It’s A Foster Animal Collage!!

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Matilda — “is irresistible with her

calm demeanor and super soft

minky fur you can sit and pet forev-

er.” -Lauren C.

Delta — “big velvety brown ears

and how she’s always so happy to

see volunteers come take her for a

walk. And she will sit for cheese!” -

Rachel

Maya — “she’s full of energy but when

you spend one on one time with her

you see how sweet and playful she is.

She knows how to sit and is getting the

hang of shake. She would be very easy

to train to do new tricks! She loves to

roll around in the grass and when she

does she makes the cutest little pig-

like grunts. She’s always so happy, you

can see it in her eyes and ever-present

smile!” -Sierra K.

Chatter — “big guy with a big

voice. Thinks he is the boss!” -

Susan D.

Nadia — “loves to run fast in the exer-

cise pen! She also enjoys being held

on your chest.” -Christine

Please meet our foster of the month for August, Justine Enes and her family! They have been won-derful fosters for about 2 years now. “I’m fortunate in that I have the support of my family. Besides

being agreeable about things like giving up our bathroom, my spouse shares in the work (and fun!), while my son helps to socialize them.” Justine says, “I decid-ed to start fostering because I wanted to help animals. The kittens in foster care are vulnerable and need people to give them the extra attention and care, so I wanted to help them have a good start. I also wanted another way to be involved in volunteer work in our community. In addition, I thought it’d be a fun way to be around kittens, as well as an excellent

way to get to know them if we ever wanted to add to our family !” Justine has been a vegan for 16 years and enjoys gardening, reading, hiking, playing board games, cooking, and eat-ing delicious food. She homeschools her 10 year old son and her family also in-cludes her spouse, three cats, Harold, Frida and Ralph, all of whom she fos-tered! “There are so many reasons I’d recom-mend fostering! Let’s get the obvious out of the way, you get to be with kittens (or adult cats, or puppies, or…)! You get to help them have what they need, whether it just be loving and playing with them as they grow and/or adjust, or nursing them through an illness or infection, or socializing feral kittens so they can be with people and be adopted into homes. The animals need people to foster them, and the shelters need the support of the community because they can’t do it all….”

Paw Print

Personals!

Soft, friendly rabbit, looking for

his new forever home! Come say

hi at Greenhill today!

Zorro

Beautiful, sometimes shy, girl,

who is looking for a nice quiet

home to live the rest of her days

in! Come say hi at First Ave!

Tessie

Handsome, fun loving, male dog,

looking for a home where I can

be the only pet! Come meet me

at Greenhill!

Trooper

in 2015. Carol currently works as a corporate accounting manager at Bulk Handling Systems, and its proximity to First Avenue encouraged her to start volunteering there! In their spare time, Rick and Carol go to the beach with their dog, Stella, as often as they can. Besides walking on the beach, Carol’s fa-vorite hobbies are gar-dening and helping Rick with the dog pho-tos. Even outside of his volunteer work with us, Rick loves photo-graphing his and his friends’ dogs, a hobby that dates back to when he was the lone pho-tographer for his high school newspaper and yearbook.

Meet Rick and Carol - our Volunteers of the Month for August! Com-bined, Rick and Carol have contributed over 1,700 hours of service since 2015!! We are be-yond amazed and grate-ful for their countless hours of service, dedica-tion and commitment to both the mission and all the animals of 1st Avenue and Greenhill!! Rick and Carol do all kinds of work with our First Avenue dogs! They both volunteer with our Dog Enrichment Program as well as with the dog photo and video teams. Rick and Carol have also stepped in to help with dog transports and other tasks around the kennel as needed. Rick’s favorite part of volunteering with

us is getting to know the dogs before they are even available for adoption. Carol agrees that “it is so rewarding to see the change as they start trust-ing you.” Carol, a fifth generation Oregonian originally from Eugene, met Rick in his hometown of Bozeman, Montana. She moved back to Eugene with him in 1980, when Carol’s dad offered Rick a job at his steel fabrication business. Rick spent the next 35 years there before retiring

Fostering for Greenhill has

been not only enjoy-able, but also re-warding.

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“They both are doing well and I love hav-ing them. My boyfriend and I love to cud-dle with them in the evenings, when we are home and watching TV. They are so sweet and love the greens I give them fresh from the garden. I also built them a large play pen that they can run around in during the day. Both seem really happy and are warming up to their new home. They are so sweet; everyone who meets them thinks they are wonderful. Every-thing is going well so far. Thank you for checking in on us!”

“Charleston is doing great! I'm so hap-py to have him and happy that we found each other! I think he's loving his new home. He likes his toys that you sent home with him and my fami-ly keeps sending toys over for him. He sleeps in my bed and follows me everywhere. I go to work and come home and he's waiting for me…”

“Houdini is fantastic ! We took him to the vet &

got him treated for fleas & worms. He is still eating Science Diet because he didn't like the other food we tried. We've been working with him to get him stronger due to being three legged & now he's able to jump up on the couch & he is very rambunctious. We keep him indoors but take him outside on the patio

with a leash. He is the only pet we have now. The adoption process was at Greenhill was smooth!”