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Tuesday Afternoon, October 16, 2012

Gem of the Day: "Hope is necessary in every condition. The miseries of poverty, sickness and captivity would, without this comfort, be insupportable."

~Samuel Johnson~


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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 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. 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 may have seen us on October 24, 2011 on Fox and Friends in New York City, or on Animal Planet on "Dogs 101.", or you may have recently read about us in Chicken Soup for the Soul: Find Your Happiness, 101 Stories about Finding Your Purpose, Passion and Joy , or you may have seen us on "Inside Edition" with Deborah Norville.

If you missed our last newsletter, click here to read it.

Items are still needed for our upcoming Small Paws Rescue Holiday Auction which is set to start on November 2, 2012.

Contact Donna Brown at daisy1027@aol.com with any questions!

We are up to 201 Items so far, but we need 300 in order to hold the auction!

This auction raises about $12,000.00 for the Bichons! Thank you in advance!

The final days are dwindling down before the 2012 Small Paws Rescue Okie Bash Weekend which begins next week!

You are all invited! Please R.S.V.P. to Bonnie Ferguson at bonnie@smallpawsrescue.org if you can come to any or all of the events. (We will be accepting credit cards for the various meals at Post Oaks Lodge.)

It's a very busy time here at the home office and next week will be even busier with Small Pawser's arriving, here in Tulsa, from all over the country.

That's why Dave Hagadorn's email to me last night, telling me that our bank balance was dangerously low, was so concerning!

He said we are down to $1,386.00 left over after paying our vet bills, which isn't even a full day for us.

See vet Bills Paid By Small Paws Rescue in October of 2012 totalling $22, 093.45
for the first 15 days of October. This is an average of $1,472.90 per day.

And we have SIX Bichons who need for us to come for them from a Chicago area shelter or they will be killed, dead. And no I am not kidding.

It's never a good time for this to happen.

If we can raise funds, we will go for them on Friday, but it will take an estimated $3600.00 to vet and quarantine them all.

This is causing me not to be able to even think of anything else but raising funds for these six Bichons in danger.

They used to be somebody's babies. :(

Now, through no fault of their own, they are on death row.

We have to be able to pay for their care. I can't authorize them to come in without funds to vet them.

There are two bonded pairs and two single Bichons. All at once. I'm probably rambling because I'm stressing.

Did I mention they are scheduled to go down without us??

I know these pictures are bad pics, but they came from a shelter volunteer's cell phone. They are all we have to determine if these are Bichons.

I say YES. They are all Bichons. And yes, I would know. (I'm doing it again, aren't I? )

A pair of owner surrender Bichons. The owner's couldn't afford to keep them. Can you imagine if your Bichons were in a cage at a shelter where they are having to euthanize dogs in the next room? Mine would be in shock.


A pair of Bichons found as strays. Together on the streets. Mine would be in shock without their Mom and Dad. They wouldn't know what a car is or how to find food. They would be lost.


I know the picture is blurry but I know this is a
Bichon like I know the back of my hand. Found as a stray.


Another stray. The picture isn't good but I'm not going to leave him there over a bad picture. He's either a Bichon or "pert-near". (Southern slang used by my Grandmother, meaning "Pretty Near."

All of these are young Bichons.

So you see the problem. And that's just in Illinois.

They are also coming in in VA., in GA., in LA., in Dallas, TX. They are coming in from all over.

We want to be there to catch them before they assume room temperature, but we need your help.

We need your matching challenges to issue.

We have this first matching challenge for $500.00 in honor of "Tessie" Gellar, who has passed away.

We got this from her Mom, Sue.

Sue, our prayers are with you at this difficult time.

From: "Sue Geller" <sg7500@tx.rr.com>
Sent: Mon, October 15, 2012 14:23
Subject: Tessie Tura

We would like to donate $500.00 in loving memory of our Tessie.
We would challenge anyone with a Velcro dog to do the same in hopes of saving a future Velcro dog to enrich someone else's life.
Thanks, Sue>

It's one of those things where you think, "What if my Bichon had no one?"

You wonder if your Bichons would have made it out, if someone's else hadn't donated funds for his or her medical care.

This is as serious as it gets. They need us and we need you, in order to save them.

I will issue all matching donation challenges.

Sorry for rambling. NOT a good time for this to happen. It never is! All My Love, Robin

See vet Bills Paid By Small Paws Rescue in October of 2012 totalling $22, 093.45
for the first 15 days of October. This is an average of $1,472.90 per day.

If you have 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!)

Companies Who Match Employees Donations  

From Small Paws Ebay!


Feedback Score Of 2100 100% Positive Comments.


"Small Paws Rescue Ebay SPR Ebay is open! Come and take a look. Patti Newlin

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

THE SMALL PAWS RESCUE ONLINE E-STORE IS HAVING A BIG FALL SALE! ALSO SEE THE TWO NEWEST ITEMS!


SPR LOGO Decal


SPR LOGO Magnet





Raffle Tickets are now on sale to win the Beautiful 2012 Small Paws Rescue Quilt made by the Small Paws Rescue Blanketeers! It is an exquisite queen sized quilt made of beautiful 1930's reproduction fabrics in pastel shades to fit any decor!

Tickets for the raffle are $5.00 each and the drawing takes place at the Small Paws Rescue Okie Bash in Tulsa, Oklahoma on Oct. 27, 2012!
You do not need to be present to win!

So get in line and buy as many as you can to increase your chances of winning while helping the Bichons at the same time!
Many thanks to The Small Paws Rescue Blanketeers (especially to Diane Piskar, Linda Gonzoles, and Sue Halley!) for supplying our 2012 Small Paws Rescue Quilt!!

Contact Rose Coward, our Small Paws Rescue Online E-Store managerat 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 over 100,000 searches and have shopped to raise $$2,641.38 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


Thank You's

(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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