My Best Friend’s Bowl at PAWS OH Adopt-A-Thon Pause-4-A-Cause

Join in the fun, FREE fun, at the Chagrin Polo Fields, Moreland Hills Metropark Saturday May 12th. Loads of family and pet related activities and a Dog Walk to raise funds for PAWS OH, to help them continue their mission of finding homes for abused and abandoned animals.

There is a fee to join the 1 or 2 mile walk with your best friend. You’ll receive a t-shirt and doggie treats. (T-shirt is only guaranteed for pre-registrants). Buy some raffle tickets for the BIG TICKET raffle. Eastside, Westside, Downtown and Pet related packages. Each ticket is $5.00 but each package is worth over $1700.00 each.

PAWS and 25 other animal rescue organizations will be there with adoptable pets. Find a new pal there! Food, fun, and a great way to spend the day with your family and pet.

We will be there collecting donations of dry dog and cat food. Dog food is really needed the most!

Click here for more information!  Click here to view the flyer.

Hope to see you there.

Help Wanted! Help NEEDED!

My Best Friend’s Bowl is looking for some caring people to volunteer help us continue our mission – help people with financial problems keep their pets at home with them by providing them with food. This will help them maintain their pets health, stop owners from having to surrender them to shelters or just letting them out the door to fend for themselves.

What we need from you? A desire to help, a bit of your time, ideas that you have that will help our in our effort to maintain a supply of food or funds and people to just help in any way you can. The time involved is up to you. Do you have a few hours a week you can make calls to local pet stores or vet clinics to ask for a donation of food? Do you have experience in fundraising or event planning? Do you belong to a church or group that may organize a food donation drive? Can you spend an hour or so bagging food or dropping at a location where it will be re-packed or pick up donations at our drop off spots? Are you organized and can help with co-ordinating volunteers? We have a table at Spooky Pooch in October and will need people to help there too.  All of the above is needed. Our program has grown faster than we ever imagined and we need your help!

MBFB began one year ago in February 2011. At first, we gave out maybe 10 bags of cat food and the 7 bags of dog food at Lakewood Community Services Center per week. The amount has reached 60 bags of cat food and 40 bags of dog food a week and shows no signs of slowing down, over 350 lbs weekly. The supply gets low and we begin to worry if  we will have enough for the next week. We’ve had donation drives with great success and then in a week or so, that’s gone.

Here is the bottom line – we need you! Whatever you can do to help us will be so appreciated. Click HERE and send us some information about yourself and what you would like to help with. We’ll contact you by phone if you leave your number.

Don’t let this bowl go empty!

Grant Elementary School Collection

The wonderful kids at Grant Elementary held a collection drive for MBFB recently. The total collected was 385lbs! They did a fantastic job and deserve  a big thank you. Mrs. Lewis’ 4th grade class was the winner of the special lunch of pizza, veggies and fruit, dessert and pop for collecting 82.5lbs in their class.

Thanks go out to Julia Hayes and her student council group for organizing the event. The teachers at the school made the collection a learning experience, coming up with creative ideas to keep track of the weight collected, having the students make posters to display around the school and even making paw prints that the kids put their name on when they brought food in. They all had such a great time, they hope to do it next year.

Event Update

This is the first Ganley Subaru filled on Sunday February 5th. There was one more Subaru filled along with my own Rav4. The Stuff the Subaru event was organized by Alanna Faith and the Friends of the Lakewood Dog Park and Ganley Subaru for the benefit of My Best Friends Bowl. The event was a great success! We received over 1,200 lbs of dry dog and cat food, over 125 cans of food as well as treats and toys.

Thank you to Alanna and the Friends of Lakewood Dog Park and the donors, none of this would have been possible without generous and concerned people like you all!

PAWS OH also deserves many, many thanks for believing in our cause and for connecting us with so many wonderful outlets and resources for finding the food that is so badly needed.

Best Friend’s Bowl and Friends of Lakewood Dog Park FOX 8 video

The youtube video of our interview Saturday Feb. 4th. It’s not the actual video up close and personal and the volume is quite low, but we hope we got the message across to the public about tomorrow’s event at the dog park

Donation Drop-off Location

Donations can be dropped off at the following locations. Click the link for their hours. Please let them know the donation is for My Best Friend’s Bowl!

Wine Bar Rocky River
1313 Linda Street
Rocky River Ohio

Lakewood Community Services Center
14230 Madison Avenue
Lakewood, Oh
M-F 10am-1:45pm and again on Wednesdays 5:30-7:30pm

PAWS Ohio 4th Annual Benefit

PAWS Ohio held their 4th Annual Reverse Raffle and Silent Auction Saturday November 12th at St Michaels Woodside Party Center. It was a great time, good food and better supporters! We’ve never met so many caring and concerned people, all looking out for the welfare of abandoned or abused animals. Attendees donated cat food to aid in our shortage and we have enough to get us through for a while. A big thank you goes out to all that attended this wonderful event and helped to fill the bowls.