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Please Send Your Donations to: Animal Aid Society, Inc., 80 Butler Farm Road, Hampton, VA 23666

AAS Scrapbook

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Boris happily accepts donation on behalf of his shelter pals from
Ken Mathews Garden Center, Grafton. A silent auction was held
February 13, 2010 at the Garden Center to benefit Animal Aid.

Animal Aid's First "Dogwash"

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Roxanne's Makeover
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The Animal Aid Society signs,
were handpainted by volunteer Shelley Kinser.

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"The cafe", a small building which serves as an office and food preparation room.

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Interior of each dog run. All our dogs now enjoy air conditioned and heated runs.

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We would like to say a special thank you to PETCO in Hampton for their
donation of dog food. Our cupboard was almost bare when they came to the rescue.

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B & P dog runs.JPG - 39603 Bytes The dogs can be seen here in the outside area of their runs. A roof was built over this area allowing the dogs to go outside and stay dry in the rain and to protect them from the sun in summer.

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Construction is well under way on the new block of runs,
February 19, 2006. Animal Aid volunteers, Don Buchert,
Luis Fuentes, Devon Pritchard and others, spend many
hours on this project.

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Scruffy's Play Park, was named after Scruffy, a favorite at the shelter during his time with us.. With the help of donations and sale of name plaques, the park was finished in the spring of 2008. Now the dogs (Betsy in this photo) can enjoy some excercise with a nice run in the park.

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Kuranda Beds have made a big difference for our dogs. We are very fortunate and thankful to have so many caring friends of Animal Aid donate Kuranda Beds. As you see in the photos, they keep the dogs cool as cucumbers in summer, warm as toast in winter,
and are sometimes even good to hide under!

Fundraising Events

Silent Auction 2009

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Animal Aid's Fifth Annual Silent Auction was held September 26, 2009, at
St. Mark's United Methodist Church's Java Hut, 99 E. Mercury Blvd., Hampton.
There were a wide variety of items donated by businesses, friends of Animal Aid, as well as
volunteers. Everyone had fun and Animal Aid thanks all who participated, and made the sale a success.

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Pet Blessing: Abe and Buckie represented all homeless pets recently and
were blessed by the pastor, in hopes they would find a forever home.
Hilton Christian Church collected donations for Animal Aid during
October in honor of St. Francis.

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Participating in Paws for a Cause, an annual SPCA fundraising event.
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Norm on a visit to a local school to teach
children about kindness to animals.