Friends of Festival Country K-9s

08/22/2024

06/11/2024

More dogs go missing around the
4TH OF JULY than any other time of the year and noisy fireworks are usually the cause.

Having tags on your dog’s collar helps them to be returned to you immediately without the anxiety of going to our already full animal shelters.

Microchipping proves ownership and is also the best way to help your pet get Home Again should they lose their tag.

Low Cost Microchips will be available for $35 per pet which includes a lifetime registration with Home Again at an event at IFA on June 22, 2024. Discounts are available too (see flyer below).

You can get a tag, get your pet microchipped & their nails trimmed all at this one event.

Cats are welcome too!

06/05/2024

Needing a new home. We were contacted to help spread the word.

JoJo is an 18 month old purebred Australian Shepherd, approximately 40 pounds, off lead and lead trained, knows many commands, very good call back.

He likes to hike, run, and mountain bike, he is not a roamed, he’s a Velcro dog, extremely agile and fit.

He’s good with dogs, cats and large livestock like cows, donkeys, and horses, however, he is not good with smaller livestock like goats, sheep, and fowl.

He is fully vaccinated and he is neutered.

Feel free to pass on pics and my contact info:

Ben Kadas
865-483-8736
Iron County

05/30/2024

Gail Workman is teaching the following classes:

Star Puppy Training Class for puppies aged 4 months to 10 months. First class on Wednesday, June 19, 2024 @ 6pm. This is a 7 week course every Wednesday

Beginner Novice for dogs needing to learn off leash skills on wait, stay, recall, & healing. Mondays @ 7pm starting on June 17th, 2024. This is a 10 week course every Monday

AKC Urban Dog Canine Good Citizen Class beginning June 20th, 2024 every Thursday for 6 weeks. Classes will be held within locations within Cedar City.

Gail offers a Friday Evening Fun practicing Rally and Fetch Dog.

Gail is firming dates for her October Tracking Camp.

If you are interested in your dog becoming a registered Therapy Dog, please reach out to Gail or Nancy Bentley @ 435-636-6790

For more information on these classes, please call or text Gail directly at 435-592-5487 or refer to the following page: https://www.facebook.com/FriendsOfFestivalCountryK9s

Also Known as The Enoch Dog Park Group

501(c)3 Effective Date of Exemption March 7, 2012 FEIN 45-4

05/09/2024

CONGRATULATIONS to the new Festival Country Therapy Dogs teams. These teams are ready to visit assisted living locations, nursing homes, libraries, schools or wherever needed.

If you would like a therapy dog team to visit your location, please reach out to Nancy Bentley at 435-636-6790.

04/05/2024

Freestyle Dog Dancing April 2024
Gail Workman will be starting a new class for Freestyle, which is a modern dog sport that creates interaction between owners and their dogs. It is a combination of obedience training and tricks that is combined with music and can be choreographed into a dancing routine for owners and their dogs. This is a perfect and fun way to bond with your dog.
Gail will have music each week to help you choose maneuvers that will work for you and your dog so you can dance to your favorite music.
This class will be an 8 week course beginning Thursday, April 18, 2024 at 6 pm and will be one hour every week. Your dog will need to know basic commands.
Bring a copy of vaccination records to the first class.
The cost of this 8 week course is $130. Ask Gail about the discount if you are taking Amy Chrisman’s Dog Agility Class.
Location of Classes:

Amy Chrisman's The Dog House
149 S 5300 West, Cedar City, Utah

**Look for mile marker 56 off of Hwy 56.
Follow the road to the end and look for the red barn on your left.
Classes will be inside the barn.

For more information, contact Gail Workman 435-592-5487

02/15/2024

Gail's Workman's Dog Obedience Training Made Easy is hosting a Rattlesnake Avoidance training seminar at her location on March 17th. The cost is $150. Please contact Gail Workman for more information and to reserve your space. Space is limited. 435-592-5487

01/28/2024

I would like to thank everyone who donated. Enoch Animal Shelter has new beds for all the kennels and through the generosity of so many, we were able to send beds to Beaver County Animal Control Facility as well.
Cedar City Animal Adoption Center and Iron County Sheriff's Animal Shelter had already been supplied with new beds in one of our prior fundraisers.

