Going to the dogs (and cats): Life Savers Animal Rescue hold chair auction
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POLSON — An antique high chair, brightly painted wooden chairs, needlepoint children’s chairs, a rocking chair and others — more than 20 chairs in all — are on display at 309 Main Street.
Life Savers Animal Rescue is auctioning off the chairs as a fundraiser. Final bidding in the silent auction will be at Art in the Park on Aug. 9.
Chairs can be viewed in the building across the street from the Sandpiper Gallery, which is open on Fridays during Polson’s Farmers Market from 9 a.m. to 1 p.m.
Karen Duty, one of the LSAR members, said she asked a few people to paint chairs.
“It just snowballed. The response has been just overwhelming,” Duty said.
The price range really varies, too, from painted chairs to children’s chairs to antiques, according to LSAR member Vickie Radford.
“Every single penny we make goes right back to the animals,” Linda Crawford said.
Crawford is a dedicated LSAR volunteer and for the auction donated her childhood chair and her sister’s, both with needlepoint seats made by their grandmother.
LSAR is unique; everything they do is all-volunteer. They have no administration and no building cost. All the animals live in foster homes.
“However many foster homes we have is how many animals we can take in,” Crawford said. “Each one of us have our own faves.”
For example, Duty likes Siamese cats and dogs that need to be cleaned up, Crawford likes cats and Lynette Hinshaw-Duford has a heart for special needs dogs.
There are five LSAR members, and they all work. The animals they save and find homes for are mostly local animals, and the group offers spay and neuter certificates.
The group is always searching for foster homes. Check their website for requirements at www.lsar.org.
Radcliffe added that someone who would love to have an animal but can’t quite afford it might be a perfect foster person.
LSAR provides shots, food, a kennel and whatever the foster home needs to get that dog or cat ready for his or her forever home.
After all, the focus of LSAR is to save and improve the lives of animals that have been forgotten, rejected, abandoned or abused by society.
