Find a pet, local music and food at White Rock Lake Festival this weekend

by PegNews wire

DALLAS — Alone in a heap of garbage just weeks before Christmas, lay a two pound puppy less than two weeks old. The small, sandy-brown Sharpei/Chow Chow mix stayed curled up in the trashcan where she had been thrown away. Abandoned and starving, she remained helplessly waiting, eventually found and taken to a shelter where she would soon receive a lethal injection. Fortunately, Paws in the City, a nonprofit organization that rescues dogs and cats, heard her story and took her into their care.

"She was so dehydrated that she had to have injections of fluids under her skin because she was too little to be put under the I.V.," Said Lisa St. George, Paws in the City volunteer and foster parent of the puppy, now named Lil Bit. “She had coccidia, kennel cough and upper respiratory infections when we got her. Now she’s perfectly healthy.”

Lil Bit will be one of 15 rescue dogs hoping to find a loving family at the White Rock Lake Festival. The festival will take place on Saturday, March 31st and Sunday, April 1st from 10am – 9pm, at Boy Scout Hill overlooking White Rock Lake. Festival activities for children include pony rides, a petting zoo, bounce houses, and arts and crafts. Activities for adults include automobile exhibitors, paddle boat races, a two-day music jam, a food fair from local restaurants and wine tasting. Over 35 vendors will sell goods including candles, paintings, jewelry, clothing and specialty foods. Last year 7,500 people attended and approximately $50,000 was raised for improvements at White Rock Lake. Admission is free.

Paws in the City works to find adoptive and foster homes for abandoned, homeless and shelter dogs and cats. They also work to increase the awareness of the necessity to spay/neuter animals to decrease animal overpopulation. Paws in the City provides shots, spay/neuter treatments and heartworm testing and de-worming for all their animals.

Source: Paws in the City