Giving back!

Deb has been working on organizing our charitable efforts. It seems most of our clients have a similar love for dogs that we do. We will be donating 5% of our gross income to an animal shelter located in Hastings called Animal Ark. This is a no-kill shelter and it's where we found our first dog, Cinder almost 11 yrs ago. They do wonderful work and are in the process of expanding their facilities as well as their own charitable efforts. Cinder was taken care of by these people for over a year. She is a large black Chow mix. At other shelters she would've been put down long before we rescued her.

The reason we like the idea of funding this charity is because it obviously hits close to home without being just another extension of our work. Even we like to give it a rest occasionally. We realized one of the great perks of this job is getting to play with the client's dogs while we're on site, so the choice just seemed fairly logical in some ways.

This isn't a marketing ploy or tooting our own horn, it's just a way for us to give back in a way that our client's could relate to as well. This decision is not going to reflect in our pricing in any way. This was a business decision based on what we wanted to give back, not what we wanted to make people give inadvertently. We will never pass off charitable offerings onto our clients and claim them as our own.

Gipson