Out To Pasture Sanctuary

Ride to the Light: 3 Sanctuary Century Fundraising Bike Ride

bluedove — Mon, 23 Aug 2010 05:51:41 +0000

We’re thrilled to announce that Ride to the Light is happening again this year. Come join the fun!

Forwarded from NW In Defense of Animals (IDA):

Our second annual one-hundred mile fundraising bike ride is right around the corner. Yep, we had so much fun last year that we’re doing again this year and we need you to make it a success.

The Ride to the Light is a bike ride to benefit Lighthouse Farm Sanctuary, Out To Pasture Sanctuary and IDA’s own Hope Animal Sanctuary.

This one-hundred mile (century) bike ride is Saturday, September 25, 2010. We’ll be leaving from the Vegan Mini-mall and riding to Out To Pasture in Estacada, then on to Lighthouse in Scio. Project Hope is in Mississippi, so we won’t be making a stop there, but they’ll be with us in spirit.

Can’t ride a hundred miles? No problem. New for this year’s ride we’re adding a shorter 40-mile route that ends at Out to Pasture in Estacada. Now you have no excuses not to do this ride!

Our fundraising site makes an easy job of raising the $120 minimum pledge to join the ride. All you have to do is circulate this site to friends and family via Facebook and email, and ask for them to contribute to these worthy sanctuaries. On the site they can post a message of support and let everyone know they are giving a donation in your name.

We’re also working on awesome vegan prizes for the folks who raise the most money beyond the $120 entry fee.

Come along for the ride or make a donation and help us reach (or even better, exceed) our goal of $15,000 for these three very worthy causes.

Please e-mail Eric (eric[at]idausa[dot]org) or Matt (matt[at]idausa[dot]org) or call 503-249-9996 for more information. Please also visit our donation page and consider making a donation to help support our ride.

Hay Day

bluedove — Sat, 31 Jul 2010 05:18:42 +0000

OTP is looking for a few burly men or women to help unload a few tons of hay on Wednesday August 4th from 1:00 until about 3:00 at the sanctuary. No previous experience required since this is a brawn not brain activity. Good company and vegan snacks provided. If this sounds like your idea of a good time please contact Kit at kit.collins@gmail.com or call 503-756-8652. Yeehaw!

Yard sale #2

bluedove — Mon, 26 Jul 2010 02:31:49 +0000

Yard sale #2 this summer will take place next Saturday, July 31 and the day after from about 11 am until evening. Please stop by, 2907 NE Weidler St, Portland. Item donations are still being accepted. If you have an item or items you would like to donate please contact Kit at kit.collins@gmail.com or 503-756-8652.

Map

Thanks!!

bluedove — Sun, 25 Jul 2010 21:19:15 +0000

Thank you to everyone who came to the Open House yesterday! Was a super fun day. We hope everyone had a good time. Thanks to all for the cash and food donations. Thanks to the musicians for the wonderful music. And thanks again to the businesses who donated food for the event. Very appreciated!! We will be posting photos from yesterday to the website sometime this week. If you would like to offer comments/suggestions please email Kit at kit.collins@gmail.com.

bunnies!

bluedove — Fri, 23 Jul 2010 19:56:19 +0000

A kind hearted woman named Michelle bought rabbits at the Woodburn auction rather than see them go to slaughter. OTP has adopted thirteen of these lucky bunnies who are now happily hopping across the grass in the new enclosure. Come meet them at the Open House this Saturday.

Huge thanks to the following Open House food donors…

bluedove — Fri, 16 Jul 2010 19:14:15 +0000

Thank you to all our wonderful food donors for the Open House scheduled for Saturday July 24th. Vegan sausages for the vegan bbq are being donated by Turtle Island. Proper Eats, an organic vegan cafe in St Johns, will be donating salad fixings to our meal. Buns are being provided by Nature Bake. Dave’s Killer Bread is giving us vegan cookies and Turtle Mountain will be donating delicious vegan ice cream desserts. Yum! We can hardly wait!

Portobello supports OTP…

bluedove — Fri, 16 Jul 2010 00:37:37 +0000

…and here’s a delicious opportunity for you to support Portobello and Out to Pasture. Out to Pasture Sanctuary is so thrilled to be the first 10% Tuesdays charity partner of Portobello Vegan Trattoria in their beautiful new space! Go eat deliciousness there every Tuesday in July, and 10% of the proceeds go directly to benefit the animals at OTP.

Rescued kitty and her baby (not presently residing at OTP) need a home

bluedove — Thu, 15 Jul 2010 18:13:39 +0000

(click images to enlarge)

Percy & Popty Need A Loving Forever Home!

Percy is a female cat that we rescued about 10 weeks ago. She was pregnant at the time, and she had five babies. The other four kittens have been adopted. Unfortunately, the adoptions on Percy and the last kitten, Popty have fallen through.

Percy is approximately 1-2 years of age. She is a gorgeous gray/brown long-haired cat. She is very friendly, loves to sit on your lap, to be brushed, and to play. We will be having her spayed as soon as the vet clears her. (At her last checkup, her milk had not dried up completely yet.) We are taking her in on Friday 7/2 for her FLV/Distemper booster and a re-check, so hopefully will know by then when we can have her spayed. (This means it will probably 2-3 weeks yet before she will be ready to move from our home to yours).

Popty is her last baby. She is 10 weeks old and is a gorgeous long-haired black kitty with just a tuft of white by her throat. She is very curious and loves to play and climb. She is litter box trained and has had her first FLV/Distemper shot. She’ll be getting her booster this Friday, 7/2. She will need to be spayed when she is old enough.

We are looking to keep them together and adopt them out to a loving, indoor home, where they will not be declawed. We would love to keep them ourselves, but having seven other cats already, this just is not an option for us.

If you have room in your hearts and home for this gorgeous pair, then please drop us an email (JoAnn at jmdohn@comcast.net), so we can talk further. We will provide copies of all vet/shot records, remaining food etc.

Thank you!

Veggie donations for the animals

bluedove — Tue, 13 Jul 2010 01:25:43 +0000

For several years OTP has been getting free discarded produce from Raw! Raw! Raw! Foods located in City Market on NW 21st in Portland. The animals at OTP enjoy daily a variety of fruits and veggies thanks to the generosity of Raw! Raw! Raw!

Limo & Coco get a hair cut

bluedove — Tue, 13 Jul 2010 01:04:46 +0000

Sherri Tallman from Hidden Oaks Llama Ranch came out to shear, vaccinate, deworm and do nail trims on the two llamas. Limo and Coco are much happier now with their short summer hairdos. Sherri does llama rescue and was the one who took Limo and Coco from their last home (where sadly they had been left tied to trees for years).