The Animal Fairy Makes Special Appearance!

The Animal Fairy Will make a special appearance at the Great Lakes Pet Expo February 5th from 10am until 6pm!

Bring your kids to meet the Animal Fairy in person!

Fun! Book Signings and Photo Opportunities!

Happy Holidays!

Have a wonderful Holiday Season Dear Friends, We wanted to send you a heartfelt thank you for all of your support in 2010. Because of you, we were able to help many organizations who are in the trenches everyday caring for our animals. Please make sure to visit our website, Animalfairycharities.org and blog often to see how your donations and support helped our companion animals with shelter, food, medical and transport. Finally, we wanted to honor one of our major supporters who's mother passed early this year. Please see our Holiday video in the upper right hand corner "In Memory of Joan Mary Ulrich." Happy Holidays to all of you and have a safe and healthy New Year! God Bless, Debra Animal Fairy Charities

In Memory of Joan Mary Ulrich

Top 50 Reads for Understanding the Animal Obesity Epidemic

Please check out this great Article and blog by Ashley Porter.

Vetrinariantechnician.org was created in 2010 by Ashley Porter. Veterinarian Technician is a nonprofit online resource created to explain to students their options and some of the advantages and disadvantages of getting an vet tech degree. Ashley decided to create this site when she was searching for the right school to get her veterinarian technician degree. It was her opinion that existing sites which attempted to explain to students the reality of obtaining your degree either online or at a campus location were typically for-profit and thus biased and less trustworthy. I therefore she decided to make a site that listed all the information in one place.

Thank You for Your Support!

Animal Fairy Charities News and Updates Above - some of the surviving horses from the fire at Jim and Cindy's Horse Rescue Ratings Soar for AATV! Thanks to everyone for helping spread the word! Animal Advocate Television'sratings have been consistently soaring! What does that mean? Lots of animal lovers are watching!! Remember to watch every Sunday morning at 10am on WMLW (CBS Affiliate). If you can't watch, please set your DVR's! If you've missed any of the shows, you can view them 24/7 on atanimaladvocatetv.com. Perfect Holiday Gifts! For the more sophisticated buyer, we offer The Animal Fairy Pewter Holiday Ornaments and Desk Pieces. The Animal Fairy is popular for comemorating the loss of a pet, paying tribute to an animal caretaker or an acknowledgement for that special person who loves animals. The Pewter Ornament and Desk Pieces both come with a certificate of authenticity and gift box. There's still time to order and receive in time for the Holidays! To order, go here! Updates on Jim and Cindy (H.O.R.S.E., Inc.) Animal Fairy Charities would like to thank everyone who sent well wishes and donations to help support our "Emergency Mission" to help Jim and Cindy at H.O.R.S.E. Inc. Because of your support, we were able to send out an "Emergency Grant" to pay for the remaining horses boarding fee's, and miscellaneous items such as hay, feed and medical. I speak with Jim and Cindy daily and it just amazes me how ordinary people can become extraordinary in a time of such tragedy. As Jim and Cindy at H.O.R.S.E, Inc continue to rebuild and reorganize, they have some immediate goals they would like to accomplish. One of those goals is to get those remaining horses that are up for adoption, adopted out. Below is a link to the horses they currently have for adoption: H.O.R.S.E., Inc. Adoption Center We also put together a Memorial page dedicated to the 24 horses who perished in the barn fire at H.O.R.S.E., Inc. You can view the memorial here: In Memory of the 24 Horses that Perished, WI As a reminder, Animal Fairy Charities has set up a fund for Jim and Cindy's rescue to continue to help them during this difficult time. If you would like to contribute to their fund, you can donate here... Support Jim and Cindy. All donations are tax deductible. Finally, please keep Jim and Cindy in your thoughts this holiday season. They need all the support they can get. Thank you once again, Sincerely, Debra Animal Fairy Charities All Volunteer Based 501c3 Non Profit Holiday Gifts That Help the Animals Please make sure to check out our Animal Fairy Keepsakes! All proceeds from our Ornaments, Desk Pieces and our New Children's Book benefit animal shelters and horse rescues by providing other shelters and rescues with grants for feed, shelter, medical and transport. We have recently added therapudic horseback riding non profit organizations that benefit children and adults to our list of those organizations we are supporting. Bring Your Kids To Meet The REAL ANIMAL FAIRY! The REAL Animal Fairy Will Make HIs First Appearance and Book Signing at The Great Lakes Pet Expo, Wisconsin State Fair Grounds, Feb 5th 2011. He's expected to meet and greet up to 10,000 animal lovers! Stay tuned for more details. Perfect Holiday Gifts! Our new children's book designed to teach children compassion at an early age! We've been receiving some wonderful reviews too! Check out our latest review here! There's still time to order "The Animal Fairy" and have it arrive in time for Christmas! Best of all, it's just $5.98 plus S&H. To order your copy, please go here!

