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"Evolved
Rescue"
is the union of
municipal and private animal shelters and rescues
working TOGETHER as an umbrella of animal advocacy
groups
providing services to
save companion
animal lives.
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Reducing Pet
Overpopulation in Our
Community
On Sunday, April 11,
staff members from Doylestown Animal Medical
Clinic and Animal Lifeline volunteers worked
together to spay/neuter 49 feral cats and
low-income family pets. What an amazing
accomplishment! Special thanks go to the
doctors and staff who helped educate our Delaware
Valley College volunteers, and for helping
families who simply could not afford basic care
for their pets.
This one-day effort will
help prevent the births of hundreds, and
ultimately thousands, of unwanted animals into our
community. Spring is the time of year when all
rescues and shelters really feel the effects of
overpopulation. Many animals will be born,
only to lose their lives simply because there is
nowhere for them to go.
Please consider
supporting our spay/neuter initiative. A
check can be sent to us at:
ANIMAL
LIFELINE
1111 Easton Road, Suite
24
Warrington, PA 18976
And you do
not have to have a PayPal account to make a
donation online by clicking on the Donate button you'll see
at the top of our webpage. No contribution is too
small! Our combined donations can
help prevent so much unnecessary
suffering!
Dr. Dale Mantell teaching
surgical procedures.
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Nutritional specialist
Angela Butler of DAMC, Denise Bash, Founder of
Animal Lifeline, & Cassie Klein, President
of the Animal Lifeline Club of Delaware Valley
College.
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A big thank you to Angela
Butler of Doylestown Animal Medical
Clinic for leading the incredibly informative
Nutrition Issues
for Your Pet class last Monday! The
participants learned so much about animal food and
associated myths. It was fascinating to
learn how to decipher food labels and separate
good ingredients from bad.
Participants
were SO impressed by the amount of misinformation
commonly presented by food manufacturers that we
are holding this class two times next year.
Don't miss the opportunity to find out how to help
keep your pet healthy with proper nutrition --
next fall with Animal Lifeline Education at
Delaware Valley College!
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Saturday,April
17th
Playwicki
Farm
Bridgetown Pike,
Feasterville
10am -
3pm Join Animal
Lifeline and dozens of rescues and vendors at the
Lower Southampton Animal Control
Advisory Board Pet Fair!
Dr.
Bandekar from the New Britain Veterinary
Clinic will be there to do Avid
microchipping until 1:30PM - cost is
$33.00. Microchip purchasers will get
a $10.00 coupon from the Animal Lifeline Thrift
Shop for participation.
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The
Animal Lifeline
A-Day
Activity
Center
If you're on campus for
A-Day,
come on over and
join in the
fun
at the booth sponsored by
the Animal Lifeline
Club!
- Make the coolest
felt rope toys - pick out your own colors and
make one for your pet, or donate one to an
animal in need!
- Shop the selection
of homemade dog treats from the Doggie
Deli!
- Visit with
adoptable dogs that will be visiting from local
rescues!
- Play "Guess That
Breed"! Lovely Sookie was
rescued from an overcrowded shelter by the
outreach team when they were on their trip to
rehab facilities in South Carolina.
Sookie's breed was in question, so a DNA
analysis was performed. We can't tell you
what we learned about Sookie here -- come over
to the Activity Center and take a look at her
picture:
 Just $1 to guess
Sookie's breed, and the three most
accurate answers will each win a $25 gift
certificate to T.G.I. Friday's!
Dates:
April 23,
12:00 - 8:00pm
April 24, 10:00 -
7:00pm
April 25, 10:00 -
6:00pm
Location:
Delaware
Valley College
700 East Butler
Avenue,
Doylestown
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FIRST
FRIDAY IN
DOYLESTOWN!
Join
Animal Lifeline at Doylestown's
next
two First
Fridays!
On
May 7th, we'll be part of all sorts of
animal-related activities at the Central Bucks
Family YMCA! The YMCA will be sponsoring a
month-long animal food drive for the month of
May.
You'll
find Animal Lifeline at the intersection of Pine
& State Streets on June 4th.
