Alaqua Open House in Freeport FL Dec 11th

I will be attending the Alaqua open house in Freeport FL on December 11th from Noon - 4:00 PM. I am in the process of painting a few Florida theme ornaments to offer. They are a smaller glass ornament and each one will have some sand and shells placed on the inside along with a whimsical painting on the outside. They will be offered for sale at the event for $10.00 each. $1.00 of each sale will go back to Alaqua. I will also bring some paintings for sale. The Cavalier will be up for sale and 50% of that will be donated as well as a % of any custom orders. I am quite excited about getting out in the public with some of my art. Usually all of my orders come directly from the internet. If you live in the Panhandle of FL I hope to see you there. Alaqua is a large Animal Refuge and they have many events to keep the facilty running. I look forward to more particpation in future events.  If you are unable to attend, but would like a Ornament w/a FL theme or a custom pet portrait ornanment, I'd be happy to work with you to meet your request. Just e-mail me for prices and examples @    art_expressions_by_pam@yahoo.com

10.00 each 2.00 shipping - Custom painted - Beach theme small glass ornaments

Custom Painted Pet Portrait glass or porcelain  ornaments $35.00 Each - 3.00 shipping - discounts on more than one.

Medium heavy glass balls - inside glitter makes a nice background - painted with glass enamel paint

good digital photo required - Free Gift box of green or red while supplies last for the glass ball pet portrait ornaments.

3 1/2 " Porcelain - Options are Round, Heart, Ornament, Star

35.00 each - or two for 50.00  $3.00 shipping for one

$1.00 for each additional.

10% of all sales goes to Alaqua Animal Refuge in Freeport FL

click here to find out how you can help Alaqua

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Introducing: NEW ARTIST MEMBERS!

It gives us great pleasure to introduce 3 new member artists who are joining us at

ART HELPING ANIMALS

they all want to share their work to help homeless animals with their work!

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Wonderful day for homeless animals having these artists join us in the

ART HELPING ANIMALS

mission to paint for homeless animals and support non-profit rescues with sales of our art.

they will soon be posting new art on our

art blog: http://arthelpinganimals.blogspot.com

Please Visit their sites for a great preview!

Julene Baker

http://www.julenebaker.com

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Janet Burt

http://www.rainbowdog.net

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Pam Utton

http://www.pamutton.blogspot.com

WELCOME!

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A Latte ~ A Life fundraiser for rescue!

(click the image to enlarge)

A $5.00 donation for a chance to own this original oil painting!

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I recently offered this painting for sale with the intention of giving a usual percentage to

help

DALMATIAN RESCUE OF TAMPA BAY

their dal-mix up for adoption was the inspiration for the painting.

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On second thought and in celebration of their annual

DALLOWEEN FUNDRAISER FOR RESCUE

event

I have offered this painting at 100% donation

and you can find all the details right here!

http://www.carolchretien.blogspot.com

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Donate just $5.00 to Dalmatian Rescue Tampa Bay

and you will have a chance to WIN this original oil painting and help save lives!

any questions?

email the artist at

carolchretien@aol.com

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thanks for helping us help them!

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And on the 10th, 11th & 12th days of Christmas...

the latest work helping homeless animals

14 paintings, 14 rescues, 14 days

OF

CHRISTMAS

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collectible Fine Art helping rescues!

view the collection here for available work:

http://www.arthelpinganimals.blogspot.com

MERRY CHRISTMAS!

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AND...On the 7th day of CHRISTMAS ...

....the ART HELPING ANIMALS ARTISTS

continue to paint and create

ORIGINAL COLLECTIBLE FINE ART

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all for our 14 Days of Christmas event!

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14 paintings, 14 days, 14 RESCUES...

all art sold donates a portion right to the rescue the Artist is representing.
Please continue to follow along with us as we complete our

CHRISTMAS MISSION

for homeless animals.

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Christmas Gallery for Rescue

The 14 Days of Christmas for Rescue
continues with days
four - five - six
by our
Art Helping Animals Artists:
Stella Violano, Vernita Bridges-Hoyt & Cori Solomon
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Collectible Fine Art
for gifting and helping homeless animals
a donation is given with every sale!
DETAILS HERE:
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Behind the Scenes - ART THAT HELPS!

So much work goes on behind the scenes that it is almost too much to mention.

But I will.

Art Helping Animals is a very small fellowship...less than 20 artists at any given time that work their brushes off to help homeless animals in need.

We have contributed over 68,000.00 and counting to help shelter animals by donating a portion of our art sales to non-profit rescues coast-to-coast and around the world.

We do it "ONE ANIMAL AT A TIME, ONE BRUSH STROKE AT A TIME"

and many people say it must be "fun" to paint...to create art.

