Starfish Animal Rescue will hold an animal adoption event from 11 a.m. to 2 p.m. Saturday, Dec. 14.
“Pizza, Pinot and Paws!” will be hosted by Portofina Trattoria, 40W188 Campton Crossings Dr. in St. Charles.
Animals available for adoption may be viewed. Information and applications for cat and dog adoptions will be offered. Additionally, gift baskets will be raffled.
More than 100 gift baskets were raffled at Starfish’s “Santa Paws” 13th annual fundraiser Saturday and Sunday, Dec. 7-8, at the nonprofit’s Geneva location. Kim Walsh of Geneva, a Starfish volunteer, made most baskets.
Featured were a bake sale, 50/50 raffle and free lunch of burgers, hot dogs, chips and bottled water.
For more information, call (708) 967-5554, email starfishanimalrescue@Gmail.com or visit starfishanimalrescue.com.
Founded in 2006, Starfish is a licensed, all-volunteer, nonprofit rescue. It mobilizes volunteers to biweekly transport dogs, cats, puppies and kittens from southeast Kentucky for adoption or foster homes in Chicago-area homes. Since its inception, Starfish has saved almost 6,000 animals.
The organization’s mission is to rescue animals from high kill shelters, provide transportation of these animals to secure, non-kill establishments, to promote and facilitate responsible pet ownership, and to intervene in cases of animal cruelty.
—Al Benson