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Thursday, February 12, 2015

Gem of the Day: Attention All Foster Parents and Dog Lovers!

This is about a FREE App for your phone, called Goodrx, which allows you to save HUGE amounts on meds for you or your dogs. It was also top rated by Consumer Reports. And it will save Small Paws money for their foster Bichons!!

It was also mentioned one of our local news stations this week.

This e-mail came to me from Dr. Hodges, our Veterinary Internist, here in Tulsa. Some of you heard him speak at the last Okie Bash.

Barbara McKelvy is using it for her Bichon, Henry's meds and she gives it a big thumbs up!

From Dr. Hodges:

Robin,

The discharge instructions should've summed it up pretty good. Not major changes in the gall bladder but enough to start on Ursodiol.

FYI, Ursodiol and some other meds that we call in to a "human" pharmacy can be quite pricey. We have discovered an App for the Iphone and Android) that prints coupons for significant savings on a lot of drugs. The app is "GoodRx". Download the app to your phone. Open the app and search for the drug, strength and quantity. It will give you prices at the local pharmacies, price with "membership" at the various pharmacies and price with coupon if there is one.
Example: Fluconazole 100 mg qty 30 at Walgreens was $250.00. With the app, it cost the client $35.00.

I think this could help all of Small Paws possibly save a lot of money.

Dr Hodges>



7 Year old "Bella" came into rescue with four large bladder stones, and two smaller stones. Her owner couldn't afford to have them removed. She needs our help, urgently. Please see the matching challenges for her below.


Small Paws Rescue Foster and Volunteer Online Application

(Volunteers re especially needed in Louisiana, all of Texas and in Tulsa, Oklahoma!)

See Vet Bills Paid by Small Paws Rescue for the first 9 days of February, 2015, Coming to $5, 354.56 which is an average of $594.95 per day.



To make a one time donation, or a monthly donation to Small Paws Rescue, you may use your major credit card securely, at this site.

If you've made a past donation by credit card, you may e-mail Louie Bertolino at smallpawsrescue.org to let him know the amount of your donation for the Bichons.

You may also call Louie on his cell phone at 1-424-442-9484
Louie is on Eastern Standard Time! He is waiting for your call!
(He is home today due to 25 inches of snow in the Boston area!

(Please leave a message and Louie will return your call if he is not available!)

You may also send a check or money order to:
Small Paws Rescue Inc.
3316 S. 72nd. W. Ave.
Tulsa, Ok. 74107

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

Dear Small Pawsers,

Small Paws Rescue Online Newsletter, especially to those of you who may have recently seen us on December 19, 2014, on Fox and Friends in New York City , or on Animal Planet on "Dogs 101.", or you may have read about us in Chicken Soup for the Soul: Find Your Happiness, 101 Stories about Finding Your Purpose, Passion and Joy . You also may have seen us on "Inside Edition" with Deborah Norville!

If you missed our previous newsletter, here it is.

If you would like to share today's newsletter, this is the link!.

As you know, we have a darling little female Bichon who has four large bladder stones and to smaller ones, and she needs surgery.

Her vet records indicate she is 7 years old.

She was an owner surrender because they were on a fixed income and could not afford this surgery to remove her bladder stones.

If we can raise the needed $800.00 for her bladder stone surgery and her dental, (she REALLY needs a dental), it would be done by:

Dr. Jeffrey Phillips (859-734-2245)
Commonwealth Animal Hospital
1058 North College St.
Harrodsburg, KY 40330

This is from her Foster Mom, Kay Myers at kaymyers40@yahoo.com:

"I am not a medical person in any sense of the word, but when he put the X-rays up, I immediately saw 4 rather large stones and he pointed out 2 smaller ones also. I would like to schedule her as soon as we can for surgery to give her relief."

These are our matching donation challenges for little Bella!

First, from Kathryn Smith, one of our great Team Leaders, we have this challenge for $50.00. Thank you Kathryn!

Subject: Matching Challenge for JJ
Date: 2/11/2015 5:34:00 P.M. Central Standard Time
From: landsharkinnc@suddenlink.net

I’d like to put up a 50.00 challenge in memory of JJ and in honor of Stephanie Hunter-- she’s such an awesome gal and loves ALL her fluffs --
and JJ’s been a heart dog for her for almost 14 years -

KinNC
Punish the Crime, not the Freedom>

Next, from Janet and Beaude, we have this challenge from Arizona. Thank you Janet!

