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Tuesday September 15, 2015
Gem of the Day:
Trust in the Lord
with all your heart
and lean not on your
own understanding;
in all your ways
submit to him,
and he will make your paths straight.
Proverbs 3:5-6
Purchase Quilt Tickets Here!
The 2015 Small Paws Blanketeer's Quilt is
queen sized, measuring 90" x 102".
It is in beautiful shades of black, cream,
and grey.
It comes with two matching pillow cases.
Tickets for the drawing are $5.00 each. The
drawing will be held at our noon picnic,
at the Oklahoma Bash, on October 17, 2015.
You do not need to be present to win! And,
if you do win, your quilt will be shipped
to you!
Click her to buy tickets for $5.00 each.
The drawing will be held at our noon picnic,
on October 17, 2015, at the Oklahoma Bash.
You do NOT have to be present to win. And,
if you do win, your quilt will be shipped
to you! Our goal is to raise $5000.00 for
the Bichons.
The Blanketeer's are the ones who make the little quilts
and send them to
each of the newly adopted
Bichons. They buy
the materials with their
own funds. Please
support their work by purchasing
as many tickets as
you can afford, to help
these Bichons in
need.
Purchase Quilt Tickets Here!
The 2015 Okie Bash Invitation (There is only ONE room left, if you would
like to join us. BE SURE TO R.S.V.P. to bonnie@smallpawsrescue.org
if you are coming and which events you'll
be attending! )
See Vet Bills Paid by Small Paws Rescue for
the first 14 days of the month of September,
2015, Coming to $11,230.73 which is an average
of $802.20 per day.,
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
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! He
is
waiting for your
call!
(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
Small Paws Rescue Foster and Volunteer Online
Application
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
19, 2014, 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.
If you would like to share this newsletter, this
is the link!
I need to let you all know something that
happened over Labor Day Weekend.
I've gone over and
over it in my mind, to
see if there was
any other way we could have
gone about it. It is definitely beyond my own understanding.
We just this week,
got the veterinary hospital's
final accounts of
the charges and I wanted
to have those for
you before I tell you about
what happened.
See Vet Bills Paid by Small Paws Rescue for
the first 14 days of the month of September,
2015, Coming to $11,230.73 which is an average
of $802.20 per day
It was this past Labor Day Weekend about
a little three year old SPR foster Bichon,
named "Cloud"..
I could feel a storm brewing in my spirit
and couldn't understand why.
Soon, I would come to understand.
First, one of our precious, darling, foster
Bichons, a three year old female named "Cloud",
began to walk wobbly that Friday night.
By the next morning,
Saturday morning
of
Labor Day Weekend,
she was dragging
the ground.
This is a short video of what was happening.
Her foster Mom, Gaye Preston, rushed her
to VCA Arboretum View Animal Hospital in
Downers Grove, IL., where our wonderful surgeon
for Hamlet is located.
He wasn't there on this Holiday weekend.
:(
The Neurologist on call thought it looked
like a herniated disk, and we needed to do
an MRI.
I was about to come to you all to beg for
disk surgery funds when I got a call that
it wasn't surgical. That Cloud still had deep pain sensation, there was no herniated disk,
and that she would be ok with steroids over
time.
I thought we had dodged a bullet. I relayed
the message to the foster parents.
Sunday morning, I got a call I will never
forget from the hospital E.R.
Our Cloud had lost deep pain sensation. She
was now paralyzed. There were changes happening
in her spine by the hour.
I called Skip, our surgeon in OKC, who was
out on the lake fishing.
He came back in to return my call as he had
no cell service out there.
He he told me that
if a dog goes 48
hours
with no deep pain
sensation, the prognosis
is very very poor.
On this same Sunday morning, I was putting
Dale on a plane to try to get to see his
91 year old father before he passed. The
doctors there at St. Mary's Hospital in Walla
Walla, Washington, said to come now.
It's a small airport that he flies into,
called Pasco Tri-cities Airport and only
smaller planes fly in there. There was only
one seat left, so Dale went.
Dale's Dad is in and out of it, trapped in
his body, when all he wants to go Home to
Jesus. He is a retired minister.
He had pneumonia in 3/4 of his lungs and
they thought this was it.
The hospital put him on antibiotics and he
came out of that.
