We hope you are surviving the rains, or the sun, or whichever is currently bombarding you.

We’re having a crazy summer here at DPs, but first, some thank yous:

Linda Freeman, Lizzie’s mom, helped us pay off a huge chunk of our medical expenses. THANK YOU!

Also, Chris Begress made a very generous donation to us earlier this summer. THANK YOU!

Tiki Pet Products sent us a lot of probiotics, skin and coat conditioner, and other great supplements. Thanks, Tiki!

Kitties

We just had a young calico kitten rescued from a Fort Collins by a good Samaritan. Sadly, a very ill homeless man had tried to drown her! We have medical care arranged for her, and are making room where no one else was able. She is about 6 months old, very sweet, and very grateful for her rescue!

Vaccine Clinic

Our next clinic will be this weekend, July 11 at the Loveland JAX from 2-4 pm.

Thank you to the Freeman family for their continued support!!!

Instead, thanks to an innovative friend of Duncan’s Place, we have come up with an alternative plan to raise funds, put smiles on your faces, and keep our fundraising efforts low key and manageable. So, what is the plan, you ask?

Ryan Peters is a friend of Duncan’s Place and she is also an Avon Representative. Now how does this help? Well, Avon has a very lucrative fundraising program that requires minimal time commitment, large financial rewards, and puts a smile on your face and a product in your hand!

Duncan’s Place has the opportunity to earn 40% of every ’sale’ using the attached flier at the end of this e-mail. We have chosen the Skin So Soft Bug Guard flier for our first fundraiser and we believe that this is the perfect time of year for it!

Skin So Soft Bug Guard is amazing! There are multiple types; Disappearing Color for the kids, Gentle Breeze for the adults, Expedition for you active folks, all with Sunscreen and Bug Repellent, and straight Bug Spray with Picaridin (the deet level of protection without the deet!).

Although not endorsed by Avon, horse owners have been known to google about their successes in using Bug Guard Spray with Picaridin to repel ticks, mites, midges, and mosquito. These formulas are long wearing and safe for persons of ALL ages; you should be protected all summer long!

On the Duncan’s Place Bug Guard Flier, you can see that there is a special deal for Duncan’s Place customers. We can order 2 for $12 (and NO TAX) on all Skin So Soft Bug Sprays/Sunscreen products and Duncan’s Place will earn 40% per order!

That means if we ’sell’ $1500 worth, we earn $600; this is an awesome deal and there is no minimum or maximum. We are super excited to get the word out about this fundraiser and we hope you’ll help, too! Our fundraising goal is: $6000. This means we take home $2,400 for the kitties!!

Please consider e-mailing the flier to your friends and family or printing it off and taking it to your work, networking meeting, kid’s soccer game, school, etc… The fundraiser runs from July 1 – July 31 and all orders and payments are due to Cathy Campbell by July 31, 2010! Please make out your check(s) to Duncan’s Place and if you’d like to pay by credit card, please plan to give your credit card information to Cathy as soon as possible.

We are also offering an incentive to those who help Duncan’s Place reach our fundraising goal: we have massages, products, and tons of goodies (and kitties…kidding!)!! Just contact Cathy to get more details.

So, instead of begging for handouts, we are putting much needed and usable products into your hands and still reaping the rewards! Yay for us! If you have any questions, please contact Cathy Campbell at duncansplace at yahoo dotcom or Ryan Peters at msryansavon at gmail dotcom.

Thanks for your help; you make the difference in the lives of so many furry felines!

We have another vaccine clinic coming up July 11 from 2-4 at JAX in Loveland, please let me know if you can help!!!

We will also be at the Bluegrass and Paws event in Old Town Fort Collins, 7/31 from noon to 8:30, a fun event and if you can help please do.

The last of the summer events is Pets and Vets, 8/21 at the Loveland dog park, again we need help!

We are also getting more Merrick canned cat food, thank you Noelle!! So far we have promised a pallet to Divine Feline in Denver, a group of shelters over in Delta, CO, Friends of Ferals, Senior Citizens here in Loveland, and Fort Collins Cat Rescue. So we can do a whole lot of good with this donation and keep our kitties in the life style they are accustomed too.

We are now close to our 100th adoption, we have rescued 116 animals and adopted 90 out successfully!

Drinkwell donated Platinum fountains to us, so that almost home has a Drinkwell for their fosters.

Pet Tropics is donating multivitamins and probiotics.

Thank you to Susan Mallonee of Breeders Choice for donating samples of Avoderm and larger bags of kibble for our kitties!!!

We are waiting for our cat enclosure supplies form Home Depot, so paws crossed that will happen soon.

So, a busy summer so far, and only more good things to come our way!!

Thank you for all you all do to help Duncan’s Place!!!!

Thank you also to Brandi for taking over medical operations, vaccine clinics, etc… Brandi has helped us all along with vaccine clinics and is also a vet tech, good friend, and good people.

There will be a new shelter challenge starting soon on the Animal Rescue Site, so please vote for us every day, who knows maybe we will win some money that way!

The Linnea Dick Memorial Pet Walk and Adopt-a-thon is coming up on June 5th and we need help with this great event. They will need help in running the walk so please think about that as well and tell people to come, it is a worthy cause and a lot of fun for the whole family!

The NOCO LOCO Cat Show is June 19. It is an all day event and we could use any and all help to make this another great event.

Thank you all for helping Duncan’s Place be such a great little rescue and resource center, so we can help keep pet with their families!

Jax Outdoor Gear
Ranch & Home
950 E. Eisenhower
Loveland, Colorado 80537

These clinics are made possible by Skip Freeman and his family, in honor of Skip’s daughter Lizzie.

