Red Poppy Festival

Stella

Yesterday hubby and I volunteered to be at the festival to help with the city shelter's adoptable pets efforts.  It was a long day and I got a little sunburned, but not too badly.  Here is a picture of the dogs we were holding and providing information on, while they got lots of attention and petting from folks (especially children) who passed by.  Stella is a Boxer mix, nope not a pit bull mix and not as old as she looks either.  She is actually very sweet although unfortunately some were a little timid of her since she is mistaken for a pit bull sometimes. Hubby did a great job of showing her off. 

Sheila

Sheila is a Border Collie, Australian Shepherd mix and she was a handful for me as she is only a puppy, four months old.  She was trying to lick up every piece of kettle corn she could find on the street!  Lots of folks thought she was very pretty and intelligent. Hopefully neither of these gals will be at the shelter much longer.  Although it was a long day for all the dogs that we had at the festival, I'm sure they enjoyed being away from the shelter for the day as anything beats the kennels and loneliness they often bring.

Actually, there are a lot of volunteers that help way more than we do and the animals do get more attention than I'm sure other shelters dogs/cats do.  They are lucky to be in a town where there are so many people that love and care about animals.

It is really hard not to walk away with one of them, every time we leave to come back home after volunteering.  But we know that one or two of our dogs are pretty set in their ways and don't even want another sheltie around (we tried with Ladybug).  So for now we will be happy with our four fur kids.