Pucks for Pets 2009

Posted by admin on Jan 18, 2009 in Events | 0 comments

 

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Pucks for Pets 2009

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What a great time! Hockey fans and pet lovers joined at the Qwest Arena on Friday, February 20th to enjoy some hockey and support Northwest Animal Companions for our annual event: Pucks for Pets! 

Stuff the WestVet ambulance

Stuff the WestVet Ambulance!

Fans were asked to bring pet food donations to the game, and they responded! We collected over 300 pounds and 100 cans of food. We stuffed that WestVet ambulance! Way to go fans! A special thanks to Mike and Nikkie for standing out in the cold most of the evening. Now that is dedication for the animals!

 The dog toys were a huge hit as well! We had hundreds of toys donated by Petco ready for the thousands of people coming through the front door. Again, a HUGE thanks to all the volunteers that sold these toys (even though the foyer was really, really cold!) and talked to all the fans on the way in. The steelheads scored their first goal only 1:30 minutes into the game, so we didn’t have a chance to sell all of the toys, but people were still purchasing them on the way out to take home. Seeing the arena filled with blue and red toys was amazing! 

Zeus gets some extra special attention

Zeus gets some extra special attention

We had several dogs there including the big New Foundland mix named Zeus. He got special treatment wandering the suites and even met a few kids at a birthday party that he fell in love with. From the sounds of it, some people fell in love with him as well. Zeus found a home!

When it was all said and done, we raised nearly $2000, received over 300 pounds and 100 cans of pet food and adopted 2 dogs out that night alone! The support from the crowd was incredible and the donations just kept coming in all night.  We can’t wait for next year!
We’d like to give a HUGE thanks to WestVet for making the night possible with their generous sponsorship and Petco for donating the toys, supplies and some volunteers. It’s businesses like them that make the pet community so special here in the Treasure Valley! Also, we’d like to thanks the Idaho Steelheads for having us again this year.
See you all next year!
Blue becomes a NAC volunteer

Blue becomes a NAC volunteer

 

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