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Friday Morning, June 24, 2011

Gem of the Day: Volunteers Needed Now, especially in Texas.
How to Become a Small Paws® Rescue Foster Parent

If you are a volunteer already, and can take one precious Bichon into foster care, please notify Susan Harbor at slharbur@iowatelecom.net with your name and location.

We will pay costs associated with fostering. We still need you. Lives depend on it.



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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 Susan Sebring at susan@smallpawsrescue.org to let her know the amount of your donation for the Bichons.

You may also call Susan on her cell phone at 785-224-7839

Susan is on Central Standard Time!
(Please leave a message and Susan will return your call if she 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,

Welcome to our newest members of our Small Paws® Rescue Online Newsletter, especially to those of you who have seen us on Fox and Friends in New York City, or on Animal Planet on "Dogs 101."

Click Here to View Most Recent Appearance on Fox and Friends On Youtube!

Click here for backstage photos taken at the Fox New studios in New York City!

Welcome! We hope you enjoy reading about the Bichons and the people who love them!

If you missed our last newsletter, here it is

We have three more matching challenge donations to help us place 19-20 Bichons recently rescued in Texas, in foster homes, either in that state, or in others.

First, from Deborah Berger and her Bichon Boris, in Manhattan, NY we have this challenge for $100.00. Thank you both, so much.

<Subject: Re: Matching Donation Challenges for "The Dog Days of Summer" Heartworm Bichons!
Date: 6/22/2011 9:30:16 A.M. Central Daylight Time
From: normetski@aol.com

Hi Robin:
There's a reason these are called the "DOG DAYS of SUMMER" - just imagine living through triple digit temps covered in fur, being sick, lonely and scared.
With that Boris would like to put out a $100.00 challenge. Deb and Boris>

And from Ruth Marchessault, also in New York, who has just adopted two darling boys, we have this challenge for $250.00. Thank you Ruth, so much!

<Subject: Re: From Our Board of Trustees & From My Heart. Please Read.
Date: 6/23/2011 6:12:21 P.M. Central Daylight Time
From: ruthmarchessaultisaacson@gmail.com

Robin,

Matching challenge for $250.00 Just got home and read about the problems in Texas. My husband and I would like issue a matching challenge in honor of Maximus and Bistro. They are both SPR's that were pulled from shelters. Although we are waiting their arrival, they are already a part of our family.

Thanks,
Ruth Marchessault>

And from Deb Snider in Norman OK., we have this challenge. Thank you Deb, so very much. So much. Lines of this poem are $20.00 each. Choose one and Deb will match it up to $220.00!

<Subject: "Now is the Time" matching challenge
Date: 6/24/2011 1:10:43 A.M. Central Daylight Time
From: egsnider2@sbcglobal.net

Hey Robin! Don’t lose sleep over worry - just come and ask. Many of us love the mission of this organization way too much to see us reach a crisis point of having to leave our precious dogs behind. One life lost that we could have saved, is one too many. We just will not allow that to happen. I have a challenge -

Dogs are very special beings. No one who has ever had a dog (especially a Bichon), can deny that they have their own distinct personalities, and that a soul fully capable of all human emotions occupies that furry body. But the one emotion in which they excel is love, and the one most honorable characteristic they possess is absolute loyalty to those they love. Dogs, as a species, rival or exceed us in dedication. In turn, when they need help, they must rely on us.

In that spirit, I’d like to issue a challenge to all other dog lovers, and especially to our Bichon rescue family. I will match each of eleven $20 challenges, for a total of $220, based on the “purchase” of one line of the following poem:

Now it is time

I sat alone

For days on end

And someone came and said

”Now it is time”.


What does this mean

Can I go home?

I dream each night

Of care, and love.


Please do not take me

Down some dark path

I want to live, and give.

This is the reality of what our little ones face, if we are not there for them as their “safety net”. In this time of financial duress for SPR, I hope you can find a way to give $20, and I will match the first eleven donors. Thank you for loving all of God’s creation.

Deb, Emma, Buster and Gus Snider

OK, I am out the door to go to the Small Paws Rescue IL./IN. Bash, being held tomorrow in Valparasio IN.

I'll be checking e-mail as I can.

We still need foster homes in Texas.

Thank you for caring about these Bichons in Texas and all across the country.

All My Love, Robin

P.S. About The Boys:

Subject: boys
Date: 6/23/2011 2:21:59 P.M. Central Daylight Time
From: kchomout@comcast.net
To: Pup3@aol.com

Robin,

I have three bichon boys all have Small Paws in their name. I like most people preferred girl dogs because I thought boys would spray in my house.

I have to tell you all the foster boys that I have had and my own boys they are easier to house break then the girls! So if I could pass on this message to the individuals who have volunteered to foster but want a girl, give a boy a chance and you might be surprised.

Kathy Chomout

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Companies Who Match Employees Donations  

From Small Paws Ebay!


Feedback Score Of 1981 100% Positive Comments.



"Small Paws Rescue Ebay is open!



One of our SPR supporters, has made available this Beach Vacation Condo Rental (sleeps 8) in Jekyll Island, Georgia. Listed on Ebay with a great starting bid of of $600 for a 7-day stay, check-in August 27 and depart September 3. A short walk from the condo brings you to a beautiful beach! There are many activities available on Jekyll Island. Check out the Ebay listing for more details.


If you have items to donate to sell on Ebay, please email us! 

Don't forget to visit the Small Paws® Rescue Online E-Store
where lots of items are on clearance and we have some new items as well!!

The Auction is closed but the fund raising goes on. Explore the E- Store and E Bay of SPR to help continue the funds coming in. The e-store has new items already since the auction, and many new things arriving every few days. Check out the Salt and Peppers, the colorful bumper stickers that match the new mouse pads. And WATCH for the new items coming.


Bumper Stickers


Mouse Pad


Salt and Pepper Bichons

Thank you for your continuing support.

Rose E-store Manager (RMCOWARD@aol.com)


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 102, 784 searches and have shopped to raise $1,967.51 for Small Paws Rescue!

How to Become a Much Needed Small Paws® Rescue Foster Parent!
See how we REALLY feel about our volunteers!

Prayer Reports and Requests

Subject: (no subject)
Date: 6/22/2011 7:39:55 P.M. Central Daylight Time
From: suernhumc@hotmail.com

Robin, We brought Stan home today. He was so happy. On the way home, Ed turned to him and asked Stan if he learned anything. Stanley vehemently shook his head, "No!" He was smiling the entire way home.

Sue Johnson

(God loves you more than anyone else ever has,
and more than anyone else ever will!)

Hear the Brooklyn Tabernacle Choir sing "So You Would Know."

Will God let us have our beloved pet's in heaven?

Information About Our Programs

(Let Us Help You to Keep Your Pet During Tough Financial Times)


"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.~

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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