Join us for the 16th annual Canines, Cats & Cabernet, benefiting Operation Kindness, North Texas’ largest and oldest no-kill animal shelter. Take pleasure in sampling fine wines, enjoying delicious hors d'oeuvres, and have a great time bidding on more than 200 live and silent auction items while mingling with fellow animal lovers.

In the past 15 years, Canines, Cats & Cabernet has raised more than $600,000 to help care for homeless animals in our community. Canines, Cats & Cabernet is Operation Kindness’ most important fundraiser of the year and helps provide much-needed funds for the care of the animals. The proceeds from this event helped Operation Kindness provide quality care and new homes for nearly 3,000 dogs and cats in 2008.

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This year’s recipient of Operation Kindness' Sarah M. & Charles E. Seay Kindness to Animals Award is Stephanie Dickason, for her efforts in creating a physical therapy rehabilitation program for the animals of Operation Kindness. Animals often come to Operation Kindness with broken legs, hip dysplasia, or other injuries, and require surgeries or other treatments. Stephanie, a long-time Operation Kindness Volunteer, was aware of this and decided to apply her skills as a Physical Therapist at Parkland Hospital to improve the lives of the injured animals. She personally raised the funds for and managed the building of our rehabilitation equipment, trains other volunteers on how to provide physical therapy to our recovering animals, and spends many hours each week working directly with the animals requiring her care. We commend Stephanie her dedication and kindness to the animals of Operation Kindness.

This year’s recipients of Operation Kindness' Kindness to Animals Media Award are Katy Bandish and Dane Miller of Azure Marketing communications. Katy and Dane believe that companies should give back to the community, and are excellent examples of this! In the spirit of helping needy animals, they have provided hundreds of hours or pro-bono services which assist Operation Kindness in highlighting animal welfare issues and its mission in the media. Dane is the creative force behind all public service announcements and the marketing campaigns for our annual fundraisers Dog Day Afternoon and Canines, Cats & Cabernet. Katy rose to the large challenge of creating a new Operation Kindness website that debuted in August of 2008, as well as building the websites for Dog Day Afternoon and Canines, Cats & Cabernet. We are proud to recognize and honor Katy and Dane for their community-minded leadership, and for their commitment and kindness to animals.

For any questions or comments please email Special Events Coordinator Julie Goff at jgoff@operationkinness.org or call 972-428-3822.