THANK YOU
to the countless pet lovers in the Fox Valley and beyond who have helped us help homeless pets!

The following caring and generous businesses and individuals have gone above and beyond
to help us help the abandoned, neglected, injured and abused animals in our care. We could not
do this without them! Also, a HUGE thank you to our veterinary partners!

SPECIAL THANK YOUS:

2011

+ Special Thanks to Andy Besch Plumbing of Appleton, for speedy service and donation of your time!

+ To the folks at First United Methodist Church for their donation of $543.06 - thank you!

+ To Festival Foods, Darboy (and their amazingly caring customers) who donated 100 bags of much needed litter!

+ To all the wonderful people who came out to the Purple Paw Parade and raised $6,723 for the homelss pets!

+ To the employees of Alta Resources who held a Jean Day and raised $202.13 for the homelss pets!

+ To the The Petco Foundation who donated to OARS Future Dog Building!

+ To the Kimberly-Clark South Office employees for donating more than $500 to the homeless pets of OARS!

+ To the U.S. Oil/Schmidt Family Foundation and Thrivent Financial for Lutherans for matching donations by employees!

+ To Tina at the Paperback Book Exchange in Neenah for setting out a donation can at her business and collecting much-needed funds for OARS!

+ To the employees of TIDI Products who held a supply drive for the homeless pets of OARS!

+ To the employees of Kim Central Credit Union who held a supply drive for the homeless pets of OARS!

+ To Girl Scouts Troops 2121 and 2098 for their generous donations, catnip sock toys and for loving up the kitties on their tour!

+ To the employees of Lakeview Credit Union who held a collection for the homeless pets of OARS!

+ To the employees of Roberts, Ritschke & Tyczkowski, Ltd. for holding a casual day as a fundraiser for the homeless pets of OARS, raising $220!

+ To the Kimberly-Clark South Office employees for donating more than $500 to the homeless pets of OARS!

+ To the U.S. Oil/Schmidt Family Foundation and Thrivent Financial for Lutherans for matching donations by employees!

+ To Tina at the Paperback Book Exchange in Neenah for setting out a donation can at her business and collecting much-needed funds for OARS!

+ To the employees of TIDI Products who held a supply drive for the homeless pets of OARS!

+ To the employees of Kim Central Credit Union who held a supply drive for the homeless pets of OARS!

+ To Girl Scouts Troops 2121 and 2098 for their generous donations, catnip sock toys and for loving up the kitties on their tour!

+ To the employees of Lakeview Credit Union who held a collection for the homeless pets of OARS!

+ To the employees of Roberts, Ritschke & Tyczkowski, Ltd. for holding a casual day as a fundraiser for the homeless pets of OARS, raising $220!

+ To Jen at Doggy Day Spa in Neenah for donating her grooming services to help the homeless pets of OARS look and feel their best!

+ To Marissa and Mareena F for asking for donations for the homeless pets of OARS instead of birthday gifts!

+To the Neenah Great Harvest Bread Company employees who donated their tips to help the homeless pets of OARS!

+ To the 4th graders at Butte des Morts elementary in Menasha, thank you for gathering donations for the homeless pets!

+ To Pitney Bowes employees who held a supply drive for the homeless pets of OARS!

+ To Pizza Hut in Neenah, who held a fundraiser for OARS that raised more than $100 to help the pets!

+ To Donovan J's parents, who asked for donations for OARS in lieu of birthday gifts for his 2nd birthday party!

+ To Marsha B. for donating a large cage for us to use for our homeless kitties while they wait for their families to find them at Pet Supplies Plus!

+ To Wal-Mart for awarding OARS a $500 grant!

+ To Rummele's Jewelers, The Dog House, All Creatures, Petco and many individual supporters who donated raffle items for our 2nd Birthday Pawty!

+ To Applebees and our volunteers, who raised $191.53 through their Dining to Donate program!

+ To Ruby W who donated raffle basket items!

+ To Ben D. who donated 250 lbs of cat litter to OARS!

+ To Carpetland of Oshkosh who has donated may rolls of carpeting for our cat treee fundraiser program!

+ To Landen V who asked for pet supply donations in lieu of birthday gifts for his 8th birthday, and then donated them to OARS at the Dog House!

