Shelter Shorts November 2014 Brians

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2014 BOARD 2

TREASURERSREPORT 2

PAST FUNDRAISERUPDATES

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UPCOMINGFUNDRAISERS 4

OTHERNEWS 6

MEMBERSHIPRENEWAL 7

RABASMEMBERS 8

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November

14th Dog Obedi-ence Classes Starts

20th RABAS -

General Meeting

December-

6th Wake Up Santa

18th ChristmasParty

20th- Holiday Bake

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The Rest of the Story About Bailey You may remember the story of Bailey, a blacklab mix in need of an immediate home because her owners were being deployed. I hadheard about Bailey from Crisse on a Friday afternoon. Crisse had emailed me and said the

owners needed a home ASAP and were on their way to Platteville. They had stopped atboth vets in PdC, but neither could take Bailey as their kennels were full. I had called Bai-leys owner and he told me that they would stay the night in Platteville, but had to leave by7 a.m. on Saturday. I thought I had a potential home for Bailey, but the person I was hop-ing who would give Bailey a new home had already been approved for a lab from CASA. I

just so happened that on that same Friday morning, Robin Lang called Jill and asked her ifshe knew of any lab pups in need of a home. Jill and I talked later in the day and we sharedour stories about Bailey in need of a home and Robin looking for a lab. Jill called Robinand sent her the email from Crisse with Baileys picture and description. Robin contactedthe owners and told that if they wanted Bailey, she would have to meet them at 7 a.m. inPlatteville the next morning. Robin was a bit uneasy about doing so. But she could not

get Bailey out of her mind. She then contacted every vet between PdC and Platteville andfound out that Bailey was left tied to the door of the Platteville veterinarian. Robin andher family adopted Bailey or maybe Bailey adopted the Lange family. But it is a matchmade in heaven to say the least. Bailey finally has the life she truly deserves. I spoke toRobin just a few nights ago, and Bailey was in bed with Robin. Robin would not give upon the dog she fell in love with over the internet.

On another note concerning rescues and adoptions that RABAS has helped to facilitate please let Cheryl Statz know of any successful rescues as she will keep a record of them.The rescues that we do without an actual building could be an important factor when ap-plying for grants.


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President- Randy Paske1300 East Wells Street

Prairie du Chien, WI 53821

608-622-7855- [email protected]

Vice-President / Newsletter Editor Bev Pozega

32398 Gran Grae Road


608-326-2914 wyalusing [email protected]

TreasurerJill Cipra

36817 Bluffview DrivePrairie du Chien, WI 53821

608-326-4870 [email protected]

SecretaryCheryl Statz

425 South Fillmore St.

Prairie du Chien, WI

608-306-3896

Board Member- Julie Whyte

322 South Wacouta Avenue

Prairie du Chien, WI 53821608-306-0499- [email protected]

Board Member- John Ryan

12890 Markley Hollow Road

Bagley, WI 53801

Board Member- Donna Heilmann

1702 East Fowler Street


608-379-2112- [email protected]

Current balance as of October 16, 2014

$199,380.05

Checking Account Balance - $5831.72; Total C.D.s- $193,548.3

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Jill Cipra Treasurer

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SHELTER SHORTS is a monthly newsletter intended

keep Rivers and Bluffs Animal Shelter volunteers and suporters connected. With everyones hectic schedules, know it is often difficult, if not impossible to attend monly meetings or to work at all of our fundraisers.

Everyone is invited to submit articles for the newsletter. do so, please call Bev at 608-326-2914 or email her at [email protected].

General monthly meeting will now be boameetings that are open to everyone. Each com

mittee will report on progress that has be

made since the last meeting. Board meetin

will start at 6 p.m. and are held on the 3

Thursday of each month in the Commun

Room of City Hall. Please use the back door f

entrance. The next meeting will be o

November 20th!

Volunteer hours will be collected by Randy P. at monthly meetings oryou can email your hours to Randy at [email protected].