<Subject: Re: Help Needed For Darling Female Bichon Needing 6 Bladder Stones Removed./ Losses
Date: 2/11/2015 6:49:21 P.M. Central Standard Time
From: jasarizona@gmail.com

Hi Robin, I would like to issue a small challenge of $25.00 in the name of Harley, my friend's Bichon who walked the Rainbow Bridge last month. He also suffered from bladder stones.

Thank you, Janet and Beaude>

And next from, Florida, Deborah Berger and her Celebrity Bichon, Boris Berger, have issued this challenge for $100.00. Thanks so much Deb!

>From: normetski <normetski@aol.com>
To: pup3 <pup3@aol.com>
Sent: Wed, Feb 11, 2015 8:12 pm
Subject: Fwd: Help Needed For Darling Female Bichon Needing 6 Bladder Stones Removed./ Losses

Robin..In honor of Bear, JJ and Sailor..please issue a $100.00 challenge..Thanks Deb and the Big B>

And from Barbe Von Netzer, my sister friend of 25 years, we have this challenge for 150.00. Thank you Barbe!!

<Subject: Re: Help Needed For Darling Female Bichon Needing 6 Bladder Stones Removed./ Losses
Date: 2/11/2015 10:35:40 P.M. Central Standard Time
From: forest0000@aol.com

Robin I would like to issue a donation of $150 in memory of these precious pups who we have lost in the past month, Bear, Sailor and JJ. When one of us loses our fluff, we all feel the pain. My heart hurts for all of you. Love Barbe>

And we have this challenge for $50.00 for Bella! Thank you so much! This is the Small Pawser who told Bella's first parents about us.

<Subject: Bella
Date: 2/12/2015 5:17:25 A.M. Central Standard Time
From: kmerce@msn.com

Please issue a $50.00 challenge for Bella. I am so relieved that her owners followed my suggestion to call Small Paws to help them. They truly loved Bella enough to give her up so she could receive the medical care that they just could not afford for her. Thank you so much for accepting her into Small Paws.>

And from our friend in Southern California, we have this challenge for $100.00. Thank you again, Sue!

<Subject: RE: Help Needed For Darling Female Bichon Needing 6 Bladder Stones Removed./ Losses
Date: 2/12/2015 12:41:30 P.M. Central Standard Time
From: Sue.Hodges@klgates.com

Robin, Please issue a $100. Matching challenge. Best of luck!
Sue

Sue J. Hodges
Partner
K&L Gates LLP>

So that's where we are. Can any of you match one or more of these challenges? Thank you in advance for helping these Bichon.

All My Love, Robin

Submitted by our Team Leader to the Carolinas, LA., and GA., Kathryn Smith

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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 over 100,000 searches and have shopped to raise $$2,641.38 for Small Paws Rescue!



How to Become a Much Needed Small Paws® Rescue Foster Parent!

See how we REALLY feel about our volunteers!

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and more than anyone else ever will!)

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For Those Who are Broken of Heart from the Loss of a Beloved Pet

Information About Our Programs
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"Trust, a Deadly Disease"
A MUST read, sent in by our Team Leader
to the Carolinas, Kathryn Smith
~By Sharon Mathers. Published 1988 in Canine Concepts
and Community Animal Control Magazine.~

>When these folks applied to adopt, and we asked how their Bichon was killed by a car, this was their response. We hear this on an average of once a week.

(These are NOT Bichons adopted from Small Paws.)

PLEASE don't take a chance with the life of your Bichon!
We do not adopt to people who allow their dogs to run loose.

To: bonnie@smallpawsrescue.org
Subject: Re: Small Paws Rescue

We had him for the last five years, He is very obedient normally when we say "stay" he will stop wherever he is, so some times we are used to play with him in the yard for he loves to run around the yard in circles, during that time we did not put him on the leash, this particular day he was not on leash and did not yield to the command when he saw some dog across the road. It took off so suddenly the on coming driver did not have time to stop the car. That is how it happened.>


Humphrey Sisco
Dec 26, 1993~ Aug 30, 2006

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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