We are thankful for a successful raffle and nose work weekend! Mom is part of a nose work committee that puts on trials a couple times a year in our area. The big guy in the back was our certifying official from Texas, Jason. This past weekend the trial was at the Lakeville Ames Arena, an ice arena, but one of the rinks had the ice out so we could use it. The trial was super close to where we live which is nice, and we had a fun raffle!
Since I work with a lot of brands, Mom volunteered me to get some great raffle prizes. I reached out my paws to some of my favorite companies and got some pawsome prizes! I didn’t get a spot in the trial, only Bailie trialed on Sunday morning, so I took one last look at the goodies and sent them off with my mom to the trial!
We not only had prize baskets, we also had several gift certificates, and Earthrated was kind enough to supply us with a nice load of poop bags! Everyone knows poop happens and it needs to be picked up! I would like to offer some huge GBGV thanks to those who provided us with such great prizes! The prizes really make the raffle! We wanted to get lots of photos with the winners and all, but there was too much going on and it just didn’t work out.
- Merrick Pet Care provided a cute bone basket with some items and a year of dog food
- Chewy.com provided an assortment of toys and treats
- Jones Natural Chews provided two boxes of dog chews
- Paw5 sent us a Wooly – totally perfect for nose work dogs
- Chuck & Dons gave us a basket of toys and treats
- The K9 Nose offered two gift certificates
- SPDTC gave away four tuition discount vouchers
- Dog Day Getaway sent a gift certificate and some small trinkets
- Fancy Paws chipped in a gift card for dog grooming
- We had a gift certificate for an animal chiropractor
- Even the humans got something with human chiropractor gift certificates
At the end of the weekend we were able to raise $530 which we donated to Helping Paws. Helping Paws has let us use their facility a few times for nose work practice events. Helping Paws is a leading nonprofit organization that breeds, trains, and places assistance dogs with people who have physical disabilities and veterans with PTSD. Founded in 1988, they are accredited by Assistance Dogs International and meet the standards of the Charities Review Council. Helping Paws is located right here in the Twin Cities.
Helping Paws dogs are at work in the community and more are training to join them. What does this mean in daily lives? It means veterans who can sleep through the night or drive children to school with less distress. It means countless keys and phones retrieved, gloves removed, doors opened and lights turned on for those who cannot accomplish such tasks alone.
Helping Paws relies on financial support to place more dogs with people who need them. The costs of raising and training service dogs from puppyhood continue to rise. They estimate that costs for each dog exceed $30,000. Helping Paws is a nonprofit organization.
I spent the weekend home watching the cats. Madison went along on Saturday with Mom because it was too long of a day for her to be home in her crate. She spent the day in her crate in a closet at the rink – Mom did take her out several times for short walks. Sunday morning, Bailie had her Level 1 Container Element Trial. She wasn’t feeling 100% for some reason. Her searches were not her finest, but she did manage to squeak out her title! We’ll post more on that when we have the photos and videos.
Today we are joining Brian’s blog in the Thankful Thursday Blog Hop. Stop by some other blogs to find out what they are thankful for!
In a closet? I would have rather stayed home with the cats.
She has to be in a crate when she is home alone, so it was a crate at the event but since she wants to be out and about, she cried and cried. Mom put the crate in the closet and then she was quiet. She got to go out several times and was fine. It was definitely better than being home in the crate for 10 hours. Trust me, Mom makes sure we are all treated well.
wow that was a super fabulous event… congrats for raising so much moneeh!!!! maybe next time you can stay with me when your mom helps our friends in need? we would have a blast I’m sure… and my crib would be no longer da same, oh yeah!
Oh, it would be one wild party and we would spend the money on treats for all of us and have nothing left for the dogs in need. Hmmm…
Fantastic! Successful events are feel good events
Lily & Edward
You are right!
That’s all so awesome. Congrats to Bailie, and to you guys for helping raise all that money.
It was something new to try out. We won’t always have a raffle, but now and then, maybe.
Everyone’s a winner with your event. Great to organize a fun event, raise some money for a worthy cause and come away with a ribbon. Nice work!
It was a real fun weekend, but Bailie really stressed Mom out. She was not into searching at all because she didn’t feel well, so the title came down to the last four seconds!
Wow! What a pawsome event. Way to go Bailie!! Those were some wonderful prizes for such a great paws – I mean cause. XOXO, Sparkle
The prizes were amazing! We are so lucky to have wonderful companies who donated.
Those are some awesome prizes! Congratulations on your new title ☺
So far this year my sisters are bringing in all the titles. I hope I get a chance eventually. My level is very hard to get a spot in.
Good job on raising lots of money for a great cause.
Thank you. It was a fun way to raise some money.
Great job, that was absolutely terrific! Thanks for joining the Thankful Thursday Blog Hop and greetings from BlogPaws!
We are pretty busy, so not thinking much about BlogPaws which helps us. Wish we were there!
Congratulations Bailie, I hope you’re feeling better now. That was nice of those sponsors to donate all the cool things. A “load” of poop bags. 😉
One needs lots of poop bags with lots of dogs. Nerves make us poop you know!
Such an awesome group of sponsers, we love that Earthrated helped you scoop the poop, we just love their poop bags!
They have the best bags in our opinion! The sponsors were all amazing!
That’s wonderful! We’re sure Helping Paws appreciated that – a lot!
They were thrilled.
Congratulations to Bailie!
Helping Paws is a great cause to raise money for.
Bailie is happy to only have one level one element left to get, and Helping Paws is thrilled for the donation.
Helping Paws seems like a worthy organization. Congrats to Bailie and we hope she is 100% soon.
She was better later in the day. Not sure what was up with her.
Congrats on the title and the lute!
It was a super fun weekend.
Wow, those were some nice baskets. I love that you had a raffle to help raise money.
Good job Bailie!
We thought it would be a fun thing to try out. We may do it again at another trial down the road.
What a great event, and how good of you and your Mom to use your connections to provide so many wonderful prizes for the raffle!
It was a real fun weekend and successful too!
Sounds like a successful weekend. Congrats Bailie.
It was a super fun, but tiring weekend.