http://www.tehachapinews.com/home/Blog/caninecreek/19970 Save Tehachapi's Orphaned Pets (also known as &quot;STOP&quot;) is a new non-profit organization founded in January 2008 which is devoted to rescuing, fostering and adopting out Tehachapi&rsquo;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.&nbsp; The long term goal of the organization is to build and staff a permanent shelter facility in Tehachapi.&nbsp; STOP's first fundraiser, &quot;Petals For Pets&quot;, will be held February 16, 2008.&nbsp; Oscar, the STOP spokesdog, invites you to visit his website at OscarGoesCamping.com for details of this unique event.&nbsp; All proceeds from Petals For Pets will benefit our local homeless animals through the STOP program.&nbsp; 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 &quot;STOP&quot;) is a new non-profit organization founded in January 2008 which is devoted to rescuing, fostering and adopting out Tehachapi&rsquo;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.&nbsp; The long term goal of the organization is to build and staff a permanent shelter facility in Tehachapi.&nbsp; STOP's first fundraiser, &quot;Petals For Pets&quot;, will be held February 16, 2008.&nbsp; Oscar, the STOP spokesdog, invites you to visit his website at OscarGoesCamping.com for details of this unique event.&nbsp; All proceeds from Petals For Pets will benefit our local homeless animals through the STOP program.&nbsp; 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?&nbsp; 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?&nbsp; Hi Sunshine.&nbsp; Yes, these are bareroot roses that will be dug out of the donator's award-winning garden in the next couple weeks.&nbsp; Unfortunately the weather needs to cooperate to prune the bushes, dig them up and bag them for sale.&nbsp; I believe it needs to be warm enough, or later in the season.&nbsp; 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.&nbsp; Yes, these are bareroot roses that will be dug out of the donator's award-winning garden in the next couple weeks.&nbsp; Unfortunately the weather needs to cooperate to prune the bushes, dig them up and bag them for sale.&nbsp; I believe it needs to be warm enough, or later in the season.&nbsp; 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. <p>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:&nbsp; <u>One of the worst</u>:&nbsp; <u>Keeping your&nbsp;dog&nbsp;&nbsp;tied up for over 3 hours</u> ~ the mere basics that would keep a living soul alive.</p> <p><font color="#0000ff" size="4"><u>So, as you enjoy your nice, warm home this evening</u>, 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 <strong><u><em>and</em></u></strong> against the law) ~ Stop and search your conscience and say, enough is enough; I will do the right thing ~ </font></p> <p><font color="#0000ff" size="4">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 &quot;get it &quot; . . .</font></p> <p><font color="#ff00ff" size="4"><em>What you do makes a difference, and you have to decide what kind of difference you want to make.&nbsp; Our lives begin to end the day we become silent about things that matter.</em></font></p> http://www.tehachapinews.com/home/Blog/caninecreek/19970/#c_185881 http://www.tehachapinews.com/home/Blog/caninecreek/19970/#c_185881 <p>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:&nbsp; <u>One of the worst</u>:&nbsp; <u>Keeping your&nbsp;dog&nbsp;&nbsp;tied up for over 3 hours</u> ~ the mere basics that would keep a living soul alive.</p> <p><font color="#0000ff" size="4"><u>So, as you enjoy your nice, warm home this evening</u>, 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 <strong><u><em>and</em></u></strong> against the law) ~ Stop and search your conscience and say, enough is enough; I will do the right thing ~ </font></p> <p><font color="#0000ff" size="4">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 &quot;get it &quot; . . .</font></p> <p><font color="#ff00ff" size="4"><em>What you do makes a difference, and you have to decide what kind of difference you want to make.&nbsp; Our lives begin to end the day we become silent about things that matter.</em></font></p>