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Monday, December 30, 2013

Gem of the Day: No time for a Gem today. We have a medical emergency. A one year old Bichon has been hit by a car and has suffered head trauma in North Texas.


We have named him "Sebastian". Prayers are needed.

See vet bills paid by Small Paws Rescue for the first 23 days of December, 2013,
totalling $33,529.20 which is an average of $1,457.79 per day so far for December.

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!)



Click here for step-by-step directions for using
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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,

Small Paws Rescue Online Newsletter, especially to those of you who may have recently seen us on December 20, 2013, 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!


Click here if you missed seeing the YouTube video of Small Paws' 7th appearance on "Fox & Friends", live from New York City, on Dec, 20, 2013.
Many thanks to all of the folks at Fox News!

If you missed our previous newsletter, here it is.

It's been an exceptionally busy weekend here at Small Paws.

We have an emergency Hit By Car one year old Bichon that came in, in North Texas, this morning and I'll tell you about him in a moment.

But first, we have some matching donation challenges for little Charmer.

As you know, we have a little 12 week old male Bichon puppy with a broken front leg who needs surgery.


Baby "Charmer" is 12 weeks old

He is at the
North Houston Veterinary Specialists
1646 Spring Cypress Road
Spring, Texas


He will be having surgery today by Veterinary Surgeon, Michael McFadden, MS, DVM, DACVS.

These are our matching donation challenges.

For those of you who are new to Small Paws, what that means is this .

If anyone is able to answer one of these challenges, the amount of the challenge will be doubled because the challenger will also make a donation in that amount.

Your donations are kept private. No one sells or shares your private information and your credit card donations are done securely.

So these are our matching challenges for little Charmer's broken leg surgery!

First, from Sherry Keller, we have this challenge for $250.00. Is someone can match Sherry, we will have $500.00 towards Charmer's surgery! Thank you Sherry!

Subject: Re: Bichon Puppy Has Broken Leg. Surgery Needed!/ Fox & Friends Video/ End Of Year Giving
Date: 12/28/2013 2:12:37 P.M. Central Standard Time
From: skeller2@pdq.net

Robin,
Poor little Charmer. In Frisco TX getting dressed for grandsons wedding. Please issue $250.00 challenge. Will check Monday to see status on little fella. Luv, Sherry Keller>

And Karen Scott in TN., is issuing a challenge for $100.00. Is there anyone who can match Karen? Thank you Karen!

<Subject: Re: Bichon Puppy Has Broken Leg. Surgery Needed!/ Fox & Friends Video/ End Of Year Giving
Date: 12/28/2013 3:24:54 P.M. Central Standard Time
From: design616@att.net

Please issue a challenge for $100.00 in honor of your new baby Polo:) Happy New Year & God Bless America

Sent from my iPad
Karen Scott>

And LIVE from the music capitol of the world in Nashville TN,, Deborah Berger and her celebrity Bichon, Boris Berger want to issue a challenge for $100.00! Thank you Deborah and Boris!

<Subject: Re: Bichon Puppy Has Broken Leg. Surgery Needed!/ Fox & Friends Video/ End Of Year Giving
Date: 12/28/2013 2:23:07 P.M. Central Standard Time
From: normetski@aol.com

Please issue a $100.00 challenge from the Big B and me. Deborah>

And Sandy Sowell, in Northern California, has issued this challenge for $50.00. Thank you Sandy!

<Subject: Re: Bichon Puppy Has Broken Leg. Surgery Needed!/ Fox & Friends Video/ End Of Year Giving
Date: 12/28/2013 2:05:56 P.M. Central Standard Time
From: litlsybil@aol.com

Well, Saturday or not I'm here and sending a $50 matching challenge for Little Charmer. I pray they can repair that leg and he goes on to live a most wonderful life. He's the same age Bungee was when I first read about him on Small Paws and was blessed to adopt him! Love, S>

And Mikal Jones, who knows the power of prayer as he has been so critically ill, and has lived to tell about it, sends in this challenge for $50.00 for Charmer! Is there anyone who can match him?! Thank you Mikal!

<Subject: Charmer challenge
Date: 12/29/2013 12:23:16 P.M. Central Standard Time
From: mikaljones@hotmail.com

Hi Robin,

I just spoke with Louie and made a $50.00 donation to help that precious little boy. I would like to issue a challenge to everyone who has fostered and or adopted. I thank God everyday for Small Paws Rescue and the joy and love we receive from all of our babies! We currently only have Asta as his brothers and sisters have all crossed the rainbow bridge. I know money is tight for everyone, especially during the holidays, but if it were not for people who made donations we would not have Asta looking at us with those loving eyes.

Warmest regards,
Mikal, Rick, and Asta>

And Kathy Harris has issued this challenge for $25.00! Thank you Kathy!

<From: Kathy Harris <kmerce@msn.com>
Date: December 28, 2013, 3:03:58 PM EST
To: "louieb@smallpawsrescue.org" <louieb@smallpawsrescue.org>
Subject: Charmer

Please issue a $25.00 challenge for little Charmer in memory of all our Bichon angels, from Bella, Shannon and Beau-Bo. This is just a baby! Very sad!>





Then, if that isn't enough, in Mesquite, TX., in Northern Texas, this baby was seen being hit by a car on Friday. A police office saw him being hit on a very busy road and stopped to help.

This little guy had crawled under a bush and the policeman coaxed him out and took him to the shelter.

One of our volunteers saw him posted online today and our North Texas Co-Team Leader, Pauline Narog, went to pick him up immediately.

She drove him to the Colleyville Animal Clinic and Dr. Wilson is removing that dead eye now. It is out of it's socket and has been laying on Sebastian's cheek since Friday. It is dried and dead and must be removed.

He is in surgery right now and we don't know what else is wrong just yet.

His liver value is very high and we don't know what is causing it right now. His teeth are very white and he is estimated at a year old, so we will need to do some testing and probably get him over to the Internist after we get him comfortable from that terrible eye injury.

Then if that wasn't enough, we took in a pregnant dog from a South Texas shelter last week.

We moved her up to Vicki Furstenburg in North Texas for foster care and whelping.


Libby and her babies.

Well, this small little girl delivered TEN babies on Saturday night.

Sadly, one of them weighed only 3 OZ., and she lived only about 30 hours.

We named her Angel and now she is with the Lord of Lords and the King of Kings and she is alright now. She knows she was loved.

Well, that's what's going on here at Small Paws rescue on this eve of New Year's Eve, 2013.

All My Love, Robin


Read Sara's SPR Midwest Newsletter in PDF Form


See vet bills paid by Small Paws Rescue for the first 23 days of December, 2013,
totalling $33,529.20 which is an average of $1,457.79 per day so far for December.


Click here for step-by-step directions for using
our shopping cart to make a donation
.

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.


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"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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