He is still lingering, with no quality of
life. He's trapped in a bed, incontinent,
can't remember who anyone is, and is talking
to dead people when he's conscious. He just
wants to go Home.
It was a very difficult
time, that Labor
Day Weekend.
Now, by Monday afternoon, our Cloud was not
eating and her foster parents were very worried
about her. They were there with her several
times that weekend.
It was now Monday afternoon, Labor Day. It
was a very dark day for all of us.
Sara Pace found another emergency speciality
hospital that would accept Cloud, for a second
opinion.
There, they called in their neurologists
who told us that she could call in her team.
but that the prognosis was very very poor,
because of the changes in the MRI, and the
loss of deep pain sensation for so long.
Not only that, but Cloud was in sever pain
above where she was paralyzed.
They suspected Degenerative Myelopathy.
She was also now incontinent both ways and
in severe pain.
The recommendation was for euthanasia.
I asked if she could PLEASE go home with
her foster parents for just one night so
they could say goodbye.
The problem was that Cloud needed to be on
IV pain meds for her to be able to stand
the pain, and that couldn't be done at the
foster home.
The dogtors there talked to her foster parents.
They all agreed to let Cloud go home to God.
What added insult to injury was that her
bill from Saturday to Monday at Arboretum was $3,595.25 and it included a
30% rescue discount. The MRI took up most
of the bill.
The second specialty hospital charged us
only $272.62 which included her euthanasia and a consult
with the Neurologist.
They included a 10%
rescue discount.
All in all it cost us $3,867.97.
I've felt sick about
it ever since.
She was presenting like it was a blown disk.
We've done so many successful surgeries on
these. She was only three years old.
I've tried to think f there was something
else I could have done to keep the bill from
climbing while we were waiting to see if
her deep pain would come back, before risking
even more spinal injury by moving her, for
a second opinion.
All this while my Father-in-Law was hovering
between heaven and earth and he still is.
We are praying for
him to go Home. When he
does come to, he's
mad that he's still here.
I know Cloud is ok,
because I know where
she is. She's in
Heaven with my Jesus.
Please pray for her
foster Moms, Gaye
and
Barb, who are hurting.
I don't really know how to raise funds to
pay for something like this . but to just
come and tell you what happened.
This was a loved
little three year
old girl,
loved by her foster
parents,
She had already been through having a broken
pelvis that she had when we rescued her.
I don't know what
we could have done differently.
I've gone over it
and over it.
All I know to do
is to come and ask
you to
help.
We have a six year old female coming in tonight
with a torn ACL, two hips that need FHO surgeries,
one bad knee, and two large bladder stones.
All in one little girl who is precious.
Sindy Parsons is
picking her up near Houston,
tonight.
I feel like I have to find a way to pay Cloud's
bill before we can start on the next one.
Well, I guess I've
rambled on, You now me.
That's what I do
when I don't know what else
to do, but pray.
I'm having to lean
not on my own understanding,
because I don't understand
how a three year
old is fine one day
and then is gone.
I do know this. I trust Him with my life,
and with all of their lives.
I suppose we'll understand it better by and
by.
All My Love, Robin
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
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
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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
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and those books at
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Small Paws Rescue!
Try it out! So far,
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and
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See how we REALLY feel about our volunteers!
(Always remember. God loves you more than
anyone else ever
has,
and more than anyone
else ever will!)
Prayer Requests and
Reports
(Mary is one of our
Charter Members from
1998)
Subject: Pattycake
Date: 9/15/2015 1:07:38
P.M. Central Daylight
Time
From: cassnpatty@aol.com
Hi Robin,
I wanted you to know
that I had to let
Pattycake
go to the Bridge
yesterday. She had
started
having seizures and
was beginning to
have
trouble standing.
She was totally deaf
and
mostly blind. I battled
with the decision
for a while and finally
knew I couldn't let
her suffer anymore.
She was my best girl.
She was from a puppy
mill, which I realized
after I became involved
with Small Paws.
I was blessed to
have loved her for
over
17 years and I can't
believe she isn't
with
me anymore. The next
few days are going
to
be rough as I go
through each first
time
without Pattycake.
I miss her already.
Love,
Mary>
For Those Who are
Broken of Heart from
the
Loss of a Beloved
Pet
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.~
>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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