Thank You – Dresden Veterinary Clinic

We would like to extend our heartfelt thanks to Dr. Kerry Mall, his wife Krista, their staff and Krista’s mom (BBQ chef) for hosting a recent BBQ fundraiser at the Summer Series recently in Dresden.  They chose CK Animal Rescue as the organization they wanted to support by donating the proceeds from this BBQ.

It was reported that the turnout was huge at this end of the summer outdoor music/BBQ event and the people came hungry!  Krista’s mom kindly offered to be the BBQ chef at this event and we were told the hamburgers and hotdogs were flying off the BBQ! 

Hmmm, tells us Krista’s mom must be a great cook!  We also heard Dr. Mall was doing great as the cashier too!

The total raised from this wonderful night’s event was $600!

Thank you ALL for giving your time and your love to help us in our mission.  And a huge thanks to everyone in the Dresden area who came out to support this fundraiser, we will always be grateful!

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Puppy Pawlooza Success!

We were fortunate to have several of our volunteers willing to head to London to represent CK Animal Rescue at Puppy Pawlooza. If you’ve never heard of this festival or curious to know more about it, please visit their webpage – Puppy Pawlooza – London’s Festival for Dogs!

After returning from this very successful event, the words of our volunteers best describe how much fun everyone had at this HUGE festival for rescues, pet supply vendors, pooches and their two legged companions.  We look forward to attending next year along with some of our rescues!

Enjoy the pictures and keep Puppy Pawlooza in mind to attend in 2012.  Thank you to the organizers of this great event, your hard work is appreciated by all!

“Pawlooza was a blast!  I’m so glad we went, it was really neat to see all of the dogs, rescues, activities and vendors.  I was in doggie heaven!  I hope I can make it again next year, it was a great event for dog lovers!”

“Pawlooza was a hit!  Ally and I were pleasantly surprised with the number of visitors we had to our booth!  We sold lots of raffle tickets and quite a few dog treats. The free treats were a real draw! The “I love my Wiener” and “Rescue Mom” shirts were a hit! It was so nice to see all of the other rescues and we got some great ideas for the booth for next year! It was really too bad we didn’t have more pictures (or even better, some of our rescues) there.  Sign me up for next year. I can’t wait to go back!”

The winner of our Beautiful Raffle Basket was Lisa Thomas of London, Ontario.  Congratulations Lisa!

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Dalton’s ride for our rescue!

A big Thank You to Dalton Nadeau from Woodstock (formerly of Chatham) to ride his bike from Chatham to Bothwell (more than 40km!) to help our rescue. A great job done in record time, well done Dalton!  Our rescues appreciate your huge heart and love to make a difference!  You are an inspiration to the young people willing to share their time and love to give these precious rescues a second chance.  You are and always will be an important member of our rescue family!

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Dalton’s Ride for Our Rescues – Saturday, August 20, 2011

On Saturday, August 20, 2011, Dalton Nadeau will be riding his bike to raise awareness and funds for our passionate cause of rescuing dogs who have little to no time left in shelters.  He was inspired by Haily Butler-Henderson when she walked from Chatham to Tilbury in June, 2011 for our rescues.

Starting Point – Tilbury, Ontario (Canadian Tire) – NOON

Midway Point – Chatham – park on Grand Ave West, Chatham – across from the mall (Zellers, Canadian Tire) – along with the river – 1-1:30

Ending Point – Bothwell, Ontario (museum)

This ride entails 26 kms from Tilbury to Chatham and another 39 kms from Chatham to Bothwell.

Please be at the midway point in Chatham between noon and 12:30 p.m. on Saturday to be ready to show our support and huge applause of appreciation for his generous spirit!  TVCogeco Special Events crew will be there and other news media are invited to join us

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Art on the Boulevard in Erieau, Ontario

The Art on the Boulevard was held in Erieau, Ontario on Saturday July 30th.  We were invited by Joanne Wales, our raffle basket winner from our March garage sale, to participate by providing information about our rescue.

Joanne and her friend Billie had their own table where they sold toys and treats for pets.  They asked us to provide information for visitors who stopped by their table.  We supplied them a binder with information about our rescue, our mission, pictures of our adoptable dogs, incoming rescues and our beautiful rescues who had been adopted along with flyers.  These wonderful ladies wanted to help us spread the word about our important work and the faces of the dogs we have been fortunate to rescue.

Joanne contacted us to let us know they raised $500 in donations this past weekend!!

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New Affiliation with Georgia Rescue

We are fortunate to have met a wonderful lady in Georgia who rescues from the Henry Shelter in McDonough, Georgia as well as takes in owner surrenders and homeless dogs to help find them their forever homes.  This rescue is willing to work with us to help pull dogs from the shelter and provide boarding along with helping to take our Georgia rescues for their vetting.  Because of the kindness and generosity of this rescue to help us, we are reciprocating the favour by sharing information of dogs in their rescue on our webpage.

Please visit Praying For Paws – if there is a dog  you can help save by adopting, please contact us.

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John Henry – Our Rescue Mascot

John Henry is a 10 year old senior Pomeranian, approximately 4 lbs., with innocent eyes and the sweetest little fur baby!   He arrived in Chatham on May 29 and is currently settling in his foster home.  John Henry was surrendered by a senior who could no longer take care of him due to disabling arthritis.

After much thought and consideration, John Henry will remain with our rescue as our official little Mascot!