+ To Cousins Subs and Pet Supplies Plus at the Northland Mall in Appleton for holding a Dog Wash and in-store promotion event for OARS; we raised $326!

+ To Pet Supplies Plus in the Northland Mall in Appleton for now hosting adoptable kittens from OARS on-site!

+ To the employees of Lakeview Credit Union for raising $450 for the homeless pets of OARS!

+ To Rick and Kerry Gasman from Planning Concepts for letting OARS use their parking lot for a 4th of July parking fundraiser!

+ To Aimee Purvayn for donating to the homeless pets of OARS in lieu of offering wedding favors at their wedding!

+ To Makenzie V for collecting donations for the homeless pets of OARS for her birthday party!

+ To Fox Valley Cat Clinic in Menasha for now hosting adoptable kittens from OARS on-site!

+ To Fox River Animal Hospital in Appleton for now hosting adoptable kittens from OARS on-site!

+ To The Dog House and Pet Center in Appleton for now hosting adoptable puppies and kittens from OARS on-site!

+ To 4Imprint for selecting OARS as a recipient of their one by one® program - we receive $500 in promotional items!

+ To Girl Scout Troop 2616 from Wilson Elementary who collected supplies for the homeless pets and toured the Adoption Center!

+ To Sara George who held a supply drive at Guardian Life Insurance, and to all the employees who donated supplies for the pets!

+ To Sharon Willoughby for donating towards the purchase of a fence for our Adoption Center!

+ To Rick Cross for donating his $100 prize received at TIDI Products as part of the Biggest Loser campaign!

+ To Tony Sonnleitner and the U.S. Oil/Schmidt Family Foundation, Inc. for contributing $200 to OARS!

+To Dr. Carrie Harness of American Animal Hospital and Clint Harness for donating multiple laser therapy treatments

to help three of our special needs kitties, Luigi, Clooney and Ted E Bear! The difference this treatment makes for healing wounds

and broken spirits is amazing and life-saving!

+To Women's Care of Wisconsin employees for holding a supply drive to benefit the homeless baby kittens and

puppies of Orphan Animal Rescue!

+To The Community Foundation of the Fox River Valley for giving us a $1,000 grant to help improve our security,

doors, lighting and more for our volunteers at the Adoption Center!

+To Industrial Machine Specialists, LLC for sponsoring one of our adoption rooms at the Adoption Center!

+To the Bemis Company Foundation for giving Orphan Animal Rescue a $250 grant to help make improvements to our

Adoption Center for our volunteers and homeless pets!

+ To 4Imprint employees for holding a supply drive for the homeless pets of Orphan Animal Rescue!

+ To Travis, Steve and Roy for donating their time to install insulation at the Adoption Center!

+To Winnebago County Human Services in Neenah for holding a supply drive for the homeless pets of OARS!

+To Steven Edward Graphics for donating vinyl wall art for our Adoption Center entrance! See his Facebook page

+To the Pedigree Foundation for giving OARS a grant for $656 to help our homeless pets! THE PEDIGREE

FOUNDATION logo is a trademark of Mars, Incorporated and is used with permission.

+To ABC Painting for donating time and materials to paint the lobby area at our new Adoption Center!

+To Capital R Coatings for donating time and materials to install commercial-grade flooring in three of the adoption rooms

at the Adoption Center!

+To The Dog House in Appleton for letting us bring adoptable dogs and cats to an adoption event on November 21st

and for hosting a giving tree for the orphaned pets of OARS through Dec.22nd!

+To The New York Deli in Appleton for hosting a holiday giving tree for the homeless pets of OARS!

+To Jaime Petrasko and Jesse Aspuro working our booth at the Holiday Expo in Neenah on Nov.14th. We raised

more than $250 at this event!

+To PetSmart in Appleton for letting us be part of their annual adoption event the weekend of Nov.14th!

+To Happy Joe's in Appleton for letting us be part of their grand opening celebration! We raised more than $400 at our booth!

+To Pet Supplies Plus in Appleton for letting OARS host an adoption meet and greet with kitties and pups on

September 19th. Thanks to PSP, we potentially got 4 dogs adopted!

+To Donna Gasbarro and JanSport/VF Corporation for honoring Donna Gasbarro for VF Day 2009 to honor VF employees

who contribute to their communities. VF will be donating $1,000 to OARS in honor of Donna's many volunteer hours!

