A huge Thank You to the more than 50 ladies (and our man in "drag"!) who took part in the Cork Women's Mini Marathon on 27th September to raise funds for the animals. Pictured here are some of the group before the race started.
A special word of thanks to Interchem/Propac who kindly sponsored our polo shirts for this event.

Pictured here is one of our great supporters, Mr. John James, with his dog, Mr. Riley, helping at our recent street collection in Youghal on 22nd August. Mr. Riley was one of our early rescue stories who was adopted by John James in 2001.

OCTOBER 2009

Sun 4th Oct
World Animal Week
CORK ANIMAL CARE WEEK

To celebrate World Animal Week which runs from the 4th to the 10th October, Maxi Zoo pet shop will make a donation to local animal charities for every purchase made in their stores. Maxi Zoo have pet shops in Midleton and Ballincollig. This fantastic offer runs for the whole month of October so be sure to stop by one of their shops for your pets’ needs and support Cork ACS at the same time!

Sunday, 18th October.
Cork Cat Club is holding a cat show in Cobh - would you like to help with our stand there?

Saturday 31st Oct
Finger puppet sales in Dunnes Stores, Bishopscourt (Bandon Road roundabout)
volunteers needed!

NOVEMBER 2009

Wednesday, 4th
Finger puppet sales in Blackpool shopping centre.
Volunteers needed!

Saturday, 14th
We will be attending the official opening of a new veterinary practice
Volunteers welcome to help with our stand

Saturday, 21th
Midleton farmers' market - we will have a table selling our Christmas cards and calendars

Tuesday, 24th
Street collection in Cork city centre and in Wilton and Blackpool shopping centres.
Volunteers needed!

Friday, 27th & Sat 28th
Bag-packing in Dunnes Stores, Ballincollig. Volunteers needed!

Sat 28th & Sun 29th
We will have a table at the Carrigaline Christmas Fayre

DECEMBER 2009

Thursday, 3rd December
We will be selling our cute finger puppets in Douglas Court Shopping Centre. Volunteers needed!

CAROL SINGING – VARIOUS LOCATIONS

CHRISTMAS MERCHANDISE AND

CHRISTMAS CARDS

CHRISTMAS RAFFLE

CHRISTMAS CALENDAR

Anyone who would like to run an Independent Fundraising Event for the Cork Animal Care Society, is very welcome to contact info@animalcaresociety for help, advice, publicity materials, etc - we welcome your input to our fundraising. Have fun and help the animals too!

To get involved: email us at info@animalcaresociety
Or log into www.mycharity.ie/charity/animalcaresociety to create your own page!

Brave ? Yes, Yes, Yes.

Pictured here is ACS supporter Lourdes SantaMaria who braced the icy waters at Christmas time in a sponsored swim for the ACS. Single handed Lourdes raised 275 Euro for the ACS !

The ACS is most grateful to Lourdes for her dedication and effort in support of our work. It is people like Lourdes who live by our motto: Their Lives...Our passion. Lourdes took our credo and made it her own: Their Lives...My Passion. With supporters like her there is truly Hope for the Future. The photo shows Lourdes with Kiva. Kiva belongs to the Agger family in Cobh who came along to support Lourdes. Kiva is a SMART Dog and decided to stay dry and let Lourdes brave the freezing water!

Animal Welfare can be fun too

Yes, Animal Welfare can have its lighter moments too. Just have a look. These pics were taken at the Cork Ladies Mini Marathon and show some of our many volunteers giving their marvellous support tp the Society.

Our now trademark Polo shirt attracted its usual share of attention, mainly from the males of our species we hasten to add. The ACS wishes to express its sincere gratitude to all who participated, it is people like you who are our ambassadors and show to the world that real animal welfare is alive and well in Cork. THANK YOU ALL.

Highlights from our recent street collection - a big thank you to all who made IT such a success

MEET KATIE, A SUPERSTAR !

Pictured here are some of the many ACS volunteers, young and old, who helped at our bag packing session in Dunne's Stores Blackpool, last Saturday and Sunday. What a team of marvellous people they were. A special thank you goes to Katie O'Brien, who gave up her whole weekend ! to help her Aunt Sara to collect and pack those bags. Gordon Rodgers did the same and helped to beat the band. With kids like Katie & Gordon, there is real hope for the animals. Many of our helpers gave up a Saturday and/or Sunday to help us. Another team was active in Mallow town doing our street collection, some even doing an "Evening Echo" effort by collecting for the ACS between the traffic lanes in the main Mallow to Cork road ! The counting is still going on, but by all accounts it was a hugely successful weekend. To all of our super heroes we say: Thank you, it couldn't have been done without you, to Management, Staff and Customers of Dunne's in Blackpool we express our sincere gratitude. All of you gave it all. As we've said before. Dunne's? THE PLACE to shop.

Search The Web And Help The Animal Care Society At No Cost To You Or Us!

Did you know you can raise up to €6 a month for the ACS? It DOESN'T cost you or us a cent!

Well the ACS has teamed up with Click Now to provide an ACS websearch facility, which helps raise funds for us while providing search results for you. The web search facility works in the exact same way as any other search engine, the only difference is we receive a donation from Click Now based on the search activity of its supporters!

By making this simple switch you will help us help abused and abandoned animals. So go on tell your family and friends to make the switch too. Every search counts!

How YOU can Help us Help Them

The Animal Care Society would like to thank everyone who has supported our cause, however, our journey has just begun and we need your continued support to help us generate the funds to build an ACS sanctuary and improve animal welfare practices in Cork City, County and nationwide! The key to making this happening is a regular source of income. PLEASE help us in one of the following ways:

Fundraisers