http://www.tehachapinews.com/home/Blog/caninecreek/19970 Save Tehachapi's Orphaned Pets (also known as "STOP") is a new non-profit organization founded in January 2008 which is devoted to rescuing, fostering and adopting out Tehachapi’s orphaned, abandoned and homeless pets. STOP's short term goal is to develop a network of foster homes in which to keep dogs and cats until their owners can be found, or they can be adopted into permanent homes.  The long term goal of the organization is to build and staff a permanent shelter facility in Tehachapi.  STOP's first fundraiser, "Petals For Pets", will be held February 16, 2008.  Oscar, the STOP spokesdog, invites you to visit his website at OscarGoesCamping.com for details of this unique event.  All proceeds from Petals For Pets will benefit our local homeless animals through the STOP program.  Please join Canine Creek in supporting this fundraiser by purchasing an award-winning rose bush for your sweetie... just in time for Valentine's Day! Save Tehachapi's Orphaned Pets (also known as "STOP") is a new non-profit organization founded in January 2008 which is devoted to rescuing, fostering and adopting out Tehachapi’s orphaned, abandoned and homeless pets. STOP's short term goal is to develop a network of foster homes in which to keep dogs and cats until their owners can be found, or they can be adopted into permanent homes.  The long term goal of the organization is to build and staff a permanent shelter facility in Tehachapi.  STOP's first fundraiser, "Petals For Pets", will be held February 16, 2008.  Oscar, the STOP spokesdog, invites you to visit his website at OscarGoesCamping.com for details of this unique event.  All proceeds from Petals For Pets will benefit our local homeless animals through the STOP program.  Please join Canine Creek in supporting this fundraiser by purchasing an award-winning rose bush for your sweetie... just in time for Valentine's Day! en-us Valentine's Day is actually on February 14th.  They may want to move their fundraiser up a few days to benefit from the holiday. It's a great idea, but 2/16 is going to be too late. http://www.tehachapinews.com/home/Blog/caninecreek/19970/#c_185259 http://www.tehachapinews.com/home/Blog/caninecreek/19970/#c_185259 Valentine's Day is actually on February 14th.  They may want to move their fundraiser up a few days to benefit from the holiday. It's a great idea, but 2/16 is going to be too late. Oh, I see now. They are rose BUSHES, not bouquets?  http://www.tehachapinews.com/home/Blog/caninecreek/19970/#c_185261 http://www.tehachapinews.com/home/Blog/caninecreek/19970/#c_185261 Oh, I see now. They are rose BUSHES, not bouquets?  Hi Sunshine.  Yes, these are bareroot roses that will be dug out of the donator's award-winning garden in the next couple weeks.  Unfortunately the weather needs to cooperate to prune the bushes, dig them up and bag them for sale.  I believe it needs to be warm enough, or later in the season.  I agree that it would have been nice to hit before Valentine's Day, but I understand it was the earliest date possible for practical reasons. http://www.tehachapinews.com/home/Blog/caninecreek/19970/#c_185268 http://www.tehachapinews.com/home/Blog/caninecreek/19970/#c_185268 Hi Sunshine.  Yes, these are bareroot roses that will be dug out of the donator's award-winning garden in the next couple weeks.  Unfortunately the weather needs to cooperate to prune the bushes, dig them up and bag them for sale.  I believe it needs to be warm enough, or later in the season.  I agree that it would have been nice to hit before Valentine's Day, but I understand it was the earliest date possible for practical reasons. Tehachapi is a growing community, and it is important that we do not forget to help the many furry friends who do not have a voice, many of which are subjected to the brutal, cold weather at this time of the year, and many who are treated so inhumanely by so many methods:  One of the worst:  Keeping your dog  tied up for over 3 hours ~ the mere basics that would keep a living soul alive. So, as you enjoy your nice, warm home this evening, please remember those who are less fortunate, many of whom who are so thoughtlessly relegated to the outside, all day and night, who are consistently tied up (24 hours a day, which is clearly inhumane and against the law) ~ Stop and search your conscience and say, enough is enough; I will do the right thing ~ If you don't know what the right thing is, then you might as well turn off the lights (in your tiny, little mind), pull yourself over, and call it a day, a week, or forever, because you will never "get it " . . . What you do makes a difference, and you have to decide what kind of difference you want to make.  Our lives begin to end the day we become silent about things that matter. http://www.tehachapinews.com/home/Blog/caninecreek/19970/#c_185881 http://www.tehachapinews.com/home/Blog/caninecreek/19970/#c_185881 Tehachapi is a growing community, and it is important that we do not forget to help the many furry friends who do not have a voice, many of which are subjected to the brutal, cold weather at this time of the year, and many who are treated so inhumanely by so many methods:  One of the worst:  Keeping your dog  tied up for over 3 hours ~ the mere basics that would keep a living soul alive. So, as you enjoy your nice, warm home this evening, please remember those who are less fortunate, many of whom who are so thoughtlessly relegated to the outside, all day and night, who are consistently tied up (24 hours a day, which is clearly inhumane and against the law) ~ Stop and search your conscience and say, enough is enough; I will do the right thing ~ If you don't know what the right thing is, then you might as well turn off the lights (in your tiny, little mind), pull yourself over, and call it a day, a week, or forever, because you will never "get it " . . . What you do makes a difference, and you have to decide what kind of difference you want to make.  Our lives begin to end the day we become silent about things that matter.