Johnson County Humane Society

August 1-31—Kiosk Display Celebrating “The Year of the Humane Child”-----at the Iowa City Public Library: The JCHS installed a colorful kiosk display at the Iowa City Public Library, which ran for the month of August. The premise is that humane children will grow up to be humane adults. We hope our display challenged people to think about ways they can help break this cycle of violence.

While animal cruelty is an incredible distortion of the human/animal relationship, people who do bad things to animals probably had bad things done to them by other people. But the really scary thing is that people who do bad things to animals probably will do bad things to other people.

We hope our display challenged people to think about ways they can help break this cycle of violence.

October 4 (W)—Blessing of the Animals-----7pm at Faith United Church of Christ, 1609 Deforest Ave, Iowa City: Help FCC celebrate the birthday of Saint Francis of Assisi by bringing your companion animal for a blessing, or just come with another friend. All creatures are welcome! A free-will offering will be collected and split between the JCHS and the Coralville/Iowa City Animal Care and Control Center.

(For saftey’s sake, dogs should be leashed, cats should be harnessed and travel in their carriers, and other animals should be appropriately caged/housed.)

October 21 (Sat)—JCHS “Good Stuff” Sale-----10am to 5pm in the space formerly occupied by Page Jewelers in the Old Capitol Mall (ground floor), Iowa City: There was quite a bit of good stuff!. It was fun to see our old friends and supporters. Although it was a lot of work, we had a fair amount of fun watching people buy and making some new friends.