Second Chance Pet Adoptions

O'Charley's Breakfast Fundraiser

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Help the animals of Second Chance by enjoying breakfast at O'Charley's Restaurant in Cary this Saturday, September 25th from 8am - 10am!

Second Chance staff and board members will be serving up a heaping helping of pancakes, scrambled eggs, bacon, sausage, hash browns, and beverages to guests all morning long. O'Charley's is located off Tryon Rd. behind Wakemed Cary Hospital.

Tickets are only $8 each and include food and drink (coffee, tea, milk, OJ, soft drinks). Best of all, every dollar will go toward helping your furry friends at Second Chance.

Tickets are available online at http://scbreakfast.eventbrite.com/ or at the Second Chance adoption center:
6003 Chapel Hill Road Suite 133
Raleigh, NC 27607

Tickets will also be for sale at the door.

We look forward to seeing everyone there!

10th Annual Auction for the Animals

2010-06-23T19:15:00.000-04:00

We are having a great response from local businesses to our requests for donations for our auction. Please visit the auction website for more info: http://www.auctionfortheanimals.com/

10th Annual Aucion for the Animals

2010-05-02T00:32:00.000-04:00

Planning is underway for the 10th Annual Auction for the Animals! Can you donate an item for the auction? A craft item? A service? A gift certificate?

Meet The Blue Room & What You Missed...

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Meet the Blue Room:

When you visit the Blue Room, you are guaranteed to end up with Chloe in your lap.

She might be a senior cat, but with age has come a real appreciation of sharing love and attention with her people! Tummy rubs are one of her favorite things, other than snuggles.

Look at my forehead! I have an "M" on it for Maisie, which is my name. I am a bit of a

shy girl and like to monitor the room from a high shelf or do ground patrol from under a chair. I also like to snuggle with my Blue Room Posse members.

Besides being a beautiful girl, Puddin' is also playful and sweet. Puddin'

likes an adventure and is the star of When Puddin' Attacks on YouTube. She gets to

hang outwith her sister, Cupcake, and her other friends in the Blue Room. Puddin' is

always ready to make a new human friend and waits at the door for visitors. Please

visit her soon, she'll be waiting for you!

What You Missed at...

Hall-O-Wine

Good news on the palm reading -so Howl-O-Wine didn't turn into a frightful night.

Glad I didn't stand too close to him. Really, there was plenty to eat besides other guests.

The card tricks were truly amazing!

Its always awesome to get together with Second Chance friends and talk animals

and other things too!

Check out this year's Howl-O-Wine event. Not only did the cats and dogs benefit from this

event, but it sure looked like the guests did too!

People really got into the party spirit by wearing costumes.

Attendees had tons of choices of wines and beers to sample. These spooky beers

helped the guests get into the spirit of the evening.

Tasting, mingling, having your cards and palm read, eating, being awed by

magic tricks and checking out the cats and dogs filled the evening.

Erika has her cards read by a genuine psychic.

This pumpkin is a work of art!

Special thanks to our hosts Jerry and Lisa for an awesomely haunting Howl-o-wine event!

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Our Howl-O-Wine event on Friday, October 30th was a wonderful success!

The Green Room Cats enjoyed some extra petting!

The puppies even got in on the fun!

Amazing Magic Tricks were performed!

Second Chance Volunteers - who help make all of this possible!

Thanks to everyone who helped to make this SPOOKY event so wonderful!

Meet the Blue Room

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Meet our beautiful girl, Aki. Her name means "fall" in Japanese - so this would be the perfect time of year for Aki to find her forever home. Aki is a sweetheart and loves lots of attention. Aki is as beautiful on the outside as she is on the inside, as you can see.

This Cupcake is 100 times sweeter than any edible cupcake. She is a laid back girl who enjoys surveying the blue room and observing what everyone is doing. Cupcake will be happy for you to come over to her and give her lots of loving!

The weather is starting to get colder and you may need a wonderful lap cat to help keep you warm. Tilly would be purrfect draped across your lap! She also would be a great friend for your other cats, if you can bear to let her leave your lap.

In the next update you'll meet more members of the blue room posse. And next Wednesday you can see the "Cute Picture Post - Blueroom Addition".

Important Upcoming Dates:

Howl-O-Wine - Friday October 30th from 6 - 9 pm.

Join us at the Adoption Center to sample wine and beer and enjoy hor d'Oeuvres, a costume contest and door prizes. Cost $25. Check out more info on our website: www.SecondChanceNC.org

Second Chance Happenings- August 19, 2009

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Let's take a tour around Second Chance.

Starting in the back, here's Fenu. He's a handsome Maine Coone that just became adoptable! Do you know of a loving home for him?

Fenu

Also in the back is the warehouse, where Second Chance stores all the items needed to give the animals a loving home.

There's a new cat in a lobby cage, too. It's Peony, who's taken over Alcatraz's old cage after she got adopted last weekend!

Lisa is back after taking a rare week off...

...but remains in the vacation state-of-mind.

(Just kidding)

Here's the clinic, where Second Chance makes sure the animals are current on their vaccines, given any medical testing needed, and kept healthy and happy.

Cheryl brings in a new kitten for nail trimming and a quick check-up.

The clinic is also where the foster kittens are held on the weekend Adopt-a-thons.

