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September 19, 2008

Short notes for a Friday

Welcome to the Happy Wag digest. Here's a compendium of pet-related news for your pre-weekend perusal:

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Last night's Cocktails for a Cause raised $1,600 for the Roanoke Dog Park. That makes it easier for me to forgive whoever outbid me for the oh-so-cute Claire V. bag at the silent auction. Keep checking here for more information on future RDP fundraising events.

Speaking of the dog park, the decision to locate it in an acre of Highland Park is being appealed. If you support the pooch park project, plan to attend the City Council meeting on Thursday, Oct. 23. Participate in the process and you can really have an effect on your community.

The benefit of my summer on WeightWatchers is that I have to shop for some new fall clothes this weekend. My little shopping spree can also benefit the Roanoke Valley SPCA if I buy a discount card at Macy's at Valley View. I can buy a shopping pass for $5 (every dime of that goes to the RVSPCA) and I get 10 to 20 percent off my purchases. Sweet deal for everyone.

RVSPCA volunteers will also be on hand at Grand Furniture across from Tanglewood Mall selling T-shirts and tickets to the Oct. 16 Spay-ghetti Dinner. The proceeds from that event are applied to the cost of spaying and neutering adoptable pets and the food is pretty tasty. For more information on the Spay-ghetti event, click here.

The Bedford County animal shelter is holding a Furtastic Festival on Saturday featuring a massive, free-of-charge, pet adopt-a-thon and activities for folks of all ages from 10 a.m. to 4 p.m. at the shelter, 1307 Falling Creek Road in Bedford. The shelter is planning a remodel, meaning there will temporarily be less space to house the 50 cats and 35 dogs that reside there now. So, it's like a wonderful clearance sale: Everyone must go to a good and loving home.

While there is no charge for adopting a pooch or kitty at this event from the Bedford shelter, adoptive pet parents must agree to get their new family member spayed or neutered, if needed, and vaccinated within 30 days.

Congratulations to the volunteers of the Franklin County Humane Society, who broke ground on a new, no-kill adoption center yesterday. The building campaign in on-going and there are naming opportunities for the Doggie Dens and the Cat Condos. Contact Donna Essig at 493-2583 or click here to visit the Web site to become a founding donor.

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Finally, the annual Greyhound Planet Picnic is Sunday. If you have a retired racer lying around your house, see if you can encourage him or her to get off the couch and come out and mingle with the other hounds at 1 p.m. in Wasena Park. This event is like a family reunion for those of us who are blessed with these wonderful dogs in our family, and it's a nice way to raise some money to support Star City Greyhound Adoptions.

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The Happy Wag blog is a resource for pet parents in the Roanoke Valley, a local community forum of news and information about pets. Newsroom manager Nona Nelson’s family includes four pets: retired racing greyhounds Dexter and Coral and former stray cats Thai and India. Read more about Nona and this blog

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