Rubie contemplates all the events

The next two months – March and April offer many events and fundraisers for local pet rescues. You can support events by simply showing up and eating and drinking wine. It doesn’t get any easier than that.

Wednesday, March 6, 5 to 9 pm
PAWSitively Cats
Bamboo Club Asian Bistro
Park Place Mall (South courtyard by the theaters)
5870 E. Broadway Blvd., Tucson 85711

Enjoy Asian cuisine from the Pacific Rim including Chinese, Vietnamese, Korean, Thai & more! (No MSG, all orders made fresh to order with a gluten-free menu available.) Relax with a full bar including 40+ wines & signature cocktails with half-price bottles of wine! Download a coupon online and Bamboo Club will donate 15% of your bill to support PAWSitively CATS No-Kill Shelter!
(Coupon must be presented when paying your dining bill)

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Thursday, March 7 – 5 to 8 pm
Hermitage Cat Shelter
HiFalutin Happy Hour for Hermitage
6780 N. Oracle, Tucson, AZ 85704
(Oracle between Orange Grove & Ina)

Come by for drinks, appetizers, dinner and fun! Present this flyer to your server and HiFalutin will donate 25% of your bill to the Hermitage No-Kill Cat Shelter. (That’s generous!) Valid for dine in or take out. Reservations are available. Call 297-0518. Flyers must not be distributed onsite at the event. Check out HiFalutin on Facebook

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Saturday, March 9 – 8 am to 1 pm
PACC
Come to PACC to show off your UA spirit and for a little pre-game fun!
–8 – 10 am – Walk dogs and cuddle cats and participate in family activities, including crafts for the kids
–10 am – 1 pm – Wear your UA gear and PACC will waive adoption fees for cats; you can name your fee for dogs. Now that’s great team spirit! Food and games are available all day. Click here for the flyer for more information

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Saturday, March 16 – 8 am to 2 pm
Handi-Dogs
Looking for ways to enhance the landscaping in your yard? Then this is the perfect fair for you. Central Arizona Block (CABCO) plus other vendors will inspire you with ideas. All well mannered, leashed dogs are welcome at CABCO, 6030 S. Mann, Tucson 85706 (near Kolb and Valencia) – Handi-Dogs will be onsite cooking hot dogs and selling other snacks and beverages, with all proceeds to benefit Handi-Dogs. Plus and a dollar for dollar match of all net sales will be made by CABCO!

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Wednesday, March 20 – 6 to 8 pm
No-Kill Pima County
Community meeting happens at Windmill Suites, 4250 N. Campbell Ave. Meet with like-minded concerned animal lovers who want to change the status quo of killing perfectly healthy pets at our county pound. Other cities and regions are working toward that goal; why not Pima County? Please follow No-Kill Pima County on Facebook. See you there.

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Saturday, March 23, 11:30 am to 7 pm
Humane Society Southern Arizona
Gnome Fest
Combine your love of companion animals with your affinity for garden gnomes at Gnome Fest 2013! The HSSA is teaming up with Metro Gnome Music on this pup-friendly party, which will feature live music, tasty food, kids’ activities, costume contests and a World Record attempt for the largest number of garden gnomes gathered in a single spot! To help break the record, Metro Gnome music is selling gnome hats for $5, with $2 from each sale going to the HSSA! To learn more, visit the website.  Location: 4044 E. Speedway Blvd.

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Saturday, March 30 – 11:30 am to 3:30 pm
Equine Voices Rescue & Sanctuary
A Very Special Horse Event (not just for horse people)
Meet a miniature horse, enjoy live music by Amber Norgaard Band, horse demonstrations & stories, food, silent auction, live dessert auction, raffles, special guests, and more at Brandi Fenton Memorial Park, 3482 East River Road. Cost: $5/pp includes raffle ticket (sorry no pets); more details here.

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Tuesday, April 2 – 5 to 9 pm
Handi-Dogs
La Cocina Restaurant
Celebrate the 40th Anniversary/Spring Celebration at La Cocina Restaurant, 201 N. Court Ave in Old Town Artisans. Bring your well mannered, leashed dog for a fun dinner out on the gorgeous La Cocina patio with other dog loving people. Order from La Cocina’s food/bar menu and a percentage of all sales from the evening will be donated to Handi-Dogs. As a special treat, all dogs will receive a complimentary “doggie cocktail.”

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Sunday, April 7 – 4 to 6 pm

Southern Arizona Greyhound Adoption
Greyt Vines Fundraiser at CataVinos Wine Shoppe – Sample 6 animal-label-wines, nibbles & snacks while hobnobbing with other wine lovers. Raffle with great prizes. Click here for more details. Prepaid online ticket sales ($20) include 2 free raffle tickets ($5 value). CataVinos is located at 3063 N. Alvernon Way (1 block south of Ft. Lowell); must be 21 (sorry no pets).

