SEPRA and SNPR

How did Pugfest and POR go? Hope you both made tons of money for the pugs! Did any other rescues have events today? I'm enjoying seeing the pics on FB.

I am still waiting to see SNPR T-Shirt!!

The pictures are awesome! I hope both of the rescues made a ton of money!

Renee wrote:I am still waiting to see SNPR T-Shirt!!

The pictures are awesome! I hope both of the rescues made a ton of money!

I posted it!! It was great, weather was awesome, turn out was great-we made almost 1500 more than last year. And my Gizmo is adoption pending. Sad for me, happy for him!

Saira - I'm glad it was a success!!! Do you have any t-shirts left?

TxAllieGrl wrote:Saira - I'm glad it was a success!!! Do you have any t-shirts left?

I would also like to know this...

We do have a few left-not sure what sizes though-send me your size and I will look through the box tomorrow. When I can move....

Saira wrote:We do have a few left-not sure what sizes though-send me your size and I will look through the box tomorrow. When I can move....

no hurry :) just want to be sure I can support SNPR! I'm a 2xl, so let me know if there are any and I'll send ya paypal

I'd love an XL for Joe...or an L for me...

Is that the ones in Texas and Alabama? If so I donated my felted puggies to the silent auction! I hope they raised $$$$

SEPRA's Pugfest was awesome! Brenda, DeAnna, Kate, and so many more volunteers make it amazing! We got there Friday night and it is like magic because everything was set up and ready to go for the next morning. I know that a lot of hard work goes into that magic. For Saturday, there was a DJ, tons of sales tables with t-shirts and other items, silent auction tables that went on for miles, raffle table with an ipad 2 and a huge framed pug print, a carnival area for pugs and kids, a foster corral so that people could meet the current pugs in rescue, and so much more.

I am in shock how volunteers can do so much for an organization! This event rivals any corporate event that I've ever been to and just goes to show what people can do for a cause. I hope the $ show all the effort that went into the day.

Nan and BAGS wrote:Is that the ones in Texas and Alabama? If so I donated my felted puggies to the silent auction! I hope they raised $$$$

SNPR is Southern Nevada (Las Vegas) and SEPRA is Southeast Pug Rescue (GA, TN, AL, MO).

Texas is DFW Pug Rescue - our Pugoween is today.

TxAllieGrl wrote:SNPR is Southern Nevada (Las Vegas) and SEPRA is Southeast Pug Rescue (GA, TN, AL, MO).

Texas is DFW Pug Rescue - our Pugoween is today.

Someday I hope to make it to all of these rescue events! That would be very cool. I hope that everyone raised TONS of money!

I believe this year was better than the last few for SEPRA. I want to see the t-shirts from Pugfest!!!! Oh Brenda????????????

Sorry gang, I am still recovering. Fibromyalgia and Pugfest don't mix too well. I am exhausted, at work, but exhausted.

Here are a couple of links to pics some press got. The first one shows the 2011 t-shirt.

http://peachtreecorners.patch.com/articles/pugfest-2011-comes-to-gwinnett-bd9e4883#photo-8277588

http://www.gwinnettdailypost.com/news/2011/oct/29/friendly-flat-faced-dogs-gather-in-style/

When I handed the front gate volunteers the money boxes I totally forgot to tell them to give each person an admin ticket! So we have no attendance numbers. :( I do really think it was less people than last year and last year we had rain. But - we upped the admission price a few dollars and I think that was our saving grace dollar wise. And, the iPad 2 raffle was the bomb! Without those two, we would've been hurting. I don't have all the expenses added up yet, but we did do pretty good. At least we can pay off the credit cards now!

I really think people are getting bored with it. We had hardly any people doing the contests; which was really weird. We changed it up a little and even had a carnival area for the kids, but that didn't seem to do too well.

One *awesome* thing happened though! There's a two woman couple who have adopted many of our older and hard to place pugs and they went home with Boomer who no one wanted! One of the girls even retired early just so she can stay home with the "kids". They are awesome pug parents and that made my heart melt. I don't think anyone was interested in my foster kid, Spencer, but we'll see if any apps come in for him.

We did better than last year (the weather was terrible last year!), with more in attendance and more money made. Everyone seemed to have a good time, and we had 3 pending adoptions from there...but, we also have a few people who were interested in some of our seniors, which is the best part.

Brenda, I had a question-and for other rescues too. At your events, do you have booths with stuff for people to buy? The stuff is great but...I think people come with a set amount of money to buy stuff, and if they buy from a booth, that may be less money to go towards SNPR stuff and/or the raffles. Just wondering at how others are set up.

Do you mean booths from other vendors? If so we do - but we charge a booth fee of $110 per. So with 13 booths this year, that was $1430. Some are just info booths too, like Deceased Pet Care etc.

PugFest was a lot of fun this year. It did seem slow going at first but by the time the costume contest was about to get started the crowd swelled a good bit. Last year it was impossible to move around when the contests were going on and this year I didn't seem to have too much trouble so I thought perhaps attendance was down some. I was really happy to see people going deep into their pockets this year for the silent auction. I know a few items went for well over their normal retail price. I did like how things were split up some too. Two auctions with one ending earlier allowed people that weren't staying for the entire event a chance to get a few things. And the two 50/50 raffles being split up was nice too. I noticed more older folks this year and a lot less kiddies. There were several things I missed this year too (Jenny - I couldn't find her anywhere!!!!!) but there is always next year!



All the volunteers did a great job and it was like a very well oiled machine!

Congrats guys, on jobs well done.

Pug south east - did you see the felted put I did? I shipped it to Karin and it got there just in time so I would love to know how much $ it made for the pugs. !thanks

I'll have to see if I can find the silent auction sheet for it, Nan.

papaspugs wrote:SEPRA's Pugfest was awesome! Brenda, DeAnna, Kate, and so many more volunteers make it amazing!

And thanks so much for letting me have the chalkboard pug! That and one little item from the first silent auction was all I got on Saturday. I think the Chalkboard pug's box says where it came from so if you are interested, I'll let you know.

Dayna wrote:There were several things I missed this year too (Jenny - I couldn't find her anywhere!!!!!) but there is always next year!

Are you referring to me?

More pics of Pugfest.

Dayna - there's an adorable picture of you and Bear!!

http://www.jennifercatalan.com/

Brenda wrote:More pics of Pugfest.

Dayna - there's an adorable picture of you and Bear!!

http://www.jennifercatalan.com/

That is a great picture! I think I'm in love, though, with the girl in the pink Puppia harness being held by the guy in the pink shirt. Great pet photographer!