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PET PHOTOS WITH SANTA 2010

Thank you to all who came out to support us and have their treasured pets photographed with Santa!

The event was a huge success and just to let you know, we will be providing another event like this one for next year. So please come out and join the fun in November 2011 (precise dates to be announced later).

100% of the proceeds from this event went in support of Shut Down Puppy Mills.com and Victoria Lost Pets.com

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WE WERE CHOSEN!

Students from the Ecole Bilingue chose us for their fundraising project!! The funds collected and donated has been used for prepaying of 4 months worth of ads that are currently running in both the Vancouver Sun and the Province newspapers.

Below is the updated note from the teacher:

" This project all started with a class of 26 students doing a research on an organization they would like to support, and to fundraise money for a good cause. Keeping fit is very important to us, so we decided to walk/jog 5 km and raise funds at the same time. Each child presented their research findings and the class voted on the best organization to support. Yours was the chosen one! We are dog lovers, and we wanted to bring awareness to the public and educate them about the situation of dogs in puppy mills.

To get ready for the event, we trained for a few months by walking/jogging around our Ecole Bilingue school perimeter, starting with 3 times around the school, right up to 12 times around to make it up to 5 km. Our 5 km walk/jog event was held last Wednesday, June 16th, 2010. We left the school at 09:00 with parents helping to supervise the group and we made our way to a park nearby our school called Douglas Park. There, we walked and ran as a group around the perimeter of the large park. It was a fun time. The children were very enthusiastic and as they walked and ran, a group would call out "Shut Down" and the others would answer "Puppy Mills"! Our morning ended with a picnic in the park with parents supporting us and bringing us goodies. Good luck in all of your endeavors and keep up the good work! Together we can eradicate puppy mills!!!"   . . . read letter from the students.

NANAIMO - A litter of starving pit-bull puppies on the verge of death has been turned over to the Nanaimo SPCA. Cruelty investigator Julie Hitchcock says a pair of teenager dog owners were trying to make a few bucks for the holidays by selling the dogs on the internet.

The SPCA was tipped off about the litter of puppies after they appeared on the website Craigslist advertised for $600 each. It's the third batch of puppies now recovering at the Nanaimo SPCA from horrifying treatment at the hands of so-called "backyard breeders."

Hitchcock says 33 dogs have been taken into custody in the past two weeks. Eighteen puppies are now up for adoption.

The smallest was comatose and near death when the SPCA found it. The SPCA will help nurse it along with the rest of the litter back to health and then look for a loving family for adoption. The SPCA is urging people to help stop backyard breeding by reporting anything suspicious by asking dog breeders lots of questions about how the animals are cared, who their vet is, and why they dogs are being sold in the first place.