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Small Paws is offering a "Share the Love"
adoption fee special, through December 31, 2009
All adoption fees through that date will be 50% off!
To adopt a Bichon 7 years old or under the adoption fee will be $75.00.
To adopt a senior Bichon, 8 years old or older the adoption fee will be $37.50.
Let's "Share the Love" and get some of these babies into loving homes!

Friday December 18, 2009

Gem of the Day: No time for a gem today.

This is a short video about what is happening to my husband Dale, and me, and our babies. It may take a few seconds to load.



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Click on the Bichon puppy to see page 2 of the Small Paws Rescue Newsletter, including fostering and adoption information.

Dear Small Pawsers,

Welcome to the newest members of our Small Paws Rescue Online Newsletter!

Especially to those of you who saw us on Fox and Friends, last Friday. Welcome!

If you missed our last newsletter, here it is.
http://www.smallpawsrescue.org/newsletters/images/dec1709a.html

"Jingles B."
I authorized Jingle's surgery thanks to so many of you. Thank you. He will be feeling better soon.

I can't work today because I'm at the ER with my own dog, Chipper. but I need to raise funds for at least two other bichons, like this one.

Subject: Fw: Snowball
Date: 12/16/2009 11:33:00 A.M. Central Standard Time
From: happylan@bellsouth.net

Snowball7

Hi, Robin,
We have Snowball7 in N. TX, who is being fostered by Mary Herman. She had to take him in to Cityview this morning for pancreatitis and an ear infection. The price is double what is listed, but they give us a 50% discount at Cityview.

Snowball was hospitalized today for pancreatitis. He is on IVs and expected to be there two to three days-approximate cost $500 to $700.
He is also being treated for another ear infection. This is the third ear infection since I acquired him. He is such a sweetheart. I'll keep you informed of his progress.

Cindy Leigh
MS/NoTX/OK Team Leader and Board of Trustees>

Or this one in Sara Pace's Team:

Rudy

In a message dated 12/15/2009 3:38:43 P.M. Central Standard Time, pacess4@att.net writes:
Hi Robin,
I just spoke with the veterinarian @ Michigan Roads Animal Hosp. His exam of Rudy. Probable age 8-10 years old. Very faint heart murmur. Has cataract in right eye, that is functionally blind. He has fleas and hot spots on his skin (which they will treat). He will need to be neutered/vaccinated/dental. He has significant periodontal disease, will need some extractions and antibiotics. He is a very sweet tempered little boy, who has been very neglected. It will cost $600-700 .

So I can't be here to issue matching challenges or to raise funds.

I do have one challenge left over from yesterday for Jingles, but I know they won't mind if it is issued for Rudy or Snowball 7.

Subject: Matching challenge for Jingles
Date: 12/17/2009 9:53:56 A.M. Central Standard Time
From: skeller2@pdq.net
To: pup3@aol.com

Hi Robin,

Please issue this matching challenge for $100.00 for Mr. Jingles from Sherry and fluffs Kory, Dante, & Bridget. Bless all Bichons and have a blessed and most joyous holiday season.

Sherry Keller
skeller2@pdq.net

I wish I could be here to issue challenges and to raise funds, but I just can't. I am so sorry.

Guys, forgive typos please. I've been up all night with my baby.

Dale and I are asking for your prayers.

Our precious Chipper, the Bichon who started it all for me, causing me to discover puppy mills and to co-found Small Paws Rescue back in 1998, my precious happy boy, flat lined yesterday afternoon in Oklahoma City, at Dr. Skip's office.

Chipper's Story of Survival from a Puppy Mill in 1998

Yesterday, I had brought Ollie, one of our SPR rescues, down from Tulsa to OKC for Skip to do the ear surgery he needed. (Skip did that surgery and Ollie is doing fine.)

I also brought my Chipper down so Skip could do a bronchial wash, as he has done on Chipper before.

It's a basic procedure where they put a scope down the throat and wash the trachea.

You see, Chipper, being born a poor white child in a puppy mill in MO, was born with a host of bad body parts.

Even will all of these physical issues, I have never met a happier dog, that Chipper. Thus the name.

He has had FHO surgeries on both hips. Those hips are great now.

He also has a collapsing trachea, another birth defect.

In the last couple of years Chipper's started coughing more from it, thus the need for the bronchial wash.

Dale and I trust Skip Tangner with every fiber of my being.

He did the wash and chipper was fine, coming out of anesthesia when the unthinkable happened.

I thank God Skip was walking by his cage when my darling boy collapsed, with no heartbeat or pulse, and the agonal breaths that occur before death were happening, then they stopped.

My baby was in full cardiac arrest.

Skip gave him CPR while giving instructions to his staff of nurses and techs. Then he made a hole with a scalpel into Chipper's side between his rib cage, and inserted a tube to inflate both lungs which had collapsed.

Then he inserted a breathing tube down his throat and began to breathe for him that way..

I called to check on Chippy 20 minutes after this, after he he had flat lined. They were still working on him. He was not conscious due to the knockout meds they gave him, in order to get the tube down his throat.

I was beside myself, praying while asking questions. I asked Skip if I should call Dale and have him come down , and without hesitation he said, "YES."

Skip was scared. And for him to be scared, it has to be serious.

I knew he didn't want me to be without my husband if Chipper died, and he also wanted to give Dale a chance to say goodbye, in case.

Dale rushed down here to OKC from Tulsa. Spunky Monkey, our other Bichon, in tow.

Bonnie Ferguson, one of our Board Members, our Director of Adoptions, and our Executive Assistant, got online and e-mailed the TL's and application processors, asking them to pray and to send it to everyone they knew, to ask them to pray too.

I was on my way to have dinner with Lin Weigel, one of my best friends from High School, whom I had recently re-connected with out my high school reunion when all of this happened.

Skip had just told me I could not see Chipper yet as any excitement could kill him.

Dale was driving down, and Lin was caring for me, trying to get me to eat something.

There was a man sitting on the bar stool next to us at the restaurant. He overheard us talking about Small Paws, and anyone in their right mind could tell I was upset, praying the phone didn't ring to tell me my boy was gone.

The man asked for my business card and then told me he would send $100.00 to SPR later.

I thanked him and I noticed he was on his Blackberry, but didn't give it much thought. I wasn't giving anything much thought but my baby.

After a while, the man handed me a check made out to Small Paws. . It wasn't for $100.00. It was for $200.00. He had been looking at our website on his phone.

After that, Lin realized I just wasn't there, so she said, "Come on. Let's just go on over there to the ER. Let's get out of here"

And we did. They told me Chipper was sort of like in an induced coma, so he wouldn't move with that tube down his throat.

The ER vet, who was wonderful, said she didn't want him to know I was there or he would get to excited, which could be disastrous.

I told her he already knew I was there. I am his Mama. He knew.

So she let Lin and I go back and peek at him, under a heating blanket with tubes in his throat and side.

One tech was monitoring his breathing and temperature.

He was extremely critical. He was not moving. He was on morphine.

Dale came and they let us go back. Chipper knew us and his Monkey Ma n brother.

Barb and Randy Von Netzer came up and stayed for almost an hour with me. Thank you Ran and Barb.

I stayed there into the early morning hours, until they pulled the chest tube and he was breathing on his own.

The upgraded him from critical to stable, and this morning he is listed as in good condition. But they are guarded since he still has the tube into his lungs.

He's not out of the woods yet and has to stay in the ER again tonight. I will of course stay with him.

This was taken this morning when he was allowed to stand for a little while. This is all due to God hearing our prayers. Of this I have no doubt.

Chipper Dale and the Monkey Man

The ER vet showed me his X-rays. where the fluid was almost gone at about 1:)) AM this morning. She said there was no medical explanation. If it was pneumonia, the antibiotics couldn't have worked that fast. If it was edema in the lungs, the lasix couldn't have worked that fast. She said it was not explainable medically.

She is a medical missionary twice a year to Guatemala. She is a believer in the power of prayer. When I told her that I understood how this improvement had happened. she told me She understood it too. People were praying.

Please continue to pray for us. He is not out of the woods yet. They say after a dog has arrested, the next 72 hours are the ones to watch.

I wish I could be here to raise funds. But I can't. I have got to get back there to be with him. He is my child.

Next week many of you will be away for the Christmas Holidays.

If you can help, now is the time we need help for these Bichons with the last name of Small Paws. All My Love, Robin

See vet bills paid so far in December of 2009,
totalling $9, 308.81

See Vet Bills Paid by Small Paws Rescue Inc.
For November of 2009 Totalling $37, 807.07

See Vet Bills Paid by Small Paws Rescue Inc.
For October of 2009 Totalling $34, 340.54



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From Small Paws Ebay!

