The Christmas Auction Bichons!!!
On a cold and snowy December 5, 1999, Small
Paws Rescue
purchased the following Bichon babies from
a complete
"kennel dispersal" Puppy MillAuction.
The lady had previously
been suspended by AKC,and sold everything.
The dogbowls, the
shears,the works. Small Paws® Rescue, was able to save 10
Bichons,from being purchased, by other Puppy
Mills.They range in
age,from 4 months, to 9 1/2 years.They all seem to have good
temperaments. They are in pretty bad shape,
as far as their coats
and teeth go.:( Two are pregnant. Two are
babies. They all are
very sweet. They truly are.:)
Small Paws® Rescue has given them all temporary
"Holiday" names, to tell
them apart. If you can give a "forever"
home,
or a foster home, to one or more of them,
please write to either
myself at Pup3@aol.com, or Susan at IHarleyPup@aol.com
.
Our vet will be FULL, with Christmas boarders,
and we MUST have these
babies out of the vet's office, by December
21, 1999.We also will
have some pretty big vet bills starting to
come in soon,for these babies.
If you would like to be a part of this exciting
rescue, click here for information.
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We appreciate you, so very
much. These precious Bichons would now be
in the hands
of other PuppyMills, if not for your support.
.Happy Holidays
to you and yours, from Small Paws® Rescue.
Meet the Christmas Auction Babies!
"Merry" & "Christmas".
Two beautiful girls! Born 8/10/99
They are 17 weeks old.
"Merry" & "Christmas" after baths!
Merry & Christmas, have been ADOPTED!!
Meet "Mistletoe"! He was born 5/16/93,
and is 6 1/2. He is a
real corker! Very friendly!
Mistletoe has been adopted, and re-named
Nicholas!!!
This is "Holly"! Holly was born
4/7/97. She is 2 years old.Look
at those eyes! Holly promises to love you
forever.
Hollie has now been ADOPTED, by a Small Paws®
Adoptive Mom!!! She has been renamed "Mollie"!
B.J. will have a SISTER!
Get a look at "Fruitcake"! He is
a NUT!Mr.Personality!!!
Fruitcake was born 5/1/98. He is only 1 1/2
years old.
Fruitcake has been adopted and renamed
Charlie Brown!!
Charley Brown, on the shoulder of his new Mom!
UPDATE!!
I received the following e-mail, from Jeannie,
the wonderful lady, who haas adopted Fruitcake,
AKA "Charley Brown." It is the
perfect example, of how these little puppy
mill rescues, can respond to love. She gives
her permission to reprint.
<Hi, Robin:
Just want to give you the "first day"
update on Charlie Brown.
Coming back to OKC in the car, he crawled
into my lap and spent the first
10 miles shakingh, and the next 40 miles
in bliss.
When we arrived at my house, I Iet him out
of the car onto the driveway.
He "cowered" and wouldn't move
an inch. After much coaxing, I picked him
up and carried him to the backyard. It took
a while, but then he "came
to life." He ran the length of my yard,
over and over and over again, as
if he had never run before in his life. All
I could do was sit back and
shake my head and say, "Thank you, God,
thank you."
This evening, he is "camped out"
in one of my recliners (Sundae in the
other). He didn't eat much, but drank at
least a liter of water. During
the day today he learned to use the doggie
door - at least he learned to
come in from the outside. I would take him
out, every hour or so, just
in case, and leave him in the backyard. After
about ten minutes, he
would find his way back inside the house.
That's good! I have not seen
any "accidents" in the house -
so assume Charlie is doing what needs to
be done while he is outside. As of the moment,
he is chewing on a pig
ear on my bed, with my little Sundae nuzzled
by his side.
The only problem I see to date is that he
"cowers" and assumes a really
submissive stance whenever I extend my hand
toward him. But, I find that
if I talk to him and leave my hand extended,
he "crawls" toward me and
licks my hand. I shudder to imagine what
went on in his earlier life -
to "cower" before the hand of a
human. Whoever did that to Charlie needs
to be shot!
Thank you, thank you, Robin, for giving me
this precious little life. In
just six hours, he has made at least 500%
progress. By tomorrow, he will
probably be writing these e-mails, fixing
his own dinner, and taking his
own pictures!
Thank you! Thank you! I am blessed!
I'll keep you posted on the progress we make
tomorrow..
Love, Jeannie>
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Two sisters, Candy Cane, and Belle, have
been together
all of their lives, and are very attached
to each other.:(
They were both born 6/15/91, and are 8 1/2
years old. Belle
is very pregnant.
Belle and Candy have a foster home, in California,
till Belle has her babies!
Update! Candy has been adopted!
"Blitzen" was born 4/7/97, and
is 2 years old. Just a baby boy!
Blitzen wants to wake up with you, on Christmas
Morning.
Blitzen has been adopted!! His new Mom & Dad, will call him Blitzen, which in German, means "Lightning"! He will live near San Bernadino, California!
Angel was born 4/1/96, and is 3 years old.
Angel is pregnant.
Look at that face..she needs a foster home,
where she can
deliver her last litter of babies.
Angel, after grooming!
We now have a foster home for Angel to have
her babies!!
