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Kuranda Dog Bed Offer for People Who Want To Donate
In the past LCSPCA has purchased dog houses, crates, blankets, fiber filled dog beds and dog cots and they all seem to get chewed up or destroyed over time. Kuranda has very durable cots that we would like to purchase so the dogs and cats will not have to lay on hard concrete or plastic crates and we can cut down on the amount of laundry from blankets, and other cloth bedding currently being used. Kuranda will let people go to their web site and purchase a cot or cots for the shelter of their choice and will ship it to the shelter. They will give purchasers a 30% discount and even let people make donations in someones honor and send them a thank you note. The cots cost $54 to $99 each depending on which one you choose. Please help us out and supply a bed for a dog or cat today. We are in desperate need. Right now we do not even have dog houses or crates for every dog and we are having to use blankets on the concrete floor or dog house tops turned upside down with blankets inside them as beds. Go to kuranda.com <http://kuranda.com>. Click on "Donate a Bed." Choose "Lake Country SPCA----Clarksville, VA" from their list of participating shelters and then choose a cot and add it to your shopping cart and pay. They will send us a notification of your donation and the cot will be sent directly to us at the shelter! We typically have about 70-100 dogs and 75-100 cats at the shelter, as well as many more in foster care. Having something to lay on to get them up off the cold, hard and sometimes wet, concrete, will make their homeless kennel experience more tolerable.

DOG WALKERS, TRAINERS & PET SOCIALIZERS NEEDED
Our staff and volunteers are so busy cleaning, feeding, watering, helping customers, etc., we rarely get a chance to walk or play with the dogs or give them obedience training. The cats crave attention and petting and some need socializing. All of the animals are desperate for attention and exercise, and many of them could benefit by being exposed to men and children (most of our workers are women). If you or family members have free time and would like to come pet or play with the animals, teach them how to walk on leashes, how to fetch, sit, etc., please come on in and volunteer! Call 434 374-8076, email lakecountryspca.com or just stop by the shelter anytime at 7577 Hwy. 58, Clarksville, VA 23927 next to Ace Hardware. WE OFTEN HEAR THAT POTENTIAL VOLUNTEERS STAY AWAY FROM THE SHELTER BECAUSE THEY THINK IT IS TOO SAD OR THEY WILL WANT TO TAKE EVERYBODY HOME. PLEASE DON'T. IT'S REALLY NOT THAT WAY. YOU LEAVE FEELING GOOD THAT YOU THREW A BALL TO A DOG OR PETTED THE CATS. THEY REALLY APPRECIATE THE COMPANY AND ENJOY VISITORS. THE MORE YOU COME IN, THE MORE OKAY YOU FEEL ABOUT GOING HOME AND LEAVING THEM BEHIND BECAUSE YOU MADE A DIFFERENCE GIVING THEM A CLEAN BLANKET TO LAY ON OR A PAT ON THE HEAD OR A DOG BISCUIT, OR TALKED TO A CUSTOMER ABOUT THEIR MERITS AND AIDED IN AN ADOPTION. IT'S VERY REWARDING AND THERE IS ALSO A SENSE OF COMRADERY AMONGST THE STAFF AND VOLUNTEERS LIKE JOINING A GROUP YOU HAVE THINGS IN COMMON WITH. PAY IT FORWARD. IT FEELS GOOD. You can't save them all and you can't take them all home but for the time they spend at the shelter, you can make it a decent experience for them, and feel good about helping in some part to get them into someone else's home. You get used to letting them go and when they leave, you help the new guys in. It's a constant revolving door and it takes a lot of people together doing their small part to give the shelter animals a decent quality of life while they are there and to help them get into permanent homes. You can do it! Pick up the phone or come in to the shelter today. YOU, just one person, might end up being responsible for getting a pet out of the shelter and into a home. You might socialize it, or teach it how to walk on a leash or get it used to kids. You might answer an adopter's phone call when everybody else is too busy, or talk to a customer passing through and say just the right thing that gets one animal adopted. Saving one animal may not make much of a difference in the world, unless you are that one animal.