Cost at the door is $5 (21 & over) or $7 (for 18 – 20); $1 more will get you a Save Our Strays “FREE LAP DANCES VOLUME 3: HOT TAILS IN THE CITY music compilation CD.

Live music starts at 10 p.m. with The Swarthy Band (10 p.m.) – http://www.myspace.com/theswarthyband The Trojan Rabbit (11:15 p.m.) - http://www.myspace.com/thetrojanrabbit POKE aka filthy (12:30 a.m.) - http://www.myspace.com/thejudges

Jacob Heinz of Cammy-award winning local band, Buckra, produced all 3 Save Our Strays FREE LAP DANCES CDs. Again, all proceeds will go to SOS.

Save Our Strays (www.soscats.org) was organized in 1998 to help reduce the number of stray cats and dogs in Greater Cincinnati through non-lethal methods. We are a non-profit, 501c(3) organization. We do not have a shelter, but, rather, foster animals in the homes of volunteers. Our goals are to help humanely control the local stray population by using the Trap-Neuter-Return (TNR) method for feral cats and adoption for cats and dogs when possible.

The FREE LAP DANCES music compilation CDs may also be purchased at select local retailers as well as at cdbaby.com. (http://cdbaby.com/cd/savestrayscomp1, http://cdbaby.com/cd/savestrayscomp2, and http://cdbaby.com/cd/savestrayscomp3).

Cats & dogs go into heat at a young age and reproduce up to 3 times a year. 1 cat & her offspring can produce up to 420,000 kittens in 7 years. 1 dog & her offspring can produce up to 67,000 puppies in 6 years. Over 34,000 pets are euthanized in Greater Cincinnati/Northern Kentucky shelters *every year.* Millions are euthanized nationally. Please sterilize your pets and all strays.

2nd Annual Reunion

Saturday, JAN 26

8 PM - 1 AM

RAMADA INN

(formerly Holiday Inn)

800 West 8th Street

12th Floor

$20 Admission / Cash Bar

70’s, 80’s & 90’s

DANCE MUSIC

TICKETS 513-489-3442

All Funds Benefit -

SAVE OUR STRAYS

Hi All! This is the first edition of a new short weekly newsletter to bring you the latest updates on Save Our Strays’ happenings! I appreciate all of the support you give to us and the animals in so many ways!!

I founded Save Our Strays in 1998 as a spay/neuter group. Our mission is to decrease the overpopulation of cats and dogs through humane methods. Our main thrust is the spay/neuter of cats and dogs, whether feral, stray or low income. As a by-product, of course, we try to find good homes for many of the adoptable animals we are able to rescue.

We are currently involved with the abandoned house you may have read about in the Enquirer or on-line in the Business Week magazine. The resident of the house was evicted, leaving 30 kittens and cats locked inside, no food or water, as well as 30 cats outside. We worked with Silver Bells rescue and 2 other small rescue groups and individuals in this situation. We helped to spay/neuter and place the inside cats into foster care before the authorities came in to take the cats to the SPCA (where they most likely would have been euthanized due to blindness and sickness). To date, we have rescued 53 cats. We have had terrific response from the public --- not only from local Cincinnatians, but from people from Florida to Maine! And we still welcome help for this situation in the form of fosters, adoptions and donations.

Please remember we have kittens and cats up for adoption at the Oakley Petsmart on Ridge Road during store hours. We also have more rescue kittens and cats who come to Petsmart specially for our Saturday adoptathons. In the last 3 weekends, we adopted 17 pets to new loving homes. Congratulations and many thanks to our volunteers who care for the cats and do the actual adoptions at Petsmart!!

And we continue our TNR-- Trap/Neuter/Release – efforts that Save Our Strays was built on. We have spayed all of the cats living in the back yard of a 68 year old woman in Price Hill, as well as all of the 19 cats that a Sharonville woman in her 70’s has been feeding for years. There will be no more kittens at these sites, which will now be manageable and therefore a safe haven for these kitties. We continually receive requests from the public for TNR and are constantly working to fulfill all of them.

I will welcome your input for future newsletters. If you would like to volunteer to foster, trap, transport, clean cages or answer phones, please reply to this email. We always welcome donations to Save Our Strays, PO Box 62083, Cinti 45262. And if you prefer not to be on the receiving end of this newsletter, please email me and let me know.

Thank-you for your dedication to the animals! Have a great week!

Lynne Heldman

President, Save Our Strays

There will be live music performances by Kinsey Rose (10 p.m.), Jesse Thomas (11 p.m.) and The Kelly Evans Trio (midnight until close).

This is a 21 & over show. Cost will be $5 at the door. $1 extra will get you a Save Our Strays “FREE LAP DANCES Volume 3: Hot Tails in the City” compilation CD (http://cdbaby.com/cd/savestrayscomp3). All proceeds will go to the Save Our Strays.

Save Our Strays was organized in 1998 to help reduce the number of stray cats and dogs in Greater Cincinnati through non-lethal methods. We are a non-profit, 501(c)(3) organization. We do not have a shelter, but, rather, foster animals in the homes of volunteers. Our goals are to help humanely control the local stray population by using the Trap-Neuter- Return (TNR) method for feral cats and adoption for dogs and cats when possible.

In 7 years, one cat and her offspring can produce up to 420,000 kittens. In 6 years, one female dog and her offspring can produce up to 67,000 puppies. More than 30,000 pets are euthenzied or “put to sleep” at Greater Cincinnati/Northern Kentucky shelters alone *every year*. Nationally, millions are euthenized annually. Please spay/neuter your pets & all strays!