Yes....that is the easy part.

The rest of the time: we are working behind the scenes, each in our own way. We paint for our rescues as listed on our HOME PAGE http://www.arthelpinganimals.com/

We keep our own web venues going with updates and current work. (see the main site for ARTISTS list)

We work with our own favorite personal charities and rescues unaffiliated with AHA but "friends of AHA" as we have a network of loyal friends that support homeless animals with art and even more donations.

See the Social Networking sites here if you haven't joined with us!

FACE BOOK http://www.facebook.com/home.php?#/artistshelpinganimals?ref=mf

MYSPACE http://www.myspace.com/arthelpinganimals

TWITTER http://twitter.com/ArtforAnimals

Some of the artists participate in exhibits around the country, galleries, art competitions.

Some of us represent AHA on The DAILY PAINTER'S GALLERY week after week.

It is a labor of love that we do.

It takes dedication, real and true comittment and energy...the work BEHIND the easel is the elbow grease it takes to keep all the brushes in the air, to have something worthy to present to the public that will, ultimately, make a collector happy to hang fine art in their homes or work spaces and help save a life.

Continue our journey with us as ART HELPING ANIMALS goes forward to work to help the neediest get a second chance.

We are currently working to help our Focus Rescue Group SALUKI TREE OF LIFE ALLIANCE

with a collection of art from all the artists of Art Helping Animals...Please take a look at what is still available. All work sold will benefit the rescue! (link below)

http://arthelpinganimals.blogspot.com/search/label/Charity%3A%20Stola%20Saluki%20Rescue

BIG THANKS TO ALL OUR SUPPORTERS!

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Art Helps Horses in Texas!

ART FOR CHARITY

A Special Promotion will benefit True Blue Animal Rescue who recently took in 28 starving, mistreated thoroughbred horses. Read more about the horse rescue at http://t-bar.org where you can donate directly to help ... or view the Texas Sauce Gallery website to purchase art that helps horses.

View paintings at

Texas Sauce Gallery

100% of Sales will be donated to Help Horses at

True Blue Animal Rescue

Looking does not obligate you to purchase, but we hope you WILL find a painting you want to OWN and take advantage of this opportunity to donate 100% of the purchase amount of YOUR painting to help horses.

Participating "Art Helping Animals" artists include Carol Chretien, Melinda Dalke, Stella Violano and Vernita Bridges-Hoyt. The artists have donated their paintings to help TBAR and pledged 100% of sales be donated to help rehab the rescued horses. Artists will receive no profits from the sale of these paintings.

Bookmark this Special Promotion!

www.TXsauce.net

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Now over $55,000 Contributions to Animal Rescue

As of September 1, Art Helping Animals artists have contributed more than $55,000 to animal rescue, all from painting sale donations. We have just uploaded a new video to youtube.com/ArtHelpingAnimals and hope that you'll check it out. 

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BONES - The latest and the greatest BEAGLES!

BE THE FIRST TO SAY.... I LOVE LUCY!

What a great way to start the month of MAY!...and the bonus is that you can go right through JUNE to see all the new art unfold as the artists of ART HELPING ANIMALS shine the RESCUE SPOTLIGHT on BEAGLES OF NEW ENGLAND STATES (BONES)...an all volunteer rescue that rehabs and rehomes beagles rescued all over the region.



We have a UTUBE video created by artist Tanya Amberson and we hope you will visit our site along with the BONES site to see ALL the beagles in need of adoption and all the good work they do to help dogs find forever families.



All the beagles in the care of BONES are rehabbed and spend time in foster care with families and other dogs and cats to find the educational needs of each individual animal, teaching home skills, socialization, and helping them become the best family pet they can be!



This org has rehomed hundreds and hundreds of beagles and mixes. There is a companion dog waiting for you at their rescue.

Please visit their site for adoptable beagles or to SPONSOR a beagle in rescue: www.bonesbeagles.org



For wonderful beagle art and ongoing additions to this body of work: Art Helping Animals: Charity: BONES Beagle Rescue




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REPERCUSSIONS...have a heart!

All over the news yesterday was the report of how pets are being effected by the financial losses and burdens of their owners.

I frankly did not think of this as being something to add to the worries of abandoned pets...but here it is.

These pets owners are losing their jobs and homes and moving on, leaving their pets behind in the foreclosed homes or lost apartments. These animals are being found in garages, basements and on the streets the news stories are reporting. This is putting extra burden on local shelters that are always full on a usual day.

We are heading into tough times for animals as the resources get tighter. It is a national. if not international, problem that will take everyone's efforts to manage.

I have noticed that pet food companies, such as Pedigree, are addressing homeless animal needs in their ads. They make the point that for every shelter animal that gets a home another is left behind. They promote adoption. Everyone's mantra should be "spay, neuter, adopt!"...