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"Small Paws Rescue Ebay is closing December 18 for a Christmas/New Year break. We will reopen January 4. We'll have some "after Christmas" items to stock up for next year plus new items. So mark your calendar and come see SPR Ebay on January 4!

Thanks,
Patti

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Try GoodSearch.com as your search engine and as your online shopping portal!
Small Paws is signed up and each time you use it, either to search or to go to an online seller, funds are sent to Small Paws for the Bichons! You can buy those shoes at Zappos and those books at Amazon *AND* donate to Small Paws Rescue! Try it out! So far, Small Pawsers have done 83509 searches and have shopped to raise $1413.50 for Small Paws Rescue!
 

Date: 10/5/2009 3:49:00 P.M. Central Daylight Time
From: glbruce@att.net

Now is the time to book your spot(s) for the holiday gift wrapping at Barnes & Noble Bookstores. They have everything you need already set up so it is very easy to do. They let you bring literature about SPR and have a donation jar. We have done it in San Antonio the last two years and got about $150 -$200 in donations (one year we also did it at the Borders). It is a lot of fun and a great way to let the public know about SPR. This is something that even one person can do, but the more the merrier. It is only for a few hours. If anybody has any questions, let me know.

And Lastly:

Subject: new twist on old poem
Date: 12/16/2009 10:40:18 A.M. Central Standard Time
From: dsvedman@elp.rr.com
To: pup3@aol.com

I can't take credit for this version of "T'was the Night Before Christmas" and perhaps you have already seen it or used it, but here it is anyway. I just changed the name of the group to Small Paws Rescue. There was no name to attribute authorship, nor any copyright marked. My boys and I are giving $10 for each of the twelve days of Christmas for a total of $120; please use this to meet any new challenges issued for Jingle B. Deborah Svedman

A Rescue Dog’s Christmas Poem


Tis the night before Christmas, and all through the town;
Every shelter is full – we are lost, but not found.
Our names are hung on our kennels so bare,
We hope every minute that someone will care.

They’ll come to adopt us and give us the call,
“Come here, boy, come, and fetch your new ball!”
But we sit here now and think of the days
We were treated so fondly – we had cute, baby ways.

Once we were little, then we grew and we grew,
Now we’re no longer young and we’re no longer new.
So out the back door we were thrown out like trash,
They reacted so quickly – why were they so rash?

We “jump on the children,” “don’t come when called,”
We “bark when they leave us,” or “climb over the wall.”
We should have been neutered, we should have been spayed.
Now we suffer the consequence of errors they made.

If only they’d trained us, if only we knew,
We’d have done what they asked us and worshipped them, too.
We were left in the back yard, or worse, left to roam.
Now we’re tired and lonely and without a home.

They dropped us off here and kissed us goodbye,
“Maybe someone else will give you a try.”
So now here we are, all confused and alone,
In a shelter with others who long for a home.

The volunteers come through with a meal and a pat,
But with so many to care for, they can’t stay to chat.
They move to the next run, giving each of us cheer;
We know that they wonder how long we’ll be here.

We lay down to sleep and sweet dreams fill our heads
Of a home filled with love and our own cozy beds.
We wake to see sad eyes just brimming with tears –
Our friends filled with emptiness, worry, and fears.

If you can’t adopt us and there’s no room at the inn,
Could you help us pay bills and fill our food bin?
We count on your kindness each day of the year,
Can you give more than hope to everyone here?

Please make a donation to pay for the heat
And help get us something special to eat.
The folks at Small Paws Rescue want us to live,
And more of us will, if more people give.

Merry Christmas!

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Always remember, God loves YOU more than anyone else ever has and more than anyone else ever will!  

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When I first saw this beautiful picture of Cheri Sisco's "Humphrey", I thought it was truly the epitome of what we do, and why we do it. I wanted to use this black and white picture of Humphrey, taken only days before his death due to congestive heart failure, to let those who may be new to Small Paws, know what we do and why we do it. Without Small Paws, Humphrey would have never known love. He would have died in a kill shelter, sick and alone. Because of Small Paws, and Cheri Sisco, he lived, he loved, and he smiled.

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