On Dasher, on Prancer, on Trixie and Pixie!

Wait, that's not right, but that's what the new Dachshund roll-call sounded like this month. Dasher and Prancer are two chiweenie pups that were abandoned at the local low-cost clinic, Trixie's from Purcell (brought to us from people that found her a week ago, shortly before a trip to the animal shelter), and Pixie hails from the OKC shelter stray room, complete with kennel cough! HO HO HO! *hack*snort*

Luckily adoptions have been up this month! Since we've been set up at Petsmart every weekend in December, we're down to 27 dogs in the program (and only 4 at my house plus the 2 puppies who've been adopted but I'm babysitting until christmas).

Last weekend at Petsmart, and probably one of the last good adoption weekends for about a month - wish us luck!

Female to Male Volunteer Ratio

I've often wondered why the ratio of male-to-female volunteers in animal rescue is so low. Is this common in other volunteer opportunities? Are women more philanthropic than men, or are women just more open animal loves?

Fortunately the lack of men in an organization is often not a problem, EXCEPT during Santa Photos! Petsmart refuses to let a woman dress as Santa (though I haven't tried stuffing a Santa belly and wearing the beard). So often the women trying to raise money via Petsmart Santa Photos are forced to pull in any and every favor owed to them by coercing a male in their life to dress up as the jolly fat man. Many times once they do it once, we have to find someone else for next year. Hmph.