Please consider adopting one of our senior rescues, they want love and attention as younger dogs and puppies.  Senior dogs are wonderful companions!  Many times they are already trained, they are not interested in digging holes or chewing shoes or furniture.  All they want is a lot of love in their senior years with a nice warm bed and a place to call their own.

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Haily’s Walk – June 26, 2011 – A Wonderful Day for our Rescues!

Haily Butler-Henderson spearheaded a fundraising walk for our rescues on Sunday, June 26, 2011.  It was a beautiful day!  The sky was blue, the sun was out and a warm summer breeze greeted Haily and her supporters to start her walk from Chatham to Tilbury to raise awareness and money for CK Animal Rescue.  We can’t thank Haily and her family enough for their support for our precious rescues! Haily’s compassionate love for animals gives her the determination to walk for them.  To us, Haily is our hero and will always have a special place in all our hearts!  Thank you Haily from everyone at CK Animal Rescue!

Many of the people who attended the start of this fundraisers walked with Haily to start her off with a huge show of support!  We want to thank Maggie, Roy, Joel, Dave and Cassidy for going the distance with Haily!

All monies and items donated go directly toward vetting and boarding care for our rescued dogs currently in foster care and rescues scheduled to arrive to our area soon.

We want to thank Walt & Sherree Ball with Mac Ball Heating & Cooling (Chatham) for their generous offer to be our sponsor for Haily’s Walk for our Rescues, Scott Pritchard of Tim Horton’s on Bloomfield & Richmond (Chatham) for allowing us to set up our tent and table with t-shirts and flyers and to Carl with Canadian Tire in Tilbury for allowing us to use their location for our finish line of the fundraising walk.  Thank you so much for supporting our cause!

Thank you to Tracy & Dave with TVCogeco Special Events,Craig Venn (of Craig and Matt in the Morning) with Canada’s Rock 95.1 and 100.7 in Windsor, Chatham Daily News, CKCOTV News, A-Channel Windsor and Kevin McShan, CFTV34 (Leamington) for helping us get the word out about Haily’s Walk for our Rescues!

Many thanks to the volunteers and foster families of CK Animal Rescue, you are the foundation of our rescue, we couldn’t do what we do for these beautiful dogs if not for your love and support.

HUGE thanks to everyone who donated to our rescues before, during and after Haily’s Fundraising Walk, we are forever grateful for your support!  As a result of the tremendous efforts of so many, we raised $1700!!!

Enjoy a few pictures from Haily’s Fundraising Walk for our Rescues

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CK Animal Rescue T-Shirts

Our brand new CK Animal Rescue t-shirts arrived on Thursday, they are beautiful!  We already have orders placed and will have a scheduled date for pick up.  We opted for the logo and name of our rescue on the chest area and chose three different types of t-shirts – Black/Violet Print, Black/White Print and White/Black Print.  Prices are $15.00 (S,M,L,XL) and $18.00 (2XL, 3XL) – taxes included.

If anyone would like to place an order, please contact Sheri by email or by phone -519-351-4989

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In the future, we will also be ordering different styles, i.e. hoodies, sleeveless t-shirts, kiddie t-shirts, doggie t-shirts…if you have a particular style you’re interested in, let us know!

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Garage Sale – A HUGE Success

Our goal was to raise $500 at the Kinsmen Auditorium’s garage sale today, and we blew past our goal by at least $200!  Thanks to our many supporters for their donations in baked goods and items for today’s indoor garage sale!

It was a busy week with items being pick up donated over the past two weeks and items being dropped off.  We had two pickup trucks loaded plus the volunteers who helped at the sale also donated items to help us achieve our goal.  We were all busy today, up very early, at the auditorium to set up for 7 am and people were already stopping in by 7:30 to do get the early bird deals.  Many people stopped by our tables which were filled to the brim, on the floor, at the side of our table…..we had so much to offer everyone who stopped by to meet us.

We also sold raffle tickets to win a beautiful gift basket filled with everything from BBQ tools, gardening gloves and tools, gourmet candles, electric candle warmer, place mats, picture frames and so much more!  Right before the garage sale closed for the day at 12:30 pm.,  all the tickets went into a basket and the lucky winner was chosen – Congratulations to Joanne Wales!

Thank you to the following volunteers for helping out today in so many ways today!

*Steve and Stacey for making our beautiful displays showing our adopted dogs, our rescues who are waiting for their own families and our rescues who will soon be arriving.  These displays attracted many people today who were also very interested in learning more about what we do, how to become a volunteer/foster and how they could get involved.

*Myriam for donating the raffle tickets, our thermometer gauge poster and very cute picture for our gift basket raffle. It was pure joy to mark the thermometer with every purchase to see our goal getting closer and finally blowing off the top!

*Karen R. for spending her day with us and  keeping the tables stocked with items.  When two tables close by opened up, she immediately got permission to use the tables for the sale of books, CD’s and movies – she gave everybody a bargain for buying a bag full of books or movies!

*Kelly for drawing in the crowd to purchase raffle tickets for the gift basket.  She was wonderful at greeting the visitors and invited them all to stop by to spend $1.00 for a chance to win and talk about our rescue.

* Wendy for reserving our tables and making several trips to pick up donated items.  She was a huge help to accommodate everyone who had something to donate.  She also helped keep the tables filled and organized to make sure the visitors could see everything we had to offer today.

*To everyone who cleaned out their closets, basements, garages –  your donations made today a BIG success for our rescue!

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