Getting ready for the holidays...

We are almost ready for the holidays at the Next Step Adoption Center! Located at 705 Milner Drive in Greensboro we have toys for cats, toys for dogs, and pet-related gifts for people! Proceeds from the our retail sales go to pay for medical care for the foster puppies and kittens rescued! Come see us!

Woody

Some of you have been following Woody, the little Brindle pup that was so emaciated, and the progress he has been making. Well, he is well and very much alive! He has gone from this....




to this.....






Woody is now a spoiled, active, happy puppy! Linda D. has had him since he entered ARFP and she did a fantastic job bringing him to where he is now. Randy P. is going to begin fostering him soon. In between he is at my (Sharon) house learning some manners. On the above night I failed.

ARFP Holiday Wish List

This year people are starting to ask early for our wish list. The economy has everyone worried so we are grateful that anyone at all is asking. We thank everyone for their continued support through the rough times that are ahead!

New Rescues

The book sale ended on a very high note! We raised over $5000 for ARFP and even had someone lined up to buy every book we had leftover at the end! SWEET! We cannot say THANK YOU enough to everyone that helped with the 2008 book sale! This money we raised is going to help so many homeless animals!

I'll introduce you to a few of those that have recently been rescued that will benefit from the book sale...

Maple is about 10 weeks old and is a Lab mix.



Nadia is Maples shorter sister :-) She is a chocolate Lab mix. Seriuosly, she is shorter!



Annie is a one year old Aussie/Terrier mix. She only weighs 20 lbs. so what you see is what you get!



Find out more about all of these girls plus others that are looking for forever homes on the ARFP website or at Petfinder.

Today is Friday and...

Nadia was Pet of the Week on News 2 this morning. Go here to see her bio and video. What a great little Lab mix pup! She and her sister can be seen soon on the ARFP site or Petfinder.

The book sale started yesterday and our loyal dealers showed up.



We had thousands of books for them to buy too!





At these prices we sold lots of books, and baked goods, in 3 hours!



Thanks to everyone for their baked goods! We'll be getting even more today so drop by! We're open from 5-8pm today and 8am-1pm tomorrow.

Oh My Goodness, Today is THE Day!

Books, Babies & Training

The book sale is already kicking our behinds! 10am until 8pm is just a long day no matter how old you are! Here are a few shots! Once baby Grady arrived it was hard not to snap pics. He helped mom put out the children's books!








We have been really slack in working our foster dogs to help them become better citizens so Sunday we starting correcting that! I must say that Woody did the best with Linus running a close second and Dexter right behind him. Here are shots of us teaching the babies to sit when we come to a stop.






Woody has gotten just a little full of himself so we practiced with his new Halti. This worked amazingly well for him and he soon learned that it wasn't so bad.



Here's Linus doing a great sit for Randy! He is such a good pup!



Here is Dexter sitting pretty for mommy!