Street Appeal volunteers needed!
Mary Potter Hospice is a local charity and your support helps to ensure that our palliative care services remain free-of-charge for patients and their whānau in our local communities. Help collect for Mary Potter Hospice on Thursday 16 and Saturday 18 May 2024 and make a bucketload of difference for your community!
You can volunteer from one hour through to both days in an area that is convenient to you. We will provide you with guidelines and collection equipment. Collectors need to be 14 years or older, or be accompanied by an adult.
⚠️ 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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61.5% Summer
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36.8% Winter
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1.6% Other - I'll share below
Looking for a Baby Gate to fit stairs
Gate to fit stairs and importantly does not need any / or many screws into the wall to hold it in place.
We can buy or borrow this item ?
As it's only temporary while our young golden labrador is staying at a friends house over the Christmas period. 27 Dec to 3 Jan.
We needing a baby gate to fit at the bottom of the stairs to stop him from going up as the stairs are too steep to come down again !
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