Stray Thoughts
News, Events & Adoption Information
Summer 2016
Inside
Page 2:
General Information
www.WSHS-DG.org
Help Us Help Them by Raising Funds
for Our Biggest Event of the Year!
Page 3 – 4:
Ready for a Home
Page 4:
“From Wags to
Riches” Raffle
Digital Newsletter
Pepper
Vehicle Donation
Page 5:
Ask the Trainer
Page 6:
Pet Watch with Dr. Main
Emails & Letters
Page 7 – 8:
Hearty Thanks!
Page 8:
Volunteer Spotlight
Stray Thoughts is an official
publication of the West
Suburban Humane Society,
a not-for-profit, volunteerbased animal shelter.
No city, state, or federal
funds support WSHS.
Donations are tax
deductible as allowed
by law. Please call
(630) 960-9600, ext. 25 to
submit articles or receive
donation information.
Adoption Center:
1901 W. Ogden Avenue,
Downers Grove, IL 60515
E-mail Address:
[email protected]
Phone: (630) 960-9600
Fax: (630) 960-9604
Delaney
W
est Suburban Humane Society has
now made it easier than ever to
collect donations for our biggest fundraiser
of the year, Barkapalooza Dog Walk and
Pet Expo.
If you are planning on participating in
this year’s event, visit our website at
www.firstgiving.com/wshs. From this site
you can register for Barkapalooza and
create your own fundraising web page.
Getting Started is Easy!
It only takes a few minutes to create your
online fundraising page:
Louie
Skout
– The winner will receive a $1,000 prize!
The winning ticket will be drawn on
Sunday, September 25th at the 2:00
p.m. end time of our event.
With the funds raised from Barkapalooza,
we were able to help many animals in need:
• Pepper – a sweet, two-year-old pitbull
mix that had to have three eye surgeries
to correct his cherry eye.
• Delaney – found with multiple leg
fractures, this three-year-old black cat
needed major orthopedic surgery.
• Click on the “Get Started” button.
• Louie – a senior pug who would have
been paralyzed without back surgery for a
slipped disc.
• Personalize the text and the photo of your
online fundraising page to express your
passions and your purpose.
• Skout – a seven year old tortie, she spent
four weeks hospitalized on a feeding tube
for fatty liver disease.
• Send the link out to your friends, family,
colleagues – anyone you think will help
you reach your goal. Ask them to forward
it on to their contacts as well!
• When you set up your web page through
Firstgiving, you will be entered into our
split the pot raffle drawing.
– For every $100 of donations received,
another entry for you will be placed in
the drawing.
These are just a few of the animals that
were saved with the generous support of
our donors. Last year we raised $35,000
online. Our goal this year is to raise $35,000
again, all to benefit the homeless animals in
our care.
Don’t delay, set up your fundraising
web page today! Your support can
and does save lives!