There’s a nice 37th Street Lights feature in the Austin Chronicle this week. Our friend Hoover looks pretty fierce in the photo! We promise he’s tamer than he looks.
Thank you to all of the awesome residents of 37th Street (particularly Robert Foster, our unofficial mayor/organizer of the street) for making this year’s display the most awesome it’s been in ages!
This year’s Rescued Stuffed Animals (RSAs) have been on a long journey of rehabilitation and self-discovery.
Three years ago, we were called to rescue them from the Greater Pine Bluff Wildlife Refuge in rural Wyoming.
Upon our arrival at the refuge, our team was shocked to discover that the Stuffed Animals (SAs) had been integrated into the live animal population!
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Rebeca Trejo from KVUE stopped by to talk about our 37TH ST Stuffed Animal Speed Dating Event!
We’ve been historically-awful social media-ers here at The SARF, but alas, we’re jumping in again with our new Instagram account. We held a vote among our current and permanent residents, and they decided that our first series will be about the intersection of Stuffed Animals and design… namely, the SAs will be telling us about their favorite fonts. Wish us luck in our newest endeavor- and follow us @thesarforg! Continue reading
Want to learn more about Stuffed Animal history? There is now a Stuffed Animal-Related Historical Audio Walking Tour of the North University Area of Austin, TX
You’ll find it here:
Stuffed Animal History Tour #izistory https://izi.travel/en/browse/de3bcf84-c8b5-435f-940c-d02ac072d3b2
And if you’re not in Austin, you can still listen on the website and follow along on the map! Continue reading
We have reinstated our SARF merch and have moved our store to Etsy! You can view/purchase The Stuffed Animal Rescue Foundation Merchandise here:
The SARF on Etsy
Well, it’s that time of year again: the time when we apologize for our lack of activity and we lament our perpetually-unpaid intern’s lack of fingers typing inefficiencies and forth. So here goes.
Yes, The SARF is still in business. We’ve just been on hiatus, that’s all.
December was great. We sold things at Blue Genie, and we had our largest and most successful adoption campaign to date! In January, we delivered all of our adopted SAs to their new homes.
In February… we crashed.
And then it was May.
BUT we do have some exciting things planned, including a super fun partnership with Austin Bat Cave this summer, which is going to be AWESOME, and a very risky and potentially-controversial surgery involving two of our koala residents, a partnership with (or investigation by) PETSA (People For The Ethical Treatment of Stuffed Animals), and- from the deepest darkest depths of our most unreasonable predictions- maybe even a podcast!
So hang in there 🙂
Dear Friends,
It is once again the time of year when I mow down the tall, weed-laden pasture of excuses to reveal the lush green field of stuffed animal-related hi-jinx that’s been gasping for air underneath.
Today, it is with great joy and relief that I reveal to you a portion of that pasty garden of creativity in the form of two projects, both of which require the help of YOUR eyeballs to beam metaphorical chlorophyll and sunshine in their directions to give them, symbolically speaking, the healthy tans they need to coax The SARF back from its extended hibernation.
Here they are:
1. There is now a Stuffed Animal-Related Historical Walking Tour of the North University Area, culminating in a visit to…
2. The Annual 37th Street Stuffed Animal Petting Zoo, 2016… Continue reading
This morning, we have some very special guest writers helping out with our new batch of SAs!
We’re here at Austin Bat Cave’s Animal Writing Camp (partnering with SmartKids). Campers are hard at work interviewing SAs and writing their bios. We’ll be posting them soon!