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october meeting update

October Meeting of Rivers & Bluffs Animal Shelter was held on Thursday, October 16th. Crisse

Reynolds, Crawford County Animal Control Officer, attended and told us of some of her recent experi-ences as well as duties of this position. She answered a number of questions from those in attendance.Crisse, thank you for taking the time out of your very busy schedule to attend our meeting. I think every-one enjoyed meeting you. Following Crisses presentation, 5 of the 7 committee chairs summarized ac-tivity since the committees were organized. All 5 of the 7 committees have developed a mission state-ment. To date, the following committees have had at least one meeting: Building, Fundraising, Member-ship, Public Relations and Grants & Foundations. Personally I feel that we are making excellent progress.The building committee has visited a number of shelters. The building committee is working diligently ona potential building plan. They will be molding it over the winter months. Possible grants are being re-searched by Grants & Foundations Committee. The Fundraising Committee is focusing on the next 2

fundraisers Wake Up Santa and Tractor Supply Holiday Bake Sale. The Fundraising Committee has iden-tified the number of volunteers necessary for Wake Up Santa and many of the spots are filled. We alsolisted the things that need to be done before Wake Up Santa. Bev and Bob will solicit sponsors to helpcover expenses and advertising. Membership and Public Relations Committees are working on ways toincrease membership and raise public awareness for RABAS. Many of the things discussed on the PublicRelations Committee have been ongoing or were implemented, but dropped due to lack of volunteers.We also discovered that Membership and PR committees share many of the same ideas and that the twocommittees are closely related. If you would like to join any of the committees, please contact Steve Tib-bets at [email protected] reply to this email. The more the merrier.

Fundraising Committee will meet at 6 p.m. on Monday, November 10th

at Steve and Cheryls house.Their address is 425 S. Filmore. Membership Committee will meet on the 1stThursday of each month.The next meeting will be held on Thursday, November 6that 6:15 p.m. at Steve and Cheryls. PR Com-mittee meets on the 2ndThursday of each month. The next meeting will be held on Thursday, November13that 6 p.m. at Steve and Cheryls. If you are interested in joining the Building, Operations, Finance, orGrants & Foundations, please let contact me at 326-2914 or reply to this email and I will find out whenthose meetings take place.

Kudos to Paula After visiting Chasing Daylight Animal Shelter with members of the Building Com-mittee, Paula learned that although CDAS receives free Pedigree dog food for adult dogs, they need to

purchase puppy food. It is not donated. Paula ordered a pallet of puppy food to be delivered to CDAS.Way to go, Paula!!!!!

Thank you, Pete Prew. Paula had requested that I send out an email asking if anyone could mow theremaining area of our property that Randi and Mike Kluesner were not able to do. Crisse emailed meabout Pete Prew and Sue Rider called me and said we should ask him. Traci K also emailed that she mayhave an idea. Paula contacted Pete and in just a few hours from the original email being sent requestinghelp, the rest of the lot was mowed.


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Kwik Trip gas cards

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Please continue ordering cat and dog treats from USBones.com. They donate 25% of each or-der placed, to RABAS!

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phoneraiser

U. s. bones

Phoneraiser Please continue to save and donate your old cell phones, smart phones and ink car-tridges. They can be dropped off at Tender Care Animal Hospital, Radio Shack or just bring them

to a RABAS meeting. Donna, as always thank you for your time and effort in this project.

Kwik Trip Gas sales from September 19th throughOctober 16th totaled $4,295.00 for a profit of$429.50. Once again thanks to everyone who sup-ports RABAS through the purchase of these cards. Ifyou are not supporting RABAS through the purchaseof the KT Gas Cards, would you please consider doingso? Jill, Donna and I are only a phone call away. If wecould continue with almost $500 income per month,that would mean a profit of $6,000.00 per year withlittle time or effort involved. The holidays are justaround the corner. Gas cards make excellent Christ-mas gifts for that person who has everything or for

that college student traveling back home. Also, please keep RABAS in mind beforeyou fill your tank for traveling over the holidays.

