THANK YOU BEST FRIENDS!The Best Friends rapid response team is in action again – this time at a New Yorksanctuary in distress.Helping Pets AliveTHANK YOU BEST FRIENDS!January 5, 2008 : 5:43 PMBest Friends Pulls Away!Goodbye and Thank You!We would like to thank Best Friends for the past nine months. As most of you know,Best Friends came to Pets Alive when we were in a desperate situation and theyhelped us in every way imaginable. They hired staff and taught us how to properlycare for and house the animals. They helped us develop a network of volunteers andsupporters, showed us better adoption practices, helped us train the animals (andthe staff), and helped teach us how to stand on our own two feet. We're doing thatnow. Maybe a little wobbly in our new shoes but we are definitely on our own twofeet. We are grateful.Do you want to see Pets Alive continue as a no-kill shelter in this area? If sothen we need your support. We need your donations, your volunteer time, and yourassistance to make this happen. PLEASE CONSIDER MAKING A DONATION NOW to help PetsAlive stay afloat. We especially need help these first few months when times willbe the most difficult, and before we can start fund raising. WILL YOU PLEASE LENDA HAND? If you can, then visit our website at http://www.petsalive.com and clickthe DONATE NOW button!THANK YOU!Rob and Marisol Thomas fans will be happy to know that they are very supportiveand willing to do whatever it takes to see Pets Alive continue! They are planninga benefit for us in the fall and will continue to help us with their wonderfulSidewalk Angels Foundation. In addition, Marisol's Mom and Dad are moving into thearea and are going to start coming by once a week as volunteers! Marisol's wholefamily are true animal lovers. We know where she got it from. We can't wait to putthem to work.We have started to take in animals again -- dogs only at this time as we stillhave too many cats and horses right now and are still looking for homes. So far wehave brought in about 27 dogs and placed 21 of them. Not bad for three weeks!Tomorrow we will be taking in another 26 dogs. These dogs are coming in from allover and we are taking them in on a case by case basis. Some of these dogs arecoming from local shelters that are full and are having to start to put dogs down.We're working to become a resource for area organizations so that these animals donot have to die needlessly.We have taken in dogs from the south where the euthanasia rate is at about 85% inmany of these shelters. Some shelters even closed down for the holidays,euthanized every animal and then they open back up and start taking in animalsagain! We saw pictures and pictures of beautiful, young, friendly dogs. Many werepuppies! We started taking some in, but the cost makes this something we cancontinue to do. In this case we had sponsors that helped us -- Thanks Rose T. Each

dog has to be spayed and neutered, chipped, vaccinated and transported.CAN YOU HELP? Our spays and neuters are costing us $125, vaccinations and chipping$60, transport $85. Our adoption fees are $175 for these dogs. WILL YOU PLEASEHELP?Our biggest need is for help with transporting these dogs and financial supportfor them. We can't stand to see them put down. Healthy, beautiful, YOUNG dogseuthanized when we are easily finding them homes here. We need your support, andyour voices.All the dogs pictured on this page were saved these past two weeks. Look at thesefaces. These are the nicest dogs you could ever meet. No aggression issues --these are friendly, sweet, wonderful dogs that get along well with other animalsand love people. They are so grateful for a look, a touch and a pat. They are themost amazing group of dogs we've ever worked with. Look at them. Then help us tohelp them! Many are still up for adoption. See one you like? Fill out our adoptionapplication (at http://www.petsalive.com/adoptapp.htm) and we'll have you comedown to met them!VolunteersOur volunteers continue to be amazing. We are extending our volunteer days. We'dlove to have you at Pets Alive ANY day of the week (between 10-4). We need yourhelp with some of the former staff tasks. Can you come one day a week or one day amonth?Can you clean litter pans, sweep floors, or clean dog food bowls? Can you brushcats and horses and load hay feeders for us? Are you a carpenter? Do you paint?Work with farm animals? Do data entry and are you familiar with Quickbooks? Weneed someone to enter in donations and enter dogs into our database. Are you anevent planner? Please email jill@petsalive.com to let her know your skills and wemay call on you for special jobs! We have so many duties and tasks that need to bedone daily here.We're also looking for some people that can do some WEEKLY or DAILY things for us.We need help with the daily laundry. can you come and do some loads of wash for usa few times a week (we have washers and dryers right here!).We need someone to go weekly to pick up cat litter or dog food for us from a localprovider. We need someone that can go each week and pick up any supplies we needfrom Wal-Mart or PetSmart or Home Depot. Can you commit to one day a week torunning some errands for us? We need help with people dropping off animals at thevets for us in the morning, and picking them up again at night. Can you do a dropoff or a pick up a few times a week or a few times a month for us? We needvolunteers to help us clean up the puppy pens. We have puppies again and they needto be cleaned up after three and four times a day! We need people that can helpwith plowing our driveway when it snows. That is a SERIOUS consideration for us.If you are too busy WHEN it snows, how about the next day - can you plow a path toour manure pile? It would make life so much easier for our staff.Please contact volunteer@petsalive.com if you can help with ANYTHING at all!Anything you can do, we can probably find a use for. We REALLY need communitysupport now more than ever. Winter always has a drop off in volunteers and this isthe time of year when we have the most to do. Please help and give back to yourcommunity and please help these dogs and cats and horses that currently have nohomes. We're working to make their lives better every day and a big part of that