We were invited to participate at Colorado State University’s annual Cat Care Conference. Thank you Dr. Lappin and CSU Student Chapter of the American Association of Feline Practitioners!!!

Thank you to Rose and Don Carrol for donating a sleeve of FVRCP vaccines. Rose is also a wonderful hair stylist and I highly recommend that everyone should go to her. She has done a wonderful job with me and hiding the gray hairs.

Judy Prins not only started our year off right by donating $500, but she also came out to help unload the second shipment of Merrick canned food, what a trooper and friend to both the kitties and I!!

Kenny and Brittany Knowles for helping in remodeling the house, since it looks like we will be home based for a bit longer, so might as well make it nice for both the human and the kitties, thank you.

Cat Kuhlman, the White family, Shange, for all your help in the laminate flooring project, man alive it was a lot of hard work, thank you and I owe you all BIG Time!!!

KONG Pet products donated a whooping amount of cardboard cat scratchers and toys for our kitties. They make wonderful dog toys as well!!! The cats were trying to steal toys as soon as I opened the box.

Yeowee Catnip toys gave us a huge box of their toys and many a pudkin are very happy while they await their forever homes!!

Avoderm pet foods has been very kind in donating cases of samples of their dry kibble for cats and kittens as well as a few bags of their foods and cans. Thank you Susan!!

D.O.G.S. (at Centerra) Christina, Felix, the whole family are wonderful not only to us both other groups, so please consider shopping with them, if they don’t have it they will get it for you.

Lumber Liquidators donated laminate flooring to Duncan’s, since the kitties need a better, cleaner household to live in, until forever homes are found, so thank you. The human loves not having to steam clean carpets any more, and Princess Buttercup and my Ainsley’s various allergies and asthma have decreased greatly!!

Idexx laboratories donated a box of FIV/FeLV/HW tests to us and also enrolled us on their shelter discount program, the box of tests usually costs us $500, so this was a major help in our medical care of our cats and kittens, since we test everyone!!!

If you did not hear, Merrick gave us another whooping 9 pallets of canned food!!! We distributed it to groups like Friends of Ferals, Pure Heat Rescue, Denkai, seniors in need, families that needed help and of course our kitties!! There are a lot of happy felines running around in NOCO and the Western Slope because of Merrick, THANK YOU!! We sent 2 pallets to a small group on the Western Slope and they are distributing to other small groups that don’t have too much help. So please think about feeding your pets this wonderful, high quality food, they make dog food as well.

Hagen pet products for the Cat it Fountains and pretty cool pink pet carriers, thank you!!

Domino’s Pizza on Eagle Dr. here in Loveland for donating pizza to feed the hungry workers with the laminate flooring.

Arte Pizza, yummy, and thank you!!

King Soopers on Eagle Dr. for donating a gift card to buy beverages, treats for the flooring project.

Drs. Foster and Smith for a $25 gift certificate.

Flower essences from http://www.FlowerEssencesForAnimals.com

David Baehr for donating a microscope!! Wahoo we can do a lot of our own lab work, he donated a state of the art centrifuge to us a year ago and some really nice cages that we donated a few to Friends of Ferals!!

We have a lot of events coming up and can use your help with: the vaccine clinic next weekend at Jax here in Loveland, Paws on the Promenade (May), The Linnea Walk(June), NOCO LOCO Cat Show (June), our July vaccine clinic at JAX, and the Vets and Pets events this summer (Aug.)… so far!!! So please call or e-mail so we can have the much needed help in participating in these fun community events. We are also thinking about doing a barbecue some time in the summer to thank you all and of course raise money.

Right now it looks like Toons is the last original Duncan’s Place kitty that has not found her home yet, so let’s put out positive thoughts for her to be adopted, she is a cat’s cat and is pretty darn funny!!

So, I think that is all for now, but you never know with me and the wonderful luck and support we have gotten from so many!!

He caught the eye of the plumber who came to unclog the toilet here at DPs.

It’s a win for everyone… Cathy can flush again and Mr. Whiskers has a home. Hooray!

We are so fortunate to have so many wonderful volunteers and donors! Here are just a few of the many we need to thank…

We hope our readers will help support these cat-friendly businesses:

Merrick Pet Foods for yet another huge food donation, with a whopping retail value of $140,000! WHOA! THANK YOU!

Lumber Liquidators for new flooring, much healthier for the kitties than carpet

Home Depot for construction supplies to build an outdoor cat run, to keep our kitties happy and safe

IDEXX Laboratories for heartworm and FIV/FeLV tests to make sure our kitties are healthy

Avoderm/Breeder’s Choice for food donations to keep our kitties healthy and well-fed

Thank you all so much!

Dr. Matt Jones of Loveland Veterinary Clinic will be donating his time to the event, and we can always use help from volunteers! Last month’s clinic was a doozy!

The family of Lizzie Freeman has made it possible for Duncan’s Place to offer this service in her memory. We thank them so much for their generous work.

We will be offering a limited number of vaccines, so it is a first come, first served basis. Please have your pets properly restrained, dogs on leashes and cats in carriers. Also, if your pet had a previous allergic reaction or you are afraid of allergic reaction please contact your veterinarian before getting you pet vaccinated.

Vaccines offered:

Cats
FVRCP (Rhinotracheitis/Calicivirus/Panleukopenia)
Rabies
FeLeuk

Dogs
DA2PP (Distemper, Adenovirus, Parainfluenza, Parvovirus)
Rabies
Bordetella (Kennel Cough)

No hidden fees or disposable fees, quick exam also comes with vaccines!!!

We will also be offering nail trims and microchipping for both cats and dogs.