UPAWS Receives Donation from Thrivent Choice Dollars

UPAWS Receives Record Donation from Thrivent Choice Dollars

MARQUETTE, Mich. – March 22, 2016 – The Upper Peninsula Animal Welfare Shelter (UPAWS) recently announced a record year for donations coming from the Choice Dollars program offered by Thrivent Financial.  Each year

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Melvin

Melvin, our bunny, has adjusted beautifully to his new home. We love him dearly and we let him run freely throughout the house whenever someone is at home, when someone isn’t home we set him up in the kitchen behind

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Sahara

All has been well! It didn’t take long for Sahara to warm up to our other cat! She loves cuddles and her feather toy! It’s already been replaced three times! Our cat Cleo and Sahara have started playing with each

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Grizwald

Hey there! Grizwald is adjusting very well. He is still a little bit shy but not to the point where he avoids people, he simply likes his own space. (reminds me of myself) the first few days after we got

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Jon’s Auto Supports UPAWS

Thank you to Jon’s Auto for helping the UPAWS pets!


Contest for a customized dog house from The House Designers – and UPAWS wins too!

It’s a contest for a customized dog house from The House Designers – and UPAWS wins too!

Details:

To enter, first make a donation of at least $50 to your UPAWS
Next, write a short essay about your own dog and take

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Ishpeming High School Students Help UPAWS

The Ishpeming High School National Honor Society and Key Club had a service project to help UPAWS! They made and sold “puppy chow” for donations and had a large wish list drive for us. Thank you students and all who

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The Throttle Bar and Grill Sled Night Update

Many thanks to the wonderful folks at The Throttle Bar and Grill in Little Lake hosted and sponsored another Sled Night to benefit UPAWS. There were dozens of bucket raffles, 50/50 drawings, and a lots of door prize drawings. All

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Saving Your Econo Slips Helps UPAWS

One of the easiest things you can do to help our shelter is to save your Tadych’s Econo receipts (slips) for us. Shelter volunteers total the slips up that we receive, turn them into Econo & we get 1% of

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Art for Animals Update

The long anticipated Art for Animals, sponsored by Art of Framing, was held February 25th and what a great evening it was! One hundred and forty-four artists, young and old, professional and amateur, submitted their masterpieces for the silent auction,

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