Please help us by donating to the wonderful work that we all do here to care for the animals. Be a Happy Paws Super Hero by donating to the animals in our care. Please share with all your friends! We are trying to encourage everyone to give up a drink or a cup of coffee and donate that money instead to Happy Paws Haven. We are as always looking for volunteers who are passionate about animals! Clarence Valley Volunteering has been helping us which has been great! Thank you Trish and those who work with you. Volunteer work can help people get jobs as it looks good on everyone’s CV if an employer can see that while a person was looking for work thy spent time helping the community. It demonstrates to an employer that the person has a good work ethic especially if the Charity or Community Organisation will give a reference in thanks for the good work done. Happy Paws Haven is always happy to give a reference to those who volunteer and work well with the animals. We also give out a volunteer handbook which can be used as reference material not only while they volunteer here, but for students doing animal studies at TAFE or for volunteers to show a potential employer the type of work carried out here. We have some specific needs at the moment as we need someone who has good social media strategy development skills, and or content development skills. Ideally they have their own computer and 3-4 hours a week to help us build the strategy and the content to develop relationships with our donors and our adoptees. This can be done remotely. We need a new bookkeeper with a love for animals and some knowledge of MYOB. Our current Book keeper/Treasurer needs to cut down her hours as she has just moved into a new home and needs time to get everything sorted out and any changes needed made. We also need people that have handy man/woman skills to help us maintain the facilities. We need people to help with office data entry skills and admin skills. Finally we need people to help with our fund raisers for the love animals. We always need additional volunteers to help us care for the animals, walk the dogs, groom the cats and to share their love. Dress in your oldest clothes, jeans and a T-shirt is good, with work boots or sneakers, bring a snack and a drink! Cuddling and playing with the animals is compulsory! There are all sorts of things that need to be done…. And every bit of help counts! Come and visit to see what we do! Come and help us with the animals and/or fundraising for their care! Planned events Happy Paws Haven – Volunteers and Members meeting Our next Volunteers and Members meeting will be held be on Sunday August 12th. The meeting will start at 2.30pm and finishing by about 4.30pm. Bring a Plate and something to eat. If you would like to become a member of Happy Paws Haven, contact happypawshaven@bigpond.com to get a membership application to fill out, bring it to the meeting. You will need to bring $10 membership fee. We need new ideas for 2018 and a new fund-raising team, so come and join us and contribute to the Team at HappyPaws Haven where all ideas are good ideas! Balancing our intake We are only taking in animals in crisis now, due to our shortage of funds. We balance our intake with our rehoming rate and our capacity to care based on our funding and cash flow. We have already reduced our intake significantly! Our current adoption rate stands at 90% for dogs and 60% for cats. We have no plans to increase numbers at all. We will not rescue or accept any more cats until we have served the two years required by the court! We are already down to just less than 70 cats and 40 dogs. This will give us the opportunity to rebuild a centre of excellence. Rescues and Surrenders We are limiting the number of animals being rescued as you know! No cats and 3 dogs rescued this week. 2 little Mini Fox Terrier cross dogs were surrendered this week who are shy and need some more socialising and desexing before they go to their new homes and a very sweet Kelpie cross. We have to be very careful when rehoming our dogs and cats making sure they are in the correct and loving environment for their needs, breed and temperament. Adoptions We have had one cat adoption and one dog adoptions this week.   Sally Rogers MBA Macquarie, BSc (Bio-Med), Founder, President, Public Officer and General Manager HappyPaws Haven 140 Tindal Road, Eatonsville Your local animal welfare charity Rescue Officer Belgian Shepherd Club, NSW Phone 0419 404 766 or 02 6644 9936   www.happypawsgrafton.com.au www.happypawshaven.com.au www.facebook.com/pages/Happy-Paws-Haven-Inc/76224320885 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8vtWfy0axBg