Supporting Yonkers Animal Shelter

~~BUILDING HOPE~~ 

A FLEA MARKET

to benefit

THE NEW YONKERS ANIMAL SHELTER

SATURDAY, SEPTEMBER 11th

10:00am -- 4:00pm

Parking lot, Church of the Immaculate Conception

Route 22, (White Plains Road) in Tuckahoe, NY

Something for Everyone

We will feature antiques, costume jewelry, new clothing, new handbags, household items, gift items and gift baskets, and much more, including some slightly used merchandize donated to us for this event

Also activities for children such as arts and crafts and more……….

Admission Free – Refreshments, Snacks, etc.

New Donations Accepted

For further information contact Erika Murphy at (914) 237-6271

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Cool Fundraiser For Yonkers Animal Shelter, Dec. 3rd, Armonk, NY

If you live in the area, you might consider coming to this event...

Cool fundraiser for Yonkers Animal Shelter. I can tell you that the house is BEAUTIFUL.

http://www.newyonkersanimalshelter.org/news.html

Fundraiser for

the New Yonkers Animal Shelter

Hosted by the Domenicali's of Armonk, New York

Thursday, December 3

6:00pm

The Domenicali's of Armonk are hosting a three-course, sit-down dinner with wine, and a silent auction with pet-and non-pet-related items at their home. Requested donation is $150 per person, with all proceeds doing to the shelter. Donations are fully tax deductible.

The event is sponsored by Fiduciary Trust Company.

RSVP by November 20th to rsvp@newyonkersanimalshelter.org.

Seating is limited and only pre-paid reservations will be honored.

Can't join that evening? Consider buying a brick in honor of your pet, spouse, children or whomever.
Go here: https://www.newyonkersanimalshelter.org/tribute-brick.php


About the Yonkers Animal Shelter:

The current shelter was built 50 years ago to act as a short-term holding facility for lost dogs and cats. It is a cramped, depressing facility that was not built for the animals’ comfort or health, as adoption was not the goal.
A new, modern facility is critically needed to house the constant flow of abandoned and homeless pets that arrive, and to help showcase them for adoption to potential families. We’re more than halfway there — with over $2 million having already been raised. We need your help to reach the final goal.

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Lord & Taylor Fundraising Event for Yonkers Animal Shelter - UPDATED

Just two more days to buy coupons for the discount!

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Thursday, November 12

Friends of Yonkers Animal Shelter

Invites you to

LORD & TAYLOR'S

Eastchester Benefit Bash

9:00pm - 10:00pm

750 White Plains Road

Scarsdale, NY 10583

Shop all day while supporting your community! Lord & Taylor will be hosting the Benefit Bash - an exclusive day filled with special events and savings at Lord & Taylor Eastchester. As part of the celebration, Lord & Taylor is giving our organization an opportunity to raise thousands of dollars.

Here's how it works...

Friends of Yonkers Animal Shelter is one of several non-profit groups participating in the sale of $5 admission tickets to Lord & Taylor’s Benefit Bash. We retain all the proceeds from our ticket sales. With your support, we can also be one of the organizations to receive one of (2) bonus checks Lord & Taylor is donating for the highest ticket sales (#1 - $2,000, #2 - $1,500), or for the highest attendance (#1 - $2,000, #2 -$1,500). The more tickets we sell, the more money we raise!

The Benefit Bash Offers...

• Coupon - 20% off one sale or regular priced special item (with limited exclusions).
• Savings Pass - 15% off Cosmetics and Fragrances, and all regular and sale priced items all day long.
• Buy four tickets, get the fifth for FREE!
• Opportunity to win fabulous prizes
• A day filled with exciting events
• Use your Lord & Taylor charge account and receive an additional 10% off your purchases. (Offer valid Thursday, November 12th. Excludes Aquatalia, Coach, Juicy Couture, Merrell and Ugg; cosmetics, fragrances and beauty accessories; Smart Value items; selected special sale events; beauty salon, restaurants, store services and gift cards.)
• Open an LT charge account and get an additional 15% off all your days' purchases.

Lord & Taylor will donate $5 to the "at the door" tickets sales pool for every new and approved Lord & Taylor charge card.

Pre-Sale - Starting Saturday, November 7th, Shop early and pick up on Charity Day (11/12/09) or after.

Go to the Building Hope - Yonkers Animal Shelter for the downloadable form to fill in.

http://www.newyonkersanimalshelter.org/benefitbash.html



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Vote For Yonkers Animal Shelter In This Contest! We Can Win $10,000!!!

Please go here and vote:

http://www.care2.com/animalsheltercontest/71798?refer=23758.01.1257466881.154566

It's so important. Yonkers Animal Shelter can use the money, believe me. We have a 50 year old facility, caring staff and volunteers, and dogs that live in damp, dark, and depressing conditions. Help us have a new facilty so it's attractive to the public, there is room to get to know a dog you want to adopt, and the dogs have a clean and warm place. Right now, the shelter does the best it can, but it's drafty, wet too often, and cold in the winter months.

Thanks.


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ASPCA Grants $140,000 to Yonkers Animal Shelter

WOW!  A BIG THANK YOU to the ASPCA. I already loved them, and am a monthly donor, but this is such a welcomed development for the New Yonkers Animal Shelter.  The dogs and cats there need and deserve a new and updated shelter, and we are that much closer to the goal. Thanks to the hard work of the Fundraising Committee for the New Yonkers Animal Shelter (headed by Kay Pistone Carucci), and especially Augie Cambria - Commissioner of Parks in the City of Yonkers (which oversees the shelter), and volunteers Rosemary and Leila, who initiated the application process with the ASPCA for the committee on which they serve. Great job, everyone!  We are all thrilled! Teamwork is important.

Please visit http://aspca.org/ to see what they are working on. It is a fine organization and I am proud to be a regular supporter.

Go here to see the New Yonkers Animal Shelter website: (and take a look at our sweeties!)

http://www.newyonkersanimalshelter.org/index.html



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Day At The Shelter

Early this morning I thought it was going to rain, following with the streak of bad luck these last few weekends. But the rain held out and though some volunteers were busy with the adoption event in White Plains, we ended up with a fair amount at Yonkers Animal Shelter, plenty of dogs walked, and the homecoming (of sorts) of the one's who didn't get taken. Pictures to follow.

I was amazed by the number of people in today looking for "little dogs."  I can understand; I have a little dog, and I got him so he would be portable when I go to see my Mom in Florida during half the year, and when I travel any other place.  But I can't help but think that some of it is people being afraid of these dogs, too, and that's too bad.  So many have been socialized by the staff and volunteers for so long, and most of them have been adoptable from when they got to us, that it's the bad rap working against them again.  They are such good dogs, I can't even begin to tell you. 

So today a group of our long-timers (dogs and volunteers, that is) went to County Center in White Plains, New York to do the dog and pony show.  One dog was adopted; a puppy.  But at least the dogs that went did something interesting for the day and got to ride in the car!  I trust they will sleep well tonight!

Rufo (left) looking fine in his outfit, with Mike the Volunteer knowing exactly how to handle him and get him to sit nicely while I took the picture.  On the right is GiGi, managed by Gail the Volunteer, and the person who runs the flea market twice monthly that pays for the not-in-the-budget operations for dogs, very expensive medicines, and finding permanent homes at rescues for the difficult-to-place dogs.  People donate items to Yonkers Animal Shelter and if they can't be used for the dogs themselves, and if they are in good condition, they get sold to raise money.  Gail does quite well!

Below is the group I walked today. I had not been there in a week (due to a work trip) and it practically killed me. 

Mr. Willie - as per usual. "Willie Man" has happy tail, but that will be explained in another post on another day.

For Mr. Willie, check out this link:
http://www.petfinder.com/petnote/displaypet.cgi?petid=14077563


Butch - who gave me a hard time today, getting all excited and grabbing the leash. He's in a pen that sadly does not see the grass or woods nearby and he gets anxious to get out. But he's a good boy and shaped up once he got out and got to romp around.

For Butch, click this link:
http://www.petfinder.com/petnote/displaypet.cgi?petid=14197438

Miss Sophie, my "baby girl."  She has kennel cough and so had to be isolated this week, both so she doesn't give it to other dogs and so they can keep track of her since she needs meds. The shelter is big on process and system. They have to be.

For Miss Sophie, click here:
http://www.petfinder.com/petnote/displaypet.cgi?petid=14287364

Rascal, and he is!  Dottie the Volunteer was at the adoption event today and normally she walks the puppies.  So I got a treat and got to walk two. Boy, were they rambunctious!  I like the older dogs, but these two are really cute.

Rascal (8 months) on the left and Minnie (9 months) on the right. She insisted I walk her since she was next to Miss Sophie. They don't miss a thing.

Rascal:
http://www.petfinder.com/petnote/displaypet.cgi?petid=14812765
Minnie:
http://www.petfinder.com/petnote/displaypet.cgi?petid=14824844


Healy, a nice girl who is a blue pit bull!  She's gorgeous; blue-grey and brindled with a little beige. She came in to us VERY thin and the staff and all the volunteers kept giving her extra meals. She's shaped up nicely and now I don't give her anything more than a treat. A really nice and calm dog.

For Healy:
http://www.petfinder.com/petnote/displaypet.cgi?petid=13899568

Hannah Banana, my sweetie! She got a big comforter as a bed today, affording me the whole-body-wag which I love. A volunteer brought a bunch of towels and blankets in, and I promptly gave them out!  Plus a bag of toys that went over very very well.  I wish I got some pictures of that.  This particular blanket Hannah is sitting on was donated by a colleague of mine. She made sure to give the picture to her son, whose blanket it was!

For Hannah:
http://www.petfinder.com/petnote/displaypet.cgi?petid=13942693


Debbie, who loves to walk and walk! She's sharing a pen with George, since they are both seniors and get along nicely, and they keep each other company. Honestly, they really are like two old people.

