Volunteers Needed - Renal Unit Working Bee
🌱 Calling all gardeners! 🌱
With the new renal department at Taranaki Base Hospital nearing completion, it is time to get started on planting the gardens! Join us for a working bee to help create a garden the community can be proud of!
We are looking for people who are willing to get stuck in and want to help create a garden we can all be proud of. The working bee will be 12 and 13 November and will have four sessions:
Session 1: 12 November 8.30am – 12.30pm
Session 2: 12 November 1.00pm– 5.00pm
Session 3: 13 November 8.30am – 12.30pm
Session 4: 13 November 1.00pm– 5.00pm
If you or your family would be interested in helping, visit thf.org.nz... and register your interest.
We're talking new year resolutions...
Tidying the house before going to bed each night, meditating upon waking or taking the stairs at work.
What’s something quick, or easy, that you started doing that made a major positive change in your life?
⚠️ 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 ❤️