+To PetSmart for inviting us to an adoption event the weekend of September 12th! We adopted 4 puppies

and one kitten as a result of this event! And thanks to Corey Krueger, Jackie Springstroh, Donna Matusewic,

Amy King and James Quinn for volunteering to help!

+To Natalie Nelson, Robin Eckstein, Louise Manthei, Donna Gasbarro, Amy King and Nicole Boesken

for volunteering at our booth at the Fox River Valley Cat Club's "Rogue Cats of the Carribean" Cat Show the weekend

of Sept.12th! We raised $909 at this event!

+ To Natalie and Alex Nelson, Nicole Boesken, Corey Krueger, Kerry Guyette, Amy King, Linda Jenschke,

Jamie Voster, James Quinn, Louise Manthei, Donna Gasbarro, Robin Eckstein, Emily Anderson and Jennifer Sartori

for volunteering at the Valley Pet Expo for OARS! We won 2nd place for our booth and raised nearly $550 at this wonderful event!

+ To Pet Supplies Plus for donating many of their extra boxes filled with cat and dog food samples after the show for our foster pets!

+ To Linda Jenschke for driving our 18 cats and kittens to Madison for their spay/neuter SOS run!

+ To Pick N Save in Neenah and to all our volunteers and supporters who came out to the brat fry on August 9! We raised

just over $300! A special thanks to Emily V, Emily R, Nicole, Shawn, Kerry, Amy, TimA, TimB, and Emily V's wonderful parents for helping out!

+ To Pet Supplies Plus in Appleton - for letting us hold an adoption event meet and greet on August 8!

+ To Clever K9s in Kaukauna - for letting us hold a dog and puppy meet and greet on July 10!

+ To Kerry Guyette and M&I Corporation - M&I named Kerry a 2009 Wings Award Winner. They award 10 employees

this distinguished award every year in honor of their volunteer contributions. They donated $500 to OARS in honor of Kerry.

Thanks Kerry and M&I!

+ To Josie, who asked her friends to help OARS for her birthday instead of getting gifts! What a generous young lady!

She donated $65 plus lots of kitty food, kitty litter, puppy food, toys and other pet supply items! Thanks to Josie and all her friends!

+ To Carolyn Bube, for holding a housewarming/birthday BBQ and asking friends to in lieu of a gift, to bring a donation to OARS.

They collected $181 for the homeless pets or OARS! And, Carolyn also adopted Doofey Duffey McScruff! Thank so much Carolyn!

+ To Purina ProPlan Rally to Rescue Program: learn more about this exciting program to benefit rescues

at www.rallytorescue.org.

+ To the wonderful and generous employees of Guardian, who held a pet supply drive to help our homeless

pets in June!

+ To everyone who stopped by our booth at Chickenfest in Darboy! We raised $133.34 at this event. A special thanks

to Kerry, Amy and Jesse for staffing the booth!

+ To everyone who attended our Rescue Romp! Fundraising event at Holiday's Bar & Grill in Neenah! We raised

$1234.50 at this event, which we will put toward our Adoption Center. Thank you to everyone who donated to us at

this event, and to Holiday's for donating the space for this event, and $70 in drink proceeds also!

+ To Inu Inspirations for donating handmade cat beds and other wonderful goodies to us! InuInspirations.etsy.com

+ To Linda Jenschke, Jenny and Kate Zietlow, and Reme and Yasser Bashi, for their generous donations to our

Bow-Wow Meow-Meow Rummage Sale!

+ To Carly Holcumb and all the employees at ThedaCare Corporate division for holding a jeans day and raising

$420 toward the purchase of our adoption center!

+ To everyone who supported us in the Human Race - we raised $1,565.66! THANK YOU!

+ To everyone who stopped by our booth at the WBAY Pet Expo in Green Bay. We raised $1,337.69 at this

wonderful event!

+Ruby Andrews, quiltmaker extraordinaire, for hand-making a beautiful cat-themed quilt

and donating it to us for fundraising!

+ TIDI Products and Julie Weber for donating much needed supplies and a gift card

+ Alex Nelson Photography for taking beautiful photos of many of our foster kitties! See more of his

amazing photographs at www.alexnelsonphotography.com.

