Dog Days of Summer Event – July 12 – 14, 2013

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Dog Days of Summer  July 11-14, 2013

produced by Pampered Pup’z, generously sponsored by PNC Bank, Petraneks’ Pharmacy, Save-A-Pet, GreenTree Animal Hospital & MainStreet Libertyville

Wagging Hearts Booth in Cook’s Park  July 13-14, 10:00 am – 5:00 pm   Location to come.

Libertyville literally is going to the dogs for 4 days starting on Thursday, July 11th and runs through Sunday, July 14th. Don’t miss this unique opportunity to bring your furry companions everywhere because that’s exactly what YOU can do! Stores, streets and parks are pet-friendly and ready to graciously greet up-to-date family dogs and cats that come out to see the town dolled up just for them. Bring them along while you dine at one of the pet-friendly outdoor patios such as Egg Harbor Cafe, Mickey Finns or 545 North Bar & Grill. Get ready to participate in a myriad of competitions or watch DockDogs Big Air Jumping contests at the X-Treme Dog Park where dogs compete on a 40′ dock with a 27,000 gallon, 20′ x 40′ pool. Feel like Fido is up to the challenge? Then preregister your courageous dog ahead of time. Or just take the kids and furbabies on a slow walk among the many educational and entertainment booths sprinkled around Cook’s Park. Meet a variety of animals and animal rescue groups, competent animal trainers and teachers, a variety of vendors, entertainers, food, music, and activities galore with YOUR family and pet in mind. Set aside time to enjoy all that Libertyville has to offer.

Wagging Hearts is participating in Dog Days of Summer with a proudly displayed booth in Cook’s Park just waiting to meet the many people and their companion pets that come out to play. Join us for lots of laughs, cuddles and fun on Saturday, July 13th and Sunday, July 14th from 10:00 AM to 5:00 PM. We will have Homemade HushPuppy Treats and Bodacious Bandanas for Bucks with all proceeds being directed toward the medical care of our rescues. Don’t miss our Precious Puppies Pen and meet the littlest lives saved. Or how about seeing our Adorable Adoptables up close and personal? They are waiting to make a love connection, searching for forever homes of their very own. We will be ready with volunteers and supporters ready to answer questions or just pass the time with laughs. Fill out an adoption, foster or volunteer application while at our booth. Or just stop by and let us know how your ‘Dog Days’ experience is going. Can’t wait to see you there!!

Weekend activities for all to enjoy and a whole lot more:

Cook Park located in the heart of Downtown Libertyville features Doggie oriented events. See the Lake County Sheriff’s K-9’s, Serendipity’s Doggie Fashion Show, how impressive! Pet Parade, Forest Bootery’s Family Dog Games, Libertyville Sports Complex Exercise with your Pup, Midwest Disc Club Frisbee Dogs, Save-A-Pet’s Petathon 3K Dog Walk, Baker’s Square’s Breakfast in the Park,  Pet Blessing Ceremony St Lawrence Episcopal Church, the Rory Tyer Band and Fresh this Year Fine’s Dog Pie Hurl.

Check out other articles, photos and links on Dog Days of Summer:

Libertyville Patch Article on ‘Dog Days of Summer’

SunTimes News Article ‘Dog Days Has Nothing to do with the Heat’

Libertyville 2013 Calendar event for ‘Dog Days of Summer’

Libertyville’s Jumping Dogs Live on CBS-TV

Chicagoland Dock Dogs Photo Gallery from Previous Dogs Days

 

DOG DAYS OF SUMMER by Pampered Pupz

JULY 11-14, 2013 in Libertyville, IL

Schedule of events overview:

See Pampered Pupz FULL SCHEDULE with detailed times & activities.

THURSDAY, July 11th

NOON – OPENING of EVENT

Onsite Registration, Practice and Fun Jumping competitions.

FRIDAY, July 12th

Onsite Registration, Practice and Big Air Wave #1-3 competitions and
6:00 PM – Big Air Jump Off opening ceremonies.

After opening ceremonies

Rock in Cook’s Park music provided by Mickey Finn’s

SATURDAY, July 13th

10:00 AM – 5:00 PM: Cook’s Park opens for family and pets to enjoy. Come meet Wagging Hearts at our booth!! Find out more information on our adoptables, fostering, volunteering and/or donating. We are eager to see some of the faces of our dedicated community members and excited to meet many more new ones. Come purchase some Homemade HushPuppy Treats for a healthy reward or better yet … order ahead! Be on the booth look out for Bodacious Bandanas for Bucks on sale to dress your furbaby up for that extra bit of summer fashion fun. All proceeds benefit the animals of Wagging Hearts, a non-for-profit rescue organization.

