No More Homeless Pets
Conference
April, 2004
Comments from grassroots groups and rescuers
"One of my favorite parts of the conference was the workshop on placing pets," said Cookie Richardson, visiting from Camp Winnie and Pooh Rescue in Rio Linda, California. "It sounds like they're going to tell you to put bows on the animals or something, but it's much more. We were reminded that we're competing with backyard breeders, and we have to run it like a business."
The burnout seminar was popular with folks who have been rescuing their hearts out - like Shannon Crafton of Good Mews Animal Foundation in Atlanta, Georgia. She swears she's going to e-mail the stories she heard in the seminar to everyone she works with.
And for newer organizations like The Cat Depot in Sarasota, Florida, which has already saved the lives of more than 250 cats, seminars like the one hosted by Mike Arms of the Helen Woodward Animal Center were a big hit.
But many people were inspired, more than anything else, by the other guests. "I am on cloud nine," said Roberta Druif, a freelance volunteer from Indianapolis, Indiana. "It was the other guests. It was meeting these gentle people and seeing what we can create."
After the three-day conference, 82 of the participants chose to take the three-and-a-half-hour drive to Best Friends for a tour, party and picnic!
Thanks to people like these, there will absolutely come a day when there are no more homeless pets. If you missed the spring conference, be sure to keep your eye on the events page for announcements about this year's fall conference.
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