Update: Angel has been adopted!!
Meet our "Miracle". She was born
5/7/90, and is our oldest
rescue at Nine and 1/2. She is a little scared,
and the
action brochure said she was a "good
mom".(((sigh)))
UPDATE!
Miracle has been adopted!!!
She will first be fostered with one of our volunteers, Jackie, ( JLi1998@aol.com) in California. Sera and Chelsea's new Mama and Daddy, Christine and Ron., (Bichonmomma@aol.com) sent funds to pay for Miracle's vet bills. She will fly to Jackie's either this Thursday or Friday! What a Miracle!!!
Further Update & Pictures!!
Miracle, peeking out of her crate...
Miracle, with one of Jackie's boys..right before her new mom came to get her!
Read this letter, from Miracle's new Mother...it
was posted on the AOL Bichon Frise Board...I
think her new mom, must be a miracle, too!
Subject: Miracle says "Hi...and thank
you all so much" from her new forever
home...
Date: Sun, 12 December 1999 11:11 PM EST
Yes everybody, Miracle is here safe and sound
with me in Fremont, CA...It's going to take
a while to get her socialized, but she's
bright eyed and attentive to everything going
on around here...Obviously, there's alot
going on in this house with 4 humans, 7 cats
and 12 birds... aside from the humans, many
of whom are rescues...She paces constantly...She
seeks refuge in her crate
pushing out the soft, warm towel underneath
her and preferring the hard, cold plastic
surface...To me, that is a good sign...If
she's capable of finding solace and peace
somewhere, anywhere now, perhaps some time
soon she'll be able to find it in my arms
where she belongs...
I am keeping in mind tips my vet student
daughter had gotten from a dog braviorist
for her Peke where she needed to establish
herself as Alpha dog with him so that he'd
mind her...So we put a light collar and leash
on Miracle so that she must drag it around
all the time...24/7...I've also decided to
approach Miracle as I would a very smart
albeit unsocialized parrot....Since my expertise
lately has been with birds...I'm not called
The Bird Lady of
Ohlone Humane Society for nothing...LOL...In
order to get the collar and leash on her
we "towelled" her as one would
a parrot, so while she was swaddled and held
close,. the collar was gently fastened around
her neck with surprisingly little resistence...I
find it interesting how calm Miracle becomes
when she's been approached by someone holding
a leash.....She's been allowed to wander
throughout the house sniffing and exploring...She's
also free to
go in and out of her crate at will...She
slept in her unlocked crate in our bedroom
throughout the night from lights out until
7am when I got up to take my pills...She's
also eating from a regular dog bowl instead
of off the floor as I'd expected...She's
semi-housebroken...just one little piddle
in the morning before I could move my butt
to get dressed and take her out...I take
her outdoors in our front yard which is surrounded
by a chainlink
fence...Since I'm disabled, I sit on a lawn
chair holding onto Miracle's leash...She
can run in a circle around my chair as far
as the tether will allow, but the only way
she gets to really go anywhere, is if I take
her... just as if I had bird whose wings
have been clipped sitting on my finger...In
this way, just like with a bird, it is I
who creates interesting diversity in her
life as well as keeping her in a safe controlled
situation...Ultimately, I become equated
with that sense of safety....In training
a parrot, one way to achieve that is to turn
their cage upside down on the floor with
them in it, and then rescue them from their
disorientation by telling them, to "step
up" on your hand which they gratefully
do...Miracle was delighted when we walked
all around the the yard and she sniffed and
explored to her heart's content...She also,
at one point, did her business
so now I have a "reference" point
to return her to...
She seems to really relate to other animals..in
a positive way...A neighborhood dog stops
to playbow on the other side of the fence...I
don't allow her to get too close to him,
of course, but she's very interested and
seems like she'd love to join him if she
could... As she passes by the various bird
cages in our house, she frequently stops
a moment in her pacing when one of them says,
"Hello"...I've decided to try to
teach them to say, "Hello,
Miracle"...Won't that be fun?...She's
sniffed and checked out the cats too, but
they couldn't care less...At this point,
they're so sensitized they probably think
she's just a different breed of large white
Cockatoo..."Oh, no!! Not another bird!!!"
Well, it is only 24 hours that she's been
here with us, and I'm happy to report that
Miracle is well and doing even better than
I'd expected.....At the rate Miracle is going,
I predict she'll be happy to accompany me
to this Spring's Bichon Picnic at Lake Elizabeth
Park here in Fremont...I'm sure looking forward
to that...
Thank you so much, particularly Jackie and
Robin and all of you who took the time to
write nice stuff about me on this board as
well as emailing me personally...No, I'm
not Mother Theresa...I'm just a 60 year old
woman who loves all beings, no matter how
many legs or toes they happen to have...My
dream is that this world should be a "peaceable
kingdom" where nobody gets abused by
anybody... and, if I want to see that happen...well
I just need to star
with myself....
With every good wish for a happy holiday
season and beyond....Naomi Demby and Miracle
Three of the babies, enjoying "outside"
time, in the X-pen, at another
rescuer's home, where they stayed the night,in
a nice warm bed, Sunday night.
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