The dogs, however, meet adopters in this brightly painted room.

Life in the Lavender and Little Rooms remains constant.

The Green Room, however, got a new addition. His name is Excalibur.

The other kitties investigate their new roommate.

Next to the Green room is the Meet-and-Greet Room. Potential adopters can spend one-on-one time with a cat in here. It is also where I give the ASPCA®'s Meet Your Match® assessments, designed to identify the cats' personalities and better match them with adopters.

Meanwhile, Rosemary has moved out of the Peach Room and into her forever home!

Little Lulu wonders where her friend has gone.

Don't worry, Lu! Your turn will come soon!

Finally, the Blue Room lost a resident this weekend.

Beautiful mama cat Tia passed away :(

She is survived by her Second Chance sons, Remy and Bacardi.

Remy

Bacardi

Don't forget Second Chance's yard sale coming up September 19th! And shortly thereafter, on October 3rd, Second Chance will host Halloween Bungo, the fun dice game anyone can play.

Second Chance Happenings- Late July and Early August!

2009-08-07T14:06:00.000-04:00

Hello everyone!

It's been a busy few weeks at Second Chance Pet Adoptions! The auction on July 25th was a great night- festive, fun, and all for the animals. Here are some shots of the night, sent by Melissa Katafiasz. If you took any shots of the night, we'd love to see them, too!

The red, white, and blue décor

Mark Roberts, the evening's emcee

Guests enjoying the night

The auction figures and results should be coming soon. Thanks to everyone who gave Second Chance their support!

Meanwhile, volunteers have been out promoting Second Chance and our wonderful animals.

On July 31st, Lisa and I manned a booth at the State Employees Combined Campaign in downtown Raleigh. The event introduces state employees to different charities to whom they can donate part of their salaries.

On the canine front, volunteers had a busy weekend. On Saturday, August 1st, a few Second Chance dogs attended the Carolina Railhawks' soccer game at the WakeMed Soccer Park.

The set-up

Lucy

Mardi Gras

Sampson

Lucy being Miss Popularity

The next day, Lucy and Mardi Gras were joined by Jules, Sarah, and Sheldon at the Harris Teeter in Cameron Village. The dogs and Second Chance got great exposure and were a hit with the crowd!

Sheldon receives an admirer

Just playin' around

Sarah

Jules

Thanks to Jerry Wojenski for the photos. You can see more on secondchance.shutterfly.com!

Don't forget to add Second Chance on Facebook and Twitter, and of course, check out our website at secondchancenc.org.

Second Chance Happenings- Auction Preparations!

2009-07-24T17:22:00.000-04:00

This Saturday night is Second Chance's Ninth Annual Auction for the Animals. Kristine, Carol, Joanna, and many other volunteers have been working tirelessly this week to make the event come to life.

Our job was to turn this room at Delightful Inspirations into auction central.

Wrapping some last minute baskets!

Here's Joanna, creating bid sheet after bid sheet.

Assembling one of the three cat trees

Some of the great items waiting to receive your bids!

Here's little Nick, modeling some of the auction decorations.

The great Second Chance mugs!

The room starting to come together

Table set-ups

Joanna and Amy discussing gift cards

The lovely jewelry table, arranged by Cheryl

Making goody bags

Almost there...

Come see the finished product Saturday night!

Thanks so much to all volunteers, donors, guests, and Delightful Inspirations!

Second Chance Happenings- July 20, 2009

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Hi. My name is Rachael, and I'm interning at Second Chance Pet Adoptions this summer. I've decided to write a blog every now and then to keep everyone informed about what's going on at Second Chance!

July 20, 2009

It was a rainy Monday at Second Chance Pet Adoptions.

But inside, Lisa was all smiles, as usual.

Even Catawba, the slightly crazy but very handsome lobby cat, was having a good day, approaching me to be stroked and taking a cat nap on some papers he’d found on the ground while I was organizing the lobby wardrobe.

Ta da!

Lisa says not to mess it up or she will hurt you.

This weekend, cuddly Roxie was adopted! You may remember her as the sweet kittie in one of the cages at the front of Second Chance. When she was out of her cage, she liked to sit with Lisa on her chair or wander over the papers on her desk. And she always loved to receive attention! We will miss her, but are so glad she’s found her forever home!

Meanwhile, Claire moved in to Roxie’s old spot.

Other kitties were moving, too. Meet the newest additions to the Second Chance rooms:

Dakota moved into the peach room. She has plenty of personality and is adjusting just fine.

Marjorie moved into the blue room. She is a skinny girl. She is initially shy, but is very sweet and likes to curl up in your lap. She has a sister named Maisie, too!

Brother and sister, Bahama and Sailor, moved into the green room.

Bahama is a handsome young man who loves to play and loves attention. In fact, it was hard to take his picture because he kept chasing the camera’s string wrist handle!

Sailor, on the other hand, is more reserved. She was taking a nice afternoon nap.

As always, visit www.secondchancenc.org to find more information about Second Chance or individual cats and dogs that need to find their forever homes!

And don't forget about Second Chance's 9th Annual Auction for the Animals coming up this Saturday, July 25th!

This blog is also available on Facebook. Just search "Second Chance Pet Adoptions" to access the page and become a fan! We also have a group. Search for "Second Chance Pet Adoptions (Raleigh, NC)" to find it.