• Skip to main content
  • Skip to secondary menu
  • Skip to primary sidebar
  • Contact
  • FAQ
  • Advertising

My Sweet Charity

An Ongoing Conversation For the Good Of Dallas

  • Home
  • Photo Gallery
  • Event Calendar
  • Fundraisers
  • Health
  • Heroes
  • Contact

Clay Cooley Volkswagen of Park Cities Is Going To The Dogs Sunday With A Mission

May 18, 2023 5:30 PM by Jeanne Prejean

Share
Tweet
Pin
Share

Most car dealerships are closed on Sundays. But there’s always an exception, and this Sunday Clay Cooley Volkswagen of Park Cities (5555 Lemmon Avenue) will be howling with activity. However, nary a car will be sold or even test-driven.

Dallas Adoption Event*

Instead, the place will be going to … and for … the dogs.

Partnering with Dallas Animal Services, Clay Cooley Auto Group is holding a mega Dog Adoption Event from noon to 4 p.m. with pooches from Dallas Animal Services, its foster network, Dallas Pets Alive!, Rockwall Pets and Hearts and Bones.

In addition to a Twin Stacks BBQ Food Truck, a Kona Ice snow cone truck and yard games, Dallas Police Chief Eddie Garcia will be on hand representing the Dallas K9 program, and word has it there may be a surprise or two planned.

The project is the brainchild of Ciara Cooley Biggers, who is far more than an animal lover. She’s fostered five dogs who have found forever homes, and now is fostering nine-month-old Buddy.

Ciara Cooley Biggers (File photo)
Buddy*

In the meantime, she has also become a champion for “making Dallas the best city in the country for pets and pet owners.”

And she has the information to back the need.

  • Dallas Animal Services has one of the highest intake rates in the whole country. They have anywhere from 200-400 dogs at any given time at the shelter.
  • There are another 200-300 roughly in foster.
  • They have enough dogs in their care to fill the shelter two times over.

If you check the bedallas90 website, you’ll see that as of today the shelter has 305 dogs, which translates into 101% capacity.

A grim reality is Dallas Animal Services’ most recent daily report card, which reveals that 42 dogs were taken in by the shelter, 16 were returned to owners and 12 were euthanized. Were the dozen worthless mongrels? Probably not. They were in all probability once cute puppies that weren’t fortunate enough to be given a chance to lifelong companions.

According to Ciara, “We are really excited to get dogs out of the shelter environment, in front of potential adopters and, hopefully, get so many dogs into their forever homes this weekend.”

If you’re not ready to adopt, consider fostering. Not only does it relieve the overcrowded shelter, it helps dogs prepare for adoptions.

This is a very family-friendly event that’s not only free for the attending, but all adoptions are free, and each newly adopted dog will go home with a swag bag including a tennis ball, a bandana, a leash and a collapsible water bowl.

* Graphic/photo courtesy of Clay Cooley Auto Group
Share
Tweet
Pin
Share

Filed Under: Adoption, Animals, Entertainment, Environment, Events, Family friendly, Food Glorious Food, Foster care, FREE, FYI, Games, In-person Tagged With: bedallas90, Ciara Cooley Biggers, Clay Cooley Auto Group, Clay Cooley Volkswagen of Park Cities, Dallas Animal Services, Dallas Pets Alive, Eddie Garcia, Hearts and Bones, Kona Ice, Rockwall Pets, Twin Stacks BBQ Food Truck

Primary Sidebar

We cover the people, organizations and activities that make the North Texas area unique thanks to philanthropic and nonprofit endeavors. We limit our coverage to only news that directly impacts and benefits the area, but we do it with an "honest but friendly" hand...

Subscribe for Email Updates

  • This field is for validation purposes and should be left unchanged.

Follow MyTweetCharity on Twitter
Follow MySweetCharity on Facebook

MySweetCharity

Resources

  • After-School All-Stars North Texas
  • Baylor Scott & White Health
  • Callier Center
  • Children's Health
  • Community Partners of Dallas
  • Dallas CASA
  • Dallas Film Society
  • Dallas Symphony Orchestra
  • Equest
  • Family Gateway
  • Girl Scouts of Northeast Texas
  • Goodwill Industries of Dallas
  • Housing Crisis Center
  • Leukemia Texas
  • North Texas Giving Day
  • Southwest Transplant Alliance
  • Suicide and Crisis Center of North Texas
  • Texas Women's Foundation
  • The Dallas Institute of Humanities and Culture
  • The Dallas Opera
  • The Family Place
  • The Magdalen House
  • Trinity Park Conservancy

Categories

Archives

MySweetCharity sponsorships

  • Callier Cares Luncheon
  • Celebrating Women
  • Community Partners of Dallas
  • Crystal Charity Ball
  • Equest
  • Healing Hands Luncheon
  • KidneyTexas
  • Mad Hatter's Tea
  • North Texas Giving Day
  • Texas Women's Foundation Annual Luncheon
  • Turtle Creek Park Conservancy
  • Women's Auxiliary of The Salvation Army Dallas Fashion Show And Luncheon

MySweetCharity does not cover activities or news of a controversial nature.

Materials on this site are © copyrighted. Images contained on this website are not within the public domain. To republish, please send request to [email protected] for permission.

Disclaimer: We are provided gratis invitations from organizations without any expectations on their part of any coverage.

Copyright © 2010-2024 My Sweet Charity · Website Design by Shauna Callaghan