Riverside Animal Shelter Grand Opening/Adopt-a-Thon!

You are invited to attend the Grand Opening event on Saturday, May 8, 2010 from 10:00 a.m. to 3:00 p.m.  With more than 67,000 square feet of structures and kennels on a 12-acre site, the Western Riverside County/City Animal Shelter is now one of the biggest in Southern California.

All dogs that are adopted that day will receive a complimentary grooming before they go home, thanks for Four Paws Inn of Banning.  Everyone will be looking snazzy!  Pass this information on to your family and friends.  Most importantly, there are more than 700 animals ready for adoption into lifelong, loving homes! 

There will be a trolley (from 10 am to 2 pm) to transport people between the Wiener Fest at Fairmount Park and the Western Riverside Animal Shelter Grand Opening at 6851 Van Buren Blvd, Riverside 92503. 

There will also be live entertainment, free BBQ, on-site pet adoptions, face painting and bouncers for the kids, live music, free vendors galore, and Paul Mitchell haircuts by his certified stylists for only $15.00 each (haircuts for people, not the dogs).

Special appearances by:

Kermit Alexander, former NFL 49er
Darrell Thomas, former L.A. Dodger
Armando Muniz, former Professional Boxer

For more information on the Animal Shelter grand opening, call 951-955-0578.  For more information on the Wiener Fest, call 951-233-2413.

An Important Addition to Our Website

We have included a LOST AND FOUND page under the COMMUNITY tab on our website.  We will continue to remind people in our newsletter (The Chit Chat) that we will post any lost or found item so a happy reunion can be arranged with the proper owner, whether the item be a pet, a baseball glove, a bicycle, or a wallet!

Our most recent FOUND item was a Beagle dog.  Click here to see if you recognize him.  This is, unfortunately, one more cute and cuddly reason why it is so important to have an electronic ID microchip inserted into your pet(s).  The cost is about $15 per pet at most animal shelters or vet offices – a small fee in the scope of things.  You will also buy your pet time at the animal shelter if he/she is picked up — usually a pet with a microchip is held for a few days longer than the other animals.

So please contact us via phone (951-205-4429) or email (aprilglatzel@remax.net) should you need to post a LOST or FOUND item.  We look forward to helping out in any way that we can!

–Tara and April