Dear Members and Friends,

Recently, eBay Foundation pledged more than $330,000 in “seed grant” funds to help build a new Puppy Care Center at Best Friends.

For abused, neglected and cast-off puppies and mother dogs, the Puppy Care Center at Best Friends will offer safe haven. A place to heal. A chance to join a loving, forever family.

And you can help spread the word. How?

If you have your own website or social networking profile – like MySpace or Facebook – you can download the Puppy Care Center widget here.

Or, forward an e-mail to a friend.

Our campaign to close down the puppy mills, where mother dogs spend their entire lives in tiny cages, forced to breed litter after litter of puppies, has been enormously successful. Almost every week, another puppy mill is being closed down by local authorities.

But many of these pups and their mothers, who are physically and emotionally traumatized, have nowhere to go where they can heal. Best Friends may be their only hope.

And that’s why we’re building the new Puppy Care Center, where we can provide the special care they need before being placed in good new homes.

I hope you’ll take a moment to spread the news.

For details, visit the Puppy Care Center at Best Friends website ... plus puppy videos, rescue stories, screensavers and much more.

Thank you, as always, for being a member of Best Friends – and for caring about the animals.

Michael Mountain
Best Friends

P.S. The grant from eBay Foundation means that we’ll soon break ground on the Puppy Care Center. If you’d like to help take us the rest of the way, you can donate through eBay’s Community Gives.