Shelter Friends Summer Camp 2016: Week 2
Shelter Friends
Summer Camp 2016
Week 2
by Middle School Campers
Copyright 2016 by Pet Alliance
of Greater Orlando
This book was published in collaboration with
Karen S. McGowan and Dennis E. McGowan,
authors of Jolly Time Books.
Jolly Time Books tell exciting stories the whole family can enjoy.
Book Cover design by Dan S. McGowan
Introduction
Stephen Bardy, Executive Director
Imagine a book that is filled with stories and poems written by kids who love animals. Writing gives us the chance to use our imagination, to be creative, to explore our deepest thoughts and feelings, and to discover the gifts and talents we have inside.
Pet Alliance of Greater Orlando is proud to present original works that tell how the young authors are feeling in their lives and thinking about the world around them. The writings and artwork are truly from the heart and strive to portray the hands-on experiences with shelter pets and knowledge gained from educational speakers during our weeklong Shelter Friends Summer Camps. You will not find these imaginative and creative ideas anywhere else.
Cathy Houde and Diane Anderson, in collaboration with Jolly Time Books authors Karen S. McGowan and Dennis E. McGowan, headed up this endeavor. Our campers contributed a wide variety of works, from humorous to inspiring to deeply personal, to share their fun experiences.
Pet Alliance of Greater Orlando educates, shelters, places, and heals pets and their families with compassionate, responsible care maintained to the highest professional standards. We create more caring communities by promoting happier, healthier pets and their families.
I hope you enjoy the stories and poems that our summer camp participants have put together for you. I encourage you to support our continuing positive community outreach programs.
Your support of Pet Alliance of Greater Orlando goes directly to helping pets in need. Whether it is finding a dog or cat a new forever home, providing low cost vet services, or helping to prevent pet homelessness through our spay/neuter program, Pet Alliance’s goal is to have happier and healthier pets in Central Florida.
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We speak. We heal. We care.
Contents
Introduction
Beginning
Acknowledgments
About Pet Alliance of Greater Orlando
About Jolly Time Books
Beginning
1. Simon A.
2. Freya OReilly-Brookes
3. Kaleb Worrall
4. Lillith Mendonca
5. Payton Nicolo
6. Kayla Torkos
7. Anna D.
8. Isabella Largent
9. Aarya Ussery
10. Drew Jansen
11. Sarah Kieber
12. Ava S.
13. Jack S.
14. Alexandra Englert
Simon A.
Freya OReilly-Brookes
Age 12, 6th Grade
Pet Alliance
This camp has been great! I learned so many things such as you have to give police dogs 12 weeks of training. I had a great exeperience and I defiently want to come back to the camp and volunteer next year!
Today the police came in and showed the class there police dog. We went outside and they showed us the dog comandes and a little bit of training. The dog was very well trained and he was so cute. I learned that it takes 12 weeks to train the dog. A part that I thought that was very interesting was when the policeman wore the bite proof jacket and pants and the police woman told the dog to bite the man. It was so cool! It was a really cool demonstration!
Today Miss Sara brought two of her dogs, she brought her small dog ginger. She is very scared and she gets nervous. But when you get to know her she can calm down. I also met two cats that I really liked. The first one was named Jada and she was very cute. The next one didn’t have a name but she looked a lot like my cat at home. I also looked at the cats in the cages. The kittens were very playful and cute and I wish I could adopt all of them.
Today I saw cats and dogs. I have two cats so I was really exited to go to the cat room. Another thing I really enjoyed was givin the dog a bath. I have never given a dog a bath before, so it was new to me. The cats were really friendly and they were really cute!
Kaleb Worrall
See a new Family pet!
Lillith Mendonca
Age 10, 6th Grade
First day of camp was amazing! When we did rotations first was training. The dog we where tranings name was Rocco. Rocco whas a very nervous puppy. after about 5 tricks he was done. So then we whent to cat room next. There where a lot of kittens because it was kitten seson. My favorit cats were Tabby (orange tabby cat), Blocks, Senaa, and Kite. The final rotation was dog wash. We washed Sasha today. I was on bandanna duty. I selected my favrite bandanna and tied it on the dog. When rotations was done it was lunch time We ate and whatched a movie. After the movie and lunch we did crafts. We colored Paw Prints and made decorations to help promote adoption. We are going to get a presentation soon today. friday we are going to Sea World. I cant wait! Also toomorow we have to dress like in the 80’s. Thats all for today!
Lulu: 80’s
Second day of camp was amazing! Today we got a presentation about orange county animal services. When we did rotations, in the cat room I was playing with kittens when I noticed a tabby cat, I found out his name was ginger and he’s very frienly. And I love his purrsonality! he’s frendly with dogs and young kids! I told my mom about him and were going to look at him tommorow. hopefully we’ll adopt him! That all for now!