1:30 PM – Pet Parade in Cook’s Park. Additional activities …

Big Air Wave #4-6 and Extreme Vertical competitions.

SUNDAY, July 14th

9:00 AM – Save-A-Pets’ Petathlon, 3K dog walk, Downtown Libertyville

11:00 AM – St. Lawrence Episcopal Church Dog Blessing ceremony

10:00 AM – 5:00 PM: Cook’s Park opens. Come meet Wagging Hearts at our booth!! Meet some of our fantastic personalities that are available for adoptions, meet a few of the smallest and youngest lives saved in the Precious Puppies Pen. Purchase and partake of some delicious homemade goodness baked with rescue love and kindness. Discuss potential fostering or volunteering opportunities available to help us continue to make an impact of saving lives.

Big Air Wave #7-8 and Speed Retrieve competitions.

Please share with family and friends as the more the merrier! We look forward to seeing you in person and sharing our rescues with you. We hope you are able to experience all that Dog Days of Summer has to offer you, your family and your furry companions. This is one event you should NOT leave home without them!!

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Map of Dog Days of Summer Event:

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Adoption Event at Petco, Saturday and Sunday

Adoption Event at Petco, Saturday and Sunday

WH_Event-banner-3Stop by to meet one of our outstanding adoptables today, June 22 from 11-4 PM and tomorrow, June 23 from 11-3 PM at the Petco in Round Lake Beach, IL. We will be bringing a number of our dogs and cats available for adoption. We hope to see you there so you can experience all the unique personalities, shapes and sizes that are looking for a forever home exploding with some beautiful furever love. They have so much to share and are waiting patiently for you to find them. Their dedicated love is a true gift for the heart and soul. If your life is missing laughter, joy and happiness…then you might just be looking for a Wagging Hearts adoptable this weekend!

Fill out an adoption application in advance!! Start the process early so all that is needed is to sweep your new love up in your arms and start your new life together.

 

Everybody Say Cheese!!

Don’t forget to bring your furbaby to take advantage of Petco’s Photos for Patriots event today. An early bird celebration of the Fourth of July with professional photographs for your pet. All proceeds will be graciously donated to Wagging Hearts in support of our mission and animals. We could not ask for a better partner in rescuing lives than with the Petco staff and management at the Round Lake Beach store location. Try them out the next time you are in need of a couple items for your companion pets, they are waiting to assist you with a smile!

Wagging Hearts Adoption Event:

June 22 from 11-4 PM and June 23 from 11-3 PM

Petco Photos for Patriots Event:

June 22 from 11-2 PM

Hope to see you there and spread the word!!

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Post Date June 22, 2013
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Foster Homes in Short Supply …

Foster Homes in Short Supply …

WH_slider-foster-alertWagging Hearts is in urgent need of foster homes to help save the lives that come our way. We see so many abandoned spirits who have so much to give if only given the opportunity to shine once more.

A few lives we saved currently in need of a loving, foster home:
Otis, Allie, Mocha, Jacob, Tonto

All of whom are looking for foster homes and will provide endless laughter while waiting patiently for a forever home to find them. Please email fostering@wagginghearts.org if you can provide a loving home wrapped in sweet tenderness to one of our rescue pets. Connect with us without delay! Find out if fostering is right for you by visiting our foster section today! If so, email fostering@wagginghearts.org to get started.

Thanks for your continued support.

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Otis, sweet and missing a family

Otis, sweet and missing a family

WH_slider-foster-OtisOtis was saved from a high-kill shelter in Chicago, IL just as his time was up. Just a mere 9-months old when Wagging Hearts discovered his dire plight and pulled him to safety. Otis was among the hundreds tucked away behind ‘Rescue-Only’ doors. Unavailable to the public unless a rescue organization became involved in time to save their life. Hours mean the difference between life and death. Otis was saved not only from the clock but also found to be very ill upon closer examination. He was rushed to the vet with pneumonia where he was monitored 24-hours a day while being nursed back to health. Otis is currently healed and his spirit continues to blossom.

