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news PAWS offers a variety of opportunities to view local animal welfare issues via our adoption days, foster program and TNR clinic. For more information, to be added to our news release distribution list, or to arrange interviews, please contact: Christine Arnold, PR Director PAWS Seeks Support for Event to Help Homeless Animals Local Coalition of Animal Welfare Org. Sends Support to Katrina Victims - 08.31.2005 Feral cats a growing problem - 03.13.2005 Cat trapping ends for now - 01.09.2005 Paw Prints of Hope benefits homeless pets - 12.05.2004 For immediate release: November 28, 2005 PAWS, a local non-profit, all-volunteer animal welfare organization serving eight counties in southcentral Pennsylvania, will hold various fundraisers throughout December to benefit its spay/neuter and foster/adoption programs. On Saturday, December 17, PAWS will offer pet photos with Santa from 11am to 4:30pm at PetSmart, 5900 Carlisle Pike, Mechanicsburg. For $9.95 per pet, each human companion receives two Poloroid photographs in ornament frames suitable for the Christmas tree. In addition, PAWS will offer a table full of wonderful holiday gifts. Also on Saturday, December 17, PAWS volunteers will wrap holiday gifts for donations from 6 pm to 10 pm at Barnes and Noble Booksellers at 106 Camp Hill Shopping Mall, on Routes 11/15 in Camp Hill. Volunteers will wrap gifts for a donation at the same location the following week on Friday, December 23 from 6 pm to 10 pm. On Saturday, December 24, PAWS volunteers will visit the Borders Books & Music from 8 am to 5 pm to wrap last-minute gifts for a donation. The store is located at 5125 Jonestown Road in the Colonial Park Mall. PAWS, an all-volunteer 501(c)3 non-profit organization, focuses on spay/neuter, foster/adoption, and humane-education programs to save the lives of abused, abandoned or otherwise homeless dogs and cats throughout southcentral Pennsylvania. It serves eight counties in the region with a local presence and local volunteers in Adams, Cumberland, Dauphin, Franklin, Lancaster, Lebanon, Perry and York counties. Its efforts include no-cost Trap Neuter Return (TNR) clinics, a reduced-fee spay/neuter program for companion animals, rescue and re-homing of needy animals, emergency medical treatment for injured or ill homeless animals, and a broad humane education program through local events and schools. PAWS is a leading member of the Central Pennsylvania Animal Alliance, a regional coalition of animal-welfare rescues, shelters, and other groups. Find more information about PAWS on its web-site at www.pawsofpa.org or call 717-957-8122. |