Christmas Day at the Orleans County Animal Shelter 2024
Schedule
Wed Dec 25 2024 at 11:00 am to 02:00 pm
UTC-05:00Location
Orleans County Animal Shelter 4125 Oak Orchard Rd, Albion, NY | Albion, NY
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❤️💚 Merry Christmas 💚❤️This is our 16th year hosting this open house and we would like to invite you to spend 10 minutes with our Homeless Pets at the Shelter on Christmas Day!! While they are all hoping and dreaming for a Home and Family for Christmas, there may be some pets still at the Shelter who want nothing more than a pet and hug for the Holiday, and of course a treat!
Thanks to our great community and supporters, we have had almost 150 people stop by in years past and we want an even bigger Christmas turn out this year for our Homeless Pets!! No one should be alone on Christmas. ❤️💚
So on Christmas Day, please take 10 minutes to drive to Our Shelter at the corner of Route 98 and 31A in Albion, NY from 11-2 to join us just to wish our Homeless Pets a Merry Christmas and to give them a big hug to let them know that they are loved.
We will have refreshments for you and we hope you can please stop by to make this day special for our homeless pets.
You may not be able to change the world on this day, but for 10 minutes, you will change the life of a homeless pet to let them know they are loved .
❤️💚❤️💚❤️💚❤️💚❤️💚❤️💚
A Shelter Dog's Christmas Poem
Tis the night before Christmas and all through the town,
every shelter is full - we are lost, but not found...
Our numbers are hung on our kennels so bare,
we hope every minute that someone will care.
They'll come to adopt us and give us the call,
"Come here, Riley and Maya - come fetch your new ball!!
But now we sit here and think of the days...
we were treated so fondly - we had cute, baby ways.
Once we were little, then we grew and we grew
now we're no longer young and we're no longer new.
So out the back door we were thrown like the trash,
they reacted so quickly - why were they so rash?
We "jump on the children", "don't come when they call",
we "bark when they leave us", climb over the wall.
We should have been neutered, we should have been spayed,
now we suffer the consequence of the errors THEY made.
If only they'd trained us, if only we knew...
we'd have done what they asked us and worshiped them. too.
We were left in the backyard, or worse -let to roam-
now we're tired and lonely and out of a home.
They dropped us off here and they kissed us good-bye...
"Maybe someone else will give you a try."
So now here we are, all confused and alone...
in a shelter with others who long for a home.
The kind workers come through with a meal and a pat,
with so many to care for, they can't stay to chat,
They move to the next kennel, giving each of us cheer...
we know that they wonder how long we'll be here.
We lay down to sleep and sweet dreams fill our heads...
of a home filled with love and our own cozy beds.
Then we wake to see sad eyes, brimming with tears -
our friends filled with emptiness, worry, and fear.
If you can't adopt us and there's no room at the Inn -
could you help with the bills and fill our food bin?
We count on your kindness each day of the year -
can you give more than hope to everyone here?
Please make a donation to pay for the heat...
and help get us something special to eat.
The shelter that cares for us wants us to live,
and more of us will, if more people will give.
-- Author Unknown
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Where is it happening?
Orleans County Animal Shelter 4125 Oak Orchard Rd, Albion, NY, United StatesEvent Location & Nearby Stays: