A Pet Selfie Project with Coolville Elementary

Casey chatting with 6th grade Coolville students .

Amber exploring POP ART with Coolville 6th grade students.

HART students were excited to spend time this week with Coolville Elementary 6th grade classes. Mrs Phillips 6th grade art classes have graciously agreed to create art work to help fund the purchase of Pet Respirators for local area fire departments.




Briarhill Veterinary Clinic provided "selfies" for Coolville Elementary students to recreate in the POP ART STYLE of art. These photographs were contributed by Briarhills' clients along with snapshots also taken of Briarhills' own personal pets for the Respirator Project. These pictures shared some of the most adorable images as pets "posed" for their selfies.

Hank demonstrating the pet respirator.

Dr Moss's doxie, Hank, couldn't resist getting into the action and was happy to visit with students. He also felt it necessary to demonstrate the life saving capabilities of Pet respirators. It was important to Hank to spend time with each of the Elementary students as well as the members of HART  who shared the presentation.

Dr Osborne, of Briarhill Veterinary Clinic, chatted with students as they worked through the process of creating their art work. She enjoyed the vibrancy of color the students used but was most impressed with their enthusiasm and grasp of the importance of having respirators available for pets during an emergency.

Drake with Hank

Hank hanging out with 6th grade students at Coolville

The collaborative effort of Briarhill Veterinary Clinic, Coolville Elementary and HART will become a beautiful reality November 16-19. HART will sponsor The Pop Art Pet Selfies art exhibit in Grover Center's Atrium at OU for the week culminating in a silent auction and artist reception the evening of November 19th.

Mrs. Phillips and Hank

On Sunday, October 11th, Bobcat HART members got the awesome opportunity to visit Union Ridge Wildlife Center.

The center is run by a man named Cy.

Friends gather around one of Cy's stray Irish Wolf Hounds and talk about their time at the Wildlife Center.
Cy is sitting on the far right, next to Dr. Osborne, a sponsor of Bobcat HART, from Briarhill Vet Clinic.

Cy tried to feed Gumby, the camel, an apple. HART members found out just how messy this can be. Camels slobber - a lot!

The center houses all kinds of animals - all who were homeless and/or were injured in some way - and all of these animals have one thing in common: Cy took them in.

This adorable monkey loved to nibble on his/her melon!

What a photogenic Prairie Dog!

This cutie was very curious about cameras!

Cy told HART members that he has rehabilitated and released quite a few Birds of Prey already this year. These are the few remaining:

But not all of his animals are able to be released into the wild. For some, this is their home.

This little one was super shy and pretty skittish, but nonetheless cute!!!

These two seemed to do everything together!

Despite being a big cats, Cy commented how the tigers are in fact the least of his worries.
And I mean, really! Look at the innocent little face...

Some HART members may be back on Cy's property to help him out cleaning and caring for the animals. But for our short visit, we were just viewing, taking selfies with, and enjoying our time with the animals. And what a lovable time it was. :) <3

Puppy loving!!! 

Caught in the act of making an unusual friend

Selfie time with Jack!

Learning to fish with Dr. Moss!

The ring-tailed lemurs were fascinated by students fingers and phones.

HART members talk with one another while admiring the owls.

There was much love being given to the Irish Wolf Hounds on the property.

Jack was a very friendly Kangaroo to those who stopped by his pen. Cy told HART members later that he is very old, roughly 12 or 13 years! 

Here's a great big THANK YOU to all who donated and got some puppy chow at our booth last week and this morning!

Bobcat HART was set up outside of Baker Wednesday-Friday last week and this morning,  selling puppy chow to raise money to buy local fire departments oxygen masks.

Only $1 for a bag a yummy puppy chow for you! :)

These three hard-working HART members were outside Baker on 

Look at these awesome HART members selling Puppy chow on Thursday! 

Friday's members had fun trying to attract people to the table and engaged in informative conversations with those who did come over.

We accomplished over 25% of our goal thanks to the help of OU staff, students, 

and Alumni. Each dollar raised brought us closer to the purchase of another respirator.

After the four days of hard work, the organization reached over 25% of our goal! 

The respirators will not only help man's (and woman's) best friend, but our feline friends too!

It's fundraiser time - and we have Puppy Chow!!! 

We will be raising money to buy local fire departments special oxygen masks needed to save animals that are caught in fires. The puppy chow will be $1 a bag and comes in two flavors: original and peanut butter free!

We will be located upstairs, Baker on Wednesday Oct. 7th from 2-4pm, Thursday Oct. 8th from 2-4pm and Friday Oct. 9 from 11-2pm.

Puppy Chow!!! Yum!

Along with Original, we will be selling peanut butter free puppy chow as well!