10:00-3:00pm

This fun event features Storytelling, Music, Food, Arts & Crafts, and Featured Children’s Authors!

Jennifer and Matthew Holm

Alyssa Capucilli

Dan Yaccarino

Gail Carson Levine

David Ezra Stein

Dianne De Las Casas

Plus the Summer Library Club Kick-off!

Please visit http://knoxrooms.sirsi.net/rooms/portal/page/21676_Childrens_Festival_of_Reading for more information!

Beginning May 10th -17th, adopt one kitten and get one FREE!

Adult cat adoptions have also been discounted to $50.00!

If you have been considering adding a feline friend into your home, now is the time to adopt! Kitten and Cat “Season” is in full swing and we want to make sure that all our cat-tastic cats find new homes!

Please visit either location to find your new Best Friend!

Please click on the attached link to see the schedule for May 5th and May 12th!

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Dr. Michael Blackwell, administrator, Young-Williams Animal Center, Knoxville

Thanks to the support of the community, Young-Williams Animal Center has qualified as a contestant in the 2012 ASPCA Rachael Ray $100K Challenge, a nationwide competition for animal shelters aimed at saving more animal lives. Young-Williams will compete this fall for more than $500,000 in grant funding, including a $100,000 grand prize.

To qualify as one of the 50 nationwide contestants, Young-Williams asked for community votes from April 5-16. We are very grateful for how East Tennesseans stepped up to support us. We received 15,868 votes, placing 11th in the nation and second in the Southeast Division, qualifying for the Challenge. Aug. 1-Oct. 31, we will compete to find homes for more cats and dogs than during the same period in 2011.

Our staff, board of directors and volunteers will work diligently to get more animals adopted or returned to their owners. The reward is that more animal lives are saved and pet overpopulation receives more awareness, but we also want to bring home that $100,000 to help even more animals. We are counting on the community again for your support and help.

We will put any prize money earned toward our most pressing animal problems: reducing the number of homeless pets by offering more free and low-cost spay/neuter options; enhancing our foster and adoption programs; and expanding the pet food pantry for the community’s neediest pet owners.

There’s a stigma that the Southeast is far behind other parts of the nation when it comes to animal welfare. Let’s save more lives than any other shelter across the U.S. and prove how passionate we are about animal welfare in Tennessee. And let’s decrease the pet overpopulation and someday achieve an ideal community where every loving pet has a happy home.

  © 2012, Knoxville News Sentinel Co.

We are pleased to present Young-Williams Animal Center with our Dog Rescue & Relief Award.

We thank you for all the time and hard work your organization provides for dogs in need.  We understand what a difficult task this can be and hope that this token of our appreciation will show you how much you really are valued in the hearts of all dog owners.

Saturday, April 14th 2:30pm at PetSafe Village Dog Park (10424 PetSafe Way)

Saturday, April 21st 10:30am at the PetSafe Downtown Dog Park

Saturday, April 28th 10:30am at Tommy Schumpert Dog Park

Saturday, May 5th 10:30am at Carter Doyle Dog Park

With the warm weather here to stay (!) we know many of you want the most well-behaved dog in your neighborhood. Let PetSafe Village’s Mike Schafer help get you started! Come visit the local dog parks on the designated  days to meet Mike and learn a few tips from their local pro!

HALT (Humans and Animals Learning Together) is a non-profit program within which at-risk adolescents teach basic obedience commands to dogs rescued from area shelters!

The HALT program is celebrating their 25th anniversary this year which means that they have successfully worked with more than 1300 adolescents and placed 324 dogs in new homes! Not too shabby for a program that is made up entirely of volunteers!

For more information about the dogs (and their pictures) or the HALT program, please visit their website www.vet.utk.edu/halt or call Catatoga Kennels at 865-693-5540!

HALT Adoption Events:

1.  Saturday, April 14, 2012                    Mast General Store, 402 South Gay Street, Knoxville, TN  37902              1 – 4 p.m.

2.  Saturday, April 21, 2012                    Rita’s Italian Ice, 26 Market Square, Knoxville, TN  37902                         1 – 4 p.m.

3.  Saturday, April 28, 2012                    PetSmart, 214 Morrell Road, Knoxville, TN  37919                                   1 – 4 p.m.

4.  Saturday, May 5, 2012                      Union Avenue Books, 517 Union Avenue, Knoxville, TN  37902                1 – 4 p.m.