Here is a peak at Mabel's 80th Birthday festivities. It is the unpaid volunteers like Mabel that enable ARF to rescue, care and treat cats and dogs in need.
MEET MOLLY
Molly is a 4 year old, female, 12lb tan and white shih tzu. Molly is a very sweet girl. Good with children and she is housetrained. You can meet Molly at S. Memorial Animal Hospital.
One of our most amazing volunteers is celebrating EIGHTY amazing years! ARF is so grateful she has spent many of those years rescuing animals and sharing her life with us. Mabel was a head cook for Tulsa Public Schools for several years. Her husband was chief engineer at KOTV, Channel 6. She started volunteering in 1993, soon after her husband died of ALS (Lou Gehrig's Disease). She has adopted several ARF dogs over the years, fostered moms & puppies early on & some larger dogs. The last few years, after having both knees replaced (which only slowed her temporarily!) she has stayed with Chihuahuas. For several years she was the "go to" gal for ARF, driving to the shelter & filling her little station wagon with dogs. She would have leashes knotted out of every door, dogs secured inside, & crates in the middle. Many days she put 70 miles a day in, transporting dogs from the shelter to the vet to the groomer & back to the vet. Mabel was in charge of the 41st St Petsmart on Thursdays & Saturdays, & the 71st St Petsmart on Fridays. We stopped doing the Thursday booth about 8 or 9 years ago. Mabel is also very active in her church, still helping cook Wednesday night dinners & cooking lots of meals for funerals. No telling how many hundreds of cinnamon rolls she bakes every year: her dinner rolls & cinnamon rolls are the best! She has kept all the donated dog & cat supplies (along with the attending visitor mice) for many years.
Posh Pet #28 You are the winner!! More about the poshest pet in town coming soon. You can claim your prize when you pick up your photographs. Speaking of photographs they will be available to pick up within 1-2 weeks from the time you submited your order!! You will be notified as soon as they are ready. Thank you for your patience I know they are so adorable that it is hard to wait!! Congrats Allyson for doing such an amazing job. If I do not have your contact information please email me, jenwrn@yahoo.com. Puppy love and kitty kisses, Jen ARF TULSA