We have so many challenges ahead of us in this economy that effects us all. It makes us seriously rethink how we spend our hard earned money.

A few thoughts:

When you shop for sale items for the household, try to remember the local animal shelter near you and add a couple of food items or cleaning supplies that you can drop off to the shelter.

Do you have some towels or blankets that you might replace in your spring cleaning this year that you can donate to a shelter? They often can use these for the kennels. Sometimes when you can't make a monetary donation you can give some needed items that you may already have on hand.

The best thing to do, if you haven't done it yet, is to visit your local animal shelter in person, or on line if they have a site, and see if they have a needs list. Keep it with your shopping list and if you find a good sale while shopping at your local super-store grab a few of these extra items and make the donation!

If we all to a little together it adds up to really make a difference.

We have to be conscious of the suffering of these animals who bring so much to our lives.

Every time I look at my own happy and spoiled and much loved pets I think of how great they have it...it makes me want to help the ones who don't know this kind of life.

It is almost

VALENTINE's DAY....

HAVE A HEART...HELP A RESCUE!

(original artwork "Westie Valentines"... sold to help homeless animals by Carol Chretien)
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Where's Dave, Director of HSUS NRRO?

This is the second swift fox I live trapped and processed for release as an endangered species in South Dakota. My hand is covering her ( a three year old female in excellent condition) eyes to calm her down and to avoid having to chemically immobilize her.
Dave has been busy. Here in his own words is the latest information....




"Where is the World is......

I am sitting in a hotel in Casper, Wyoming heading for home and my daughters for the Christmas holiday. Last night was only the second night in eight days that I have slept on a bed. The week of trapping Swift Foxes found me bundled up every night in the storage area of the tack room in our equine rescue trailer. It was frigid the first two days with wind chills well below zero and my breath at night would coat my sleeping bag and the ceiling of the tack room with a thick coating of ice and frost. I LOVED IT and slept well until having to get up and load the truck in the darkness to prepare for running the line of live traps in Logan County, Kansas.

As I mentioned in a previous blog... I was assisting the Lower Brule Sioux Tribe Wildlife Department with helping to reestablish the swift fox species which is considered endangered in South Dakota. The Lower Brule native nation and a Ted Turner Ranch project are the two efforts to help bring these smallest of the wild canids back to living the good life in South Dakota. In Kansas, this species in offered no protection and can be trapped or chased by greyhounds as many of the coyote hunters choose to do.

So I actually felt good trying to catch these critters before they pair up for spring, and to help them get some jewelry ( a microchip and a radio collar) to be safely transported to a vast area where they will be treated with the safety of endangered species status.

The Team, under the excellent guidance of a tribal biologist caught 39 foxes under a permit for 40. Half the foxes are already in South Dakota, and the rest are awaiting blood test results ( to ensure they are healthy and disease free) before they make the journey to the Lakota Nation lands where they will spend their Christmas in soft release acclimation pens. It is a great project that I was proud to have assisted in.



But I had to leave this wonderful event a few days early to make some historic and important meetings in Denver to help farm animals. HSUS president Wayne Pacelle and Farm Animals guru Paul Shapiro came out for meetings with the Colorado Governors Office, the CO Agricultural Commissioner (separate meetings) and others to help us promote more humane ways to house Colorado's beef calves, Layer Hens and Production Swine. We were treated to a partial victory already as the Colorado Pork Producers announced upon the day of our arrival that They are going to voluntarily ban hog gestation crates in Colorado within the next ten years. While the time frame is a few years longer than we would have liked... WE applaud the pork producers for the leadership and compassion to recognize that these inhumane cages where animals cannot even turn around need to be banned and changed to more natural group housing situations. The Veal Calf producers in CO have already committed to a FOUR year plan to eliminate veal confinement cages. The egg folks,however, have apparently decided not to follow the trend to allow layer hens the opportunity to stretch their wings, dust bath or perch and are instead just considering giving them a few more square inches inside a "battery cage" where they and their jail mates much spend their entire lives never feeling the softness of grass or the fun of throwing dust over their entire body. For full disclosure I must admit that I have ten laying hens living a free range lifestyle at my home outside of Billings, MT... and I can watch my feathered girls for a half hour as they pick, scratch, roll and jump around our yard. I simply cannot imagine them being forced to live an intensive confinement life in a area the size of about 2/3 the size of a sheet of typing paper. Please buy cage free or free range eggs and let the producers know that chickens and other farm animals destined for our human food chain at least deserve the right to as humane and natural of lifestyle as we can give them. Sadly the egg producers refusal is likey to consume lots of my time in 2008 as we may be forced to enter a ballot initiative to speak out for the chickens. We hope the hog and veal producers will voluntarily follow up on their good intent of banning intensive confinement by making their ban the legal law of Colorado. But again they get great kudos for moving their industry in the right direction.