A Great Review on our New Children's book!

Pictured above: Danny Pettry II

Rec. Therapist

Dear Friends,

Danny Pettry II just send in his review on "The Animal Fairy" Children's Book. Here's an excerpt:

"This book gets a 5-star rating from me. I definitely think it helps to open a child’s awareness of animals."

Please take some time and read what Danny had to say! Thanks in advance!

http://www.booktherapyforkids.com/2010/12/how-to-teach-children-compassion-for.html

The "Animal Fairy" Children's Book First Public Reading

Wisconsin Horse Rescue Loses 24 Horses in Barn Fire

WHO WILL RESCUE THE RESCUERS?

December 1, 2010

If you haven’t yet read it, look up the article in Friday’s Nov. 26, 2010 Milwaukee Journal Sentinel. But consider yourself warned… get out your Kleenex.

In short, a barn owned by Cindy and Jim Bondowski burned down. What makes this barn and these people special is this: it housed many horses abandoned by their owners due to sickness, injuries, or hardship (a ‘rescue’). It also housed some of Cindy and Jim’s favorite, cherished, special, valuable and dearly loved personal horses. Eight of those being the ‘minis’; miniature horses specially bred. Jim told me his dream was for them was to be the “mini Budwiser team.To talk to them about those minis is to talk to someone who has lost a child (8 of them). Tiny, helpless, beautiful little ‘horsies’… babies. Regardless, they are now with all the other poor creatures of God that never made it out of that blazing, chaotic inferno.

Yesterday I traveled out to the Bondowski’s farm on a cold, breezy, and even snow-flurried day. The sky was gray and unforgiving. The weather actually matched the sad, depressing event of which I was to observe the aftermath. I had attempted to prepare myself for the devastation I was about to enter into. We in Wisconsin pass by old farms and barns in all our travels. We pretty much take them in stride. We are, after all, the Dairy State. Unless you’re a writer or photographer these barns and silos hold no particular interest for you other than being aesthetically pleasing in an artsy kind of way. But what I observed was neither pleasing nor artsy. And there would be no preparing for it. It was simply heartbreakingly, horrifyingly, tragic. My imagination ran wild at the thought of these giant terror stricken animals full of frenzied panic and confusion, desperately seeking escape. I could easily launch into a detailed, sickening description of burnt out stables, falling ceilings, nothingness where stalls and equipment once dwelled, but I will let the pictures speak for themselves.

Jim himself, toured the burnt out carnage with me and tearfully described what I will always remember as the most devastating scene of lost beauty and life that I have ever experienced. (As a side note, I’ve been an E.M.T. in Milwaukee for almost 8 years, some of that spent in an E.R.)

The heroism of Cindy and Jim is obvious; they risked their very lives for their 4-legged creatures of God that so many of us take for granted. Cindy spent her Thanksgiving dragging out dead horse carcasses through the back door to place in a pile of the same. (Upon my arrival, the victims of the blaze were loaded onto a truck, currently pulling out of the driveway). They received help from a relative and a friend, while Jim was hospitalized, begging to be released to go back to the farm and help his wife and their horses. In my world, the word ‘selfless’ doesn’t even begin to describe the Bondowskis!

Bottom line #1: The Bondowskis are focusing on relocating their rescue and are currently searching for a new farm to lease to buy. They’d like to stay in WI but told me even if the property was on the border of WI/IL that it would be okay. A phone number and website will be furnished at the end of this article. They desperately need our help NOW!

Bottom line #2: There are 11 horses (survivors) that are up for immediate adoption/fostering. They range in years and breeds, male and female, trained to ride and untrained, under a vet’s care and healthy. I took pictures and brief histories of each survivor. These horses were amazingly calm, friendly and seemingly unaffected by the devastating tragedy that has befallen them.

I am forever changed by my little excursion out to this unfortunate horse rescue farm that, for some unknown reason, has suffered one of the greatest tragedies that can befall this planet. The sad, senseless, horrific loss of some of God’s most beautiful creatures… His horses.

If you do nothing more this holiday season, please remember these poor, unfortunate people that are truly doing God’s work. They need supplies, food and caring foster and/or adoptive ‘parents’ for the surviving horses. Lastly, they need a new place to continue the amazing work they do…. Save horses!

Please contact animalfairycharities.org to make a donation or inquire as to how you can help.

Written and photographed by Kim Couse, Freelance writer and Volunteer for AFC. Contact Kim: icanrite4u@gmail.com