Tails at Twilight features a live and silent auction, including unique items such as a drone rental.The Pet Placement Center in Red Bank is hosting its annual signature event fundraiser, Tails at Twilight, at The Venue Thursday, April 28 from 6-9 p.m.
“Come to support the dogs and cats, and to support our shelter that has been serving our community for such a long time,” said Pet Placement Center advisory board member Frances Geier of PPC, the Chattanooga area’s only no-kill shelter. “We only survive through fundraisers and donations.”
Tails at Twilight is PPC’s largest fundraiser of the year, she said. Last year’s event raised about $20,000, which Geier said seems like a lot of money, but it’s only a small portion of the $180,000 that it took to run the shelter last year.
She said PPC makes another $20,000 through adoption fees, and the rest of the funds to care for the approximately 350 served by the the shelter came from donations and the shelter’s other smaller fundraisers, such as restaurant nights, involving local restaurants that agree to donate a portion of the night’s earnings to PPC.
The shelter serves the community in a number of ways, said Geier, including preventing overpopulation by spaying and neutering all of its animals, and by pulling animals from other local shelters.
“We’ve been saving lives the best we can for over 30 years,” she said.
The fundraiser will feature heavy hors d’oeuvres from Foodworks, as well as wine-tasting to go along with this year’s theme, “Wine, Whiskers and Wags.”
PPC is bringing back from the 2015 event the popular dog collar wine toss game, in which 30 wine bottles are set up on a table and participants pay $25 for two chances to toss a collar and hook a bottle, said Geier.
Attendees can also bid on unique live and silent auction items, such as a fire pit (including installation) and a drone rental, with the option of taking either 10 photos or a video. There are opportunities to purchase a “date with a dog,” in which the purchaser gets to take a dog from PPC out for a day with a goody bag of items including lunch and a certificate for a grooming.
“It’s fun for a person to take a dog out for a day and it’s great for the dog, and it’s a way to get our dogs out and about,” she said.
Tickets cost $50 each or $85 a pair and can be purchased on the PPC website, at the door or by calling or stopping by the shelter.
PPC is at 5975 Dayton Blvd. and can be reached at 877-0738, or visit its website at www.petplacementcenter.com. The Venue is at 4119 Cummings Highway.