Otis is a pittie mix who is now healthy and growing by leaps and bounds at a young age of 11-months. A heart filled with sweetness. Great with other dogs and ready to be a part of a solid forever family. Otis was being fostered (with another Wagging Heart rescue pittie) by a wonderful family who was relocated out-of-state. So once more Otis will need another place to rest his head. His short life has been a series of transitions and his young puppy heart wants yearns for someone to love. And for once in his life…to find someone to love him unconditionally, consistently and diligently. Fill out an application for Otis if he strikes your fancy and offer to foster, foster-to-adopt, or maybe just jump right into forever love and adopt Otis right away. He is patiently waiting for someone to see just how special he is, don’t make Otis wait any longer. Act now and take him into your home today!!

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Post Date June 17, 2013
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Photos for Patriots, a Petco event

 

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Photos for Patriots is Here!

Petco is celebrating the Fourth of July early with Photos for Patriots which offers professional photos of your precious pets against a patriotic backdrop. What better way to celebrate than dressing up your furbabies and heading over to Petco to share that moment with a photo! Did we mention Wagging Hearts will also be at there with some of our scrumptious adoptables! We can’t wait to see who shows up to participate and what cute outfits present themselves.

Don’t forget to grab your friends, family and pets and join us Saturday, June 22, 2013 between 11:00 – 2:00 p.m. to participate in Photos for Patriots! This event is sponsored, coordinated and developed by our good friends at the Petco in Round Lake Beach. ALL proceeds will be donated to Wagging Hearts!

Patriot photo packages start at only $5! What better way to share your day than with us and your pet dressed in their patriotic best as the lights of the camera flash away. Make this a day to celebrate in anticipation of this Fourth of July, a day to remember with your entire family.

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Post Date June 17, 2013

One in three pets will become lost at some point in their life.

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A microchip could make the difference between being reunited with your lost pet, or losing them to a system that returns only 22% of lost dogs to their families while 52% of microchipped pets made their way back home. 

In today’s busy lives we can never tell what can happen in a blink of an eye. Is your pet covered if they should slip out the door and run? Will they make it back home if a gate is left open by mistake and they wander away? How will animal control or a local citizen unite you with your lost pet? Microchipping can help insure your pet is reunited with your family. Most vet office’s can assist in scanning an animal for a microchip. Don’t be fooled into thinking that you could easily locate your pet if they get lost. Animals can trek far distances in search of their families and change appearances based on outdoor conditions. These pets are entering a system already overwhelmed with surrendered, abused or neglected animals and a lost pet can easily go unnoticed. The American Humane society estimates nearly ten million pets are lost or stolen each year. Why become part of the statistics? A study published in the Journal of the American Veterinary Medical Association, including 53 animal shelters across the U.S., confirmed the high rate of return of microchipped dogs and cats to their families, and the importance of microchip registration.

What is microchipping? Microchipping is a way to register your companion pet into a database to be accessed should that animal be lost. A microchip the size of a grain of rice is inserted under the animal’s skin by a special injector. This procedure can be done during vaccinations or routine check-up at your veterinarian office. The microchip is encoded with a number that is registered to the owner/rescue of that animal with specific contact information. A handheld scanner is used to search for a microchip which can be read by most veterinarians, animal control officials, etc. Microchips can migrate around an animals body which is why the entire body should be scanned. External tags placed on collars can be lost, removed or altered. Don’t be left without a way to reconnect with your pet should you be tragically separated. Microchipping provides an extra layer of comfort and hope. Talk to your veterinarian about microchipping today and remember to confirm the number has been added to a National database.

Wagging Hearts microchips every rescue with each adoption insuring that the lives we save always have someone looking out for them in all the days of their lives. Join us in microchipping to help keep our animals safe by insuring they always make it back home.

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Post Date June 16, 2013
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Whiskey, An Adventurous Soul

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Meet Whiskey, a male, Coonhound/Pointer mix. Currently in foster looking for forever love. A sweet and handsome boy with a coat that just shines in the sun. Eyes soulful and deep, filled with mysteries of untold stories. Whiskey was saved from a high-kill shelter in Kentucky. He made the journey in early May and has been staying with his foster family in Northern Illinois. Unwinding and exploring life has all that has been on this boy’s mind. He enjoys the company of other dogs but cats seem to draw just a little too much attention from Whiskey. He is true to his breed characteristics and will need consistent exercise and rigorous activity to keep his active mind content. Nose to the ground or in the air to see what is near. Whiskey is always on alert and ever ready to call out with a series of bays when someone has arrived. Diligent and focused on his surroundings, Whiskey is just alight with joy for his surroundings. A little jumpy and learning his manners so a little understanding will be needed. An all-around joy to watch as seen in his latest video debut.

“A sweet, loving, energized-spirit in need of a home.”

