Lauren’s Zoo, a special needs animal shelter in Mobile, AL, needed a more professional website — so they reached out to creativePAW. I posted about their needs here on the blog, and many creative volunteers offered to help. Lauren’s Zoo chose Katherine Gallia of BKB Design Group, and were thrilled with her skills and professionalism. David of Lauren’s Zoo called Katherine a “credit to creativePAW.” You can see the new website here.
Thanks to Katherine — and to everyone who generously offered their skills to this special needs animal shelter!
The Granite City Animal Shelter, a no-kill shelter, is in dire straits. Please read this note from the shelter operators and do what you can to help…thanks so much!
Linda
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Dear Animal Lovers
We are asking, rather begging, at this point for your help. Our shelter is financially in very critical shape and in grave danger of closing. Our small membership continues to raise funds through every means possible, but its not enough. We need more members, we need more volunteers, but most of all, we need donations.
Granite City Animal Shelter in Dire Need of Donations
Those of you, who feel as we do when… you’re handed a dog with a 50lb tow chain embedded in his neck for so long that when it was removed he can no longer hold his head up… when two cats are dropped off so infested with fleas that they have scratched their own eyes out… the Akita that was beaten with a 2×4 daily for discipline… Sweat Pea, a bait dog for dog fighting with such a grossly scarred face it was hard to look at… or a skeletal 75lb Great Dane unable to stand who was being starved to see how long it would take him to die!
These horror stories are the facts of daily shelter cases! Where as other shelters may have deemed them lost causes, we are happy to report ALL of these animals were given medical care and love are now living happily in their own homes!
Our shelter successfully adopted out over 600 healthy, happy dogs and cats last year and we hope to always be able to continue our good work. This task becomes more and more overwhelming as the stray, ill and unwanted animal population continues to grow as our economy becomes more pinched.
As much of the public is unaware, being a “NO KILL” shelter restricts our shelter to private donations for all the operating costs to maintain our facility. Because we chose to heal, reform and love our critters rather than euthanize them, we are unable and do not qualify for city, state or government funding.
Daily operations require heat, electricity, water, telephones, enormous amounts of foods, cleaning products, office supplies but foremost preventative medicines, operations (such as spays and neuters) and vet bills to rehabilitate and cure those animals that have come to us in the worst possible shape.
For these “rejected, unhealthy and unloved animals” we ask for your pennies, dimes and dollars. We are a 501(c)(3) non-profit organization. Though every puppy lick and kitty purr is worth a million to us! Please consider ANY donation a step toward our future and continued success. HELP! HELP! HELP! AND MUCH THANKS!
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You may also donate by mail at:
Association for the Protection of Animals
P.O. Box 1311
Granite City, IL. 62040
We have an animal welfare organization — Lauren’s Zoo — that needs creative help on many fronts. Here’s the message from founder Lauren Steinhauer:
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We are a young married couple that has devoted our lives to special needs animals in an area (Gulf Coast) that desperately needs our help. We specialize in dogs with serious medical and psychological problems stemming from anything from bad genes to severe abuse and neglect. We have been on petfinder for about a year and nine months and have successfully found great forever homes for over two hundred animals! We are very very selective when it comes to placement of our animals as we devote all of our time and money into them. We both work full time, go to college, and take care of our animals. We are very excited to be a part of creativePAW, we could use help in these areas by these pros:
- graphic designers - although our webpage is functional, it lacks what makes a webpage inspiring. I would love some cool new graphics to incorporate into a webpage.
- marketing professionals - we are looking for ways to fundraise on the internet. Locally we are unable to do much in the way of fundraising because of several reasons.
- photographers - some animals always look like they are being cornered by Hitler; I would love to see our animals get a true pro to snap our dogs.
- PR professionals - we need a spokesperson for Lauren’s Zoo. We need representation on a national level.
- videographers - we would like to utilize youtube to show the personality of our dogs on video. If i provide video, I need someone who can edit it and add the aesthetic qualities it needs, put some catchy music behind the vid, make people fall in love with the animal. Its much easier to fall in love with a one minute video than a picture of a crazy scared looking dog in one picture.
- web designers - although our webpage is functional, it lacks what makes a webpage inspiring.
- writers - when we have a “not so adoptable” it is imperative that they have a “good story” to help aid in the adoption. Check out Mr. Peabody in our Happy Tails section on Laurenszoo.com to see what im talking about. If anyone has grant writing experience, we desperately need help finding the funds and applying for them.
I hope that we can find some help. I realize we need alot of help, but any is much appreciated. Many thanks! Please check out www.LaurensZoo.com.
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If you can help in any way, please e-mail Lauren Steinhauer at laurenszoo@yahoo.com. Thank you!
