

And, special thanks to the following businesses and individuals who have given money so we can hold events like this:
Animal Medical Center of Wyoming
Annabelle's Cookies
Basin Electric Power Cooperative
Campagna Family
Karen Clarke
Cloud Peak Energy
First National Bank of Gillette
Gillette Optometric Clinic
Jamie Pedersen, ERA Priority Real Estate
Johnson Family
Junker Family
Masters of Ceremony
Billy Montgomery
Powder River Office Supply
S&S Builders, LLC
Sit Means Sit of Central Wyoming Dog Training
Susan McKay CPA LLC-Susan McKay & Crystal Ninas
Wallace Family

Check out a video taken by Gillette Healthy Living at the Pooch Plunge to learn a little bit more about the event, and the Foundation!

Since 2012, Fur Kids Foundation has helped more than 200 families, and granted more than $31,000 in aid. Thank you for helping us keep pets healthy in Campbell County, Wyoming. If you'd like to help us continue to help families with emergency veterinary costs, please consider donating.

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September 2015 Case Update

September Volunteer(s) of the Month

Help us by taking a quick survey

Foundation makes Nearly $6K with Pet-A-Palooza

August 2015 Case UPdate

Volunteer of the Month: Megan Taylor

Plunge-tastic!

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