Home for the HOWLidays
What are you doing on Christmas Day this year?

Join Yvonne, left, our talented and passionate volunteer who is coordinating this awesome event! She can help YOU create this unique event in your state, too! Start here, whether in Washington State or places beyond! There are animals in need everywhere who need YOUR help!

OUT-OF-STATE INCENTIVE: if you distribute at least 12 dog/cat houses in December, we'll reward the team leader with a famous PasadoRescue t-shirt!)

Imagine getting up early on Christmas Day (forget those football games, this is a MUCH better way to spend your day!)

Grab some hot cider...
And get a few of your best animal-loving friends together...

...load up your SUV's and vans with dog houses...

...beds, food and flea treatment...

and head out to find dogs and cats who suffer in the cold.

You meet their owners, make friends with them, offer their pet a house, a bed, toys, and some food - and flea treatment, bringing needed relief from these parasites.

That's Yvonne, left, who'll help you bring comfort to so many animals who need you, your time, your passion! What better way to spend this holiday!?

Here's a "tease" of what happened last Christmas Day"...and to get you inspired to help this year!

"We hit pay dirt," one volunteer said. The local police of a tiny mountain town directed the group to an area of shanties that grew out of the banks of a rapidly-flowing river. "Be careful. Don't send just women down there. There are a lot of meth labs," the police officer told our Team Leader. So together, as a group, they traveled back roads, all unmarked dirt lanes, until they were under a thick, wet cedar forest, on the banks of the river.

It was nothing like the police had told them. No one felt threatened. And all of the pet owners were genuinely moved by what volunteers had come to do - to help their beloved. pets.

One dog, particular, stole their hearts.

Even though we gave Mama Dog new everything - toys, treats, food - her best gift will be the spay that Pasado's Safe Haven will provide for free after New Year's. This litter, would be her last.

Left, Debbie W. and her husband Rick and Claire A. and her husband were two of many couple who used Christmas Day to help needy animals. How can we thank people like them? No words can express what heart these people have.

Making friends with people who have little to give their pets enables us to come back and provide pet sterilization (like we will for this litter, as well). And it also provides us insight into how to help pets of the needy.

Although The Spay Station, our big rig mobile pet sterilization, comes to a community near to where we found Mama Dog and her litter, we learned something new from Mama's guardian, and her neighbors. All of them asked if we could provide muzzles, in addition to the houses, beds, and food. Why? We asked. Actually thinking the worst. It was because they'd all wanted to bring their animals to be spayed and neutered on-board The Spay Station, but because they didn't have transportation, they relied on bus service. And the community bus system will allow dogs on-board only if muzzled. Had we only known.

Is this my NEW WARM HOUSE?!?!?!

One woman e-mailed Pasado's Safe Haven this week and commented that it was hardly uplifting to learn of these animals, living in such sad conditions, only to leave them there. In many ways, we couldn't agree more with her. But the fact remains, hundreds of thousands, if not millions of animals live in less-than-ideal conditions in the U.S. And despite the fact that they're not housed or cared for as we would like them to be, we cannot look away and do nothing.

We thank every person who took their holiday to improve the lives of so many dogs and cats. To Oasis Facilities Management for loaning us the trucks to deliver everything.

After last Christmas Day, dogs and cats were warm, well fed, had their first toy to lay beside - and will not feel the bites of parasites. And those who needed further veterinary care or sterilization, got it.

Now, we need YOUR help for THIS year!
Are you 'up' for a feel-good Christmas Day of your life?!

E-mail Yvonne and help her make this season truly a good one for so many animals who need you!

Before Christmas:

• Set up collection bins in stores, churches, or other venues to collect needed items.
• Monitor collection sites; collect goods when full and store merchandise temporarily until
• Helping organize and categorize collected goods before day of delivery
• Find those areas that are in need most. This takes time. Ask police, animal control, social services offices - people want to help!
  Organize who has a van or truck to help deliver on Christmas Day
• Load the goods into the trucks a few days before Christmas
• Create maps and pre-plan exactly where each team will go

Download "How to Get Started" if out-of-state

Christmas Day

Meet your team and let the goodness begin! (Our day starts at 9AM and ends about 2pm.)

Can't help on Christmas Day? Then make a donation here, we'll buy what we need! Or, purchase a Costco Gift Card - we get the best prices on everything there. Mail to:

Pasado's Safe Haven
P.O. Box 171
Sultan, WA 98294
Attn: Home for the HOWLidays

Read a great story in The Seattle Times about this awesome day here!

Download "How to Get Started" if out-of-state

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