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1:45 P.M. Monday November 29, 2010
Gem of the Day: Heads Up!
URGENT. Jerky treats from China could be
causing illness in pets!
Place a Bid on our online auction for this
"Custom 8x10
Pet Watercolor Portrait
Of Your Pet!"
Donated by Erin Martin
The Small Paws® Rescue Holiday Online
Auction began on Friday, November 19, 2010
and it will continue through December 5,
2010.
We always welcome
more donated items
for
this Holiday auction!
Click here to donate an item! It can be a
doggy item, an item
for your Bichon or
for
a Bichon's human,
jewelry, just about
anything
that is in new or
gently used condition!
Contact Dr. Donna Brown, our Auction Webmistress
at daisy1027@aol.com with any questions!.
Click here for step-by-step directions for
using
our new shopping
cart to make a donation.
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register or obtain
a password
to purchase or donate!
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."
Welcome! We hope
you enjoy reading
about
the Bichons and the
people who love them!
If you missed our last newsletter, here it
is
Folks, many of you must still be out as we
are still getting many "Away from the
office" replies.
Hello?? ((Robin turns
laptop upside down
and shakes it)) Is
anyone out there?
Hello??
Earth to Small Paws.
Respond Small Paws!
We have all sorts of emergencies happening
right now.
Bichons needing surgery,
Bichons who had
to go to the ER on
Thanksgiving Day,
Bichons
with bladder stones,
Bichons needing allergy
testing, you name
it we have it.
And we desperately need help soon if we are
going to be able to continue to take in Bichons
in need.
As you know, we started out LAST Monday night,
after paying our vet bills, with only $885
.00 left over.
It's costing us an average of $1308.00 for
medical bills.
See Vet Bills Paid by Small Paws® Rescue
in
November of 2010
totalling $28, 783.57
This is for the first
22 days of November,
which is an average
of $1,308.34 per
day.
We are the LAST RESORT for Bichons that we
take in.
How do we know?
When people want to surrender bichons for
reasons of "I'm moving to a new home
and don't want the dog on the new wood floor."
or "The dog needs someone with more
time to spend", we send them a letter
with other resources available, letting them
know that if it becomes a situation where
their dog is in danger of being euthanized,
we will take the dog.
If an owner is ill, or is going into a nursing
home and can't take care of the Bichon anymore,
we take them.
If the Bichon is ill and the owner has tried
to find financial help and they are at the
point of having to make a decision about
euthanasia, we take them.
If a good samaritan finds a Bichon and the
owner can't be found, we take them,
We aren't out there taking in every Bichon
from every shelter and owner as we once were
able to do.
We have had to become
selective in who we
are able to take
in, due to the tremendous
rise in owner surrenders
and shelter Bichons.
If a dog is in a shelter and safe, we leave
them to be adopted with the info that if
they become ill to call us and we will come
immediately.
We are only taking
in shelter dogs whose
time is up.
I just wanted you to know this so that you
know that we are trying to triage, to take
in only the Bichons in real danger of assuming
room temperature, and to stretch every penny
that comes in for their medical bills.
And of course if one of the Bichons that
we placed needs to come back into rescue
for any reason, for the rest of their lives,
we take those back.
And if any of you know me, you know I will
fight tooth and toenail with a vet or an
ER in order to get the prices down, to eliminate
non-essential testing procedures, (And yes,
over the years I've learned what is and what
isn't needed in many of these cases.) and
to beg for a rescue discount, etc.
I never dreamed I would grow up to be a professional
begger, but when it comes to these precious
Bichons, who are helpless without us, I guess,
beg, I will.
Right now, it is not looking good for Chester's
eye surgery which the eye surgeon fells is
urgent and needs to be done now in order
to keep the retinae from detaching. This
is painful and we really need to do this
surgery for this baby. He is only three years
old.
From: kem@rusticastudios.com
Reply To:
To: Pup3@aol.com
Robin –
Here is a photo of Chester. Dr. Gwin checked
his eyes and found a mature cataract in the
right eye and an immature cataract in the
left eye. His recommendation is to leave
the left eye alone for now because it may
take months to years for that one to develop
fully. But he recommends immediate surgery
on the right eye since these little Bichons
are prone to retinal detachment. His estimate
for the surgery (Including a nice discount)
is $1,900. This includes the surgery and
3 months of post-op visits. I went ahead
and scheduled him for surgery in Oklahoma
City on Tuesday, 11/30 with a follow-up in
Tulsa the next day, 12/1. These appointments
may be cancelled or changed depending on
what you advise. At this point, I’m planning
to take him to OKC and will keep him at my
house
Kem Maher>
We have this matching donation challenge
from our friend Sue Hodges. This is the first
Holiday season she is without her husband,
who passed away recently after a very brief
illness.
And yet, she still thinks about these Bichons
in need. Thank you Sue, again. I hope there
is someone who can match your challenge!
Subject: RE: Several
Bichons Had Medical
Issues Over the Weekend.
I'm Waving the White
Flag Here. HELP?
Date: 11/29/2010
11:17:22 A.M. Central
Standard
Time
From: sue.hodges@klgates.com
Robin, Please issue
a $100. matching
challenge
to help with Dolly,
Chester, Dancer and
any
others who need it.
Best of luck!
Sue
Sue J. Hodges
K&L Gates LLP
>
So far this is the
only challenge I
have
gotten in my e-mail.
I'm here! I'll pass
on all matching challenges
if anyone is there
to issue one!
Hello?? Anyone out there?
All My Love, Robin
See Vet Bills Paid by Small Paws® Rescue
in
November of 2010
totalling $28, 783.57
This is for the first 22 days of November,
which is an average of $1,308.34 per day.
We paid vet bills for October in the amount
of $37, 415.66
averaging $1206.95
per day.
Click here for step-by-step directions for
making a donation
using
our new shopping
cart!
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register or obtain
a password!
Companies Who Match Employees Donations
From Small Paws Ebay!
Feedback Score Of 1854 100% Positive Comments.
"Small Paws Rescue Ebay will close during the Fall Auction BUT we
are open until then. Come and see our lovely
items!
This and more is waiting for you at Small
Paws Rescue Ebay.
I list new items as time
allows so check back
often. Please remember
to leave SPR positive
feedback on Ebay when
the auction has ended
to your satisfaction.
Thank-you! Patti
If you have items to donate to sell on Ebay,
please email us!
Visit the Small Paws® Rescue Online E-Store where lots of items are on clearance and
we have some new
items as well!!
Lots of items on clearance and now we have
some new items as
well
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 Requests
(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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