Schwans/amazon

Schwans and Amazon.Com To support RABAS by placing an order from Schwans, please visit the following website:https://schwans.flipgive.com/c/11785#.U7QGs-Z5E31.gmail. Even though the 20% donationperiod isover, Schwans will still donate 5% of each order placed to RABAS. $332.77 was donated through the Schwans program.Thanks to Randy P for setting up this program for RABAS. Amazon Smileis a website operated by Amazon that lets cus-tomers enjoy the same wide selection of products, low prices, and convenient shopping features as on Amazon.com. The dif-

ference is that when customers shop on AmazonSmile (smile.amazon.com), the AmazonSmile Foundation will donate 0.5%of the price of eligible purchases to the charitable organizations selected by customers. Please consider either or both ofthese fundraisers when shopping online from Schwans and Amazon. It doesnt get any easier than this. As you begin yourholiday shopping, please keep RABAS in mind when ordering items from Amazon.


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upcoming fundraisers

Wake Up Santa will be held on Saturday, December 6th. It will be held in the

Community Room of City Hall. We will wake Santa from his slumber promptlyat 8:30 a.m. Breakfast, personalized visits with Santa, Santa Bingo, Santas SecretGift Shop, and Santas Workshop will follow. We will decorate the CommunityRoom on Thursday Evening, December 4th. Everyone is invited. We usually startat 4:30 p.m., I believe. We can still use a few more volunteers for Wake Up Santa.If you would like to help, please call Bev at 326-2914 or reply to this email.

Tractor Supply

Holiday Bake Sale

is scheduled for Sat-urday, December20th. Donna sug-gested that we have

some type of foodstand in addition to

the bake sale. We will need baked goods. If you can bake your favorite holidaytreat, it would be greatly appreciated. Baked goods can be dropped off at TractorSupply on the morning of the 20thof December. If you need someone to pick upyour goodies, please let me know by calling the above number or replying to thisemail. For those of you who would like to help, but just do not feel comfortableslaving away in a hot kitchen baking goodies, we have a solution for your dilem-

ma. Alexis Burns, ace cookie baker and dessert maker will do the baking for you.A number of people have said that instead of baking, they would rather donatemoney to someone who is willing to bake. If you would like to make a donationinstead of baking, please bring your money to the November meeting or mail it toRABAS PO Box 421 PdC, WI 53821. Checks should be made payable to AlexisBurns.


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Other news


Pounds Off People and Pets Community Dog Walk (POPP) has ended for the season.WAGS(Working with Animals to Gain Socialization) also known as Foster Dogs and Prisoners has beenpostponed due to liability and the fact that CASAs insurance company will not permit them to take theirdogs into the prison. I believe that another rescue group is being sought to provide dogs for this pro-gram.

Therapy Dog Teams Paula Gutzmer and Maggie continue their regular visits to Prairie Maison andthe hospital. Deb and Jaz drop in at Walter Schmidt for visits. Deb and Jaz started their weekly vis-its to Bluff View School this week. The students read aloud to Deb and her therapy dogs. Vegas,Nicki and I visited patients at Crossing Rivers on October 10 thand were scheduled do so again onthe 24thof this month, but I had a very bad cold and had to cancel. We will visit the OpportunityCenter on November 21st. Margie Bennett and her mixed breed, Emmy, recently tested and passedthe Canine Good Citizen test at Best of Friends in Dodgeville. Congrats to both! The Canine GoodCitizen test is the first step towards becoming a therapy dog team. Margie and Emmy are one of thebest teams that I have had the pleasure of working with in my years of training dogs. I know they willsucceed in becoming a successful therapy dog team.

Micro-chip Clinic at Tractor Supply on Saturday October 18thsponsored by CASA(Crawford Area Shelter for Animals) was another successful fundraiser based on the number of peo-

ple who brought their dogs in to be micro-chipped. Crisse Reynolds had asked me to help so Ithought why not. There were a number of very nice dogs available for adoption as well as somefriendly felines. I fell in love with a beautiful purebred beagle named Penny. My husband was inOklahoma hunting so I thought what a perfect time to add a beagle to our pack. I was on my wayout the door with Penny to take her home to see what Nicki and Vegas thought of her. But as I wasleaving, a mom and 2 adorable children arrived to specifically meet Penny. They already had onebeagle and were familiar with the breed. It was love at first sight for the kids and also for Penny.Penny took to them immediately. Soon the childrens father came to meet Penny and he was alsoimpressed with her and how friendly and gentle she was with the kids. Penny may have some medi-

cal issues, so for the time being, the family is fostering Penny. Keep your fingers crossed that Pennywill be ok and will have a forever home. I hope all goes well for Penny and her new family. It wasvery nice to see a number of people who came specifically to meet certain dogs they had seen onCASAs website. I was very impressed with how well behaved all of the adoptable dogs were.

