DOGSTOCK is a four day music and camping celebration of the dogs in the coming Memorial Day Weekend (22-25 May 2008). This is a yearly, multi-faceted, pet-friendly, all ages event designed to:
- Raise community awareness of crucial animal welfare issues.
- Highlight the availability of healthy animals looking for good homes.
- Raise much needed funds for the Akita dogs of the only licensed shelter in Osage County: the Akita Adoption and Rescue Foundation (AARF).
DOGSTOCK has become an exciting community event each festival. Dog lovers are invited to bring their lucky dog to the festival, though a few rules apply: all pets must be spayed/neutered, a pets must have a current vaccination record and, all children must be accompanied by an adult at all times.
The Akita Adoption and Rescue Foundation specializes in special needs dogs and older dogs. They have many stories to tell about rewarding relationships that have developed from their good work. Here’s one that will certainly convince you to give a rescued Akita a second life:
An elderly Akita, Jake, was adopted by a family with a seriously epileptic child. Akita’s are very good observers and intelligent thinkers. The Akita started predicting the seizures and would then get help! Before Jake succumbed to old age, he had ‘cured’ the boy of his seizures.
Other stories include folks who adopted a dog one day and the next were protected from intruders.
Dogs give us unconditional love and when we allow 8 to 10 million to be killed yearly just because they were inconvenient, that is unforgivable!
Let’s all help create a better world for dogs and ourselves and hope that DOGSTOCK will become a major source of fund raising.
Details for visitors
DOGSTOCK’08, a celebration of and benefit for the dogs with music and camping memorial day weekend, may 22-25 at the AARF humane sanctuary and campground 6206 E. 317TH St. Melvern, KS 66510 (just 5 miles east of Melvern, Kansas).
A $40 donation at gate covers camping and entertainment for all four days and nights.
Sidenote
The event is NOT canceled though the man in charge of the fund raising, Randy Long (52), is in jail. He is now accused of writing numerous bad checks to people who provided services for the event such as bands, crews and vendors, according to a press release from the Osage County Sheriff’s Office.
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