5 quick months in the past, essentially the most urgent factor on my thoughts was the Australian Bushfires and Paws for Oz.
The movies of burnt, hungry, dehydrated and exhausted wildlife had been preserving me up at evening. What began as an concept that got here to me at 4 a.m., in three quick weeks was catapulted right into a full blown worldwide fundraiser – all with the assistance of my wine business/animal loving mates, Jennifer Hart and Meg McGrath.
The concept was to deliver collectively a world group of Pet Photographers – intense animal lovers by nature – below the banner of Paws for Oz. Understanding there may be energy in numbers, our objective was to lift $10,000, which was later revised to $20,000 once we smashed the $10k objective! All donations had been made on to established rescue Wildlife Victoria, to assist with rescue and rehabilitation of koalas, wombats, kangaroos, dingoes, kookaburras and lots of extra species.
The primary section of the fundraiser concerned a silent public sale in Niagara’s wine nation. The wine group donated distinctive wines and experiences that locals had been invited to bid on on the launch occasion in January. The public sale raised nearly $7000 for Wildlife Australia, a fairly auspicious begin to the fundraiser!
Section two was the recruitment of pet photographers – finally twenty 9 unbelievable pet photographers joined the trigger, representing Canada, the US and Australia!
Go huge or go residence!
An enormous shout out and THANK YOU to everybody who supported Paws for Oz, by means of donations, time, experience and curiosity! Collectively we raised $20,753 and I’m extremely happy with that achievement. Over $3,000 was raised was by means of Indigo Pet Images alone. We acquired beautiful notes of thanks and appreciation from Wildlife Victoria through e-mail and social media. To not brag, however we had been the highest fundraising crew within the Australian Bushfire enchantment on GoFundraise, the place Wildlife Victoria was taking donations! Okay, yeah, completely needed to brag about that!
On Instagram we inspired our Paws for Ozphotographers to tag their posts, please click on right here for an assortment of lovable pictures captured – together with a couple of by yours actually!
I nonetheless have a number of periods in Toronto that I’m very a lot trying ahead to as soon as restrictions are loosened. I think about they may must be outdoor periods – in step with the 2020 theme of social distancing – and they are going to be numerous enjoyable, of that I’ve little doubt.
Please take care and assume comfortable ideas! Give the one that you love 4–legged some additional lovin’ for being such an excellent isolation accomplice 🐶❤️💕
Cheers and wags,
Karen