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Thursday January 28, 2010

Gem of the Day: "It's January. January and August are the two worst months for not-for-profits, including Small Paws Rescue.
Our operating account is almost $6000.00 below zero.
I've been asking Him for inspiration. For words to speak to you all.
This video was waiting in my e-mail box this morning. It was sent to me "by mistake." A "wrong number" of sorts.
It couldn't have come at a better time.
It has the words I was asking Him to send to me, for you. "
The "Don't Quit Poem and Short Video"
Robin

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Dear Small Pawsers,

Welcome to the newest members of our Small Paws Rescue Online Newsletter, especially to those of you who saw us live in New York City, on Fox and Friends, last month!

Welcome!

If you missed our last newsletter, here it is.
http://www.smallpawsrescue.org/newsletters/images/jan1910.html

Last Monday night we paid vet bills totalling $11,430.31 for the SPR rescued Bichons across the country.

We've paid $30, 441.31 in vet bills for the first 25 days of January, 2010
which is an average of $1, 217.65 a day.

I know I've been quiet. That usually means one of two things.

I'm either under anesthesia, or I'm waiting and listening to God to guide me.

Well, I haven't had any surgery.

You see, we have good news and bad news.

The good news is that we haven't had any catastrophes. No Bichons have been injured by being hit by a car.

No one has come into rescue with a PDA heart murmur.

No one has bought a puppy to us with a liver shunt.

No one has torn their ACL or broken any bones.

So I haven't had anyone to come and tell you about that needed fundraising.

That's the good news.

The bad news is that dozens of other Bichons we have taken into rescue, have been needing normal and customary medical treatments. Treatments that may not be costing thousands, but when you have dozens of Bichons with medical bills in the hundreds, it all adds up to thousands.

Then, we get owner surrenders like this one, in GA., for a little Bichon named Angel.

Read below to see why I'm so concerned about her.

Yes, we have her now, but we do not have funds yet, to see what is wrong with her.

Angel is a six year old female and she is in trouble.
Below is the Owner Surrender Form that came in for her.

From her previous owner:
"We purchased Angel from a mall in southern California in 2004, a couple of months before we moved to Georgia. (She was born in October 2003. Shortly after we brought her home she had such an extreme case of kennel cough that we almost lost her.

In the first couple of years we lived in Georgia she was hospitalized at least two times due to bronchitis.

In the last two years things have gotten progressively worse. She has had bronchitis at least two more times and hospitalized. Our vet seems to think that she eats too fast and exasperates and it causes an infection.

But that is not the worst part.

She has been chewing herself excessively for the past 2 years! I can’t explain in words how heartbreaking this has been. She has been wearing a cone consistently since August 09. In August she chewed her back end so bad that the vet thought it was an external tumor, it was found to be a wound from her chewing herself. Over Christmas she chewed her leg and her whole tail to a bloody mess. Her leg and tail are almost healed but she is very neurotic about chewing.

Our vet has suggested allergy tests and has commented that he can’t keep up with her neurosis. We don’t have the money for those tests or her annual shots that were due last summer. I haven’t been able to get her groomed since last summer since she has had open wounds. She has also started losing her teeth.

Other than her health issues she is wonderful. She has great temperament. She is good with kids and other dogs. She is a loving, sweet, loyal dog and loves to play. She is crate trained.

This has been a very tough decision for me. Our family has considered putting her to sleep as her quality life is horrible and we don’t have the financial means to help her. I thought about finding a rescue for her since she deserves a chance. We love her dearly, she is a part of our family, but financially we can’t take care of her anymore. Our poor little Angel has had health issues since the day we brought her home. I only hope and pray we can find a place for her that has the financial means to take care of her like we wish we could."

So now you can see how funding or the lack thereof is coming into this, and why I'm so very concerned about Angel.

I would like , (and I believe that you would want this too) to send her to the vet school in Athens GA. to see a special surgeon there, Dr. Mary Anne Radlindsky, to see if this is a collapsing trachea what can be repaired or if we nee to do allergy testing on her. I don't know WHAT is wrong, but i can assure you it is NOT in her head. She's not neurotic. She's sick.

Dr. Skip Tangner, veterinary surgeon and my hero in OKC, says she the best with trachea issues, if this is what it is.

But before we can even get Angel into to be seen and diagnosed, we have got to catch up from all of the vet bills that happened to us in January.

We had several Bichons come in from the mills in Missouri, to our Tulsa vet clinic.
We vetted them and then have had the added expense of flying them to foster homes across the country.

Then, one of our existing rescues, Miles, decided to begin hurling, before Christmas. Major hurling. Projectile hurling. "Get out of the way" hurling.

Miles is tiny. When tiny dogs become ill, they can go downhill very fast.

Well, after much testing, Miles has been diagnosed by Dr. Hodges, our Internist here, with Addison's disease.

Miles had to go to Dr. Hodges Emergency Room several times.

Though they give us a deep rescue discount, for us to keep Miles from assuming room temperature, it was $1, 218.34.

I would have come and raised funds for him, but the bills were coming in little bits at a time. A hundred here. Two hundred there. And then, when they sent the final bill to us it was over 1200.00. It almost had me joining Miles in his symptoms.

Every January is hard, but this one has seemed to be especially difficult.

We know that there are some of you who probably need help, yourselves.

May I ask you to become prayer partners with us, as we pray for you?

Please pray that there are those who are able to help, and if there are, that they will find it in their hearts to do so.

Our Bichons in rescue are counting on us. They don't understand anything about the economy, They only know when they hurt and when they feel better.

Is there a way for you to help us to help them to feel better?

This is how you can help. I will issue all matching challenges for the "January Bichon Blues" challenge! All My Love, Robin

P.S. The Governor has declared Oklahoma to be in a State of Emergency due to a major ice/sleet/ freezing rain/ and snow storm that is heading this way, big time.

They are warning all of us that we may well lose power for days. I think I may have just heard the first ice pellet hit the roof.

I hope we can get some funds in here before that happens, as me standing out on my front porch and hollering to you all, doesn't seem to work too well. It also worries my neighbors, but I digress.

Last Monday night we paid vet bills totalling $11,430.31 for the SPR rescued Bichons across the country.

We've paid $30, 441.31 in vet bills for the first 25 days of January, 2010 which is an average of $1, 217.65 a day.



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Subject: MY HUSBAND
Date: 1/24/2010 8:11:06 A.M. Central Standard Time
From: littlewolf@consolidated.net

WE STAYED AT MY HUSBANDS MOTHERS HOUSE FOR A WEEK BECAUSE OF THE BLADDER CANCER SURGERY.

CAME HOME FOR ONE DAY AND THANK GOD MY SON WAS HERE. MY HUSBAND HAD A MASSIVE HEART ATTACK HE WAS IN THE HOSPITAL FOR ANOTHER WEEK. I STAYED WITH MY SON AND HIS WIFE. BICHONS ARE WITH THE VET.SO WE ARE HOME HOPE TO GET THE BICHONS MONDAY.

PLEASE PRAY FOR US WE HAVE HAD JUST ABOUT ALL WE CAN HANDLE.

LOVE YOU ALL, CINDI PAGE>

<From: Maureen [sisterofisis@tele-net.net]
Sent: 1/26/2010 4:03:25 PM

Robin could you have the prayer warriors add Arthur to the list for me.
We were told yesterday that they no longer believe they will be able to find a cure for Arthur and are only going to be able to treat his symptoms and infections. Needless to say at this point a miracle is needed.
Sorry if this is a bit scrambled but I am not coping too well right now.
Thanks Maureen Nimmo>

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