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Critters’ Garden continues to grow and grow : welcome to new members Joy, Bobbi, Mandy, Bimban, Deb, Patricia, Tarin and Susie who have all joined us this month. I’m sure they will really enjoy it here amongst fellow animal lovers.

One of our regular competitions is for our Pet Of The Month : this month’s winner is Loco Oso, an amazing German Shepherd Dog owned and loved by Rain Corrine. You can see him and read his inspiring story on:
http://www.wosib.org/critters/POTM/currentwinner.html

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It is now mandatory for our members to sign condolence guestbooks for the Pet Loss Sympathy pages which are such an important part of the work of Critters’ Garden. Happily, last month was a lot less busy in our Rainbow Bridge section and we are happy to see most of your pets fit and well, whilst sending love and sympathy to those of you who have sadly lost a beloved companion recently.

Rainbow Bridge Pet Loss Sympathy pages are a service not just for members of Critters but for all of WOSIB, so if you know of a member who has recently suffered the loss of a dearly loved pet and would appreciate a sympathy page or a memorial graphic, please visit our Rainbow Bridge section
http://www.wosib.org/critters/Rainbow-Bridge/ where you will find request forms.

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This month we had another non-compulsory Challenge when members were invited to submit new designs for our Yahoo homepage image. Again there was an excellent response and the voting, by all of the group, was very close as it was so hard to choose just one but eventually Kat’s design was chosen and will stay up for a month until we repeat the process for next month. Her winning design can be seen on http://groups.yahoo.com/group/wosib_critters/

Congratulations, Kat!!

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If you have a pet and love animals do come and see us at http://www.wosib.org/critters/ and consider joining our group. Our Garden’s membership continues to grow steadily and we take great pleasure in welcoming new members : it's a lovely Garden and we have a lot of fun, so why not come and join us.

Love
Dianne - Head of Critters' Garden
Sweetness & Kat – Assistant Heads & Keepers of the Rainbow Bridge
Helen – Garden Assistant