Pet-A-Palooza raises more than $8,500 to help families with emergency veterinary care

Thank you to everyone who joined the Fur Kids Foundation pack at Pet-A-Palooza on September 9. The board of directors is very pleased to announce that supporters of the Foundation helped us raise more than $8,500! We also had more than $5,290 given to the Foundation for in-kind donations and silent auction items! We have an amazingly generous community, and we are truly grateful for the support.
 
Photos of the event are posted in our Facebook album, 2017 Pet-A-Palooza. We encourage you to tag yourself or your friends in the photos and share them with your followers.
 
We owe a huge paw of applause to Fur Kids Foundation’s volunteers. This year, several of them helped us gather items for our Silent Auction, helped us find vendors and sponsors, planned Pawject Runway and the Small Dog Showdown, and even found other people to volunteer at the event. Fur Kids Foundation is very lucky to have such a great group of people in our pack.
 
Before we sign off, we need to give a hand to the businesses and individuals who help this great event happen in our community. Without their help, we couldn't help as many families with pets with emergency veterinary care. Since September 2012, Fur Kids Foundation has helped more than 430 families and granted more than $70,000 in aid! Our vendors at the event were really paw-some, as were all the people and businesses who donated to the Silent Auction tables. These businesses and individuals include:

31 Bags, Tracy Arroyos
Animal Medical Center of Wyoming
Associated Glass
B3 K9 Training
Best Friends Forever Mobile Pet Grooming
Bomgaars
Camelot Pet Castle
Cancer Crochet
CCMH Lab 
Central Wyoming Aviary
Charlene Murdock
Crazy Daisy Floral
Earth Rated
Emma Loftus
Forever Faithful Pet Crematory
FKF board, Linda, Mary & Lish

Fur-Zoff
Heidi Hockett
Help Em Up Harness
HURTTA
Jennifer Wyman
Jill Matson
Karolyn Chambers
The Knotty Salon
Kristi's Kiss and Makeup
Kurgo
Lazy KT Designs
Linda Stewart
Mary Ellen Young
Mary L'Esperance
Oglala Pet Project
Overhead Door Co. of Gillette
PAWS Academy
Peggy Seppala

Petsies
Red Hills Veterinary Hospital
Rosebud Concessions
Sportsman's Warehouse
Teacher's Corner/Kid's Mart
The Rusty Bucket
The SPaw / Deirdre's Grooming / Grooming by Becky 
Tiffany Sylvester
Vicky Schumacher & Piper the Generous Corgi
Wagler Girls
Walgreens
William Langley
Wyoming Basset Hound Rescue
Wyoming Art & Frame

And last, but certainly not least, a big round of applause to the businesses and individuals listed below for their support of this event and Fur Kids Foundation Pooch Plunge on August 26, which brought in nearly $1,400 as well. If you do business with any of these businesses, or know these individuals, please thank them for supporting us.

Anastasia Blackwell Dog Training
Best Friends Forever Mobile Pet Grooming
​First Interstate Bank of Gillette
​First National Bank of Gillette 
Fraternal Order of the Eagles-Aux. 2711
Friedlan Family
Gillette Optometric Clinic
The Knotty Salon
Lazy KT Designs
Darren & Kim Lynde
Master's of Ceremony
Overhead Door Co. of Gillette
Pet Grooming by Becky
Pizza Carrello
Premier Home Mortgage
Peggy & Rod Seppala
S&S Builders, LLC
The SPaw