A Market Success!

On July 26th, we held our first ever Paws & Prints Summer Market, and we had so much fun! Over 130 visitors came to check out our amazing line up of vendors, participate in our contests, visit our cats, and do some personalized shopping.

A huge thank you to everyone who helped made this day a wonderful success: to our vendors, sponsors and donors, visitors, and volunteers! There were so many hands involved, and with the support of the community and generous donations $1,172 was raised for the Bow Valley SPCA to go towards helping dogs and cats in need!

Congratulations to our contest winners who have been notified to claim their prizes, including our colouring contests (sponsored by Catarina Toffee), photo booth contest (sponsored by Melissa Pohl Photography), and Guess the Treats contest (sponsored by WOOLgathering)! For those that are curious, the final count of treats in the jar was 49: our winner guessed 50!

To everyone who submitted a name in our suggestion jar, we are so excited to start using your suggestions to name our new cats and dogs! Keep an eye out for our new intakes named by you!

A huge thanks as well to each of our donors who helped make this event a possibility - from equipment loans, to supplies, to donations, to time - you are a testament of a community coming together to make things possible!

And finally, but not lastly, a special shoutout to the many volunteers who assisted with our yard clean-up, set-up and tear-down, vendor support, greeting visitors, running booths and contests, making our photo booth, transporting equipment, and directing traffic! We couldn’t have done this without you!