A No-Kill Dog Shelter

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

AAS Scrapbook

Paws for a Cause: May 2011

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Photos courtesy of Julia Bleakley

Dog Wash: May 7, 2011

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Photos courtesy of Devon Prichard

Tony

Photo courtesy of Pam Christiansen
Tony relaxes in the "green room" before his TV apprearance on Fox 43 Pet of the Week. So cool, so calm, no butterflies in his stomach!
See more of Tony, including a video on: Medium Dogs.
Tony was adopted: 24 March 2011

Silent Auction, 23 October 2010

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Animal Aid's eigth Annual Silent Auction was held 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.
Photos courtesy of Nancy Peterson

Humane Society Thrift Store, Food Drive and Adoption Event,
30 Oct 2010

Obi was very sweet and friendly to the visitors who were surprised to see him at the entrance.
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Toby relaxes in the sun after he "shopped til he dropped."

Humane Society Gift & Thrift Boutique, 229-C Fox Hill, Willow Oaks Shopping Center, Hampton

Photos courtesy of Nancy Peterson

Annual Blessing the Pets, 9 Oct 2010

The tub of candles is in memory of departed pets.
Marley, Terry and JoJo were each remembered
with a candle to represent dogs who never found
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Nora is blessed by the pastor.

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Nora leaves the church confident her new home is not far away in the future.

Courtesy of Nancy Peterson
Update: Nora was adopted, 30 Oct 2010.

Dog Wash, September 2010

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Dallas

Roxanne

Sadie

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4th July Parade, Yorktown 2010

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Dog Wash: May 8, 2010

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Old friends return
Bandit, Brodie and Sweetie
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Shelter Clean-up day, 25 April, 2010

We are grateful to the members of Langley AFB's Leadership School who came out to help with the clean up.

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We were fortunate to have so many enthusiastic air force people show
up to help resurface the play parks.The crew wasted no time getting the gravel spread into the play parks for the dogs to enjoy, so they won't be running in the mud anymore!

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CNU Fundraiser, April 16, 2010

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Home and Garden Expo: March 12, 2010
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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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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!