Celebs sign auction dog bones
2007-04-05 09:20
Jackson - More than 40 celebrities, including Reese Witherspoon and Orlando Bloom, have signed wooden "dog bones" for an online auction to benefit the Mississippi Animal Rescue League (Marl).
The auction is being held on the Charity Folks Web site through April 12. More signed bones will be added for a two-week period as they are returned by celebs, the organisation said.
Lauren Bacall, Doris Day, Paul Newman and Joanne Woodward, Donald Trump, Alec Baldwin, B.B. King, Tim McGraw, Morgan Freeman, Sarah Jessica Parker, Ryan Gosling and Betty White are also among the celebs who have signed bones.
Last September, Marl auctioned 40 celebrity-signed bones, including those from Oprah Winfrey and Jake Gyllenhaal, at its second annual Fur Ball. The bones netted $40 000 for the construction of a new animal shelter, said board member Allison Nutt, chairman of the Fur Ball event committee.
Marl hopes to raise $50 000 from this year's auction, Nutt said.
Proceeds from the auction and this year's Fur Ball, to be held August 16 in Jackson, will go to the new shelter's operating expenses.
Marl cares for 17 000 animals a year and services animals in central Mississippi, said Marl director Debra Boswell.
- AP