Tag: pets

Holiday season and your pets

Don’t eat that candy!

Jim Ellison It is holiday season again and a time to be extra careful about your pets’ wellbeing. The holiday season is a time when family and friends visit and chances increase for your pets to escape your home. Please be extra vigilant and make sure your pets have proper identification at all times. Have…

K-9 Unit Charity Golf Tournament coming in February

Jim Ellison PebbleCreek will be hosting the eighth annual charity golf tournament in support of the City of Goodyear’s Police Department K9 Unit. The Pet Companions Club is sponsoring this tournament and invites you to participate in this worthwhile event taking place Saturday, February 18, 2017, on the Tuscany Falls/Palms Golf Course (1:00 p.m. shot-gun).…

Pet Companions Club plans holiday celebration

Marge Ellison Pet lovers, whether Pet Companions Club members or not, are invited to join us on Tuesday, December 5 for our annual Holiday Celebration. We will meet at 3:00 p.m. in the home of our Treasurer Mollie McErlean, 16114 W. Fairmount Avenue, Tuscany Falls. If you are new to PebbleCreek, or are unfamiliar with…

Linda Bolon to speak on “Urban Coyotes” November 1

A PebbleCreek coyote

Marge Ellison Because of the importance of our PebbleCreek residents coexisting successfully with coyotes in our community, The Pet Companions Club of PebbleCreek has asked resident Linda Bolon, the Arizona representative of Project Coyote, to be our guest speaker on Wednesday, November 1, 2017. Project Coyote is a national non-profit organization that promotes educated coexistence…

Pet Companions Club to hold annual election

Jim Ellison The Pet Companions Club of PebbleCreek will be holding its annual election during the January 10, 2018 annual membership meeting. According to our bylaws, our Board of Directors consists of a minimum of four and maximum of eight members. Term of office is two years. Our Board of Directors is divided into two…

Upcoming Pet Companions Club Speakers

Dr. Pamela Boyd and patient

Margery Ellison The Pet Companions Club of PebbleCreek is pleased to have as guest speaker at our October 4 General Meeting Dr. Pamela Boyd of the new Gentle Hearts Animal Hospital in Goodyear. We will meet at 3:00 p.m. in Room 100 of the Eagle’s Nest Activities Center. All PebbleCreek residents, whether club members or…

Pet of the Month

Abby has the retired part down pat.

Jim Ellison My name is Abby, actually Abby Angelica, for ACA (American Canine Association) purposes, and I am an American Cocker Spaniel. My hair is short since my owners, Bob and Kate Newton, prefer low-maintenance grooming styles. I came to PebbleCreek in 2003 at the age of nine weeks. Bob and Kate got me out…

Pet of The Month

Socks and Missy

Lucette Gurley It was a day like any other day, June 19, 2014, warm and quiet, when I decided to look at the PebbleCreek emails. Just curious! And there it was, “looking for a cat sitter.” Timing is everything. I had a Papillion with “attitude.” Since my husband had passed in May of 2013, Hannah…

Pet of the Month

Blackster was special

Richard McClements I have been truly blessed to have a wonderful dog, Blackster, in my life for 14 years. He is mostly a lab but has a longer shepherd nose and curly hair on his back. He has beautiful white teeth. As his name suggests, he is all black. He is failing as his breed…