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Thank you to our main sponsor - Irby Overton Veterinary Hospital.

Maddie's® Pet Rescue Project and the Mobile SPCA announce the fifth annual Maddie’s® Pet Palooza! Pet Fair and Super Pet Adoption to be held Saturday, June 6, 2009 in the Mitchell Center from 10 am until 3 pm. Vendors booths are available.

The three Maddie’s Pet Rescue Project adoption guarantee partners and the City of Mobile Animal Shelter will have over 100 dogs and cats ready for adoption. All pets will be spayed or neutered, vet checked, up to date on vaccinations and microchipped.

Vendors will be on hand with gifts and information for pets and people including training, pet sitting, pet foods, people gifts, spay/neuter, cool t-shirts and more!

The Mobile Bay Dog Training Club will hold free agility and obedience demonstrations throughout the day. Club members and their canine partners, whether competing or just for fun, enjoy many activities together. The Mobile Bay Dog Training Club will also hold free mini-seminars on fun things you can do with your dog like obedience, agility, therapy, tracking, tricks and more! The mini seminars will include some fun things you can teach your dog and an opportunity to see if you're dog might enjoy jumping a jump or two.

All proceeds benefit the Maddie’s Pet Rescue Project in Mobile and continue its mission of saving shelter pets and placing them into loving homes. For more information call the Maddie’s Pet Rescue Project office at 633-3081 or download a vendor Pet Palooza contract or for sponsorship information download sponsorships.

Thank you to our sponsors:
Irby Overton Veterinary Hospital
Banfield

Vendors include:
Banfield
All Critters Pet Service
Lifesouth Community Blood Center
P’s and Q’s training
Invisible Fence of Mobile
B & B Pet Stop
Tank's Trendy Trinkets and Pet Products

Skip Baumhower cleaning off the backdrop after a high energy, fast moving photo shoot with our pets.

For most - or maybe all - of our Mobile SPCA dogs and cats, this was their very first professional photo shoot. It was a big day, the day that Skip Baumhower showed up.

Baumhower, a professional photographer from Tuscaloosa, is on a mission to help find homes for shelter pets by taking studio-quality portraits of them and featuring them online. And he was at the Mobile SPCA to make our adoptable pets internet stars.

"I try to get their emotion, their personalities, to really show through in the photograph," Baumhower said of the dogs and cats. "When I get home, we will edit these photos and then we'll place the name of the pet on the photo, throw it through a slideshow software and then upload it on a space." That's when we take over by sending the link to everyone we know. These up-close and personal portraits of some of our homeless pets might just result in them finding forever homes . . . and raise awareness for the Mobile SPCA and every single special dog and cat that comes through our door looking for a family.

Baumhower has owned his professional studio for twenty years but says he isn't in it for the money, or for the glory. "I'm a Christian, so this is my ministry, a way of serving." On his site you'll find featured homeless pets from many different shelters, and now the Mobile SPCA has joined the ranks. His uncanny gift for connecting with animals becomes a fascinating and meaningful journey through his slideshows. Each pet gets plenty of screen time with several different head shots, each giving a different insight into their unique personality.

And this hopefully will be only the start of a much bigger project with an ultimate goal of encouraging other photographers to use their talents to serve homeless pets in their own communities.

One of Baumhower's biggest rewards is getting calls from the shelters he's visited, hearing that he needs to come back because every single pet he featured in his slideshow found a home. That's what we all want. And what a blessing that Baumhower is helping to make that a reality.

Be sure to visit Baumhower's slideshow of our very own dogs and cats, here. And if you are as touched by their beauty, and his art, please tell him so.

http://homepage.mac.com/skipbaumhower/canyouloveme/

Our chef, Bill King, stirring gallons of sauce!

What's better than spaghetti? Spay-ghetti! And what a feast we had on March 12th at Our Saviour Catholic Church. The huge boiling vat of pasta at the front door promised a fantastic meal that did not disappoint.

Inside the church was plenty of seating for those who wanted to enjoy their spaghetti and all the fixins' while listening to our very favorite band Flat Rock. Two long tables flanked one wall and were filled with abundant desserts of every kind, baked and donated by friends of the Mobile SPCA. In the kitchen, volunteers served heaping plates of steaming spaghetti, rich and meaty or vegetarian. The Atlanta Bread Company provided yummy bread to accompany the pasta, and The Olive Garden donated their special salad that everyone loves. The iced tea was excellent, but beer and wine was also offered.

There was a steady stream of people from 5:15 p.m. until 7:45 p.m., many folks getting go-plates to take home to their families. Lots of church members attended to help swell the crowds and we hoped that at $10.00 a plate we'd sell 150. Because after all, this was our very first year. But between flyers and word of mouth, we sold 246 plates - which was every single drop of sauce with eight noodles to spare!

This event could not have been possible without an incredible number of generous, hard-working people but we owe a very special thank you to three wonderful people. Bill and Marsha King coordinated with the church and garnered the church members' enthusiasm to help pull in hungry spaghetti-eaters. And Judith Holland worked tirelessly soliciting numerous donations for gifts throughout the evening. It would be impossible to thank every single one personally but our donors really came through for us, offering countless gift certificates and gift baskets. Ten volunteers cooked enormous amounts of delicious spaghetti sauce and others provided everything else needed to round out the meal and to serve it up. And as if that wasn't enough, many of our supporters gave us cash donations to help make our first Spay-ghetti Dinner an enormous success.

Because of each of you, this event raised $3,500 which will benefit our critically important Spay/Neuter Program. Thank you!

The finalists have been determined by a panel of judges and will be published in the May issue of the Mobile Bay Monthly. Top three vote getters will be determined by public voting, be notified by e-mail and will be announced in the September issue of the Mobile Bay Monthly. The public is invited to vote for their favorite photographs for $1.00 per vote. There is no limit to the number of times a person can vote. You can vote by downloading the Voting Form

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THE MOBILE SPCA IS A NO-KILL ADOPTION GUARANTEE HUMANE SOCIETY SINCE 1885