For Debbie:
http://www.petfinder.com/petnote/displaypet.cgi?petid=13773383

Tasha, who is still so thin, though many staff and volunteeers give her extra food. It stresses dogs to be at a shelter and sometimes no matter how often you feed them, they shed pounds.

For Tasha:
http://www.petfinder.com/petnote/displaypet.cgi?petid=9075826


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More Updates From Yonkers Animal Shelter

Darlene's fundraiser (Cause for Paws) raised a couple of thousand dollars for the new shelter this past Sunday at the JFK Marina in Yonkers. Pretty good! "Next year will be even better," she says. I was sorry I could not go but was having my apartment painted the day after. All the volunteers I spoke to who went said it was a lot of fun. Glad the rain held out. Keep in mind Darlene is a staff member and used her weekend to raise money for the dogs and cats.

Six dogs were either adopted or rescued this week from the Shelter. That's on top of at least two that I know of from last week. What a banner week it has been! Some of the adopted included Ceasar (The Giant Brindle Male Pit Who Stole Volunteer Gayle's Heart) and Bette the Boxer, both of whom have nice homes tonight. Tomorrow another woman is adopting a dog to go with the male pit bull she has already, who only likes young females. haha. The two dogs played today in the pen where prospective adoptive parents and their maybe-dogs play and get to know one another.

There is an adoption event for cats tomorrow taking place at the Petco in Scarsdale on Central Park Avenue. Next week I'll report on how that went. It's interesting to be on the shelter-end those events now, which I have seen for many years. Those events are how I got my last three dogs.

The website for Yonkers Animal Shelter is going to start including Happy Tails, a reporting of sorts of all the dogs who get adopted or rescued. It's more than you think. When they get that up and running, I'll do a post on it. I'm excited because I think people should see all the very positive and dedicated work happening there. As a still-new volunteer, I am duly impressed. This is an unglamorous place if there ever was one (hence, the need for a new shelter) but the level of commitment and care on the part of volunteers who supplement the care given by the very-able staff who go above and beyond, is an interesting sight indeed. I never expected so many people to be working so hard to make sure dogs gets adopted, and into the right homes. I am so completely pleased that I began walking dogs there two months ago, I cannot tell you. It has added a lot to my life, and it's much more happy than sad.

On that note, YAS's Golf Tournament is fast approaching! August 20th - next Thursday - golfers will tee off at 12:30 at Split Rock and will dine at The Riverview that evening (see post below). There will be many prizes and gifts for attendees, and they include the many gifts solicited by the volunteer committee working to put the event together. This week I had the pleasure of talking to Bronxville store owners twice to ask them to make a gift. Seven came through and there might have easily been more but I do have a job! Next year, if we do this or some other fundraiser, I will start much in advance. This wasn't bad for one and a half weeks. People were genuinely interested in knowing about the new shelter, and happy to help.

Please join me in thanking the following stores in Bronxville, NY (an incomplete list by far, as I do not yet know all the stores who donated but will be doing a full post on them). They could not have been nicer about offering their help.

Maison Rouge Salon

Village Day Spa

Tryforos & Pernice Florist

Underhills' Crossing Restaurant

Harry's of Hartsdale Restaurant

Blue Blue Mexican Restaurant

Womrath Book Shop

Building Hope, The Campaign for the New Yonkers Animal Shelter

I attended a meeting last night about the upcoming Golf Tournament being held at Split Rock Golf Course (http://pelhamsplitrock.americangolf.com/) on Thursday, August 20th to benefit the New Yonkers Animal Shelter. The new shelter - when it's built - will replace the almost 50 year-old shelter at 120 Fullerton Avenue in Yonkers, New York (currently where Mr. Willie, Miss Sophie, and Hannah Banana - et all - all live).

When: Thursday, August 20th
Where: Split Rock Golf Course
Registration: Noon
Tee-time: 12:30pm
Cost: $600 per team, $150 per individual

There will be a silent auction (they are still accepting gifts), a 50-50 contest, and other prizes.

After the tournament a dinner is being held at The Riverview in Hastings-on-Hudson, New York (a beautiful historic town along the Hudson River), which is being hosted by Riverview owner and generous benefactor of the shelter, Mike Silvestri, along with the New Yonkers Animal Shelter Committee (who I had the pleasure of meeting last night). The committee is headed up by Dr. Kay Pistone Carucci, who invited me to join the committee, which I have done. Though this event is only two weeks off, I assured Kay that I would help with the next event they plan.

Dinner tickets are $75 per person.

Even if you don't play golf, you are welcome to attend the dinner. Bring a friend! The Riverview is gorgeous. Mike supplied the committee with dinner and dessert as we met on location, planning the last minute details.

Checks can be made out to New Yonkers Animal Shelter, c/o Dept. of Parks & Recreation, 285 Nepperhan Avenue, Yonkers, NY 10701. They can be reached at 914-377-6450.

More info to come.

Check out The Riverview:

http://www.riverviewcaterers.com/riverviewsplash.html

Check out the Split Rock Golf Course:

http://pelhamsplitrock.americangolf.com/

Check out the New Yonkers Animal Shelter official site:

http://www.newyonkersanimalshelter.org/