STORY AND PHOTO BY KAREN BOSSICK

The annual Dog Days of Summer benefit has been sold out for a couple weeks. But don’t think you’re in the doghouse if you want to show your support.

You can submit a proxy bid for the 10 Live Auction Items.

This year’s benefit for the Animal Shelter of the Wood River Valley includes a retreat for four couples at the Ma’Moura Vacation Villa in Montego Bay, Jamaica, with four separate suites surrounding a pool inside a gated private golf club overlooking the Caribbean Sea.

It includes a week for three couples in Haute Provence, South of France.

If pizza is more your style, how about a week for eight to 12 people in the Italian seaside villa in Cinque Terra—a perfect staging ground for visiting Florence, Portofino and Milan.

Other vacation lots include an opportunity to fish the fighting Golden Dorado Fishing while lodging at a  huge, luxurious estancia in Argentina and the always popular guided photo safari in Botswana that has made the rounds before.

And don’t forget an opportunity to put your pet’s photo on the shelter’s outreach van for a year, courtesy of a pet photo session with the shelter’s photographer.

For a Proxy Bidding form, visit www.animalshelterwrv.org/dog-days-proxy-bid-form/.