WNY Canine Rescue Awards
2015 marks the 5th Anniversary of the Kenmore Village Improvement Society (KVIS) Dog Days of Kenmore event. We have been so privileged to put on this event for this long and to have met so many wonderful and caring people through the process. The Dog Days Committee works to make the event better each year so that everyone participating can feel and know that the event is a joyous celebration of the wonderful bond between dogs and their people while also acting as a voice for dogs whenever possible.
We have learned a lot in planning Dog Days of Kenmore, but learning of the great passion and big-hearted dedication of Western New York’s dog rescue groups has been the most profound for us. We believe that everyone involved in these Western New York area rescue organizations are unsung heroes and should be celebrated and recognized as such -so we are throwing an annual party in their honor!
The WNY Canine Rescue Awards took place on Friday,
May 8th at 6:30 pm at Banchetti Banquets, 550 N. French Rd. Amherst NY
14228. Each Canine Rescue Group present at the Award Celebration received a special award and was heartily applauded for their efforts.
We have learned a lot in planning Dog Days of Kenmore, but learning of the great passion and big-hearted dedication of Western New York’s dog rescue groups has been the most profound for us. We believe that everyone involved in these Western New York area rescue organizations are unsung heroes and should be celebrated and recognized as such -so we are throwing an annual party in their honor!
The WNY Canine Rescue Awards took place on Friday,
May 8th at 6:30 pm at Banchetti Banquets, 550 N. French Rd. Amherst NY
14228. Each Canine Rescue Group present at the Award Celebration received a special award and was heartily applauded for their efforts.
The following organizations have been chosen to receive a 2015 WNY Canine Rescue Award
ABC Basset Hound; Akita Rescue; Akron Canine Rescued Angels; Animal Advocates of WNY; Better Days are Coming; Black Dog Second Chance; Blind Dog Rescue Alliance; Blue Collared Canines; Bright Star German Shepard Rescue; Broken Down Dogs; Buddy’s Second Chance; Buffalo Animal Shelter; Buffalo C.A.R.E.S. Animal Rescue; Buffalo Paws & Claws;
Buffalo Pug and Small Breed; Chautauqua County Humane Society; Companion Animal Rescue Society; Diamond’s in the Ruff; Dog Tags Niagara/Niagara County SPCA; EARS! Salamanca; Educate a Bull; Emma’s Mission; Empire Animal Rescue; EARS Buffalo; Enchanted Mountain Bully Breed; Fur Ever Friends of WNY; Going to the Dogs; Greyhound Action League of Buffalo; Greyhound Adoption Rochester; Greyhound Rescue Adoption; Grrowls; Guiding Eyes for the Blind; Harley’s Mission of Hope; Heart Animal Rescue & Adoption; Heart of Niagara; Home Sweet Home Animal Rescue; Hope Before Heaven & A Home Till Heaven; Joyful Rescues; Lincoln County Humane Society; Linkon’s Last Chance; Mitzi’s Mission; NCCR; No Kill Buffalo Niagara; Northern Chautauqua Canine Rescue; NYS Citizens Against Puppy Mills; Open Arms Rescue of WNY; Our Fur Child Rescue; Pet Alert of WNY; Pet Connections Program Marilla; Pet Emergency Fund; Paws Over Niagara; Pitty Love;
Pixie Mamas Rescue; Rescue a Bull; Sadie’s Safe Harbor; Save A Pet Niagara County; Second Chance Boxer Rescue; Second Chance Sheltering Network; Silver Lining for Pitbulls; Southern Ontario SOAR; SPCA of Erie County; Ugly Mutts; Volunteers for Animals.
