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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 AMSave-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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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!!

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!

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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A Ride to Freedom and the Lives YOU Help US Save

KY Transport Thank You

Too many invisible animals being abandoned, neglected and lost in Corbin, KY. Your crucial help is saving lives and stemming the tide.

Wagging Hearts can’t thank YOU enough when you respond quickly to our call to help share, rescue and save. The Kentucky transport is in a fight to save lives that would otherwise never make it back out. They are fighting a battle at Knox Whitley Animal Shelter in Corbin, Kentucky and Wagging Hearts is here to help with the assistance of partnering rescues, our dedicated Wagging Hearts Community that networks and shares, not to mention our fosters and adopters. Stay tuned for the Kentucky Transport story Ride to Freedom coming soon. Get ready to meet Knox Whitley Animal Shelter, their staff, the animals and allow us to provide a better insight as to why we venture so far from home to bring back so many lost souls. Also get ready to see the astonishing before and after photos from our early May 4th transport. We will then work on the next album from our May 23rd transport.

The impact we create together is astounding and truly amazing. We have seen ripples that have spread far and wide as our hands reach out toward one another in support. The strength of a community is defined by the souls of each one of us as we stand up together in defiance of the challenges at hand.