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Thursday, March 28, 2013

Gem of the Day: "Grief is like the ocean; it comes on waves ebbing and flowing. Sometimes the water is calm, and sometimes it is overwhelming. All we can do is learn to swim."

~Vicki Harrison~



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

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Small Paws Rescue Inc.
3316 S. 72nd. W. Ave.
Tulsa, Ok.

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 11, 2012, 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.

Yesterday, I told you about Louie Bertolino losing his beloved "Snoopy" yesterday morning.

Louie is the guy we have all come to love, the one who takes your credit card donations for Small Paws, the one who checks on our members after illnesses or surgeries, the practical joker at the Bichon Bashes, and just an all around nice guy.

He's also responsible for a lot of the technical assistance given whenever any of us needs it, which is almost daily.

Snoopy had cancer of the tonsils and despite having surgery about a month ago, the tumor had grown so large that it was closing off his throat and food was unable to pass.

Yesterday, Louie had to make that final decision for his precious boy.

This was the first time Louie has ever lost a dog and of course, it is hitting his especially hard.

I could tell he had been crying and I told him I wouldn't love him like I do, if he hadn't.

He has sent in this message to all of our Small Paws family.


Subject: Snoopy
Date: 3/28/2013 9:18:30 A.M. Central Daylight Time
From: Louieb@smallpawsrescue.org

Snoopy Bertolino

Robin,
I wanted to thank everyone for their wonderful emails to me and Ivonne, expressing their condolences and support of my recent loss of Snoopy. I will get back to everyone personally via email, but also wanted to express thanks to all those that donated in Snoopy’s memory. Your donations will let my Snoopy’s memory live on through these latest rescues. Rescues that your donations will help to save. I am eternally grateful to all of you. I love you ALL. Here is a little poem I put together on Snoopy’s behalf, I wanted to share with the Small Paws Community.

"Hear my growl, Angel of death
for around me light is all aglow.
Weary am I with my companion's tears, and talk of a Bridge over which I must go.

Not so, oh tear covered cheek, should your happiness be denied.
For I'm with my owners, my loves, and you by my side.

How I wish to trot forth, my leash in your hand, across the Rainbow Bridge, into the Lord's golden land.

Yet alone I must go, leaving you behind.
As much as I wish to stay, it was not benign.

Look! I see now, a path richly colored and gold!
You can let go of my paw,
For the Lord has called me home. "

Louie Bertolino
Credit Card Donations Coordinator
Small Paws Rescue, Inc.
1-424-442-9484
www.SmallPawsRescue.org>

We love you Louie.

And from Kathryn Smith, (and I know that Kathryn loves Louie too), we have this challenge for our 14 newest Bichons with the new last name of Small Paws.

Subject: In memory of Snoopy
Date: 3/27/2013 4:14:36 P.M. Central Daylight Time
From: landsharkinnc@suddenlink.net

Hit me for 140.00 – that’s only 10.00 apiece, I know; I can do the math,
and for anyone who has ever had the ‘First Time’ , lets make this a Challenge.
Hugs all around. K~

And from Kaye Hanson in Oregon, we have challenge this for Louie and Snoopy.

Subject: Re: Matching Donation Challenge Of $1000.00 for 11 New Bichons/ Louie Bertolino's Snoopy
Date: 3/27/2013 2:27:17 P.M. Central Daylight Time
From: tnkhansen@comcast.net

Robin, I will contact Louie to make a donation in memory of his sweet Snoopy. It can’t be as much as I wish, but I know at this point every little bit helps. Maybe others will join us in donating in honor of Snoopy. Louie was so kind to me a few months ago when we had to help our little Belle cross that Rainbow Bridge, and the tears still flow when I remember. A very special friend sent this to me, and maybe you would like to send it to all our members in a newsletter. So many of us have had to go thru this, and I hope it will help Louie feel a little peace in his broken heart now.

Hugs,
Todd and Kaye in Oregon

If It Should Be

If it should be that I grow frail and weak
And pain should keep me from my sleep
Then you must do what must be done
For this, the last battle can not be won.

You will be sad - I understand
Don't let your grief then stay your hand
For this day, more than all the rest
Your love and friendship stand the test.

We've had so many happy years
What is to come can hold no fears
You'd not want me to suffer, so
When the time comes, please let me go.

I know in time you will see
It is a kindness you do for me
Although my tail it's last has waived
From pain and suffering I've been saved.

Don't grieve that it should be you
Who has to decide this thing to do
We've been so close, we two these years
Don't let your heart hold any tears.

Author Unknown - England>

Also, my apologies. I called this coming Friday, "Palm Friday" and there is no such thing. It is "Good Friday." I know this like I know the back of my hand, but going through a loss with a close friend, will do that to you. And Louie is a member of our family. Dale and I would adopt him if we could.

One last thing,

One of the Bonded pairs we took in, are going to cost us even more than expected.

It's Abby and Angel in Tennessee.

Abby before.


Abby after shaving, is three years old.


Angel before.


Angel after shaving. She is six.

You never know when you take a Bichon in, what their health condition is going to be until you get in there.

Angel has a raised mass that may be a mast cell tumor.

The vet is going to remove it and send it off to pathology.

Abby has a mass as well and the vet told me it is harder than an ordinary lipoma (fatty tumor) so she wants to get good margins and send that off as well.

We are probably looking at around $1400.00 in vetting for this pair and that is with a 15% rescue discount.

Both need dentals and Angel may need extractions.

And we have another newbie in Northern Texas. .

Meet little "Rudy". Many thanks to Our North Texas Co-Team Leader, Pauline Narog, for getting him picked up and to the vet, from the shelter.

Someone commented that we are really going through a tough time right now.

I don't know what happened, but the flood gates just opened all at once it seems.

With your help, we will make it through this valley to the shining mountain that waits on the other side. All My Love, Robin

A Living Love

If you ever love an animal, there are three days in your life you will always remember..

The first is a day, blessed with happiness, when you bring home your young new friend. You may have spent weeks deciding on a breed. You may have asked numerous opinions of many vets, or done long research in finding a breeder. Or, perhaps in a fleeting moment, you may have just chosen that silly looking mutt in a shelter -- simply because something in its eyes reached your heart. But when you bring that chosen pet home, and watch it explore, and claim its special place in your hall or front room -- and when you feel it brush against you for the first time -- it instills a feeling of pure love you will carry with you through the many years to come.

The second day will occur eight or nine or ten years later. It will be a day like any other. Routine and unexceptional. But, for a surprising instant, you will look at your longtime friend and see age where you once saw youth. You will see slow deliberate steps where you once saw energy. And you will see sleep when you once saw activity. So you will begin to adjust your friend's diet -- and you may add a pill or two to her food. And you may feel a growing fear deep within yourself, which bodes of a coming emptiness. And you will feel this uneasy feeling, on and off, until the third day finally arrives.


And on this day , if your friend and whatever higher being you believe in have not decided for you, then you will be faced with making a decision of your own, on behalf of your lifelong friend, and with the guidance of your own deepest Spirit. But whichever way your friend eventually leaves you, you will feel as long as a single star in the dark night.

If you are wise, you will let the tears flow as freely and as often as they must. And if you are typical, you will find that not many in your circle of family or friends will be able to understand your grief, or comfort you.

But if you are true to the love of the pet you cherished through the many joy-filled years, you may find that a soul, a bit smaller in size than your own, seems to walk with you, at times, during the lonely days to come.

And at moments when you least expect anything out of the ordinary to happen, you may feel something brush against your leg, very very lightly.

And looking down at the place where your dear, perhaps dearest, friend used to lie , you will remember those three significant days. The memory will most likely to be painful, and leave an ache in your heart.


As time passes the ache will come and go as if it has a life of its own. You will both reject it and it, and it may confuse you. If you reject it, it will depress you. If you embrace it, it will deepen you. Either way, it will still be an ache.


But there will be, I assure you, a fourth day when, along with the memory of your pet, and piercing through the heaviness in your heart, there will come a realization that belongs only to you. It will be as unique and strong as our relationship with each animal we have loved, and lost. This realization takes the form of a Living Love, like the heavenly scent of a rose that remains after the petals have wilted, this Love will remain and grow, and be there for us to remember. It is a love we have earned. It is the legacy our pets leave us when they go. And it is a gift we may keep with us as long as we live. It is a Love which is ours alone. And until we ourselves leave, perhaps to join our Beloved Pets, it is a Love we will always possess.

~by Martin Scot Kosins~

See Vet Bills Paid By Small Paws Rescue For The First 25 Days of
March 2013, totalling $22, 731.57 which is an average of $909.26 per day.

If you've made a past donation by credit card, you may e-mail Louie Bertolino at louieb@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!
(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.

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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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