1/28/2010 Goodbye Archie Archie passed away last night from cancer. Archie came to us in very bad health about five years ago. He needed to be in a foster home and thank goodness one of our volunteers and foster parents agreed to take him in. Archie had a good life in this home with his mom and other four-legged siblings. Thank goodness for her as she nursed him to good health and saw to it that his last five years were good ones. There was an amazing coincidence. In five years we had exactly zero inquiries about Archie. No one wanted him, or even to meet him. Well, today we checked our email and lo and behold, a kind woman thought Archie would be perfect for her family and would like to meet him. We wrote back and told her that it was too late now. She missed him by one day. Here is a beautiful graphic that Archie's heart broken mom made as a memorial to him.
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1/13//2010 Happy New Year We hope that 2010 will be a great year for everyone and for animals everywhere. It has started very good for SOAR. You responded with such generosity to our annual plea for financial assistance. We are so appreciative. We've had lots of adoptions recently and we want to do a better job of telling you about them and showing you pictures of newly 'enhanced' families. That is the end result of your charity to us. To that end we have some website changes planned whereby it will be kept more current. We want to give others the ability to post news items and we want to give everyone the ability to comment on what they see here. We hope to have these changes implemented within a month. Also, at Christmas we hear from a lot of you about how your SOAR pet is doing. We love those updates and plan to put some of them up right here very soon. Thanks again for your friendship to us. | ||
12/5/2009 Merry Christmas from Bradley, nee Rebel Merry Christmas to all at SOAR from Bradley (aka "Rebel" when he was at SOAR) and me. Bradley continues to be a pure joy and I will always be grateful to all of you for rescuing little Bradley and for allowing me to adopt him. Best wishes to all for a happy holiday season, Barbara Rhodes and Bradley | ||
12/15/2009 Our Christmas Letter It's a tradition that each Christmas we mail out a letter to people who have donated to us in the past, or adopted an animal from us in the past and we ask them to contribut to us again. We did that this year and the letter went out last Friday. I heard today, just 4 days latter, that already 70 of you have responded and sent us a donation. It's incredible how good you are to us. If you did not get our letter but would like to know what it said; please click here. We know these are difficult times for everyone but still yet you reach down in your pockets and give to us. This allows us to continue caring for, and finding homes for, homeless animals. You are great animal lovers, each and everyone of you, or you would not be so generous with us. You have our sincere appreciation. In our letter this year we included statements from our volunteers. These statements were an appreciation of you and also of the work that SOAR does. Because there was not space in the letter to include their full content we want to do so here. Click here to be directed to a document that shows, in more than synopsis form, what each volunteer said. Thank you so much and SOAR wishes each and everyone the happiest of holidays and a great 2010. | ||
11/15/2009 Two New Dogs - Willie and Addie B. Willie, the black lab, was found on River Rd. near Carolina Beach Rd. He belongs to someone and we would like to locate his owners. If you can help in this endeavor please call SOAR. He's in great shape and a most beautiful dog. Addie B is not in good shape. She's been fending for herself for a long time now and is malnourished and unhealthy. She's so beautiful and nice though. SOAR is going to nurse her back to good health and find her a good home.
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10/26/2009 This past weekend. We had a good weekend with several adoptions. Lots of people came out to see and play with our animals. We have some new dogs and lots of new cats. We've got puppies too. Ella, Trinity, and Mystic (pictured below) are puppies still hoping to be adopted. | ||
10/7/2009 Really Good Book I just read a really good book. The name of it is 'Rescue Me' and it was written by a woman named Melissa Wareham. She worked for 15 years at Battersea Dogs and Cats Home in London and wrote a book about her experiences there. Fascinating stuff. Battersea was founded in the 1800's and is (according to them anyway, I thought SOAR was) the most famous dog and cat rescue in the world. They take in 12,000 dogs and cats per year and turn none down. They 'rehome' (their word for adoption) practically all of them and their average stay at Battersea is 22 days. That's an incredible statistic and says a lot about how well they are organized and what a great job they do. Ms. Wareham loved her job and this comes thru loud and clear in her words. Anyone interested in animal rescue would love this book. - Jack Floyd Here are some links about Battersea: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HyDgNAG5Bqo | ||
10/6/2009 Jeannine Jeannine visited recently and it was great to have her back. We don't see her nearly enough. See how good she looks here with one of our little furry ones.
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10/6/2009 Meriah with some of our puppies
Meriah (our manager's lovely daughter) with Ella (left) and Trinity and Mystic (right). These pups played together on Sat. and had a great time. Please come out to SOAR and see them. | ||
9/10/2009 Brandy
She was adopted out several times but always came back to us. She didn't play well with other dogs and this led to her always being returned. We loved her and all volunteers knew her well. And they always walked and petted her. Brandy had a good long life and we miss her. |
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And we've lost another dog to old age. Brandy had to be put down last weekend. The ravages of old age finally caught up with her. Not only was she our oldest dog she was by far the oldest in terms of SOAR years. Brandy called SOAR home for over 10 years.
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