Pets and Wonder: Get Inked for the Animals
The Athens Area Humane Society has partnered with Pain and Wonder Tattoo Studio to host a fundraiser where people can get tattoos, piercings and/or t-shirts on Monday, January 30, 2012 from 12:00pm to 10:00pm and a portion of the proceeds will be donated to AAHS! This fundraiser will allow us to raise money for our adoption program and our spay/neuter program to help the animals in our community by lowering local euthanasia rates.
But what do tattoos have to do with pets, you ask? Whenever a pet is spayed at the AAHS Spay & Neuter Center, each animal receives a small green tattoo on her underside to easily indicate that she’s already been spayed and can no longer get pregnant. All the cool pets are spayed and neutered, so why don’t you join them in your support to end pet overpopulation by coming out to Pets and Wonder to get a tattoo, piercing or t-shirt!
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If you would like to make an appointment to get a tattoo or piercing, please contact Pain and Wonder Tattoo Studio at 706-208-9588 (open Monday through Saturday from 12:00pm to 10:00pm). Walk-ins are also welcome. T-shirts will be available for $15 at the event—preorders are also available if you cannot attend the event (contact Amanda@AthensHumaneSociety.org for more info).
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How the proceeds will help the animals:
The Athens Area Humane Society pulls animals from local animal control shelters to give them a second chance at a new life through our no-kill adoption program. During 2011, AAHS adopted 60 dogs, 230 cats and 21 small animals to their new forever homes—animals who were once abandoned at animal control. Around half of the animals that enter local animal controls never leave… so along with our goal to find new homes for homeless pets, we have our Athens Regional Spay & Neuter Center which provides low-cost spays and neuters to the public (3,300 spays and neuters in 2011) in order to reduce the number of unwanted animals who end up at shelters because of pet overpopulation. The Pets and Wonder fundraiser event will help us to save more animals and prevent more unwanted litters in 2012!
