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Capitol
Bank
of North Carolina for sponsoring HP with a
no-fee
account.
Ed and Betty Craig,
owners of
Pet I.D. Tags, for
contributing over half the cost to make the dog collar tags for our
certified
therapy dogs. Pet I.D. Tags has a booth at the State Fairgrounds Flea
Market on
the weekends and can be reached at 919-782-5050 during the week. Please
stop by their booth for collars, leashes,
harnesses and I.D. tags. If your dog has one of the Avid microchip
I.D. tags
with the stick on number, we recommend you have the Craigs make you a
permanent
tag with the microchip information printed on it. Please tell them that
Helping
Paws sent you.
Craig Springer at Q-PID’s Pet Stuff for donating Christmas stuffed squeaky toys
as a Thank You to our therapy dogs who made the most sites
visits during the first quarter of 2003. Q-PID’s Pet Stuff has a booth
at the State Fairgrounds
Flea Market, Raleigh on the weekends and may be reached at
919-274-4175.
Please stop by their booth for leashes, collars, harnesses, carriers,
cages,
bedding, rawhide chews, pet toys and grooming items Please tell
them that
Helping Paws sent you by.
A
special thanks to Q-PID’s Pet Stuff for
loaning us dog clothing items for "Helping Paws Dog Fashion" held at
Dorothea Dix
Hospital on May 18, 2005 to entertain the patients & staff
RuffRider, owner/designer Carl Goldberg and
his
cousin, Helping Paws member Faith Rash, for
donating doggie safety seat belts to keep our fur-therapists safe while
traveling to and from pet therapy visits. The
seat belts were awarded to our fur-therapists who made
the most therapy dog
visits during 2003 & 2004. Ruff
Rider’s seat belts are rated strongest in the industry.
Ruff Riders “The Roadie” seat-belt harness
system will with stand 9600 pounds of force before the stitching starts
to give. By comparison, the Society of
Automotive
Engineers requires seat belts for humans to only with stand 4-5,000 lbs
of
force.
Linda Craft Realty for sponsoring Helping
Paws new
banner and event storyboard.
Dorothea Dix Hospital and the Volunteer
Coordinator’s
Office for nominating Helping Paws for the 2004 NC Governor’s
Volunteer of
the Year Award and the 2004 Wake County Commissioner’s Volunteer of the
Year
Award.
Discount Pet and owner, Sue Pluck,
for loaning us dog clothing items for "Helping
Paws Dog Fashion" held at Dorothea
Dix Hospital
on May 18, 2005 to entertain the patients & staff.
Discount Pet is located in the Wellington Shopping
Center
on the corner of Tryon
Road
& the Cary Parkway
in Cary, NC.
Cardinal Self-Storage, Westgate Rd., Raleigh,
NC for
donating storage space to Helping Paws.
Top Coat,
Inc. of Raleigh
for
re-coating a sleigh for our
Christmas play, “A Dog’s Night Before Christmas” which starred our
therapy dogs.
Linda Lee,
Helping Paws member and owner of LINDA LEE & ASSOCIATES, INC. in
Raleigh, NC for donating 4 XL-dog beds to our B.A.R.K.S (Bonding
Animals, Reading, Kids, & Safety) program so the children and dogs
would have a soft, comfortable place to rest while reading
together. Linda and her fur-therapist Shellie, are also
B.A.R.K.S. facility leaders.
Linda@Linda-Lee.com
Katherine Applegate, Helping Paws
member and author of the Ani-Morphs book series for her donations of 7
boxes of books, money, 4 XL-dog beds, and a special book written for
the children in our B.A.R.K.S (Bonding Animals, Reading, Kids, &
Safety) program about them and their Helping Paws furry "books
buddies"©. Katherine and her fur-therapist Goofy, are one of
our B.A.R.K.S teams.
Denise Hutson,
North Florida Center for Canine Psychology
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