We are so excited to bring you the 2023 Spring Vendor Show at Trackview Hall in Kings Mountain!   This is going to be such an amazing event.  We have the most unique and amazing vendors!  We also have Barbara McKay as our special guest.   She will be signing and selling her award winning book, Coming Home: Recipes and Reflections from a Life in the Spotlight.   We also have It’s Happening Food Truck on site!   Our volunteers are putting together Easter Baskets with different themes for a Chinese Auction!    We will have some giveaways too.  This is going to be a huge event and it is not too early to start shopping for those Christmas gifts!   Hope to see you there.

Come join us and some of the CARE dogs for a fun hike at Veronet Vineyards and Winery on Sunday, March 19th!  Beautiful scenery on the trails that we will hike from 12 noon til 1 pm.   Pet n’ Sip will be outside from 1 to 3 pm.   You can socialize with our doggies and our volunteers while sipping some great wine.   We will even hold your drink for you while you meet some of the great dogs we have up for adoption.   Come on out for a wonderful Sunday afternoon.

Want to help? hike? Pet n’ Sip?  Click the link below and sign up!

https://www.signupgenius.com/go/70a054baca728aafe3-hike2#/

 

Come out and meet some of the CARE adoptable dogs at PetSmart on Saturday, March 11, 2023, 11 am till 2 pm.   PetSmart is located at 733 E. Dixon Blvd in Shelby NC.   This is part of the National Adoption Week that PetSmart sponsors.  Its a great way to meet some of our dogs that are searching for their forever home.  Home to see you there.

Come out and join us for a fun evening, all to help those with no voice.    $10 a plate, includes spay-ghetti, meat sauce or marinara sauce, salad, bread, tea/water. (Please note, no drinks with to go orders)  Adult bar separate for donations.   We will have the amazingly talented Brian Emerson entertaining.  We will also have a silent auction featuring products from the Moonshiners, Phillip Philbeck artwork and much more.

Valentine’s Dinner, family dinner or single dinner.. we welcome all.   We hope to see you there.   You may dine in or take out.   You can also buy tickets in advance at the following link if you so desire.

https://form.jotform.com/cliffordsarmy/cares-spay-ghetti–no-balls-dinner

On December 3rd the Grinch will be invading Baker Buffalo Creek Vineyards & Winery.   He will be posing for photos with you and/or your two legged or four legged children.  ( be careful that he does not try to steal them! )  Photos are $5.00 for a link to your pictures and will be taken by professional photographer, Shelby Putnam.  Just in time for a great Christmas present.

There will be several of the CARE doggies there, so if you do not have anyone to take a photo with, we will gladly let you take one with one of our adoptable dogs.

At the end of the event, we will be drawing for the quilts and the Henry rifle.  You still have a chance to buy tickets at the event.

We hope to see you there!  We plan to have a jolly ole good time even if the Grinch is joining us!

Make you plans to come Saturday, November 19th to the 1st Annual Hounds at Hanna 5k, Fun Run/Walk Festival.  There will be a 5k (dogs can run too), a fun run/walk and 30 vendors there!  Food trucks!  Santa pictures for your two and four legged family and friends, and the annual CARE holiday bake sale featuring some of the best bakers in the county.

Special guest is Cleveland County Native, Barbara McKay, who will be there signing and selling her award winning book, Coming Home: Recipes and Reflections from a Life in the Spotlight.  What a great Christmas present!  A portion of the proceeds from the book sales will be donated to CARE.  We are excited to have this wonderful lady at our event.   Barbara will be there from 10 am till 2 pm

Sign up and packet pick up for the 5K is at 8 am. Race starts at 9 am  Fun Run/Walk will follow after 5K is finished.  Santa Pics start at 10 am until 2 pm.   Bake Sale and vendors will be ready at 9 am ( if not sooner) for this wonderful day of fun all to help those with no voice.

Come out to the beautiful grounds at Baker Buffalo Creek Vineyard & Winery.  Sip some fine wine, get some great food…… and pet some wonderful doggies!  Yes we will be glad to hold your glass while you meet some of our wonderful rescues who are looking for furever love.   Be sure to mark your calendar and join us.  We are going to have a fantastic day!

 

FORE!!!!  — Get ready to play your best game to benefit the abused, neglected, injured, sick, feral and frightened dogs in our county and beyond.     This is going to be the best tournament yet.   Four man teams, captain choice format, four hole in one prizes ( to be announced soon), closest to the pin, and more.    Mulligan, string, and red tee package for $10.     Door prizes and much more.

We plan to have a few more surprises too so mark those calendars now and stay tuned for more announcements soon.

Clifford’s Army Rescue is an all volunteer 501c3 non profit dog rescue who believes that all lives deserve a chance.

 

Valentine’s Day is just around the corner and what better way to celebrate than come get lunch with Cousins Maine Lobster and then meet several of the C.A.R.E. adoptable dogs.  We will have  pet order calendars, valentines cards and goodies there too.

Saturday, February 12th, Food truck will be there at 12.   Drink specials  available at Re-Cycle Canteen.  We will arrive shortly after with the adoptable dogs.   Hope to see you there.  ( Bicycles, 507 South Lafayette St – Shelby NC)

On June 9th, 2015, Clifford’s Army Rescue was made aware of a pup at our local shelter that was beyond pitiful.   Every bone in her body was visible, she was literally starving to death.  Her toe nails curled out and under, her skin was rough.  We thought she was a small adult dog at first glance, but when we knew we had to save her, and went to pull her out of the shelter, we found a puppy.

We originally named her Twiggy and we were worried about her making it as we soon found out she was full of parasites and was going to need a lot of TLC to pull through.   Enter an amazing foster, Ashley Blanton, who stepped up and said she would take her in.   As time went by and Twiggy got healthier, a bond formed between Twiggy and Ashley’s son Sage.    If ever there was a story of a boy and his dog, this is it!    Twiggy’s name was changed and she was named after one of Ashley’s former teachers, Harper B . ( our first hint there might be a foster fail)

Ashley was a bit worried as she had never had a pit bull and of course people were telling her not to adopt this precious girl.  Ashley went with her heart and more importantly Sage’s heart and adopted this wonderful girl who was headed to the landfill, not to ever have a life at all, until rescue stepped up.

The words on this photo are so powerful.    The rescue and Ashley ” wanted ” Harper B,  and chose to help her.   Everyone including a special little boy, fell in love with this wonderful dog and Harper B fell in love with humans and was taught there is good in this world.   Harper B was adopted and that B is for Blanton as she is a full fledged member of the family.

Many families do not get to chose their family members, but through adoption, you do get to chose, you do get to save a life, you do get to show love and compassion.  I would say adopting makes us the lucky ones as we get to pick the ones that need us most.

( check out the pics… Harper B and Sage are growing up together, six years now and counting, what a wonderful life that was chosen for Harper B)