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events TREATS Night at Ten Thousand Villages Treat yourself to a fun shopping spree at Ten Thousand Villages and help animals at the same time. This fair-trade bazaar of beautiful handcrafted merchandise dedicates Community Shopping Night on Thursday, May 28, to TREATS to help pets in need. From 4 pm to 8 pm, 20% of Ten Thousand Villages’ sales benefits TREATS, Inc. Enjoy kitty cookies and exotic tea while you shop. Be rewarded with a chocolate mouse for purchases over $25. Enter a drawing for a free spay-neuter surgery for your pet and a $50 certificate for pet medical aid. For more information, directions, or to view the collections, please visit the Tallahassee Ten Thousand Villages web site, or contact the store by phone at (850) 906-9010 or by email. TREATS and Leon County 4-H will hold two camping sessions in 2009, one for kids ages 6 - 8 on July 6-10, and one for kids ages 9 - 12 on July 13-17. Each session runs from 8:45 am to 12:15 pm each day at the Leon County 4-H office at 615 Paul Russell Rd. Lunch will not be served, but the campers will be provided a mid-morning snack (or you can provide one from home). Both camps focus on graduating campers who will be responsible pet owners. Campers will learn animal care from experienced animal care professionals and trainers. They will also learn about the special needs of animal species and which ones might make the best type of pet. A fun highlight will be washing puppies and grooming kittens. Campers will also learn how they can help keep their environment safe and clean for both people and pets, and how to make a good impact on their community, including volunteer work. Eash session is limited to 24 campers. The cost will be $75 per child. For information about the 2009 camps, please call (850) 893-6518 or email us at info@treatsinc.org 2009 For Cat's Sake Art Auction (& more) On February 7, TREATS offered an event you could truly call the cat’s meow. The For Cats’ Sake fundraiser featured angelic cat music that actually included a meow or two. The music, performed by Tallahassee’s Voces Angelorum women’s chorus, was directed by its founder, Charles Witmer, who reports that one of the chorus’ featured selections was a unique rendition of the classical Duet for Two Cats. For Cats’ Sake was held from 6 to 9 p.m., Saturday, February 7, at Faith Presbyterian Church’s Fellowship Hall at 2200 N. Meridian Road. Admission was $20 a person or $30 a couple. Funds raised at the event supported TREATS’ free spay-neuter and pet medical aid programs. And it served as a kickoff to the 2009 Spay Day USA, a national event designed to encourage people to spay-neuter pets to curb pet overpopulation (view 2008 Spay Day national results). In addition to the concert, For Cats’ Sake attendees enjoyed appetizers and desserts as they browsed silent auction items featuring beautiful and unusual cat art and artifacts. Folks were able to bid on some cool cat condos donated by local craftsman Akil Harvey, owner of Cool Pet Creations. And renowned Tallahassee artist and long-time FCS supporter, Joe McFadden donated a watercolor of two kittens and demonstrated his whimsical nature when he titled the art, The Littergants. “That’s something that should appeal to lawyers,” he quipped. Joe's art can be found in many galleries and countless private collections around the world. The For Cats’ Sake eclectic selection of art also ranged from the wearable to the "bearable" (yes, there was bear as well as other wildlife art). There was something there for the birds and the bees too. Art mediums range from stained glass to fused glass and from paintings to photography. Quilts for cats, quilts for people and quilts for the wall—For Cats’ Sake had them all. From the decidedly different to the purely practical, people bid on beautiful hand-painted garden furniture or help for their car. “For the past two years, TREATS has provided almost $50,000 in free spay-neuter surgeries,” said TREATS Board member Cyndi Futch. “Cats reproduce more frequently than dogs, so the For Cats’ Sake fundraiser is really an important one for TREATS.” For Cats’ Sake also included a Cat Food Drive benefiting Second Chance Animal Rescue’s recent addition of a large number of homeless cats, a cat snapshot contest for attendees, the Dangerously Delicious Dessert auction, prize drawings, and a special gift for the first 100 guests. Attendees could also buy a special gift-boxed selection of seven 1-A-Day Chocolate Mice for their favorite Valentine, a For Cats' Sake tradition. Would you like to donate a piece of art to the 2010 For Cats' Sake auction? Paintings, jewelry, sculptures...if it has a cat on it, we're interested! Please call (850) 893-6518 or email us at info@treatsinc.org for more information. On December 13, 2008 TREATS hosted the 13th annual Santa Paws Walk. Over 150 proud dog owners and 200 participants joined this fun walk around Lake Ella and showed off their canines as they helped raise money for less fortunate animals. There were treats for owners and dogs, photos with Santa, and many contests with prizes. In addition, several reindogs payed us a special visit from the Tallahassee Animal Service Center and local rescue organizations. With your help, the extra attention helped many reindogs get adopted or placed in foster homes.
