3/3/10
SGA announced Poo and other organizations are doing fundraisers for Haiti during the same time we are having our Collar Sale this weekend, Sat March 6, 2010 starting at 10am at Walmart. Please show up a little earlier to help set up. We plan on selling until we sell out, but that may change based on the time. Mark this on your calendar and help out your club! Remember you must attend at least one fundraiser and attend at least one major event each year to be considered a full member!
A&M Open House is March 27 th . You must have your dues payed to Justin, and you must have signed forms and wavers with Sarah before you can go with the group! The forms may have to be turned in by this Friday so if you have not don’t so and you plan on possibly attending with the group, you must speak with Sarah and get this done asap. You may follow the group if you like. We are meeting at the
Ag building parking lot by 7:45 with breakfast, and we depart at 8am. Don’t be late!
As you should have known, Our service project at the Humane Society was cancelled last week due to weather, but from here on out we hope it won’t be cancelled again! It is this upcoming Wednesday
March 10 but this time from noon to 3. You may show up anytime between 12 and 3. The longer the better. Please help out as much as you can, they need lots of help! Reminder, we are scheduled to help out every 2 nd and 4 th Wednesday every month, off Wednesdays from our club meetings. If you would like to help out more than just a Wednesday a week or need help finding their location, feel free to call them (254)-965-3247.
REMINDER, our next 2 meetings 3/24 and 4/7 will meet in room 308 of the Ag Building, our original room will be occupied at that time.
TREAT Rodeo aka Tarleton Equine Assisted Therapy will be in April. April 10 th is in Fort Hood, an all day event! You may travel with us or show up and help out as you like. Either way your help will be
GREATLY appreciated. April 13 th TREAT is held at Tarleton’s equine center. Please sign up for these events at the next meeting.
Our guest speaker this meeting was Birgit Sommer with Rainbow Wildlife Rescue, located in
Stephenville, Erath County, Texas and Paula Prater with ECHS, Erath County Humane Society. These wonderful ladies created an amazing presentation for our club. They explained what a wildlife rehabilitator is, and how it is home based, surviving on strictly donations because the animals are state owned. People who do this for a living are not in it for the money; it is a passion and a commitment for these rehabilitators who front the bills out of their own pockets all while not being paid a thing for everything they do for the animals that come to them. Birgit said “The government requires us to be trained in order to obtain the necessary permits, provide proper facilities which are subject to inspection in most states, provide release sites, even pay for own pre-exposure rabies shots.” They do so much just from the purity of their hearts, without any help from the county, state or government, even though they are required to be certified for everything they do. Needless to say, it was informative with pictures of the animals they have taken care of and those currently there, full of

stories good and bad, a real tear jerker. But the most amazing part of it all was to see the recoveries of those they have saved and returned to the wild or had been given a good home. Thank you soo much ladies!
PreVet Secretary
Jennifer Garrett