+ Mary Szfranski and Heaven's Best Carpet & Upholstery Cleaning, who will donate $5 from each

new order referred by OARS to the homeless pets! Heaven's Best specializes in cleaning pet stains with unique

deep carpet cleaning techniques. Their low-moisture system drys in 1 hour. E-mail mary.szafranski@gmail.com

or call 920-850-1798 or 920-470-4337 to set up a carpet cleaning appointment.

+ Younkers for letting us participate in Community Day on Saturday Feb. 28th. We raised more

than $700 to help the homeless pets!

+ All Creatures Animal Hospital for holding a bake and craft sale to help the homeless pets of OARS!

+ Touchmark Retirement Community for letting us hold adoption events at their facility!

+ All Creatures Animal Hospital for hosting adoptable kitties!

+ Rover's Resort for hosting adoptable kitties!

+ Clever K9s for letting us participate in their pet expo!

+ Target for donating MANY supplies!

+ Anduzzi's of Appleton for donating their upstairs room and bartending help for our launch party!

+ Younkers for letting us participate in Community Day in Nov, 2008 - we raised more than $500!

+ Critter Sitters for donating supplies

+ Izz's Coats of Distinction and Karen Salin for donating doggie coats

+ Directions Incorporated for donating supplies and holding a holiday supply drive

+ Dr. Maureen Flatley

+ Dr. Carrie Harness and Clint Harness

+ ScoopFree for donating a litterbox

+ Gary Rhodes and RR Donnelly for donating brochures for OARS!

+ Tracie La Rue Moen for creating and donating kitty greeting cards for us to sell!

+ Kerri Young and the Mulry family, who held a holiday fundraiser for us! And to all the friends
and family who came out to support them!

+ Judy Zaretzke and her wonderful grandchildren for donating supplies!

+ Kerry Guyette for making snuggle socks and kitty hammocks and nip flicks and nip puffs and

TONS of other wonderful craft items for us to sell!

+ Donna Matusewic for baking homemade "pupcakes" for us to sell!

+ Ruby Andrews for making pet stockings for us to sell!

+ Every Woman's Expo for letting us be part of their great event in 2008!

+ Jodi Noordyk for donating a chair and hand painting it!

+ Nanette Furber from Fox Valley Ferret Rescue for donating cages and supplies

+ Linda and Gary Stemple for donating supplies

+ Nancy Christensen for sewing blankets and other winter items for us to sell as a fundraiser

+ Emily and Tim Anderson

+ Nicole and Tim Boesken

+ Natalie and Alex Nelson

+ Amy and Steve King
+ Kerry Guyette
+ Kay Halbrook
+ Linda Jenschke

+ Laura and Phillip Lotto

+ Donna and Steve Gasbarro

+ Donna and Fred Matusewic

+ Emily Vanesky

+ Linda and Ron Vanesky
+ Sue Matheys
+ Mary Szafranski
+ Jen Schloss

+ Art Kriewaldt

+ Lori and Woody Jepson

+ Tara Schipferling
+ Mike and Korina Theisen
+ Judy Zaretzke

+ Dr. Maureen Flatley

+ Dr. Carrie Harness and Clint Harness

+ Brad Schloss

+ Dave Vogel and Amanda Meyer
+ Amy Knight

+ Cory Hacker

+ Tom Pepper
+ Mark Moorhead
+ Bill Faster

+ Suzanne von Valtier

+ Erica Alderson

+ Sharon Willoughby

+ Sara Westgor

+ Louise Manthei

+ Robin Eckstein

+ Tracie La Rue Moen

+ Lacey Tuyls

+ Jodi Noordyk

+ Carol and Tom Lyons

+ Corey Krueger

+ Russ and Denise Krueger

+ Della Scovronski

+ Carly Holcumb

+ Andi Bauer

+ Matt and Angie Demers

+ Debbie Harding

+ Jackie and Rob Springstroh

+ James and Steph Quinn

+ Jenn Treiber

+ Jesse Aspuro

+ Jaime Petrasko

+ Judy Diemel

+ Sally Heenan

+ Laura Hunt

+ Lindsey Atwater

+ Nita Woulf

+ Shawn Herndon

+ Ann Knedle

+ Everyone who voted for us on the Care2.com "America's favorite animal shelter" competition! We landed in the

top 100 in the U.S.!

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