Great work this weekend!

Thanks to Coralie, who was actually in the Ottawa Citizen yesterday for her devotion to volunteering, she organized a cleaning and renovations crew to come to NARC on Saturday. It was amazing, 8 of her friends showed up, 2 were tearing apart the flooring, installing new plywood and tiles in one of our main doggy rooms, 2 were up on the roof tarping it for the winter, temporarily keeping NARC dry until we can afford a new roof hopefully next spring!? Few of the girls re-organized our supply trailer and others were just picking up and throwing debris in the bins while our volunteers took care of the dogs needs, food, water and walks... Next day, few of NARC volunteers came and helped finish what was already an amazing start, we organized another 2 sheds and threw out more debris and wood, put away the tables and chairs for the winter while Coralie returned with her husband to grout the tiles they installed the day before. What a weekend, the farm looks amazing, back to it's original cleanliness without debris from renovations lying around in piles... Thanks everyone for your help - it was wonderful to see and volunteers that came Sunday were amazed about all that had been done in just one day! Now we have more room for visitors to park and it's definitely better for our dogs with the new tiles in the back room. I am overjoyed about it all, it lifted a big weight off my shoulders knowing the dogs are living in a non mouldy room and freshly renovated and clean tiles. I don't even know how to thank everyone, all I could give back were hugs and thanks but you have certainly changed NARC for years to come!

Get your Entertainment Book through NARC

Yep, we are back on and now selling Entertainment Books for $35.00 each to raise funds for NARC. This is obviously non-negociable as the books don't belong to NARC but Entertainment will give us a percentage once we have sold the books we have ordered. Of course, if we sell more than 50 our percentage is bigger so let's get together and fundraise for NARC... Spread the word to your friends and family members that they can purchase their Entertainment Book through NARC to raise funds for our rescues. www.entertainment.com for more details.

The Entertainment Book is filled with hundreds of 50% off and 2-for-1 discounts for your area on the things you do everyday like dining, groceries, shopping, services, and attractions. Plus great discounts on travel, home furnishings and much more!

I personally love these books, I enjoy dining out with my daugther once in a while and use the books to get her meal free - this way we can go out more often during the year. They are also great for theatres, cleaners, hotel discounts, car rental discouts and so much more. I have been buying my entertainment book since I am 18, every year and save hundreds of dollars yearly in purchases. Start today such as myself and save, save, save!

Garage Sale Update - Lending a HAND next weekend!

We raised $580 for NARC this weekend at our Garage Sale, thank you everyone for your support and thank you all volunteers for your help with this event!

The renovations are still under-way, going well and definitely easier for us to maintain although we still have 2 rooms to tear apart, install plywood, tiles, etc... Anyone willing to donate some time and muscles to help out are more than welcomed.

We are also calling on everyone, all volunteers or anyone wanting to spend 1 or a few hours at NARC next weekend to clean up. We have garbage bins coming this weekend for the debris we've accumulated and need a few volunteers to fill them up - carry wood and debris into those bins. Come join us in our clean-up weekend at 4388 Navan Road from noon to 5pm both saturday and sunday Oct 29th and 30th.

Thanks again to everyone for their support - either it be from a volunteer, adtopter, donor, foster home, etc... If it wasn't for people such as yourselves, we wouldn't be able to take in and care for all the beautiful doggies you now either own, helped care for, have met at NARC or seen on our website! Big Thanks to EVERYONE!

Phone, Internet - Paperwork now e-mailed

Bell finally came last night and fixed/installed our new permanent phone lines. For those that haven't received your pooches veterinary documentation, they are on their way. I bought a new scanner so will scan the documents and e-mail them this weekend. Sorry for the delay although if you hadn't received them by mail it was due to us not having your postal codes and not being able to search for them on-line! All is resolved though, we will be back on track with our files very shortly. Thank you everyone for your patience in this matter!

We will also be returning all the phone calls we weren't able to get to in the past few weeks without a phone line!! Sorry for the delay all...

Thanks again to the wonderful guys/volunteers who came to start the tiles last Monday, they are great and so easy to clean. We need a few more hands this weekend in order to finish the tiles in that room... if anyone is interested in donating some time, we will supply the materials...

Garage Sale October 22nd & 23rd - renovations started

If you have items to donate, drop them off this weekend as we are holding our garage sale on Oct 22nd & 23rd - weather permitting of course! All volunteers will be needed for this event and at NARC to care for the dogs so if you are free, come on by as we will need all the help we can get!

We have started renovations, a client and volunteer's husband were nice enough to come by yesterday, holiday Monday to tear off the old flooring in the living room and install the new tiles that were donated. We worked really hard on a nice hot day for our lovely doggies to have a new clean space to call home! We've noticed that the tiles we were accumulating were just enough to finish that room so we need more tiles in order to finish the other 2 doggy rooms in the modular home and hopefully the main entrance. I already had bought the plywood, grout, cement and sealer but are out of those items too for the next few rooms. If you have any spare tiles, we need them! Talk to friends and neighbors, if we all get together, we will be able to accumulate enough to finish the other two rooms and our dogs will have a clean and fresh environment to live in. We were all excited about this project, it was long overdue and certainly will last quite a few years coming!

Thank you so much for all of your support and for our wonderful volunteers who like me, dedicate their precious time so that we can take more dogs off death row and keep them in a nice, clean and safe environment! If it wasn't for your support - we wouldn't be where we are today - GROWING! Thank you...

Star has had 8 puppies

Her puppies were born Friday, September 30th in the morning. She gave us 8 beautiful and healthy puppies. She is a good and protective mom, is by her pups side all the time but does leave them to go on her nice long walks at the farm. They will be ready November 25th so if you are looking for a rottie puppy, it's now time to send in your applications from http://www.narc-charity.ca/ under downloads, we need a reference, preferably a vet if you already have one!

The other doggies are doing well although they were so dirty yesterday with all the rain - worst than ever! I've never seen the house so dirty with mud everywhere! Most of them will certainly need a bath this weekend - yet some managed to keep very clean such as Matic - he is such a cute and good dog and always the cleanest of the bunch!

We've had a few matted dogs come in as you have probably seen from the website and are getting them the much needed groom, we will post after pictures for you to see how cute they really are underneath all those clumps!