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Thursday 21 February 2019

We’d Love to Take you Home

February is the month of much love. Spaying and to begin building the fenc-
Love. There are plenty of neutering is a critical part ing for the Adult Dog area
ways you can express your of our mission and a neces- at the Sgt. Pepper’s Friends
love and we hope you are sary part of making a last- Home. This is a huge step in
able to share some of this ing change for the Animals moving towards our final vi-
love with an awesome res- of Aruba. Later this year in sion with this space. Having
cue animal. Animals are September we will be tak- a space to rescue and re-
the best kind of valentine. ing part in the United Dogs habilitate adult dogs is an
We certainly love what we Aruba MASH spay and neu- important part of our mis-
can do thanks to all of you ter campaign. Last year sion. Currently, we use dog
and we love hearing all 400 Animals were sterilized hotels to board adult dogs
your pupdates and after- and this year hopefully we as we rarely have enough
meows full of loving stories can have another huge im- foster homes. This space
and happy endings. And pact. A donation of $20 will will allow us to keep costs
most importantly, we know cover the cost of a spay or down and allow adult dogs
that love can be life chang- neuter during this event so to have more socialization
ing for a rescue animal. please consider contribut- with volunteers who would
ing to this effort. Thanks for like to visit the property.
sharing the love!
Be My Valentine Our major challenge for
This Month of Love please Behind the Scenes the start of the year is find-
consider showing some This year is off to a great start ing transporters on AA for
love by sponsoring a spay and we are very excited adult dogs to the states.
or neuter because the stray to share the progress with If you have AA miles and
animals of Aruba have you. We have completed would consider donating
been spreading a little too the necessary fundraising to get animals to their for-

ever homes, please email The month of January has
us! Finding transporters is been another busy month
always a challenge but we with lots of new mom dog’s
are starting to have more that desperately needed
adult dogs and larger pup- our help. Ruby, Priya, and
pies that need to travel Freeza are all great mom-
than transporters. Getting my dogs that deserve a
animals home quickly al- better life for themselves
lows for a better transition and their babies. Between
to new homes and helps us these mom’s and 2 other
rescue more animals as fos- litters we have 34 new pup-
ter homes open back up. pies already this year!q