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LATEST NEWS: NEXT ADOPTION DAY: Saturday, September 25th from 11 a.m.-1 p.m. Petsmart - Atlanta #290, 128 Perimeter Center W, Atlanta, GA 30346 GPRA Update - August 22nd Dear Great Pyrenees Friends,A big week for GPRA. Pete, Marley, Heidi, Coda and Landon have been adopted into GREAT families. If you recall, Landon was barely alive when we rescued him and Linda P. nurtured him back to health and into the beautiful GP he is today. We had a successful Adoption Day yesterday as, in addition to placing our gentle giants into forever homes, we have added a number of new fosters. Most impressive though, were our volunteers. We have enthusiastic, compassionate and committed members who have helped us rescue 65 GPs since our first adoption in early Feb. of this year. We have 4 to 5 more GPs arriving early this week - 2 from Ala. - so new fosters are critical. We are working on a fund raiser, hopefully in the fall, that we think will also further raise our visibility and promote the GPRA brand. Please mark your calendars for 5:00 Sat. Oct. 2 for a BBQ at my home, rain date Sun. Oct. 3 - details to follow. Thank you for supporting GPRA and if you have not yet, please get involved. John
Dear GPRA Volunteers and Supporters, I hope you are all enjoying your summer! Many of you may know that we are planning our first official Adoption Day for our GP Orphans. We are scheduled to be at the Perimeter Petsmart from 11:00 am to 1:00 pm on Saturday, June 19th. The address is 128 Perimeter Center West Atlanta, GA 30346 770-481-0043. We are still in need of fosters - and as such, we have several dogs at Pet Lodge. The following dogs are there, and will require transporters & handlers for the day: Boomer, Everest, Murphee, Rocky & Roy. Transportation would include both pick-up from PetLodge by 10 am, and transport back after the Adoption Day has concluded. Even if you can only taxi one-way, please let me know. We will also need many volunteers on hand to help assure the day goes smoothly. If you are available to help during this time, please let me or Susan Edwards (edwards5648@bellsouth.net) know as soon as possible so we can plan ahead. We are very excited to have this opportunity to show these beautiful dogs to the public, and hope to have a successful day - don't forget to spread the word! Hope to see you there! Jen Greenberg Director - Foster Team Great Pyrenees Rescue of Atlanta 678-296-1440 (C) GPRA Update - May 28th Dear Great Pyrenees Friends, Happy Memorial Day Weekend. We just rescued four beautiful 8 week old pure bred white fluff balls from Ala.that arrive here in the morning. Two girls, Liberty and Honor, and two boys, Patriot and Freedom. We will put them on our website early next week after they are vetted. Pls. spread the news to those who may be interested. We also will be taking in a mother and daughter that are vetted and ready to be fostered or adopted on Tues. - mother Renee is about a year and a half and Willow is about 3 months. Pictures will be on the website shortly. That's 9 GPs this week so far and a record for us. Thanks again to those who have so quickly stepped up, especially Linda.
John GPRA Update - May 26th Dear Great Pyrenees Friends, We rescued three GPs today, all heartworm +, two were to be euthenized tomorrow and one, Landon, is being checked for mange and requires immediate heartworm treatment. He is number 30 rescued in less than 4 months, many of which have been hard cases. Thank you to the many volunteers who have played roles in saving our Gentle Giants. As importantly, we've found wonderful homes that are terrific fits for our GP families. Our recent success stories are truly heartwarming. Rudy continues to flourish with Linda from his double hip surgery, George(Bob) has found a loving home, Beau(severe skin infection) was adopted in one weekend by a great guy, my Cody(kidney stone) was adopted by a fantastic family this past weekend and Bonnie and Clyde(see website) are living in Nirvana with a new forever family that includes horses, goats, geese and a lab. Jen sent out an update on the group of males we now have available and I am surprised Noah, Rocky and Zeus have not been snapped up as they are really good GPs. We will need to raise special funds for Landon. Congratulations to Lori Imhof who, with many of our volunteers, made our booth at Woofstock exceptional. We have had outstanding media coverage including the recent CBS segment as our GP Brand continues to grow. We have the coolest black GP logo tee shirts that are selling for $20 a pop and worth every penny. Let Lori know how many you want. Thank you again and please get involved. Many of those that have are finding it not only rewarding but fun.
John May 11th, 2010 March 17th, 2010 GPRA Update - May 2nd Dear GP Friends, On Monday evening we completed one of our best successes. After seeing the front page article on GPRA in the Gwinnett paper, the Mother Superior of a cloistered Monastery with 15 nuns in Snellville on 27 fenced acres contacted us enquiring about adopting 2 male GPs. Serendipitiously, the next day 2 brothers showed up at a Huntsville Ala. kill shelter. We appropriately named them Peter and Paul and sent Mari (no joke) on the full day round trip drive to rescue them. You've seen the pictures on our website - they were not in good shape as Peter needed operations on both eyes and Paul required an operation as well. Thanks to the help of multiple volunteers, Peter and Paul have recuperated and were heaven sent to the sisters Monday night where all rejoiced (see photos below). Rudy is safe and recuperating, Casper's improvement with his foster is like night and day, Maggie is a sweetheart and ready to go, Blizzard is being adopted and I am fostering Cody who is a fantastic GP. We just saved a puppy, Avalanche, that may already have a forever home by Tues. CBS channel 46 did a segment on GPRA this week and we will advise when it will air. Please join us Sat. May 15 at Woofstock sponsered by Star 94 - Lori will provide details. GPRA tee shirts are on the way. Thanks for your involvement.
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