Music + Comedy Fundraiser in Seoul

[Karen]

Rocky Mountain Tavern has GONE TO THE DOGS

This Friday 2/22/2008 starting at 9pm, cost 12,000 KRW



Music, Comedy, plus a great Raffle Prize (first prize is an iPod)


All proceeds will go to help the dog shelter in Daejeon.

Save a life!

The Daejeon shelter is being forced to close February 28th, 2008. There are about 120 dogs who are in desperate need of a good home. If nothing is done, they will be moved to a city-run kill shelter.

Directions From Itaewon station, exit 3:
Walk straight from the exit and cross the street at the intersection, walk past the fire station. It is on the right, past the stairs, across the street from the International Clinic. Second floor. Look for the totem pole entrance and go on up.

http://www.rockymountaintavern.com/About.html

If you are interested in helping (maybe donation a gift for the raffle, or any other kind of help) even if you can't attend, please contact Tim Vasudeva. (http://www.animalrescuekorea.org/forums/member.php?u=11)

You can also invite your friends to this event through Facebook. (http://www.facebook.com/event.php?eid=7641449177&ref=nf)

NOTE: jello shots are will be for sale- all proceeds to the dogs!

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[Karen]

Here's the flyer for the event.

[Karen]

Here's an update from Tim (http://www.animalrescuekorea.org/forums/member.php?u=11):

Just a quick update regarding the Daejeon dog shelter fundraiser held last Friday night.

We had a great turnout, over 100 people came out to the RMT - we were most appreciative of those who made the effort to head out on a wet Seoul night to show their support for the rescue effort. We raised around 2.2 million Won on the night and received another 1.0 million Won in direct donations from people who weren't able to make it to the fundraiser but were kind enough to provide some financial assistance anyway.

Huge thanks to The Forty Days, The Mechanical Seals and Seoul City Improv who all did their thing for gratis - we are incredibly appreciative. Thanks also to Corry and everyone from the Rocky Mountain Tavern - just a great venue and all the staff were incredibly helpful when I turned up later than planned and need to put up 200 posters of rescue dogs quickly. Also a big thank you to everyone who helped put the event together and assisted on the night - Maggie, Elyssa, Annie, Sarah, Jen, Brigette (apologies if I have left anyone out...) and to everyone who helped promote the event by distributing flyers, creating Facebook events etc (Mark, Ron a special thank you to you). Also to everyone who was kind enough to donate items to the raffle - much appreciated.

The money will be a huge help with our ongoing expenditure on the shelter dogs' welfare.

We have applied to the Daejeon council for an extension to the scheduled 28 Feb closure date for the shelter. We are hopeful that this request will be met favourably given we have reduced the number of dogs from 210 in June last year to 111 as of last weekend, but we don't know whether this reduction is proceeding quickly enough for their liking (or the liking of the owner of the property).

We did have a good weekend with adoptions and dogs taken out of the shelter into foster care - 7 dogs were rehomed and we also managed to rescue one puppy from the Daejeon city council shelter (not Mrs Jung's shelter) into foster care.

Mrs Jung also had a visit from a KBS TV show about animals called ZooZoo CLub. They were really nice - they brought out dog food, a vet to check on the dogs and a mobile dog groomer to bathe and clip some of the shabbier-looking dogs. Keep an eye out for Mrs Jung's shelter if you are in the habit of watching that program (which I'm sure all of you are...ahem...)

If we do receive an extension then the funds raised last week will assist us with the dogs' ongoing veterinary care (neutering/spaying, diseased teeth removal, heartworm treatments, immunisation injections, eye treatments, relocation expenses for dogs that have to travel etc). The Macquarie Group Foundation continue to kindly assist us with purchasing dog food (100+ dogs are kinda expensive to feed..).

If we don't manage to secure an extension then the funds raised will help us in our efforts to arrange emergency relocation for some of the dogs (eg to other animal rescue groups, which will most likely require the provision of financial support for their ongoing care).

If anyone has any questions regarding the shelter or needs more information please contact me any time (http://www.animalrescuekorea.org/forums/member.php?u=11).

Best,
Tim