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Special Projects News Archives Below are all the news items we have posted regarding special projects and other miscellaneous work. If you find any broken links please let us know.
Triple R Pets Coordinating Mutli-State Food Distribution - 05-30-08 Triple R Pets, Midwest Food Bank, and Petcare Mars, are coordinating two free pet food pickups per month in Peoria and Bloomington. Shelter, rescue and feral cat groups come from Wisconsin, Indiana and Illinois to benefit from this opportunity. Triple R Pets' Resource Coordinator, Kim Bill, contacts local agencies and schedules food distribution at both the Bloomington and Peoria branches of Midwest Food Bank. The following groups are participating in our program to feed the animals: Third Annual Garage Sale July 12 - 05-26-08 Triple R Pets is holding its third annual garage sale on July 12 and 13, Visit our sale and find treasures for yourself while you help the animals! All proceeds from our garage sale are used directly for the dogs and cats that need our help. Our primary expenses in helping these homeless pets is veterinarian care and gasoline for our transport vehicles. We need donated items in good condition for the sale: Please no computer monitors, clothing, or books. For more information on donating items and drop-off and pick-up times, please email info@tripleRpets.org. 2nd Annual Cutest Pet Contest – 02-04-08 Pekin High School's Key Club is again holding its Cutest Pet Contest and will be donating all proceeds to Triple R Pets and Central Illinois Riding Therapy. To enter, please send a photo of your cutest pet with your name and phone written on the back of the photo PCHS Key Club – Suk Last day to submit photos is Februray 19th. For more information please visit Pekin High School Key Club's website.
Summer is here! 6-22-06 Click here to read information on keeping your pet safe and healthy this summer. National Animals
in Disaster Conference 6-1-06 Ben
Waldman and Judy Clark attended the HSUS sponsored "National Animals in
Disaster" conference held in Washington DC last week. The conference
provided a wealth of information and afforded the opportunity to put faces with
names for many rescuers and groups we have worked with over the past year.
Both Ben and Judy participated in the NIMS 700 training course and received
certificates for this course. This is key as we approach hurricane season.
There are a myriad of requirements for participation in coordinated relief
efforts and we are attempting to take all the classes before July 1. The
good news is that they are all available on-line for free, through FEMA ... the
bad news is that they take time and nobody seems to know for sure what classes
are required for first responders. Emergency
Puppy Transport - In Illinois?? 5-11-06 Yesterday, we received a call from a shelter in Central Illinois where we had delivered several puppies on our last transport. The shelter had placed the puppies in loving, wonderful furr-ever homes after a seven day hold. Three days after the new families welcomed the little ones to their families, they came down with parvo virus. The puppies ended up at two different animal hospitals in the north suburbs of Chicago. Unfortunately, these animal hospitals wanted a $3,800 "deposit" per puppy to treat for parvo. They quoted the shelter a rate of $6,000 to $8,000 per puppy to treat the parvo virus! Since the shelter has a thirty day health guarantee, these staggering amounts would have bankrupted the shelter. Triple R Pets went and met the owners and picked up the puppies and took them to a wonderful, caring animal hospital in Morton, Illinois called Tender Care. The veterinary staff of Dr. Mark Larson and Dr. Jennifer Newcomb waited until we arrived and ensured that the puppies (who actually looked great!) were assessed stabilized. We visit many animal hospitals and some just stand out! This is certainly one we recommend to anyone in the Central Illinois area! Tender Care Animal Hospital, Member of AAHA, 300 E Courtland Ave, Morton, IL 309-266-1182
A HUGE thanks to Collette Walker, Chris Schneider, Mary Gaines, Pete Gaines, Andie Bennett, Gary Bennett, Larry Clark and Claudia Beckman for helping Triple R Pets hold their first garage sale! Collette spearheaded the event and did a great job soliciting donations from all over. It was a l-o-n-g two days, but it was worth it. We netted over $900.00 to help with Gulf Coast relief. Biloxi High
has a prom thanks to some great volunteers from Think a few people can't make a big difference? Think again. When a couple volunteers came down from PA last fall, they returned home with thoughts of the kids of Biloxi on their mind. Realizing that this graduating class would not have a prom, they decided to do something. Click here to read the full story. Foster
Family Update 4-21-06 A family that adopted a puppy very early after the hurricane has now become a foster family for us! Last week, we took in a mom and six puppies from an overwhelmed shelter in Southern Indiana. Then, on Tuesday of this week, we accepted four seven day old puppies from DuPage Animal Control. These pups' mom had stopped feeding them and they needed a nursing mother. Our proud mom from Indiana accepted them, and mom and all ten of her babies are now in a northern suburb with their foster family. They will be ready for adoption when they are eight to ten weeks and have been spayed / neutered.
PLEASE consider making a donation to Triple R Pets to help fund a transport. If everyone who visits our site this week donates $20 each ... we can hit the road this weekend! You can donate safely through PayPal, or you can always send a check to made payable to "Triple R Pets", mail to 3843 Hampton Avenue, Western Springs, IL 60558. New! Happy Tails and Adoptable Pet Pages 4-17-06 We are happy to announce that we have two new pages on our site. The first, is Adoptable Pets. This page contains a viewing of the animals that we are trying to place. Some may be directly in our care, others may be animals we are helping other groups to place. The second, is a Happy Tails page, listing pictures and stories of animals we have rescued or worked with. If you have adopted a pet directly through us, or from a shelter where we have transported pets, please e-mail us a picture and the story of your rescue! We hope you will enjoy both these pages! Fun at the Chicago Pet Expo - 3/17/06 We had a great time at the Pet Expo today! We made some new friends and found some homes for our puppies! Please come out and see us if you are in the Chicagoland area! It is a great show, fun for the whole family! (Complete pictures are here).
Pet Expo - Here We Come - 3/14/06 Triple R Pets will be at the Chicago Pet Expo over the weekend. Come out and meet us and see lots more photographs and meet some of our rescues. The show hours are Friday, March 17th from 2:00 pm to 7:00 pm; Saturday, March 18th from 9:00 am to 7:00 pm and Sunday, March 19th from 10:00 am to 5:00 pm. Admission is $8.00 for adults with our coupon and $6.00 for children ages 3 to 12. Children 3 and under are free. Parking is $6.00 per vehicle. There is NO extra charge for any of the entertainment inside. Food and vendor purchases are of course at your discretion and there is a large food court on site. The Expo will be held at the Arlington Park Race Track, located at 2200 W Euclid Avenue, Arlington Heights, IL 60006. For a full schedule of the show's events, click here. |
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and a check for three dollars payable to PCHS Key Club. You may enter as many pets as you want. Please send both your photo and check to:
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