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Wednesday Evening March 30, 2011

Gem of the Day: "We are so thankful to those of you who have been able to help. It has been really slow raising funds for these two little ones. I don't know if it's because it's the end of the month or what. So far, we have raised only a third of what is needed for the two surgeries, for Munchkin and Macy.

We truly need help here, folks. I woke up at 3:00 A.M. staring at the ceiling and tried counting Bichons to get back to sleep.
All I could count was mounting vet bills.
I'm truly concerned here.
If you can't help, we really do understand that.
Please pray there is someone who can help.
~ Robin ~


"Macy" will be our 77th Heart Murmur Surgery
7 month old "Macy" has a grade SIX out of a possible SIX heart murmur.
Discounted cost to repair her heart murmur will run right at $2000.00 at MedVet in Worthington, Ohio, if we can get her there and raise funds for her.
World renown cardiologist, Dr. Thaibinh Nguyenba, would be doing her surgery.


Click here to see a short movie of little Munchkin.
Three year old "Munchkin" has both a torn ACL (Anterior Cruciate Ligament) AND a Grade 5 out of 5 Luxating Patella. He is in pain. He needs surgery in OKC , where he is being fostered. The surgery would be done by Dr. Skip Tangner at the Veterinary Surgical Center in OKC, as soon as we can raise the funding.
Discounted cost of torn ACL surgery, which is the most crucial of his two surgeries and is the one needing to be done first, is $1087.00.



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Dear Small Pawsers,

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

If you missed our last newsletter, here it is.

I can tell you this.

You know me.

Some of you have seen me in my nightgown and robe. You know me. I can tell you this.

Sometimes I don't think I can do this even one more time.

Come and ask you for money, yet again.

It's the one part of my job that just isn't my favorite.

I feel like you all must think, "Oh no. Here she is again. Good Grief. Does she ever do anything but ask for money?"

That's probably what I would think if I were you.

We really do try so hard to cut every cost we can.

I argue with vets all day. Ask my husband. Ha.

He'll walk in to see me saying, "yes, I know you are about to close. He wants HOW MUCH for WHAT? No no. That's higher than anyone has ever charged us. These are rescue dogs. Yes, that sounds much better and yes, we can swing that. THANK YOU. Please thank that DOG-tor and hug his neck for me." (I assume they don't want a strange blonde woman from Oklahoma coming in and hugging any necks in person.)

I can do THAT in my sleep.

Dale says that sometimes I DO that in my sleep. Argue with vets over costs.

I always ask him if I won or not.

THAT I can do in my sleep.

It's coming to you all and trying to think of something more clever. Something more touching. Something more moving.

The reality is that I'm just me.

I'm not any more clever than the average bear, and I'm praying these messages aren't ending up in the recycle bin.

I should have written to you early this morning.

But the response was so slow after the first newsletter I guess I didn't want to bother you so soon.

So I worked on updating The Heart Murmur Bichons web page.

Wow. Macy will be our 77th Heart Murmur survivor.

I looked at the pictures of the others, and I remembered each one.

I remember the six who didn't make it. Some of those I held in my arms.

Baby Stetson was one of those. He was so tiny and so sick that I wanted him to have a BIG name.

"Stetson"

Dale and I stopped, dropped and ran down to Texas A&M on a Thanksgiving weekend.

We'd stop so I could find Internet access so I could try to raise funds for him,

Then we'd drive some more.

They had to try to stabilize him over the weekend and would do surgery on the following Monday morning.

We were really new at this back then.

He weighed less than a pound.

I was driving back from MO. the next Monday around noon, when the call came in on my cell phone that he had died on the table.

I remember stopping at a Drury Inn in Joplin, MO. to set up the laptop and through my tears, I came to tell you all that Baby Stetson was in heaven now.

We have come so far with our Heart Murmur program.

No one has done more heart murmur repairs for their breed, anywhere in the world.

I am so very proud of the work we have done in this area of repairing congenital defects, these dreaded heart murmurs caused by poor breeding practices, usually in commercial kennels.

I guess I'm a little weepy remembering all of the Bichons we have saved, and the lives of the human beings that have been touched by these Bichons, for almost 13 years now.

When fundraising is going through a slow patch, it's just hard.

Knowing they are sick or in pain and knowing we need to raise funds for them, well, this is the challenging part of rescue work that hundreds of rescuers do each and every day.

We do have three new matching challenge donations for Munchkin and Macy.

I'm here and I will issue all matching challenges if they come in for these two, our two recent, greatest needs.

"Macy" will be our 76th Heart Murmur Surgery

She has a grade 6 out of a possible 6 heart murmur. This means it can be heard without the aid of a stethoscope. The discounted cost to repair her heart murmur will run right at $2000.00 at MedVet in Worthington, Ohio.
Dr. Thaibinh Nguyenba, would be doing her surgery.

Click here to see a short movie of little Munchkin.
Three year old "Munchkin" has both a torn ACL (Anterior Cruciate Ligament) AND a Grade 5 out of 5 Luxating Patella. He is in pain. He needs surgery in OKC , where he is being fostered. The surgery would be done by Dr. Skip Tangner at the Veterinary Surgical Center in OKC, as soon as we can raise the funding.
Discounted cost of this torn ACL surgery is $1087.00.

Ok. We have this matching challenge from our friend Sue Hodges in Southern California for $100.00. Is there anyone who can match her? If so, that gets us $200.00 closer to our goal. Thank you again Sue!

Subject: RE: Little Munchkin and Baby Macy Are Falling Apart at the Seams. Help Needed ASAP.
Date: 3/29/2011 1:40:01 P.M. Central Daylight Time
From: Sue.Hodges@klgates.com
To: pup3@aol.com

Robin: Please issue a $100. matching challenge to help with Munchkin and Macy. Best of luck!

Sue

Sue J. Hodges
K&L Gates LLP >

And in honor of "Hannah's" 16th Birthday, we have this matching challenge donation! Thank you Rosemary and Dennis! Happy Birthday Hannah!

<Subject: Re: Little Munchkin and Baby Macy Are Falling Apart at the Seams. Help Needed ASAP.
Date: 3/29/2011 12:53:12 P.M. Central Daylight Time
From: craftyladyr@gmail.com
To: pup3@aol.com

Hi Robin,

On April 20th our Hannah will be 16. So, Dennis and I would like to issue a matching challenge for $100.00 as her birthday wish.

Thank you,
Rosemary>

And we have this challenge from the adoptive Mom of one of our first heart murmur kidlets, a darling Bichon named "Bungee".


Subject: Re: Little Munchkin and Baby Macy Are Falling Apart at the Seams. Help Needed...
Date: 3/29/2011 12:41:54 P.M. Central Daylight Time
From: LitlSybil@aol.com
To: pup3@aol.com

Dear Robin,

Please send out a $25 challenge each on both Macy (who should be called Miracle for still being alive) and Munchkin. I'm sure you'll have much bigger challenges but it's the best I can do right now. Bungee is coming along with his ACL repair and is in the second week of rehab (water treadmill and cold laser treatment plus some stuff called Ligaplex on top of all the other stuff he gets to take). He's happier today than he was a month ago and the rehab is helping. Thanks so much for letting me know about the cold laser. Love you, S


Well, I guess that's about it. I'm praying. I'm asking you to pray too. Funds are out there. There are people who want to help. I just know it.

We just need to let them know how very real this need is, at this time.

I may not be a clever bear, but I'm persistent.

I have to be for them,

All My Love, Robin

See Vet Bills Paid by Small Paws Rescue Inc. for the first 28 Days of March of 2011, totalling $32, 217.71 averaging $1, 150.63 per day.

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From Bonnie Ferguson, Member of our Board of Trustees and Director of Adoptions

Subject: Prayers for Mom
Date: 3/29/2011 10:36:40 P.M. Central Daylight Time
From: bonnie@smallpawsrescue.org

Please keep my mother in your prayers today. She is having some health problems and is having some tests done today. We are praying for healing and ease of mind.

Thanks everyone.

Bonnie~


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Humphrey Sisco
Dec 26, 1993~ Aug 30, 2006

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