Rivers & Bluffs Christmas Partywill be held on Thursday, December 18th(our regular meetingnight) at Huckleberrys Restaurant. We have the front section of the banquet hall reserved. Everyone isresponsible for their own meal and beverage. We usually meet around 5:30, and order off the menu at6 p.m. We hold the December meeting while the food is being prepared. Please RSVP by Monday, De-cember 15th.


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River and Bluffs Animal Shelter Membership Form

Student - $5.00 ____ Sponsor - $75.00 _____

Individual - $25.00 ____ Patron - $150.00 _____

Family - $35.00 ____ Benefactor - $500.00

I would like to make a monthly pledge of : ________ per month for a total of

$_______ per year.

Name:___________________________________

Address:_________________________________

City/State/Zip_____________________________

Email:____________________________________ Phone Number:______________________

Please mail membership form to: River and Bluffs Animal Shelter

PO Box 421, Prairie du Chien, WI 53821

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Needed: Your email address!

Please include your email address whenfilling out your membership form. This

is a fast and inexpensive method ofcommunication.

Postage, paper, envelopes and printingcosts add up! Electronic mailing of the

newsletter saves RABAS big $$$$!

Membership renewals & donations

Dog Obedience Classes I have a number of people who are interested. Classeswill start on Wednesday, November 12th. Money generated from this session will be

used to help Crisse Reynolds with a spay/neuter program for cats. I will offer thefirst 2 classes free to anyone who adopts a dog through CASA.

Memberships New & RenewalsThere were no new memberships or renewals to report in the past month.

Donations: Mary Weeks, Schwans, Paula Gutzmer (money raised from her garage sale), MaryDuffy in memory of her husband Bill Duffy, New Generation RV by Phil Dwornik,


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Patron members

Amy & Michael Enlow

Laura Elsinger

Paula Gutzmer

Stephanie McCumber

Sponsor members

Marilu Bintz

Patricia Dillman

Lu DeGuzman

family members

Tom & Marjorie Bennett

Sharon Boylen

Jennifer Clements

Donna & Dale Cipra

Jill & Brian Cipra

Mike & Mary Jane Faas

Eric & Betty Frydenlund

Randi & Mike Kluesner

Mike & Julie Hazen

Gary & Kathy Koch

Jami & Ken Quick

Ron & Kathy Quamme

John & Judy Ryan

Brent Seamans Kurt & Peggy Smit

Cheryl Statz and Steven Tibbetts

Bill & Nancy Stuart

Bill & Marlene Ziemer

George & Mary Tilley

Steve & Lynda Welter Honorary

individual members

Tori Armstrong

June Burns

Alexis Burns

Deb Cross

Marilyn CrubaughPhil Dwornik

Dawn Eggers

Monthly pledge member Student members

Mollee Whyte, Seth Sanders

Kelly Fishler

Janis Hein

Joe Hunzeker

Kristen Helgerson Kriegl

Marty Leeman

Deb Luebker

Kim Pinkham

Merilee Pleggenkuhle

Bev Pozega

Rosemary ReeseSue Rider

Don & Eileen Klatt

Randy & Kathy Paske

Mike & Shelly Rider

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Shirley Wegmuller

Sally Whitish

Brenda Wilson

Julie Whyte

Donna Heilmann

Bonnie& Denny Fuller

Sandy Kittle

Linda Munson

Bonnie Olson

Ron Stark

Joe and Kay Schmitz

Frank & Mary Weeks

Bob & Diane Witt

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