Newsletter and Updates – August 2011
HOME VAN PET CARE PROJECT, INC. From Elizabeth Howard, Project Coordinator These are definitely the “dog days” of summer, hot and sultry, and this year so hot that’s all we can talk about. The primary mission of Home Van Pet Care Project is to feed the pets of homeless and low income people. We’re part of the Home Van itself, a local group that travels around our area to share food with the homeless and hungry. To make the summer a little better for our Home Van dogs and cats this summer we’ve been able to give a little more. Hawk needed some advice about training his dog Shadow, who is just a little too protective. Rather than muzzle her, we’re meeting with him every week as he reads dog training books and practices rewarding the desired behavior. He’s doing a good job. We’re gathering the needed rabies certificates to purchase new county licenses for several dogs. Several running lines were donated and we distributed those to the dogs and helped to install them. We were able to give ...