Hi friends of Wild Blue!  Great news to report about the Kitty Community!  We now have doors up on all our kitty rooms, including the isolation room, thanks to Boy Scouts and volunteers.  Mike and Armando put the iso door on this week and now all rooms are useable!  We also got the sink and hot water heater hooked up and will soon add a mini refrigerator for medications, etc. 

Animals:  we currently have two kittens and two cats looking for homes at the Kitty Community.  Phelix and Sabrina are the remaining kittens from Daphne’s litter, and we also have our “special needs” kitty, Lady, and a purebred, beautiful female Himalayan named Murphie.  Hopefully we will find homes for these wonderful animals soon!  Gandalf, a wonderful grey and white young neutered male will be joining us soon.  He will also likely be ready for adoption in the next month or so.

Membership Drive:  We are really moving slowly wrt the membership drive though they have trickled in.  Please encourage all your friends and family to consider joining us for just $10 per month so that we can expand to our next level of saving precious lives!  We are working on adding the memberships to our online store to make this process easier!

Lauri

Hi Everyone!  As you know, we took in a pregnant kitty and she had her babies in June.  Well, those kittens will be 8 weeks old and fully weaned this Friday, 6 Aug!  Daphne, the momma kitty has been adopted and will go to her forever home next week after she is spayed.  Her grey and white kitten has also been adopted and will leave for her forever home this weekend!  We have four more kittens to go and we’ll be showing them off at our booth at the Black Forest Festival on 14 Aug. 

To get a look at the kittens, go to:
bexxerphotography.com http://www.bexxerphotography.com
Wild Blue Animal Rescue & Sanctuary

Ms Elizabeth Becker, better knows as Bex, is a talented and wonderful woman I met recently who has offered to take photos of our animals and post them to her website to get them more visibility!  Thank you Bex! 

More big news!  We’ve launched the Wild Blue Animal Rescue and Sanctuary Membership program!  I’ve sent forms via email to many folks, send me a note at lauri@wbars.org if you didn’t get this email!  I can also send out the form via snail mail if you prefer, just send me a snail mail address.  Our goal for this campaign is to have at least 200 members in 2 months!  This is aggressive, but necessary for us to pursue our next level of effort for WIld Blue and take in more cats, and begin to be able to take in dogs and horses!  PLEASE sign up to be a member and be part of an effort that will save many many precious lives!

For the animals,

Lauri

First, attached is a picture of our rescue babies! Daphne, momma kittie (only 10 months old) was surrendered pregnant to Wild Blue about 3 weeks ago. She had her kittens on 11 June. They are living in my office until they are big enough to move to the cat community and find forever homes!

In addition to Daphne and her kittens, we also have Lady (6 year old female) and Sophie (6 week old female) under our care. Pictures will be posted on the website soon.

My husband, Scott, and I visited the Best Friends Animal Sanctuary in Kanab, Utah last month… WOW! What an awesome place! Faith Mahoney, one of the original founders of this highly successful animal sanctuary, met with us for over 3 hours to help us with our Wild Blue ideas! We picked a great place to model after!

Wild Blue is looking at a 20 acre property on which to expand Wild Blue. Since we are having some difficulties with gaining acceptance from other residents near the current location, we’ve decided to look around for more land now, rather than wait as originally planned. Your donations WILL help!

Wild Blue had a booth at the Black Forest Business and Art Expo last weekend! We were able to find more people there who are interested in saving precious lives!

Wild Blue will also have a booth at Pet-a-PAW-Looza, an open house event at Pine Creek Veterinary Hospital. Come join us and see our latest adoptable animals!

We are launching our membership program. Watch your email and mail box for more details! This program is critical to our ability to pay monthly operating costs. Best Friends Animal Sanctuary credits their 300,000 members for their huge success! If only 1000 people give $10 a month, think how much we could do at Wild Blue!!!

Our website is being refined to allow for an online store as well as making regular updates easier.

Finally, Wild Blue has now found homes for 3 kitties: Stellar, Jay, and Munkin!

Hi everyone! Wild Blue Animal Rescue and Sanctuary is pleased to announce that our first annual FUNdraiser Dinner truly was “something to squawk about!” Our sponsors and friends of Wild Blue outdid themselves to offer wonderful silent and live auction items and of course Col Bonnie Braithwaite’s quilt brought in over $1200 in the online raffle! We are thrilled to announce that Arline Messenger of Tinton Falls, NJ was the winner of the quilt! It just so happens that Arline is Scott’s mom, and she has been a quilter herself so she can really appreciate the beauty of this quilt. Congratulations Arline! General and Ann Anderson won the consolation prize of a $50 gift certificate for dinner at the Briarhurst Manor!

We would like to thank our sponsors and friends/donors for contributing to the success of this event! We were able to raise $1750 for Spirit’s Fund for emergency vet care, as well as $350 for the National Mill Dog Rescue.  We will be posting additional photos on the website soon, so keep an eye open for those so you can see all the fun we had and all the beautiful donations we received for the FUNdraising!  EVERYTHING was auctioned off and our total earnings for Wild Blue for the evening was approximately $3500! Not bad for our first event! Thanks again to everyone!

Now here’s something to squawk about: Wild Blue will be hosting our first Annual Fundraiser Dinner on Thursday, April 22nd!

Join us at the Briarhurst Manor for a wonderful dinner, raffle, auction, fashion show, coffee and beer tasting, and plenty more! Meet adoptable animals and help support beneficiaries such as the National Mill Dog Rescue and Pine Creek Veterinary Hospital. Reservations are required. Please click on the flyer for more information: