animal rescue

This is somewhat off the main course of this blog, but most of you are probably aware that I'm the Director of a local animal rescue called Gateway's Needy Animals.  One of the things that we do to raise money is hold a 50/50 drawing/raffle.  I was discussion fund raising with someone who runs another shelter and she'd never heard of these before.

So I thought that there's a good chance that other charitable organizations haven't heard of these either.

A 50/50 drawing is basically a raffle wherein you sell tickets at a set price (we're doing one now at $1/ticket).  The raffle/drawing is held on a specific day–usually an event associated with the charity or the community it serves; for us that's the annual town parade called Bluffs Days.

At the time of the drawing, the total take (number of tickets sold x $/ticket) is tallied and a public drawing is held where a random ticket is pulled from a bin, as in any raffle.  This is where the 50/50 comes in.

The winner of the drawing gets half (50%) of the total take and the charity keeps the other half.

Animal Health, Cruelty and Welfare 'SECRETS' Exposed! (Warning: This blog entry may make you feel the blogger is a lunatic! lol No matter, I hope you enjoy this blog entry!)

One of the reasons why I blog about this is because I was touched. I was touched by Oprah's kindness to allow TV broadcasts....exposing the way dogs have been poorly treated in some dog breeding centres. This was not long after her companion of 13 years passed away. There may be many more things not addressed in this blog entry but I will attempt to voice what concerns animal lovers - health, fitness and welfare of animals all over the world.

Less than 24 hours from the posting of this blog entry, some pigs will be killed after an “PANDEMIC VACCINE TRAINING” exercise ends on Monday April 26th 2009. The Vaccine Training was scheduled to occur in Texas between 24th (Saturday) till April 26th, and involves Texas National Guard Troops involving “drive-thru vaccination clinics”. Are these pigs used as a desperate find to the anti-Swine Flu vaccines?? Full news
 

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