I also had some side meetings with another state office on the Canned Hunting issue and then finished my amazing meeting day by meeting with the Prairie Dog Coalition administrator so we can plan some exciting events to celebrate prairie dogs in 2008.

A great week.... and now headed home to wife and daughters for the holidays. Those who remember my wonderful Lucy dog passing in September...will
be happy to hear that we have mourned and now celebrated her crossing the rainbow bridge.... and Lucy will be delighted to see that her beds and kennels will soon be filled with a crazy little puppy we are getting TOMORROW!. The little pup is a VERY distant relative of Lucy who was a German Wirehaired Pointer. This pup is a Wirehaired Pointing Griffon... very similar to German wirehairs but their heritage comes out of France. I love these breeds because they are hearty and love to be trained to help me with my unique wildlife rescue chores like finding vehicle injured wildlife or training squirrel and raccoons NOT to trust dogs. It will indeed be a special holiday period with a new canine daughter in the household. ( Her working name is "One Spot" but we are leaning towards Penny or Lexi as a final name.

So happiest of Holidays to each of you!!! Thanks as always for your artistic support to our mission." Dave
Dave Pauli
The HSUS Northern Rockies Animal Protection Team

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SURGICAL FUNDS SPONSORSHIP NEEDED

CASPER is the newest boy Dalmatain in rescue at Willing Hearts Dalmatian Rescue!
he needs surgery on his leg (I have a picture but it is too graphic to post here) ...
Let me tell you it is needed to help him heal and be adoptible in the future.

If you can spare a donation...please send it to
dalmatianrescue@comcast.net
that is also their PAYPAL addy.

Robbie and her volunteers will be very grateful!
CASPER will definately be grateful.
Make this part of your Christmas spirit of giving!
thanks from the artists at ART HELPING ANIMALS!
Happy Holidays!

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BE A SCROOGE! DECEMBER 8th....

It takes all of us to make a difference....let's end the year on a great note for the animals in YOUR LOCAL SHELTER!

As you are doing your shopping for the holidays don't forget your local shelter.

Play Santa!

~Shop for items your local shelter can use.

~Give a Gift Card from your local Walmart or BJ's Wholesale or Sam's Club to the shelter.

~Find out what they need most, make a list, check it twice!

then deliver it...you will feel on top of the world with that one gesture!

The BEST part of the classic A CHRISTMAS CAROL is the redemption of Scrooge and how he awakened to the fact that he had so much and could do some real good for others.

SO....BE A SCROOGE!

(The one who woke up on Christmas Morning to the joy of giving.)

Make DECEMBER 8th

the official

SHOP FOR YOUR LOCAL SHELTER DAY!

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please spread this message aroung the internet

lets see if we can bring real joy to animals in need...

Mark your calendar...

AND if you need a new calendar we have one that all proceeds go to animal charity!

see the

ART HELPING ANIMALS ART BLOG!

link below.

MERRY CHRISTMAS SHOPPING FOR THE ANIMALS!

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Siamese Mix Kittens available for Adoption

True Blue Animal Rescue near Brenham, Texas, has adorable Siamese Mix kittens available for immediate adoption.

They are absolutely precious. Their mother was adopted, but not them. The mother was a stray and had them in a field and brought them to someone's house for safety. Luckily, that person called T-bar, and T-bar was able to find the kittens a foster home, but they really, really, really want a forever-after home of their own. Let it be you.

The best time to get these adorable Siamese Mix kittens is now!

Adopt one or all.

Click on the following link for more photos of the kittens, instructions on How to Adopt, and T-bar's phone number.

http://www.t-bar.org/kittens.htm

UPDATE: "LouDog" ...

First...is that HSUS series not the best?!
Is that squirrel not the most adorable little guy?...ever life matters!
Artist Sandra Merwin is presenting this great series.

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THIS JUST IN...

"LouDog" the dalmatian pulled from the Citrus County animal control shelter by the very kind hearted animal control officer, who recognized the wasteful dumping of a young and beautiful life into a kill shelter situation and called

DALMATIAN RESCUE OF TAMPA BAY's "foster dad" to help,

IS ADOPTED!

she will be going to her new family after her medical care is done.

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Many thanks to caring hearts ...it is a happy day to report another life saved!

RAPTORS...

SPOTLIGHT ON

AN

ART HELPING ANIMALS CHARITY

visit their site!

see the wonderful work they do with raptor rehab and education!

http://www.eraptors.org/

Artwork: copyright 2006 Carol Chretien "In the Eye of the Falcon"