It was a very special walk this year because it payed tribute to Cubby, Lisa Gelb’s beloved canine companion of almost 17 years. 
Cubby inspired Lisa to create Santa Paws Walk. Sadly, Cubby died this summer, so this year we remembered Cubby as that special pup who sparked creation of this fun, helpful holiday event that raises funds to help pets in need.
Santa Paws Walk is a dogs-only event for the comfort and safety of other small companion animals that canines might not appreciate as much as we do. But you didn’t need a dog to register for Santa Paws Walk. Often people walked alone in honor of a pet or a special person who has died. It’s heartwarming to be around other pets at the holidays, especially ones that are working diligently to help other animals. Proceeds from the walk help support TREATS’ pet medical aid and free spay-neuter programs.
Participants got their photos made with Santa, tasty treats and goodie bags. A dog contest awarded trophies in 10 fun categories; and the dog that brought in the most monetary donations to support its walk around Lake Ella won a year’s supply of food from Panhandle Pet Supply. Each dog who collected $100 above its registration fee earned special holiday décor to wear in it's photo with Santa Claus.
The group that fielded the most registered walkers on December 13 was Los Robles Animal Hospital. They earned a pizza party and a place on the Santa Paws Walk perpetual plaque. Check the Santa Paws web site for more details and to see pictures of prize winners and participants. 2008 Alternative Christmas Markets We all got back in the spirit of the holidays by shopping at the Alternative Christmas Markets with TREATS, where each gift purchased became two gifts for the price of one! In 2008, an Alternative Christmas Market was held at two churches over two different weekends for your shopping convenience: John Wesley United Methodist Church (1689 Old St. Augustine Rd.), December 6-7 and Christ Presbyterian Church (2317 Bannerman Rd.), December 12-13. Wondering how it works? When a shopper made a donation at the TREATS booth, they received an attractive gift card describing the gift (not the amount) they made in the recipient's name. The shopper mailed the card to the recipient, and TREATS provided the gift or service on behalf of the recipient. Sample gifts ranged in cost from $5 to $50 and include included kitty quilts, vet medical assistance, and spay/neuter surgeries for cats/dogs to name just a few. The Alternative Christmas Market began in 1987 at John Wesley and today features more than 30 non-profit organizations under one roof. Since then its festival-like atmosphere — with colorful decorations, educational exhibits, music, and refreshments — has drawn thousands of shoppers who have donated hundreds of thousands of dollars to assist the truly needy. 4th Annual Smoochie Poochie Canine Kissing Contest Large or small, short or tall, it didn’t matter how these canines looked, the 4th Annual Smoochie Poochie
Canine Kissing Contest concentrated on highlighting dogs who love to kiss their owners, according to event creator Fran Wenhold.
On Saturday, February 9, TREATS sponsored the event at American Legion Post 13 at 229 Lake Ella Drive in the competition to
find dogs with the Wettest Kiss, the Most Enthusiastic Kisser, and the Longest Kisser. Winners of Smoochie Poochie earned a prize package including a $25 gift certificate from Panhandle Pet Supply, a voucher from TREATS, Inc. for a pet spay-neuter surgery, breath mints, and a canine tooth brush. (Wenhold noted that socially responsible winning dogs that are already “fixed” were encouraged to regift their spay-neuter certificate to a pet in need of the sterilization surgery.) The first dozen to sign up for the Contest sampled the special gourmet Smoochie Poochie anniversary cake for canines created especially for this event by Rainbone Dog Treats! Rainbone also provided a special gift basket of gourmet dog treats for one of the lucky contest winners. Visit the company website at www.rainbonedogtreats.com Smoochie Poochie wasn’t just a canine salute to Valentine’s Day, it helped highlight the upcoming commemoration of Spay Day USA (February 26), a national event to highlight the critical importance of getting pets spayed or neutered so they cannot produce offspring. Spay-neuter sterilization surgeries help curb the pet overpopulation crisis that fills animal shelters and pet rescue programs to overflowing. Proceeds from the $10 entry donation to the 4th Annual Smoochie Poochie Canine Kissing Contest benefited TREATS, Inc.’s free spay-neuter program. TREATS, Inc. is a not-for-profit organization that helps support local animals in need.
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