Incorporation and Hamburg Burgerfest Animal Alley

As some of you may already know, the rescue's name has been changed along with the incorporation status. Here's why: When Rachel and Ray started the rescue, they hadn't heard of Life Long Tails operated out of Boome County in NY. As that rescue was already incorporated under the name, this rescue was told that the name would have to be changed. This was all done in a very amiable manner - there were no hard feelings.

After some thought and a lot of hard work, our rescue was granted incorporated status under the name of "Small Pets-Big Hearts, Inc." A new website will be created to go along with the new name, and everything under the old name will be removed or altered as per the agreement with the Boome County rescue. The rescue remains the same in every aspect aside from name. The mission, the treatment of animals, and the adoption/fostering/surrendering process will remain the same. So three cheers for incorporation!

In other news, this Saturday (July 17th) is Hamburg's Burgerfest, where SP-BH will be participating in Animal Alley. This activity is intended to showcase rescue groups, sell pet supplies, and have various awesome things like a dog wash and a micro-chip clinic. Animal Alley will run from noon to 5pm at Buffalo/Main in Hamburg. We will be there with info on the rescue, pamphlets, answers to questions, a place to donate, a place to sign up for fostering or adoptions, and a "plea" for the angora rabbits' spay/neuters.

We will have guests Tommy the guinea pig, Christopher the rabbit, and Doug the dwarf hamster (and his brothers). If you're free, stop on down! While Rachel won't be able to attend, Ray will be there (because he's awesome), and if you get there in the earlier portion, I'll be there, too.

Stay tuned for more news as it happens!

[Edit] I've just gotten word that Cleo and Milton the neutered rats have been adopted. Yay!

(I'd post pictures, but they've already been removed from petfinder and I didn't think to save them beforehand.)