It was PetSmart's National Adoption Weekend last weekend, and our adoption event on Saturday, 9/16, at the PetSmart at 63 Rice Lake Square in Wheaton was quite a success!

21 kittens (Anemone, Angela, Becky, Bernadette, Belinda, Benito, Finley, Rumaki, Ruana, Ruthie, Vernon, Aeon, Plexi, Plink, Opal, Tipper, Tugger, Larissa, Lando, Poo-Bah, Baby Ruth) and our adult ambassador of good will (BeeJay) were in attendance. Everyone did a great job of showing our guests their sweet personalities!

Another application was also received which is under review. Many other visitors stopped by as well and cards/information were distributed.

Adoptions have been high during July and August relative to prior years. I am happy to report that we will have exceeded 1100 adoptions by the time of our 10K/1K celebration in October - in fact we just exceeded it this week!

15 kittens and cats were adopted from their foster home since our last adoption event (Pop, Boom, Woof, Babushka, Cicero, Petar, Tinker, Nilla, Ruba, Ruben, Nina, Bette, Orson, Otis, Meow).

PetSmart also graciously gave us a large food donation and an extraordinarily generous donor gave us a large monetary donation during the event. We greatly appreciate it! It will helps us feed and care for the many, many kittens we have.

Many thanks to the volunteers and fosters who made the event a success (Sara, Candy, Lauren, Debbie, Jill, Diane, Marjorie, Connie, Sarah, Jillian, Karen, Mary, Kaitlyn)! PetSmart appreciates that we bring in plenty of volunteers to set up and clean up on our own, appropriately monitor our cats & kittens, and interact with our guests. I believe they also appreciate all of the positive energy everyone brings to the event - thank you!

Thanks also for all of the "behind the scenes" activities - Candy - excellent photography & videography! Connie & Ted - great marketing and real time coverage on Facebook and our web site! Debbie & Mike - current updates to our Adoptable Cats & Kittens board & binder! Lauren - cute & creative cage cards! Sara - thanks much for your help with adoption counseling and data entry into PetSmart's iPad. Debbie - thanks much for your help transporting cats and handling all of the laundry.

Once again - another great team effort!!!

No adoption events next weekend, although we will be at Barkapolooza on Sunday, 9/24, at the Lisle Community Park located at 1825 Short St. in Lisle, event starting at 10am. Then there will be two action packed adoption weekends in a row:

Thanks,

Sue