01/11/2024

Iron County Sheriff's Animal Shelter needs our help. They are full and are in need of dog food. So the dogs do not have diarrhea, they need to stay on the same brand of food.

Cedar City IFA Country Store carries the dog food that the shelter needs. It is Diamond Naturals Chicken and Rice. This donation can be even purchased over the phone and Brittany in the Cedar City IFA Country Store pet food department will deliver it to the shelter.

If you have questions, please contact Ray Rodriguez at the shelter at 435-867-7618 and he will call you back.

12/14/2023

Enoch Animal Shelter needs canned cat food. Their preferred brand is Friskies fillets or pate. They average going through 2 to 3 cases per week.

Donations can be delivered directly to the shelter or if you would like to have something shipped, please ship to:
Enoch City Offices, 900 East Midvalley Road, Enoch, Utah 84721

Please keep in mind that our shelters are FULL

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12/14/2023

12/13/2023

Enoch Animal Shelter needs donations for raised beds to get the animals off the cold floors.

Beds for Enoch Animal Shelter can be purchased through Animal Rescue Aid. They are the group that has helped Friends of Festival Country K9s donate beds to all of our local animal shelters since 2014.

Enoch Shelter needs 13 Large sized Beds 40” X 28” X 8”. The cost for each bed is $85.00. Please visit bit.ly/2LFYmFI to donate a full bed or,

If you would rather make a monetary donation in any amount to go towards a bed, you can choose your donation amount and pay via PayPal, credit or debit card though this link:
bit.ly/2LZGNAk

ADD THE NOTE “ENOCH SHELTER” so the donation is directed to the correct location.

Animal Rescue Aid is a registered 501(c)(3) non-profit with a Gold Candid/GuideStar rating.
Visit their page at: https://www.facebook.com/AnimalRescueAid

11/14/2023

HUGE Thank you to Friends of Festival Country K-9s for the generous donation of dog food!

11/13/2023

Friends of Festival Country K9s won silver this year in the Best of Iron County competition.

Thank you to everyone who voted for us.

We support all of the Iron County Animal Shelters and continue our efforts with improvements and maintenance out at the Enoch PetSafe Dog Park that we built for the community.

11/10/2023

Enoch City Animal Shelter is in constant need of supplies. Our group donated 6 cases of canned cat food last month and another 8 cases this month. The shelter appreciates any and all donations.

Our donations to all the shelters come for YOUR donations to us. We can offer you a tax deductible receipt for donations. If you donate to our group (for the shelters), please designate that it is for the animal shelters.

If you would like to order & ship your own donation, please ship them to Enoch City Offices, 900 E Midvalley Road, Enoch, Utah 84721.

If you want to drop off your donations, the shelter address is:
6347 N 650 E, Enoch, Utah 84721

🔈DONATION SHOUT OUT!🔈

Thank you so much Friends of Festival Country K9s for this much needed donation of wet cat food!! Our feline friends are going to be very very happy! 😄❤️🐾

10/16/2023

Thank you Riley Cooper for organizing another successful Trunk or Treat event at the Enoch PetSafe Dog Park.

Thank you to Treasures Thrift Store for your very generous donation to help benefit the animal shelters in Iron County.

Thank you to Lynne Brown, President of Friends of Festival Country K9s, for facilitating this donation and so many more to help the shelters & dog park.

Thank you to our amazing animal shelter staff, all the volunteers, donors and everyone who participated .

08/23/2023

Our Iron County Shelters have been consistently full and would appreciate donations from the public.

Cedar City Animal Adoption Center uses Pedigree Chicken and Rice

Iron County Animal Shelter uses the Eagle Mountain brand that can be purchased from IFA.

Enoch Animal Shelter also uses Eagle Mountain Brand but is also in need of puppy food. Iams or Pure Balance Pro Puppy are the preferred brand and can be purchased at Walmart.

Canned cat food is always welcome and needed at the Cedar City and Enoch Animal Shelters.

The pictures below are for the preferred brands of dog food.

