A Forever Home Rescue Foundation

TJ’s Hair Studio in Alexandria collected $1725.00 in donations from their clients for A Forever Home! These donations will go to helping dogs from our Brownie’s Fund which helps dogs with extraordinary medical costs. Thank you, thank you all so much. We really appreciate it.

Every September, St. Andrew’s Lutheran Church participates in a church wide community service day where they work together to help in the community. We are so fortunate that St. Andrew’s organized a collection of dog items for A Forever Home! They collected 71 towels and cleaning supplies. Two dozen toys, leashes and collars were purchased at a pet store. A group of awesome teens made 60 homemade treats for the dogs, too! They even listed ingredients in case the dogs have any allergies. Gwen Ihde, 14 years old, was the team leader for the project called, “All God’s Creatures” which was partially funded by a Thrivent “Live Generously” grant. Thank you to St. Andrew’s and the Ihde and Pawson families who came to drop off the items on September 14th!

A Forever Home just wrapped up our Santa Photos for the year. We made nearly $1,000 thanks to Olde Towne Pet Resort and Chantilly Animal Hospital for sponsoring our events. Also a big thank you to Mr and Mrs Claus (Susan Flashman and Dick Bissell), our photographers Greg Brummett and Kristen Shields, and Patti Burke for all their hard work! — with Olde Towne Pet Resort and Chantilly Animal Hospital.

Oh the gifts gifts gifts! Jazzercize Haymarket had a Christmas donation drive for our doggies and did we get gifts! Dog beds, dog toys, leashes, collars, harnesses, bones, chews, treats and more. Thank you all so much!

This is poor Pendar who came to us all the way from Iran after facing certain death had he not been rescued. He recently started to limp and we just found out that he broke his foot. All this baby wants for Christmas is to get better so he can get his little cast off! Poor little boy. We hope you will consider donating to our Brownie’s Fund to help A Forever Home give dogs like Pendar all the medical care they need and make this a special season for others. Donate: http://to-afh.org/PayPal

A Forever Home received a very generous donation from the human brother of Reese (Butterscotch). He raised money selling dog treats to family and friends for his Mitzvah project. We are so grateful!

Our new friends at TJ’s Hair Studio in Alexandria, Virginia are dog people – as you can see from the photo.  They reached out to us because they wanted to do a giving tree for Christmas to benefit AFH.  They put up a Christmas tree and invited their clients to purchase an ornament, which were made from pictures of AFH dogs.  The ornament then went on the tree.  We want to thank everyone at TJ’s for their thoughtfulness.  Their donation will go into our medical fund to help us care for dogs in need.

As you know, AFH raffled off two tickets to “The Jonas Brothers Happiness Begins Tour.” We have drawn a winner tonight and it is Donna Niner! Congratulations Donna and thank you to all who played and Jessica Miltenberger for donating the tickets. We raised some very badly needed funds to help offset some of the medical costs for dogs like Hopscotch and Mississippi Faith to just name a few. Happy Thanksgiving everyone.

Last summer, AFH was invited to bring puppies to the wedding of Teresa and Nick. Photos were done by Megan Rei — AFH volunteer and adopter, and professional photographer. See Megan’s blog to view these amazing pictures and read Teresa and Nick’s wedding story: https://www.meganreiphotography.com/blog/2019/6/20/wolftrap-farm-wedding-pictures-gordonsville-va

Ella and Maddy, GS Troop 5433, recently did their Girl Scout Silver award project to make people aware of homeless animals and how rescue helps them. They chose AFH to be the beneficiary of their work as Ella’s family adopted from our rescue and they have also volunteered with our rescue. (We were especially grateful for their help on what turned out to be a very very busy and hectic event this Saturday. They were life savers!) As part of their work, they advocated for adopting and not buying and for supporting local rescues. They conducted educational presentations with younger scouts about how animals can become homeless, how rescues find them homes, and the importance of proper identification/microchips for pets. They had the scouts make fleece blankets for our doggies and raised money for AFH by doing bake sales and chores! They also used these bake sales as a way to educate the larger public about the importance of adoption and rescue work. We are very grateful for their generous donations and help!