More
details about both of these dates
soon!
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Animal
Lifeline
Warrington Pavilion Shopping
Center
1111 Easton Road, Suite
24
Warrington, Pennsylvania 18976
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Store
Hours
Tuesday:
12 - 7
Wednesday:
9:30 - 3:30
Thursday:
9:30 - 3:30
Friday:
12 - 7
Saturday:
10 - 5
CLOSED
Sunday & Monday
4TH FRIDAY COMING UP
ON APRIL
23RD!
50% OFF
THE WHOLE
STORE!
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| Thinking about a new
pet?
what you're
looking for
and we'll
contact you!
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NECESSITIES!
We
are desperate for cat supplies to help feral feeders and
other rescues. Any wet or dry food will do, and
kitty litter is also needed.
If you can't
make it to the Animal Lifeline Thrift Shop to drop off
supplies, there are always donation bins at RAU
Animal Hospital in Glenside and Doylestown Animal Medical Clinic,
and during the month of May, you can find one at at the
Central Bucks Family YMCA as
well.
Your simple act of kindness can
really help those working at a grass-roots level save
more animals!
Leon still in need of a
home -
come meet him at the Thrift
Shop!
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always, thank you
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Animal
Lifeline Education
at
Delaware Valley College
One last class
this
spring!
Lessons in
Leadership:
Are
you "The Big Cheese",
or
just the human
who
has some cheese?":
Monday, May 3, 7-9PM
How do you communicate
leadership to your dog? Is the trick in the
training? Join us as we will take a look
at common approaches to working with dogs and the
subtle ways that you can communicate "leadership". We'll
discuss the dog/human dynamic, social hierarchies, body
language displays, and much more!
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Kids & Dogs Combo
Camp
July 12-16,
2010
Information on
our
Education
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CALLING
ALL STORE VOLUNTEERS!!!
Denise & Laurie are headed
out on a three-county shelter rehab trip with our
outreach volunteers from May 21-27.
This important trip will help other shelters
from less economically fortunate areas update their
facilities and take better care of their
animals. We are bringing a veterinarian and a
trainer to help with education, and several volunteers
from the Delaware Valley College Animal Lifeline Club
and the Thrift Shop will to do all of the
labor.
We
will need all hands on
deck while folks are away on this trip! If
you are a Thrift Shop volunteer, it would be great if
you could help out at the store that week so we can keep
the doors open!
Please
call 215-343-5050 and ask for Laurie or Denise to get
shift information. If everyone could pitch in a
few volunteer hours, it would be a tremendous
help!
THANK
YOU!
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STAMPS
TO THE RESCUE
In celebration of the new
Animal Rescue:
Adopt a Shelter Pet
stamps, the Postal Service, together with Ellen
DeGeneres and Halo: Purely for Pets, is giving shelter
pets around the country a First-Class
Meal.
During the launch of the
44 cent stamps, Halo
will be donating a million meals to animal shelters
around the country! These stamps will be available
at the Post Office April
30.
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BALTO!
There was a moment at "Canines on the
Catwalk" when just about everyone in the room got
at least a little teary. We were listening to our
Adoption Coordinator, Jen Daley, as she explained what
Animal Lifeline means to her, and she choked up as she
told us about the old dog who had been found starving
and tied to a tree. The dog had been taken in by
Animal Lifeline so that he could be gently cared for and
made comfortable for his last days. That dog was
Balto.
Well, thanks to the tireless efforts and
love provided by his foster family, the DeJessas, Balto
has defied the odds, going from 48 to 80
pounds. And today, Balto was adopted into the
forever home he always deserved. He is still healing from years
of neglect, but healthy enough to enjoy his new loving
surroundings.
Thank you to
Balto's foster and forever families, and thank you to
everyone who helps to support Animal Lifeline with
donations, volunteerism and thrift shop
purchases.
And judging by the look on his
face in this picture, Balto says thank you,
too.
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"Never doubt that a small group of
thoughtful,
committed citizens can
change the world:
indeed, it's the only thing
that ever has."
-Margaret Mead
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