If you would prefer to make a tax deductible donation, you can Venmo and make a notation that the donation is for the Iron County Animal Shelters.

If you would like a printed receipt, please leave a note in the comments field and Lynne J. Brown will get back with you.

If you would like to send a check, you can mail it to Friends of Festival Country K9s at 4891 West 1000 South, Cedar City, Utah 84720 and we will send you a receipt.

If you can't help financially, please reach out to the shelters, they can always use volunteers.

Thanks so much.

07/20/2023

Iron County Sheriff's Animal Shelter can really use our help with dog food. Can you help donate some kibble to them?
They are located at 3109 Iron Springs Road, Cedar City, Utah 84720
Their contact number is 435-867-7500
They are trying to keep dogs on a consistent kibble for their health but will accept all brands. Their preferred food is the green bag of Eagle Mountain Pro Balance.
It can be purchased at IFA (Intermountain Farmers) at 905 S Main Street in Cedar City and even be left with them. IFA will deliver food to the shelter if you don't want to make the drive out to the shelter.
If you would like to SHIP your donation from Chewy or Amazon the preferred food is Diamond Naturals Lamb and Rice (they do not carry Eagle Mountain), please ship to:
Iron County Sheriff's Office
2132 N. Main Street, Cedar City, UT 84721
The shelter is FULL! They are a "no kill" shelter and really need our help. If you would like to adopt or know any rescue organizations that can help, please contact them directly.
Attached are pictures of some of the adoptable dogs out at the Iron County Shelter.

05/15/2023

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Love the Enoch dog park? Show your support! We need volunteers to help remove dangerous weeds and other improvements to the park

This Saturday from 10 AM - 12 PM.
If you can’t make it, but want to help out send us a DM.
Thanks in advance!

12/19/2022

Iron County Animal Shelter is in desperate need of dog food. They have been feeding the Eagle Mountain brand that can be purchased at IFA. They are also feeding Diamond Naturals that can be purchased at IFA & other locations, like CAL Ranch and Chewy.com

11/16/2022

Classes begin tonight!!

09/11/2022

Enoch Animal Shelter and Iron County Sheriff's Animal Shelter are in need of some replacement pet beds. Can you help get animals off of the ground before the cold winter weather is upon us?
These beds are very sturdy and long lasting.

09/03/2022

We are in desperate need of dog fosters. Because we are a foster based rescue, we cannot save a life without the commitment of a foster home. Our average foster length is about 3-4 weeks. If you are willing to offer up your home and love for that amount of time, please go to our website and fill out the foster form. https://pflu.org/foster/

The dog pictured here is one of many amazing dogs sitting in a shelter who could really use our help. Her name is Dixie. She is 2 years old and already spayed (a possible shorter foster commitment since we will not need to wait for a surgery appointment). She is good with other dogs and friendly with people. If you are interested in foster her, please email [email protected]. If labs are more your thing, the same shelter has a 2 year old black lab mix male also needing rescue. He is good with other dogs, both large and small, and cats.

08/19/2022

CRATES NEEDED!! Iron County Sheriff's Animal Shelter is in desperate need of crates for transporting dogs to rescues.

The shelter is FULL and they have rescue groups willing to take some dogs to make room, but need medium to large crates for transporting.

If you can donate a crate(s), please call 435-867-7618.

07/30/2022

Gail Workman has a class beginning August 4th for advanced training working toward Canine Good Citizen and beyond. Please call her or text her directly with questions. 435-592-5487

06/16/2022

HELP! DRIVERS NEEDED! Iron County Animal Shelter is full and they are needing people willing to take 2 young dogs (kennels provided) to the Humane Society in St George for spay/neuter next week Tuesday, June 21st and 2 more dogs on Thursday, June 23rd.
Dogs will need to be delivered to HSUS by 7:45 AM so it is an early morning run.
GOOD NEWS: Festival Country K9s will pay for your gas (need a receipt) and you do not need to stay to bring the dogs back to Cedar.
Please call Lynne Brown if you are able to help! 435-590-7451
Thank you!!

06/15/2022

Are y’all excited about this Saturday’s benefit party at Mikes Tavern?! We hope to see you there!