Adopt Me!
Third day of camp was so fun! The presotation for today is police k-9 unit. They showed us how the dogs behaved. Max might be getting adopted! I visited Ginger again. We made cat mobiles today. I put mines in Sweeties cage. The kittens are very destructive!
Payton Nicolo
Age 12, 7th Grade
Pet Alliance Camp 2016
We Speak. We Heal. We Care.
Kayla Torkos
Age 11, 6th Grade
Anna D.
Today is only the second day of camp, and I already have a special bond with a beautiful black cat named Luna! She had stunning green eyes, and super soft fur. Luna is small and quaint, with small, delicate paws. She loves to just relax in my lap, and sleep.
Isabella Largent
Age 11, 6th Grade
Today was so much fun! I met two dogs today, LuLu and Ginger. LuLu got a bath today and got a mohawk. We said she looked like a rockstar! I will come back next summer for all these fun laughs again!
Aarya Ussery
Age 12, 7th Grade
Grooming
Drew Jansen
Age 11, 6th Grade
Pet Alliance
Sarah Kieber
This Has Been The Best Camp EVER!
Ava S.
Dog training
Dog Grooming
Jack S.
Prr . bark bark . meow . down
Alexandra Englert
Age 12, 6th Grade
Author Unknown
ME and my rescue pets
Author Unknown
Pets love shelter food water
Author Unknown
Author Unknown
Playing . Grooming . Training
Author Unknown
Acknowledgments
Special thanks to:
Camp Counselors
Lenai Montgomery
Sara Moye
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Volunteers
Justin Petrak
Hannah Medina
Jana Jirgens
Teri Faucette
Sharon Balavage
Katie Dean
Jessica Vasquez
Penny Stewart
Judi Lebredo
Brittny Edwards
Ian Frazier
Alexis Buskirk
Kathleen Rubino
Sydney Crisp
Antonio Fazzalari
Natalie Rincon
Jill Misura
Casey Frazier
Destiny Houghton
Candice Pretsch
Camp Dogs
Anber, Wylie, Rousey, China, Lucy, Leia, Einstein, Rocco, Bailey, Michelin, Cupcake, Charlotte, Max, and Belle
This book would not have been possible without the commitment and contributions of these individuals:
Pet Alliance of Greater Orlando
Cathy Houde
Diane Anderson
Jolly Time Books
Karen S. McGowan
Dennis E. McGowan
Dan S. McGowan
About Pet Alliance of Greater Orlando
Pet Alliance of Greater Orlando educates, shelters, places, and heals pets and their families with compassionate, responsible care maintained to the highest professional standards. We create more caring communities by promoting happier, healthier pets and their families.
We are different from all the rest!
Pet Alliance of Greater Orlando has received the GuideStar Exchange Gold participation level, a leading symbol of transparency and accountability provided by GuideStar USA, Inc., the premier source of nonprofit information. This level demonstrates Pet Alliance of Greater Orlando’s deep commitment to transparency and accountability for nonprofit organizations. GuideStar is our partner in philanthropy and through the GuideStar Exchange program we share a wealth of up-to-date information about our vital mission to save more lives of dogs and cats with our supporters as well as other nonprofits, grantmakers, and the media.
Pet Alliance of Greater Orlando enlists the community as allies and supporters for the welfare and well being of animals. Local business partners, as well as regional and national corporations support our cause and help us fulfill our mission to educate, shelter, place, and heal pets and their families. Please join us in recognizing and acknowledging our dedicated partners. Their partnership makes our work of saving animal lives possible.
9 Family Connection
Central Florida Auto Dealers Association
Fun Spot America
Florida Hospital
98.9 WMMO
Reed Nissan Pet Rescue Project
Hill’s Food, Shelter & Love, Science Diet
Heartgard Plus
Frontline Plus
Boehringer Ingelheim
Linked Souls
IDEXX Laboratories
Sun Trust Bank
Hard Rock Cafes
Orlando Sentinel
Banfield Pet Hospital
Sea World Parks & Resorts
The Law Offices of Hoyt & Bryan
Woof Gang Bakery
These partners are essential in helping create more caring communities by promoting happier, healthier pets and their families. We encourage you to patronize these businesses and tell them how much you appreciate their support of the Pet Alliance. If you are interested in becoming a partner, please contact the Philanthropy and Marketing department.
For more information, please visit
Pet Alliance of Greater Orlando
About Jolly Time Books
Jolly Time Books tell exciting stories the whole family can enjoy. Jolly Time Books are full of vivid and colorful illustrations that will spark the imagination of any child. They are available at your favorite online bookstore.
Copyright 2016 by Pet Alliance of Greater Orlando
All rights are reserved. No part of this book may be used or reproduced in any manner whatsoever without written permission from the authors except in the case of brief quotations embodied in critical articles and reviews.