2016 Calendars are now available! Back in June, we asked for photos of your favorite pets and you really delivered. We received well over 200 photos this summer. More than 145 beautiful color photos appear in the calendar and we think it’s a really nice publication. Calendars are $13 each, and are available at

We thank all of these businesses for their kind support and we hope our friends will buy a calendar from them and visit their locations often.

For more information, see our Facebook page, email bhannable@gmail.com, or call 978-922-7190. Thank you!

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If you would like to purchase the 2016 FOBA Calendar online, simply click the Donate button below, then enter $13 for each calendar you would like, and under Special Instructions type “Calendar.” Easy! If you’d like the calendar mailed to you, please add $3.00 for the first calendar and $0.50 for each additional calendar to cover postage.

Time for our Annual Fabulous Fur Ball! This is our major fundraiser for the year, to be held on Friday, October 23, 2015 at the Italian Community Center (ICC), 302 Rantoul Street, Beverly, from 7-11 PM. The very popular band Ray Novack and Horizon will provide live music. There will be dancing, good food, and lots of great raffle items. All animal lovers are asked to come and support FOBA’s rescue and adoption efforts. Besides saving animals in and around Beverly, FOBA’s mission is also to establish a no-kill shelter in Beverly. Tickets are $25/person, cash bar. Contact Bonnie Hannable at bhannable@gmail.com, 978-922-7190 or Heidi Roberts at heidiroberts@comcast.net, 978-927-4157 for tickets and further information. Please support this most worthy cause!

FOBA is an all-volunteer 501(c)(3) organization.

To see a full-size version of the Fur Ball 2015 poster, click the image above.

Dear Friends,

The Friends of Beverly Animals (FOBA) is seeking your best animal photos for our 2016 calendar. Last year we received over 200 submissions. There were so many great ones to choose from, it was really challenging to decide which ones to use. We regret that we could not use all the photos submitted.

We’re asking you to send us a favorite photo or two (no more than three of each pet, please!) of your dogs, cats, hamsters, birds, horses, any animal you care about, even one of a backyard squirrel or raccoon will be considered, as long as it’s a good and interesting photo. Since we hope to get the calendar printed in October, the deadline for submission is August 1, 2015. Send to bhannable@gmail.com and include the words “2016 calendar” in the subject line. Indicate if you’d prefer to see your photo in a particular month, although we cannot promise that will happen.

Photos should be good quality (at least 100 dpi or 4″x6″ in size), not blurry or too dark, or with no people or parts of people (hands, feet, etc.) in them. Please identify the animal(s) by name and state the owner’s name. We will not print owners’ names, but we need them in order to keep track of photos submitted. Preference will be given to rescues and those adopted through FOBA, so please let us know if your pet was adopted from FOBA, a shelter or other rescue organization. We will do our best to acknowledge all photos received. Please share this message with anyone you think might be interested in having their pet in FOBA’s 2016 calendar.

Attached is a pdf and a jpg of the cover of last year’s calendar, to give you an idea of what we are looking for, in case you’ve never seen one of our calendars. We usually sell the calendars for $12 each and that will probably be the price again this year. For anyone who would like to place an ad in the calendar, the prices are $25 for a business card ad; $50 for a half page and $100 for a full-page ad. Advertising space is limited.

If you had a pet in our previous calendar(s), we hope that you enjoyed seeing your animal friend there, and we hope you’ll submit another photo for the coming year. If your pet didn’t make last year’s calendar, please try again. Whether you sent us photos and/or purchased a calendar last year, we want to thank you again for your support.

We will keep saving animals in need and pursuing our dream of one day having a shelter in Beverly. If you have any thoughts about how we can reach that goal or questions, please let us hear from you! Also, keep those happy tales (tails) stories about your pets coming and we’ll use as many as we can in our newsletters or E-News bulletins.

Thank you so much for your support! If you have any questions, please email me or call 978-922-7190.

Bonnie Hannable, Calendar & Newsletter Editor
& Everyone at FOBA

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We are having our annual wine-tasting at Henry’s Market on Weds., June 10th at 5:30 PM. See poster for details. We could use some help putting up posters in and around Beverly for this event. Please email bhannable@gmail.com or call 978-922-7190 to help or for more information. Thank you so much!

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If you shop at Amazon, here’s a great new way you can help the Friends of Beverly Animals without it costing you anything. It’s very easy. Instead of shopping at Amazon, please remember to shop at AmazonSmile instead. AmazonSmile has the exact same products, prices, and features as Amazon with the added benefit that you can support FOBA every time you shop.

Go to this link and press the Select button for “Friends of Beverly Animals”. Then just shop at AmazonSmile as you normally would at Amazon, and Amazon will donate 0.5% of the price of eligible purchases to FOBA. Bookmark the smile.amazon.com page, and remember to use smile.amazon.com instead of amazon.com when shopping.

We hope you’ll consider supporting our work with this easy-to-use, free program. On behalf of all the precious animals we rescue and find good homes for, we thank you so much! Happy Holidays and best wishes for the New Year from all of us at FOBA!

P.S. There are still a few of our beautiful 2015 calendars left. Visit Beverly Wild Bird Food Store at 214 Rantoul Street, Marika’s Restaurant, 199 Cabot Street, Beverly, write bhannable@gmail.com, call 978-922-7190, or visit our website friendsofbeverlyanimals.org to purchase a copy. THANK YOU!!