McGruff the Crime Dog visited our booth at the All Species Pet Fete in Zephyrhills this past weekend. Looks like he’s up for the challenge, too!
The SPCA is partnering with the Lakeland Center to welcome ventriloquist/comedian Todd Oliver.
Todd Oliver and his Dogs Gone Wild comedy tour will hit the Lakeland Center on January 9 at 3 p.m. Tickets for this hilarious night of comedy are $20 and $35 for limited pit seats.
Call the Lakeland Center box office at 863/834-8111 or use ticketmaster.com to purchase your tickets. Mention the SPCA or use the “SPCA” code in the Promotions and Special Offers box to have $4 of your ticket donated to help the animals!
Have you ever met a talking dog…a REAL talking dog? Get your tickets now and watch comedian and ventriloquist Todd Oliver take the stage to meet three of them – Irving, Lucy and Elvis. Todd’s recent television appearances include the Late Show with David Letterman, The Late Late Show with Craig Ferguson, The Tonight Show with Jay Leno and the Today Show.
Name: Patches
Gender: Female
Age: 1 year
Species: Cat
Breed: Domestic Shorthair
Orphaned Since: July 29
Hi I’m Patches! I’m a lucky girl because a very nice family found me as a stray and even though they couldn’t afford to take care of me for long, they brought me into their home and shared their love (and their food!) with me. My temporary family said that I’m playful, that I love kids, and that I can be a loving lap-kitty! Won’t you come meet me today? My adoption fee is only $15 and even less at $5 if you’re over 60 years old.
Name: Crispex
Gender: Female
Age: 3 months
Species: Cat
Breed: Boxer Mix
Orphaned Since: July 6
Crispex is the last of a “cereal” named litter and we know she’ll find a home soon. She’s cute and very playful. She is a quick learner and already knows how to sit on command. Don’t let this gorgeous gal go another day without you. Adopt Cripex today!
Visit us at the SPCA
Adoption Center open Mon – Sat, 11 a.m. to 5 p.m.
5850 Brannen Rd S in Lakeland
Call 646-7722
www.lovemyspca.com
All pets are spayed/neutered, microchipped and vaccinations are up to date through our full-service medical center which is also open to the public.
Cannon Subaru, 5212 S. Florida Ave., Lakeland, will hold a rally Sept. 11-18 to benefit Alliance for Independence, 
Achievement Academy, Noah’s Ark of Central Florida and the Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals. The free event is open to anyone 18 or older, with a valid driver’s license and proof of insurance. The first 416 participants to complete the rally/poker run will qualify for a $25 donation to be made to their selected participating charity and will also be eligible to compete for best-poker-hand prize of a $500 donation to their selected charity and $500 in prizes from sponsors. Pick up copies of the rules from Cannon Subaru or sponsor locations: Beef O’Brady’s, 4810 S. Florida Ave; Fitniche, 7421 Town Center Drive; Natalie’s Sports Bar & Grill, 3120 S. Florida Ave.; Off The Wall Adventures, 2055 Shepherd Road, all in Lakeland. Call 646-5051.
Check out this week’s Pick of the Litter:
Our city golf course hosted a Steak Night for the SPCA last week. Every month, the course hosts a Steak Night but this is the first time that it has turned into a “benefit” of sorts. Advanced RSVPs were taken and the course promised 15% of every dinner to be donated to the SPCA.
Things started out a bit slow for this event – as many times is the case. One week, the RSVP total was 20. A couple of weeks later the total had jumped to 40, and then we were upon the week of the event. On Tuesday of that week, our RSVPs had breached the 100 mark and by the day of the event we had to stop taking names. 200 people had turned in their RSVPs!
A member of Board of Directors and a member of the Advisory Board helped to make this event a great success and their enthusiasm didn’t waiver on the day of the dinner. They came by the SPCA and picked up information for the tables, pet pictures for each table, retail items to sell and our 100K Challenge sign to gather petition signatures. We had no idea how well this event would do!
167 ate dinner with the SPCA that night and over $900 was raised through the dinners, retail sales and money gathered at the event for donations. We are now hoping to do this event quarterly!
Facebook fan Jerry Jerome decided to shoot us some photos of him and our Challenge sign along with his three adopted cats – Fozzie, Oscar and Rufus!
Jerry
Fozzie
Oscar
Rufus
We created a flyer and asked our fans and supporters to show their community support by taking a photo of themselves with the flyer or use their pets to show their support or both!
This is our first photo from Facebook fan, Joel:
