Angel's Wish On-Line Auction to help Animals June 1-30, 2009

Angel's Wish will again be having an on-line auction, during June 1-30, 2009. We need your help to make this a success! We need both sponsors for the auction itself (up to 8 businesses), and lots of great items for people to bid on during the auction. You can donate on the auction website or bring items to the Angel's Wish Pet Adoption and Resource Center. Thank you for your support!

Donation Benefits and Information What we're looking for
There is no limit to what we can put in our auction catalog. Gift certificates often bring the highest donation, but items can be very popular, too. We can even combine items with your partners to create an attractive package item. Bidders like both practical and luxury items and services. Unique experiences that you can't get elsewhere, like lunch with a local celebrity, a private lesson from an expert, or VIP passes to a concert or event also generate lots of interest. We also have a list of unique, high interest items we can get at or below wholesale; contact us if you would wish to sponsor one of these items.

Why you should be involved
• Because Angel's Wish is leveraging a powerful community to raise a significant amount of money for helping pets.
• Because auctions are a fun way to raise a lot of money for a good cause.
• Because it's a great way for you to achieve widespread visibility by tapping into an engaged, active community to promote your products and services.
• Your donation is tax-deductible and will be used to further our mission of helping homeless animals and educating our community on animal welfare issues.

The Benefits of Being a Donor
• Each item you add to our catalog, we'll include your logo and a link to your website. It's a great way to drive traffic to your website!
• To promote the auction, we'll send at least six targeted email communications to our email database. Remember, our members will pass along our e-mail messages to their own friends and family-so there is no telling how many people our message will reach!
• We'll feature the Auction for Animals on our homepage, put reminders in our newsletters, and hand out auction info to potential bidders at our Pet Adoption and Resource Center, Mound's Dog Fest, Verona Hometown Days, and the Oregon Summer Fest Parade. We're also expecting excellent media coverage. It all means more people will visit our catalog, see your logo, and potentially click through to your website.
• In promotional emails and on the auction homepage, we will highlight "featured items". All items donated valued at $100 or more will be chosen as a featured item in at least one email and on the auction home page for a week. Bidders can click directly through to the item in the catalog, where they'll see the link to your website.

Help us care for homeless pets
You can help Angel's Wish help care for nearly a thousand pets, provide humane education to youth, and provide educational outreach, just by donating an item or two! Have a question or suggestions? Contact us!

Donate an item to the auction
Visit our auction website right now and click on "Donate an Item" or fill out the form below and return it to us to let us know what you'd like to contribute! The auction website is already available to the public; the sooner you donate the sooner you'll reap the benefits!

• Item Donation Form (PDF)
• Item Donor Letter (PDF)

Found at http://www.angelswish.org/

Rock County Humane Society helps Emma find good home.

A Happy Story from the Rock County Humane Society.

A letter written to the Humane Society by the dog's proud owner.

I am a student at the veterinary school and was only toying with the idea of getting a dog. Each week, a group of animals from a local shelter comes to the school to be spayed and fliers are posted of available animals. In November, Emma was among those animals and I fell in love with her picture.

I arranged to meet her, but the timing was not right, so at the end of a week, Emma went back to the shelter. By December, I had gotten approval from my condo association, but to my disappointment, Emma had found another home.

Little did I know, she would be returned to the shelter less than two months later. I used the next several months to focus on school and consider adopting a dog more seriously. By April, I decided that I was ready and began looking on petfinder.com. To my surprise, Emma was listed on the website! A couple of friends and I made the trip to Janesville to meet her again.
She was as sweet as could be, but quite thin. We were told that she was getting very stressed from being in the shelter so long. We all wanted to bring her home, but there were concerns that she might not get along with my parents’ dogs, as well as the cat that lived with me in Madison . Since my parents live on the other side of the state, it was not possible to do doggie introductions at the shelter. Instead, the shelter and I worked out a foster arrangement that would allow Emma to be come home with me right away and meet our family dogs without making the adoption permanent. By early May, I was making a second trip to the shelter to bring Emma home. She settled in well with my cat in Madison , and two weeks later met the rest of the family without a problem. At that time, I decided to make the adoption official. We are now staying at my parents’ home in the country for the summer and Emma has definitely come out of her shell. She loves to be the center of attention and often follows us around the house. Her favorite things include running in the yard and pastures, playing with squeaky toys or her kong, and sleeping in the bed. She has learned several commands and hopes to start obedience school soon. I can’t thank everyone at the shelter enough for their support in helping us find the perfect addition to our family.



Are you looking for a new pet to love or wanting to help those awaiting their forever home?
Visit http://www.petfinder.com for adoptable pets and information on helping animals.