ABC Basset Hound; Akita Rescue; Akron Canine Rescued Angels; Animal Advocates of WNY; Better Days are Coming; Black Dog Second Chance; Blind Dog Rescue Alliance; Blue Collared Canines; Bright Star German Shepard Rescue; Broken Down Dogs; Buddy’s Second Chance; Buffalo Animal Shelter; Buffalo C.A.R.E.S. Animal Rescue; Buffalo Paws & Claws;
Buffalo Pug and Small Breed; Chautauqua County Humane Society; Companion Animal Rescue Society; Diamond’s in the Ruff; Dog Tags Niagara/Niagara County SPCA; EARS! Salamanca; Educate a Bull; Emma’s Mission; Empire Animal Rescue; EARS Buffalo; Enchanted Mountain Bully Breed; Fur Ever Friends of WNY; Going to the Dogs; Greyhound Action League of Buffalo; Greyhound Adoption Rochester; Greyhound Rescue Adoption; Grrowls; Guiding Eyes for the Blind; Harley’s Mission of Hope; Heart Animal Rescue & Adoption; Heart of Niagara; Home Sweet Home Animal Rescue; Hope Before Heaven & A Home Till Heaven; Joyful Rescues; Lincoln County Humane Society; Linkon’s Last Chance; Mitzi’s Mission; NCCR; No Kill Buffalo Niagara; Northern Chautauqua Canine Rescue; NYS Citizens Against Puppy Mills; Open Arms Rescue of WNY; Our Fur Child Rescue; Pet Alert of WNY; Pet Connections Program Marilla; Pet Emergency Fund; Paws Over Niagara; Pitty Love;
Pixie Mamas Rescue; Rescue a Bull; Sadie’s Safe Harbor; Save A Pet Niagara County; Second Chance Boxer Rescue; Second Chance Sheltering Network; Silver Lining for Pitbulls; Southern Ontario SOAR; SPCA of Erie County; Ugly Mutts; Volunteers for Animals.
2015 Canine Rescue Awards Ceremony Address
By KVIS President, Melissa Foster
We are gathered here this evening to celebrate you –to honor you, and to thank you -for what you do is helping to change the world, helping to change humanity for the better. Mahatma Gandhi said, "The greatness of a nation and its moral progress can be judged by the way its animals are treated. I hold that, the more helpless a creature, the more entitled it is to protection by man from the cruelty of man."
And this is just what you do. Of course, the work you do matters the most to each individual dog you rescue, but with each rescue you also help to make wrongs right while promoting goodness. For in each place in the world, giving of oneself for those less fortunate and being a source of goodness is considered to be one of the highest virtues of humanity.
I think that we all know that dogs are such a perfect combination of attitudes and attributes – they can be child like and playful and yet they also seem to have such a deep and profound wisdom. Unlike us, they seem as if they do not think there is much distance between heaven and earth –seeming to remember where they come from, and when faced with death, where they are going. These marvelous, sentient –often bad-breathed beings are being helped and saved and nurtured because you care enough to help.
I know that at this moment I am in the presence of some of the most noble and caring people I have ever met and I am so honored to be with you. As a dog-lover, I am filled with gratitude for what you do. You are true beacons of goodness. If my heart is this glass –then it is filled with the greatest appreciation and thanks for each of you, your rescue group, and all those who support you.
Please raise your glass and join me in a toast.
Repeat after me please: ..to the Rescuers!
By KVIS President, Melissa Foster
We are gathered here this evening to celebrate you –to honor you, and to thank you -for what you do is helping to change the world, helping to change humanity for the better. Mahatma Gandhi said, "The greatness of a nation and its moral progress can be judged by the way its animals are treated. I hold that, the more helpless a creature, the more entitled it is to protection by man from the cruelty of man."
And this is just what you do. Of course, the work you do matters the most to each individual dog you rescue, but with each rescue you also help to make wrongs right while promoting goodness. For in each place in the world, giving of oneself for those less fortunate and being a source of goodness is considered to be one of the highest virtues of humanity.
I think that we all know that dogs are such a perfect combination of attitudes and attributes – they can be child like and playful and yet they also seem to have such a deep and profound wisdom. Unlike us, they seem as if they do not think there is much distance between heaven and earth –seeming to remember where they come from, and when faced with death, where they are going. These marvelous, sentient –often bad-breathed beings are being helped and saved and nurtured because you care enough to help.
I know that at this moment I am in the presence of some of the most noble and caring people I have ever met and I am so honored to be with you. As a dog-lover, I am filled with gratitude for what you do. You are true beacons of goodness. If my heart is this glass –then it is filled with the greatest appreciation and thanks for each of you, your rescue group, and all those who support you.
Please raise your glass and join me in a toast.
Repeat after me please: ..to the Rescuers!
A Note from Shelly Gordon, ABC Basset Hound Rescue
"I just wanted to thank you for a lovely evening on Friday! Whenever our rescue group is together, we're either working an event, stuffing envelopes, making baskets, etc. It was nice to just sit, eat and chat with them. I also enjoyed meeting the other rescue groups in the area. Thank you for the great event and I am already looking forward to next year!"
"I just wanted to thank you for a lovely evening on Friday! Whenever our rescue group is together, we're either working an event, stuffing envelopes, making baskets, etc. It was nice to just sit, eat and chat with them. I also enjoyed meeting the other rescue groups in the area. Thank you for the great event and I am already looking forward to next year!"