Wanna help the Antigua Humane Society?

[urbpan]

See full set of pictures here.

cottonmanifesto posted about the Antigua & Barbuda Humane Society on her journal, and people are starting to offer their kindness. We are planning on buying a bulk order of durable dog toys (Kongs and such, for those of you who know what they are) to send them. The Humane Society was relatively well-equipped, considering that the island is not especially rich, but they were short on dog toys. From an animal care point of view, giving the dogs something to do while they are kenneled is a form of enrichment which will help decrease their stress and keep them in better health.

We haven't figured out a plan yet, but I thought I'd see if there was any interest here in helping out.

On a related note, if you donated to my Bowling with Rhinos thing, I still have your money, and I'm still going to participate. I haven't forgotten, they just haven't rescheduled yet. I will post pictures of that event, too.

Comments

[vampyrusgirl.livejournal.com]

Dogtoys.com has a great donation program. They have a selection of groups of toys and stuff that you can purchase and it sends them for you. If you put a paypal button here and just had people donate via that, it would work out perfectly! And I *think* they ship internationally.

[squonk.livejournal.com]

I would be quite interested in donating to this effort.

[rinalia.livejournal.com]

I'm interested. (PetEdge has incredibly cheap toys for sale).

You might consider contacting some of the companies and asking if they have donation programs (PetSmart Charities is a good starting point). Most have an interest in donating out-of-date items, overstocked items, "damaged" items, etc.

[ms-cantrell.livejournal.com]

yes, i will happily send some funds somewhere - i do most of that through paypal - is there a paypal link?

if i follow the lin to the antigua humane society, am i going to see pictures of animals? because i'll cry, even if they look perfectly healthy, and i'm not up for it right now.

[roaming.livejournal.com]

Theyhave a very sweet pictures of a cute dog being kissed by an even cuter kid, so nothing to cry over.

They have a wish list for things to send -- i.e., toys -- but no place to actually DONATE. Weird. Maybe we have to MAIL it in?

Urbpan? Donations how?

[roaming.livejournal.com]

Seriously, how does one NOT take ALL of them home at first sight? Look at those babies. . . .

Will definitely donate, just let me know how/where. I'd send somethng directly to the place IF they had a donate button on their website, which they don't. Odd.