It's started!

Please vote for Project Jessie in the Pepsi "Refresh Everything" Challenge. We are competing in the $10,000 category and at the moment, are way back in 47th place...

You do have to register once, and every day you get 10 votes (but can only vote for an idea once daily)

The shortcut to our idea is:
http://www.refresheverything.ca/projectjessie

Thanks everyone!

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This week is also the first week of the Bissell MVP (Most Valuable Pet) Photo Contest
Submit a photo from January 5 to January11 and voting will run January 12 to January 18
http://www.blogger.com/www.bissell.com/petcontest

In the first week, I have submitted a photo of my own dog Sugar. Please let me know if you have a photo accepted so that I can ask people to vote for you!
Thanks!

Shelly Hawley-Yan
Director, Project Jessie Coordinator
Animal Alliance of Canada
221 Broadview Avenue, Suite 101
Toronto, ON M4M 2G3
On the Web:
www.ProjectJessie.ca
www.animalalliance.ca
email: shelly@animalalliance.ca


"In a world older and more complete than ours they move finished and complete, gifted with extensions of the senses we have lost or never attained, living by voices we will never hear. They are not brethern, they are not underlings, they are other nations, caught with ourselves in the net of life and time, fellow prisoners of the splendour and travail of the earth." ***Henry Beston (1888-1968)

Happy New Year Everyone

I hope everyone had a peaceful, safe and warm holiday.

They say you should start the new year as you hope to fill it. In some ways I hope that isn't true as it was a very mixed bag for me.

You see, I started off the new year sitting in the vet emerg clinic with a sick kitty blowing snot bubbles and mouth breathing, (Boo!) but had a very happy afternoon when I agreed to the adoption of a Mom cat AND her two kittens to the same home. (Yay!)

Driving home from the clinic, my "engine light" came on and stayed on. Harrumpphh!

I talked about taking in a sad 12year old kitty whose owner collapsed and was on the floor for more than 48 hours before someone found her. And talked to someone nice about adopting one of our foster dogs. I talked to another nice family about adopting a bunny. Then had two calls looking to surrender animals to us.

So as you can see - pretty typical emotional roller coaster day in rescue land!

Here's wishing you and yours a wonderful new year full of positive things.

I hope 2011 is a great year all around! Cheers!
(((hugs)))
Shelly and crew