Heartbeats West Auckland Meeting Tomorrow at SturgesWest Community House
Heartbeats West Auckland next meeting is at SturgesWest Community House, tomorrow 6th October, at 1pm - 2pm.
Heartbeats is a community-based cardiac education and support group that meets on the first TUESDAY of each month at SturgesWest Community House, to:
- help each other and partners, with long term personal rehabilitation and cardiac health management
- provide better understanding of heart disease
- connect with a broad base of cardiac healthcare providers
Heartbeats meetings often have a guest speaker, usually a health professional such as: doctors, cardiologists, pharmacists, physiotherapists, dietitians, heart health counsellors etc
Tomorrow our GUEST SPEAKER is Joanna Seruga, Dietitian and North Heart Advocate for the NZ Heart Foundation.
COME ALONG, we are informal, friendly and there is no membership fee.
Join your local Heartbeats group, share your experience and learn from others on the same journey as you.
For more information: call Trent on 0220 606 199
⚠️ DOGS DIE IN HOT CARS. If you love them, don't leave them. ⚠️
It's a message we share time and time again, and this year, we're calling on you to help us spread that message further.
Did you know that calls to SPCA about dogs left inside hot cars made up a whopping 11% of all welfare calls last summer? This is a completely preventable issue, and one which is causing hundreds of dogs (often loved pets) to suffer.
Here are some quick facts to share with the dog owners in your life:
👉 The temperature inside a car can heat to over 50°C in less than 15 minutes.
👉 Parking in the shade and cracking windows does little to help on a warm day. Dogs rely on panting to keep cool, which they can't do in a hot car.
👉 This puts dogs at a high risk of heatstroke - a serious condition for dogs, with a mortality rate between 39%-50%.
👉 It is an offence under the Animal Welfare Act to leave a dog in a hot vehicle if they are showing signs of heat stress. You can be fined, and prosecuted.
SPCA has created downloadable resources to help you spread the message even further. Posters, a flyer, and a social media tile can be downloaded from our website here: www.spca.nz...
We encourage you to use these - and ask your local businesses to display the posters if they can. Flyers can be kept in your car and handed out as needed.
This is a community problem, and one we cannot solve alone. Help us to prevent more tragedies this summer by sharing this post.
On behalf of the animals - thank you ❤️
Poll: Would you rather: Christmas in summer forever or winter forever?
Just a bit of a fun poll to get you thinking.
If you had to live out your Christmas days, would you prefer it was a summer Christmas or a winter Christmas?
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62.3% Summer
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36.3% Winter
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1.4% Other - I'll share below
Best way to use leftovers?
I'm sure you've got some excess ham at home or cold roast potatoes.
What are some of your favourite ways to use leftover food from Christmas day? Share below.
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