Look out! She's got a Furball!

Hello family and friends!

We missed last weeks update, and we apologize! There has been a lot going on here, and we're trying to get caught back up.

This weekend was Furball, HELP's largest fundraiser of the year. In preparation, I got to do an interview with Fox 59 out of Indianapolis, which was very exciting. You can see that here:

http://www.fox59.com/news/wxin-richmond-men-pose-nude-to-help-110410,0,3396462.story

Turns out that none of the board members are particularly excited to go in front of a crowd or camera, so armed with my high-school drama experience, in I went. The interview was a lot of fun, you can see some of the amazing people and animals that I get to work with every day. Nate is working, as we speak, to make the calendars available online, and you can order one at www.helptheanimalsinc.com! Remember, the nude men calendar makes a great gift for all of your women friends, and a great gag gift to all of your other friends!

I also gave the "State of the Union" speech at Furball, which Nate wrote for me. We were joking on the way over that I couldn't write a speech and he couldn't give one, so it was good that we paired up together. It seems to have gone off well, so that's exciting.

Nate and I are part of a training group that meets on Thursday nights to work with the shelter dogs. We started with obedience, and once the dogs (and us) mastered/got bored with that, we moved on to agility. Our local dog park has two tunnels and one tiny jump, which was enough to get started, but now we need more. We have paired up with local Eagle Scout hopeful Cameron DeLucio who will build us the equipment that we need, but we need to raise the money first. Please visit us at:

http://members.petfinder.com/~IN135/AgilityDrive.html

If you could please send this on to anyone that you think might donate (its tax deductible!), we would really appreciate it. If we don't get this started before the snow comes, we likely won't be able to until next spring. Any help that you could dig up would be wonderful.

So that's my shelter update. Thanks everyone!
-Justine (and silent Nate)