Consider filling out an adoption application and to request a meet and greet with Whiskey. It won’t take long for you to see his charm and fall hard for those beautiful, shining eyes. Whiskey is just an application away.

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Calling All Fosters …

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Wagging Hearts realizes that each and every foster home is a lifeline for our rescues. We would not be able to save the numbers of animals that connect with a forever home without our foster’s time, dedication, care and love. A rescue animal has usually been through quite a journey and may need some decompression and gentle love. Remember that companion animals develop deep and meaningful bonds with their families and they can become traumatized or despondent when they find themselves lost or abandoned. Fast forward to these lives adrift at a shelter filled with stress, noise, fear and usually death. This environment can temporarily affect our rescue animals and some may require a little extra TLC to shine brightly once more. That is where our foster homes becomes a lifeline as joy and happiness flood back into each animals heart and bodies. It is an amazing sight to watch how quickly an animal can rebound when shown kindness and a gentle touch. A foster makes an incredible difference in the life of each rescue. Each foster home is an extension of Wagging Hearts and the backbone which allows us to make such a difference in as many lives as we touch. We hope that you may want to be a part of our community and begin to share in the incredible experience of fostering.

Visit our FOSTER section today and to see whether fostering is right for you. If so, fill out a foster application today and join the Wagging Hearts Foster Community. We can’t wait to meet you!

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Forever Homes Wrapped in Furever Love.

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The Impact of Forever Homes … is just immense. We could not do this without the support of our foster homes who provide love and care wrapped in a comfortable setting. Our animals experience positive nurturing, socialization and attention in their foster homes so they are ready and able to connect with furever love when it comes their way. Such as in the cases of Noodles, Casey Lane, Kiera, Max and Walter. All of these animals were rescued by Wagging Hearts when time was not on their side. Fading away into darkness and now because of four adopters and their families…they are thrust back into the light. This is what it is all about and with the continued support of our foster families and the community of animal lovers seeking to provide a rescue animal with a permanent home. This chain is delicate and could not be achieved without each crucial part acting as one; RESCUE to FOSTER to ADOPTION to FUREVER LOVE. Please share the powerful impact of adopting a rescue animal with family and friends. Let’s hope they have an opportunity to become a part of this delicate chain of life-saving events.

Thank you for being a part of their forever. We are grateful that you saw these beautiful spirits and acted on a desire to provide a forever home wrapped in furever love.

Consider changing the life of a rescue animal by providing some furever love today. Please take a moment to look at the animals of Wagging Hearts who are in need of permanent homes that they can fill with their love, joy and kisses. Find a face you connect with and fill out an adoption application to start the process. Don’t delay, visit our adoptables section so you can make that life-changing connection now.

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Post Date June 12, 2013
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Wagging Hearts invites you to the 1st Annual GarageAPallooza!!

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UPDATE: That’s right, we are on the cusp of GarageAPallooza time!! Grab your spare change, your extra dollars and head over to Grayslake, IL to spend money that benefit’s Wagging Hearts rescue efforts. We will hopefully see you there and remember to tell your family and friends as we will be rocking through the weekend with treasures a’ plenty!

Come join the Grayslake community of Redbridge Court this weekend as it launches its first ‘GarageAPallooza’ sale to benefit Wagging Hearts and its rescue efforts. Let your money make a difference in the life of a rescue angel today. Come meet us and pick up a couple ‘lightly-used or new’ items for the house! Perhaps a gift for an old friend, something for the backyard? A book? Who knows what treasures await you! Save a day for us!!

We will be starting this Friday, May 31 at 9:00 am and running through Sunday, June 2nd. Full schedule below. Wagging Hearts welcomes donated items which can be dropped off at the Petco grooming department in Round Lake Beach, IL (436 E Rollins Rd, Round Lake Beach, Illinois 60073) or call us at (855) 924-4464 to coordinate a pick-up if we can. We will be picking up items collected at Petco on a daily basis. Please do not hesitate to email us at contactus@wagginghearts.org with any questions or to volunteer for this event. Or visit us on Facebook for community updates. Please share our flyer and event with your family and friends. We hope to see our Wagging Hearts Community grow! See you this weekend for some garage sale fun!

Looking forward to seeing you this weekend and hope you save a day to spend some time with us!

FULL SCHEDULE:

FRIDAY, May 31: 9 am – 4pm  SATURDAY, June 1: 9 am – 4pm  SUNDAY, June 2: 9 am – 3 pm

MAP of GARAGAPALLOOZA location

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