Can you volunteer while you are looking for a job? Can you help homeless animals that have lost their homes during this economic downturn? Does your total family want to help out?
BECOME A FOSTER!
We are looking especially for kitten fosters and medium to large breed dog fosters ! Food, litter, kennels, leash and collars are provided. We do train you. If you can come to Adoption Days on most Saturdays and love animals, please call Bev or Charlie for cats at 651-463-8747 or Angela at 651-451-7603 or Bev P 612-817-6112 for dogs. 16 and up teens with parents permission are also welcome to foster!
Tis the Season for Kittens!! still!! and Did you know that cats used to be kittens and need homes too?
Last Hope has some kittens and wonderful adult and juvenile cats! We have short hairs, long hairs, siamese, black, torties, brown tabbies, calicos, oranges and much much more! Come see the best selection at the Apple valley Petco on Sat from 11-3.
If you are not a kitten person, that is okay!! Kittens only have a few months of cute and then they grow up to be cats. Did you know that all cats used to be kittens? See the best selection of adult cats at the Petsmart Eagan any time the store in open! All the adults are vaccinated and spayed or neutered where kittens are not fully vaccinated and still need to be spayed or neutered! Questions? Call 651-463-8747 or 651-453-9755!
LOOKING FOR A FRIEND FOR LIFE? All are in foster care until they can find the best family! Call the foster or see them at our adoption days!
Last Hope is a non-profit, no kill, foster based animal rescue organization which helps animals in the south-metro area of Minneapolis/St. Paul, Minnesota. With the help of volunteers and members, Last Hope has placed more than 15,000 animals in good homes since October of 1985.
Animals received by Last Hope, Inc. are examined by a veterinarian and given medical care as needed. If old enough, animals are spayed or neutered. Until permanently adopted, our animals stay in our volunteers homes and receive foster care.
Last Hope, Inc. is dedicated to: Saving abandoned, unwanted and helpless animals Neutering, spaying and giving medical care as needed Finding good and loving homes for our animals Educating the public in the responsible care of animals
For more info about:
Cats and Kittens: Charlie 651-453-9755 or Bev 651-463-8747
Dogs and Pups: Angela 651-451-7603 or Bev P at 651-459-3824
Pet of the Week
Our pet of the week introduces herself! Meet
Abby!
Please contact Mary M - mary.mcphetres@co.dakota or (651) 324-9042 - for more information about this pet.
Abby is a 3 1/2 month old black lab x that will be 60 lbs when full grown. We don't know what she is mixed with but we are guessing pointer because of her sleek coat and body! She loves people and wants to learn stuff!
Puppies do scratch with their nails and teeth so she will do best with kids 5 and up that are okay with that!
Abby will be at Apple Valley Petco this Saturday from 11-3. Please call Mary in the meantime if interested.
AT THE Petsmart Eagan on Yankee Doodle next to Bylerlys
AND at the Apple Valley Petco on 42 and Cedar
Did you hear?
THANK YOU TO THOSE WHO RESCUE ANIMALS
Once I was a lonely pet, just looking for a home.
I had no place to go, no one to call my own.
I wandered up and down the streets, in rain, in heat and snow.
I ate whatever I could find, I was always on the go.
My skin would itch, my feet were sore, my body ached with pain.
And no one stopped to give a pat or to gently say my name.
I never saw a loving glance, I was always on the run.
Some people thought that hurting me was really lots of fun.
And then one day I heard a voice...so gentle, kind and sweet,
And arms so soft reached down to me and took me off my feet.
"No one again will hurt you" was whispered in my ear.
"You'll have a home to call your own where you will know no fear."
"You will be dry, you will be warm, you'll have enough to eat.
And rest assured that when you sleep, your dreams will all be sweet."
I was afraid I must admit, I' d lived so long in fear.
I can't remember when I let a human come so near.
And as she tended to my wounds and bathed and brushed my fur
She told me 'bout the rescue group and what it meant to her.
She said, "We are a circle, a line that never ends.
And in the center there is you protected by new friends."
"And all around you are the ones that check the pounds,
And those that share their home after you've been found."
"And all the other folk are searching near and far.
To find the perfect home for you, where you can be a star."
She said, "There is a family, that's waiting patiently,
and pretty soon we'll find them, just you wait and see."
"And then they'll join our circle they'll help to make it grow,
so there'll be room for more like you, who have no place to go."
I waited very patiently, the days they came and went.
Today's the day I thought, my family will be sent.
Then just when I began to think it wasn't meant to be,
there were people standing there, just gazing down at me.
I knew them in a heart beat, I could tell they felt it too.
They said, "We have been waiting for a special pet like you."
Now every night I say a prayer to all the gods that be.
"Thank you for the life I live and all you've given me.
But most of all protect the animals in the pound and on the street.
And send a Rescue Person to lift them off their feet."
-- Arlene Pace (September 18, 1998)
altered for all pets -- 2005