Volunteer Spotlight:
Jessica Walker

All it took was one night of the HSGKC’s pet telethon to get local real estate agent, Jessica Walker, hooked on helping homeless animals! Jessica knew she didn’t have enough room to adopt any more animals since she already had four cats at home, but she still really wanted to help. After making her first donation and learning about the Sponsor-A-Pet Program, Jessica decided to spend some time with our shelter pets awaiting their adoption.

“What better way to share my love for animals but being around the ones that do not have happy forever homes yet,” Jessica said.

Jessica can often be found playing in our cat rooms or helping out with office work. She attends nearly every event the HSGKC puts on and truly enjoys the “unexplainable feeling of fulfillment and sense of purpose [that comes from] helping the ones that can’t help themselves.”

Jessica even helped organize the First Friday event at The Urban Living Center on Friday, June 5. It was a fun and interactive event for art lovers to meet our adoptable animals while enjoying complimentary food and drinks. Jessica is currently serving on the art sub-committee for Art Unleashed. She’s excited to be a part of this annual event that marries her love of animals with her love of art.

Come by the shelter and get to know Jessica. We love having her around, and because of all of her wonderful work at the Humane Society, we wanted to put her in the volunteer spotlight this week! Thanks for all of your time and effort towards helping the animals, Jessica!

We are in need of baby pools this week. These baby pools will be used at Dog-n-Jog so we need as many as possible. Any size pool would be greatly appreciated!

For a list of other items and services we need, please check out our Sit Up and Beg Wish List. All of these items go to helping our cause become more successful and our animals’ lives become more enjoyable.

Volunteers Silvia Gunter & Alex Stonebarger with Dustin at the Prairie Village Art Show

The month of May was very busy with several satellite adoption events. Thank you to all of the volunteers who made them possible. If you'd like to help with any upcoming satellites, check our satellite adoption page for dates and locations. Contact Jana if you'd like more information or to sign up for any of the events.

Make sure you sign up for Dog-n-Jog. Our 1 or 2 mile walk/run on The Country Club Plaza will be held Sunday, June 14 from 7am to 10:30 am. Register online for $25 until June 13 and $35 on June 14.

You can also create a personalized fund raising page and when you reach $50 or more in donations, you’ll receive one Dog-n-Jog entry and a special Humane Society umbrella. The top three pledge collectors have a chance to win two round-trip tickets on Air Tran Airways! Thanks to Banfield Pet Hospital and PetSmart, we have a wonderful opportunity to raise money and awareness for our cause. Get registered today!

The Humane Society is participating in a contest put on by Petfinder.com and The Animal Rescue Site. Because our shelter uses petfinder.com to display our animals, we are eligible for this contest and have the opportunity to win weekly $1,000 awards, or maybe even more! Currently, we are ranked 6th out of 129 shelters in Kansas and 145th out of 7,800 shelters in the nation.

All we need is for YOU to VOTE DAILY on our website: www.hsgkc.org and click on the box that says “VOTE!” You can vote once a day, every day. The key is to remember to VOTE FOR THE HUMANE SOCIETY (located in KS).

Tell your friends! The more votes we get the better our chances are.

We've Been Adopted!
Here are some of the dogs and cats who've been adopted since our last enewsletter:

Lobby & Ray & Sully (all THREE together!), Darla,

Earl, Ireland & Marley (together!), Heather,

Delbert, Logan, Leo, Kingston... and several more!