Join us now in planning this historic week for Delaware's animals! Please join the Delaware Week for Animals Facebook community and let's twitter together.
We're thrilled to anounce that the 5th Annual Delaware Week for the Animals, presented by Animal World USA, kicks off on Saturday April 14th and will conclude on Sunday, April 22th, 2012.
See our Calendar of Events page for details on the wide array of wonderful events - there are terrific events taking place in towns and communities across Delaware during this amazing 4th Annual Delaware Week for the Animals!
Throughout the week, shelters, rescue groups, and humane organizations across the state will be hosting wonderful animal-related special events. Educators, students, businesses and caring citizens across Delaware will be joining in as well, each planning activities to celebrate and help animals.
Events will include adoption fairs, spay/neuter awareness events, shelter adoption days, R.E.A.D. dog programs in libraries, events for the farm animals and therapy dogs visiting hospitals along with nursing homes. Exciting Earth Day events will be taking place during the week underscoring our need to protect the planet.
Also to be included are a salute to our canine military and police dogs, cat initiatives, special programs at the sanctuaries, blessings for the animals, and full-filled festival days for families to come and enjoy food, music and the amazing animals!
Become involved! Events are being planned now, and we need animal lovers everywhere in Delaware to start planning so they can participate! See the page "Become Involved" on the website for lots of great ideas and suggestions on what you can do.
Please note we will be adding events and activities right up to the kick off of the week.
We are building on the life-changing energy that was generated during last year's historic Delaware Week for the Animals, and we want you to be a part of this year's celebration. Please send us your ideas and let's make this very special annual week for the animals better than ever!
Please Join Together With:
Governor Jack Markell
Animal World USA
Andy's Friends
Banfield The Pet Hospital - Salisbury
A Buddy for Life, Inc.
Bellevue State Park
Bethany Town Cats
Beverly Bellows, Artist
Brandywine Zoo
Castaway Cats
Cats Around Town Society, Inc.
Chenoa Manor Animal Sanctuary
Cinemark Movies 10 - Wilmington
Comp Animals - Landenberg PA
County Bank - Georgetown
DAAWGS - Delaware Alliance for Animal Welfare Groups, Inc.
DADS - Delaware Animal Disaster Services
DAR - Delaware Animal Response
Debra L. Sipple Memorial, Inc. (Debbie's Fund)
Delaware for Angels Among Us Animal Sanctuary
Deerfield Fine Wines and United Distributors, Inc.
Delaware Action for Animals
Delaware Companion Animal Federation
Delaware Emergency Management Agency
Delaware Humane Association
Delaware Library System
Delaware National Estuarine Research Reserve
Delaware Nature Society
Delaware SPCA - New Castle County Shelter
Delaware SPCA - Sussex County Shelter
Delaware Veterinary Technicians Association
Delmarva Cat Connection
Delmarva Decorative Artists
DELMARVA Search and Rescue Group
Dogs Deserve Better-No Chains!
Dover Air Force Base
Faithful Friends No-Kill Animal Shelter, Inc.
Feral Friends of Millsboro
Forgotten Cats, Inc.
Frankford Library
Frankford Elementary School
Freedom Cycle - Wilmington
Georgetown Family Restaurant
Georgetown SPCA Volunteers
Gerilyn Gaskill, Artist
Giant Food - Millsboro
Giant Food - Rehoboth Beach
Girl Scout Troop #42, Jayne Werbrich-Girl Scout Troop Leader
Greater Wilmington Convention & Visitors Bureau
Greyhound Pets of America: GPA Delaware
Guiding Eyes for the Blind - Delmarva Region
Harris Teeter - Millsboro
Hike With Your Dog
Historic Lewes Cat Society
Home Again
Homeless Cat Helpers, Inc.
Kent County SPCA
Kent County & Greater Dover Convention and Visitors Bureau
Killens Pond State Park
Little Sisters of the Poor
Lost and Found Dog Rescue No-Kill Adoption Center, New Castle
Major George S. Welch Elementary School
Matthew Denn, Lt. Governor of Delaware
Mid-Atlantic Great Dane Rescue - Delaware Dog Fest
Millsboro Art League
Newark Natural Foods Cooperative
NIFAA -National Institute for Animal Advocacy
No Nonsense Office Machines - Georgetown
PAWS for People - PetAssisted Visitation Volunteer Services, Inc.
Paws of Tomorrow, Inc.
People's Place - The SAFE Program
Puffect Haven Cat Rescue
Saint Paul's Episcopal Church - Georgetown
Schell Brothers, LLC
Senator Colin Bonini - 16th District, Dover South, Delaware
South Paw Acres
Southern DE Therapeutic and Recreational Horseback Riding, Inc.
Spring Dewey
Summerwind Stables
Sussex County Animal Association
The Gryphon Press
Tri-State Bird Rescue and Research, Inc.
Tunnell and Raysor, P.A. - Georgetown
Whimsical Animal Rescue
World Peace Diet
Presented by:
Delaware Animals
Contact us to become
2012 Partner!
Delaware
"The First State"
A very special thank you to Governor Jack Markell
for proclaiming
Delaware Week for the Animals!
Please scroll down to read the 2011 official proclamation.
Announcing
5th Annual Delaware Week for the Animals
April 14-22, 2012
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