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Saturday, April 13 – 6 pm
TROT (Therapeutic Riding of Tucson)
13th Annual Hearts & Horses Gala at Skyline Country Club, individual tickets are $175 ($100 of which is tax-deductible) and can be purchased by calling the TROT office at 749-2360. … This elegant, black-tie evening features a Champagne welcome, martini bar, live & silent auctions, dinner, and dancing.

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If you are having a fund-raising activity, please email Tucson.tails@yahoo.com with the details.

I’m not a prickly pear

This sounds like a fun fundraising event for the Humane Society of Southern Arizona. Thanks to the generosity of the sponsors in helping the local animal community.

from the press release

The Humane Society of Southern Arizona hosts its annual Paws in the Plaza event from 11 a.m. to 3 p.m. Saturday, Jan. 19, at Casas Adobes Plaza at Oracle and Ina roads.

The HSSA’s Waggin’ Train RV will be filled with adorable adoptables ready for their forever homes and stocked up with lots of fun and colorful merchandise for your companion friends.

Plaza restaurants will share their wares with both human and canine guests. Tucson Musical Canine Freestyle Club dancers will get their grooves on and local singer-songwriter Amber Norgaard will fill the plaza with live music and much more.

A prize-filled raffle includes a chance to win a two-day stay at the Tucson Adventure Dog Ranch and a $1,000 shopping spree for the Casas Adobes Plaza. Tickets for the raffle are just $10 each! All proceeds from raffle directly benefit the HSSA’s shelter animals. Tickets can also be purchased online.      (Blogger: $1,000 shopping spree – What generosity!)

Stop by Casas Adobes Plaza for a fun-filled day of food, great music and best of all, the opportunity to support our community’s homeless pets!

(Photo: Lanakai – #744234 – 8 Weeks Old – Shar Pei Mix – Female

From endangered stray in need to a lucky girl indeed! When a rural mailman was driving through a vast stretch of empty desert, they just so happened to spot a squirming puppy trapped in a cactus patch on the side of the desolate road. Once safely plucked out of the mess and delivered to the Humane Society of Southern Arizona, Lanakai had loads of people hard at work to remove hundreds of cactus spines. She was covered from head to toe!  Although she was uncomfortable, hungry and very thirsty, Lanakai is now feeling fantastic and owes her life to the kindness and keen eyes of a guardian angel delivering the mail. Now she needs one more friend to complete her happily ever after story. Could you show Lanakai the comforts of being a pampered companion?)

Gift wrapping at Bookmans Tucson/Grant

EVENTS – Dec. 17
Puppy Mills
Protest! Meet like-minded advocates on the NE corner of Wetmore/Oracle to protest the Tucson Mall pet store Animal Kingdom which gets its puppies for sale from Missouri’s biggest puppy mill. Wear comfortable shoes from 10 to 11:30 a.m. They have plenty of signage or bring your own; the public is receptive and gets it. Tucson Tails will be there. This is the last protest this year.

Santa Claus
Petsmart and the various charities that hold meets-and-greets there team up for photos with Santa. The cost is $10 and the charity gets half or $5. You receive one 4×6 digital photograph in a holiday frame. Arizona Greyhound Rescue hosts a Santa photo session on Dec. 17 at the following location — –Northwest – Petsmart – 3850 W. River Road @ Orange Grove (new store) from 11 a.m. to 5 p.m.

Gift Wrapping
Rescue a Golden of Arizona benefits from gift wrapping in Tucson at Bookmans. The dogs parade around the store wearing their donation vests. Take all your gifts to be wrapped at – Sat. 12/17 at 1930 E. Grant Road from 10 am to 2 pm

SHOP
Shop local for pets and pet owners. Here’s a previous blog post with lots of gift ideas.

More ideas include PAWSH, the Humane Society’s pet & merchandise store in Plaza La Encantada (above Crate & Barrel). Also HSSA has a thrift store where you can hunt down treasures located at 5311 E. Speedway.

If you want to help the horses, consider looking at this page and you can shop and buy while helping the beautiful horses of Equine Voices Rescue & Sanctuary located right here in Amado.

SAFETY
Lastly, safety tips to protect your cats and dogs during the holiday: So many things can go wrong from pets escaping open doors to eating poisonous things like poinsettias and people’s food that make dogs sick. Check out these safety tips on the WillMyDogHateMe blog.

(Photo is courtesy of Rescue a Golden of Arizona)