Wednesday, October 26, 2005

Friends for Life Animal Sanctuary Seeks Help With Food Drive


(Gilbert, AZ) Friends for Life Animal Sanctuary has come upon challenging times providing food for their rescued cats and dogs. The registered nonprofit, volunteer-based, no-kill organization is soliciting food donations to help provide for the needs of the homeless cats, dogs, puppies and kittens that call the organization home.

Friends for Life Animal Sanctuary also seeks East Valley businesses, churches, and schools able to assist with the food drive, or that can provide a drop off location for the community to conveniently leave their food donations.

Premium foods such as Nutro, Science Diet, and Eukaneuba provide a good source of nutrition for animals recovering from lack of food during their time on the streets.

Other items on Friends for Life Animal Sanctuary’s wish list include kitty litter, puppy pens, puppy and kitten formula and cleaning supplies. An extended list of items needed can be found on their web site.

Those interested in helping should contact Friends for Life Animal Sanctuary at 480-497-8296 or visit them on-line at http://www.azfriends.org/. Their adoption center is located at 143 W. Vaughn Ave., in down town Gilbert open Tuesday and Friday 10-2, Wednesday and Thursday 3-7, and Saturday 10-5.

Monday, October 10, 2005

Friends for Life Animal Sanctuary Talks Trash


Did you know the average person in the U.S. generates four pounds of garbage each day or 1,460 pounds per year? Did you also know that every day about 70,000 kittens and puppies are born compared with about 10,000 humans born every day?

What do these statistics have in common? The numbers are WAY TOO HIGH! The good news though is that everyone can do something to decrease these numbers starting immediately!

Friends for Life Animal Sanctuary announces the start of an ongoing paper drive to encourage recycling in our community and raises money to aid homeless cats and dogs.

Everyone in our community can easily be a part of this recycling program spearheaded by Abitibi Recycling Corporation. Located at 143 W. Vaughn Avenue in down town Gilbert, the Abitibi Recycling bin outside of Friends for Life’s adoption center is available to collect clean and dry recycling products.

Acceptable recycling materials are:

Newspapers
Magazines
Shopping Catalogs
Office and School papers
Mail

On a regularly scheduled basis Abitibi-Consolicated Recycling will empty the Paper Retriever, and after collecting the minimum amount of paper per month, Friends for Life Animal Sanctuary will earn revenue from the contents of the Abitibi Paper Retriever.

Friends for Life Animal Sanctuary is a registered nonprofit, no-kill, volunteer based organization. Established in 1993, Friends for Life has placed more than 10,000 cats and dogs into loving homes. The organization promotes spay and neuter as the answer to animal overpopulation and offers a low-cost spay and neuter program to the public.

To contact Friends for Life Animal Sanctuary call 480-497-8296 or e-mail info@azfriends.org. Additional information can be found on their web site at www.azfriends.org.