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Thursday Morning, November 8, 2012
Gem of the Day: "Shopping is a woman
thing. It’s a contact sport like football.
Women enjoy the scrimmage, the noisy crowds,
the danger of being trampled to death, and
the ecstasy of the purchase."
~Erma Bombeck~
The Small Paws Rescue® Online Holiday Auction
is Happening Now!
"Stool is made
of light weight metal
with padded seat
upholstered in home
decorator's
fabric. Black with
tan square accents
and
embroidered with
a full body Bichon.
A truly
beautiful piece to
add to any decor."
Opening Bid $25.00
589 items are up for auction! Only 50% of
them have bids!
Donna Brown at daisy1027@aol.com is here
to answer any questions you may have about
the auction!
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. 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.
We have 294 items in our Small Paws Rescue® Online Holiday Auction without bids yet!
Please consider doing
your Holiday shopping
here! There are many
lovely items!
I want to give you a Happy Tails update about
one of our recently adopted Bichons named
Ariel, from Arkansas.
<Subject: Ariel in Arkansas
Date: 11/5/2012 2:19:07
P.M. Central Standard
Time
From: csisco@conwaycorp.net
Robin,
I wanted to send
these pics to you
to include
in your next happy
endings newsletter.
Ariel at time of rescue.
Ariel now.
This is truly why we do what we do. Little
Ariel was out of time because the shelter
couldn't do anything about her horrible teeth.
We got her, had a dental done where she lost
17 teeth, and she will be going to her new
forever home this week. What a shame it would
have been if this baby hadn't been saved.
Thanks to everyone whose contributions helped
save her.
Cheri Sisco
Arkansas Team Leader
Small Paws Rescue
www.smallpawsrescue.org>
And we have some sad news from our IL. and IN.
Team Leader, Sara Pace.
She lost one of her own personal dogs, yesterday.
They think Sammy
may have had either
cancer
or Pulmonary Fibrosis.
He was only seven, but he was a blind diabetic.
And then this lung thing happened. :(
<Subject: Here
is our last picture
Date: 11/7/2012 4:47:09
P.M. Central Standard
Time
From: pacess4@att.net
Sammy went to the rainbow bridge this afternoon.
He started having
signs of respiratory
distress
on Monday. They are
thinking it was maybe
cancer but we are
not for sure. I didn't
let him suffer. He
was such a wonderful
fluff.
He was my first SPR
foster failure. Sara>
Sara and Scott, we are so sorry to hear about
Sammy's passing.
Lastly, on a personal note, Dale and I want
to ask for your prayers.
For those of you
who don't know our
Chipper,
he's the one who
started it all for
me.
Without Chipper.
there would have
been no
Small Paws.
Read About Chipper's Story of Survival From
a Puppy Mill
Chipper is 14 1/2
now.
We took this of Chipper last night!
His tail is always
wagging. He is the
happiest
dog I have ever met.
See a video of Chipper also taken last night.
He is such a happy boy.
Chipper has had a collapsing trachea, which
he has had since birth. He has always coughed
after getting a drink.
It's a progressive
disease which is
fatal
if left alone.
Chipper is healthy in every other way. He
isn't deaf. He doesn't even have cataracts.
But his trachea is collapsing more and more.
He can't do too much
without honking and
he had to be intubated
last summer after
he turned completely
blue.
If he gets excited, he honks. We have to
drug him to take him to the vet.
So, his Dad and I have made a decision, along
with our great veterinary Internist, Dr.
Steven Hodges.
Dr. Hodges wants to do a procedure on Chipper
involving fluoroscopy, where they insert
a mesh stint down his throat, to hold up
the collapsing trachea.
This is much like
using a stint for heart
issues in human beings,
but this is new technology.
They used to do actual surgery where they
made an incision in the neck, to insert plastic
rings, which were prone to breakage.
The new material is a metal mesh like substance
called Nitinol and there is no surgery.
With the previous plastic rings and the surgery,
there was only a 50/50 survival rate.
With this new technology, (no cutting is
done) as long as a dog can withstand anesthesia,
(Chipper went under anesthesia last February
to have his teeth cleaned and did fine, and
last summer he was intubated and did fine)
he said survival estimates for Chipper will
be 90 percent or better.
Chipper will come home the same day or possibly
would need to stay only one night.
Since Chipper doesn't
have anything else
wrong, his heart
and kidneys are good, and
he could live for
a few more years, Dale
and I have decided
to go forward with this.
He won't be with
us much longer if
we don't
do anything.
And this has a pretty good rate of survival
even on elderly dogs.
Most of the patients
getting it are elderly
dogs in end stage
collapsing trachea
disease.
There is a radiologist
at the Animal Medical
Center in New York
who assists the Internist
to measure exactly
for the stint size.
Chipper's stent had to be custom made for
him.
The radiologist will be online watching the
fluoroscopy in real time, guiding Dr. Hodges
on where to place the stint.
We would have never opted for the other kind
of surgery to repair his trachea.
But now there is
something much easier and
we are going to try
to go for it.
This is a little more about how it works,
for any of you who may have dogs with collapsing
tracheas.
So the procedure will be today at 11:00 this
morning.
No news from me is good news.
Dale and I will be
there the whole time,
waiting and praying
for our boy.
We know he won't live forever, but if we
can give him more time with a good quality
of life, we want to do that.
Dr. Hodges has done this one only one other
dog and she is a yorkie who was hours from
death. She is doing great 4 weeks out! She
can breathe without honking!
I'm so glad that those of you who were stranded
here due to the hurricane, got to see Chipper
after the Okie Bash.
We thank you all for your prayers!
All My Love, Robin
See vet Bills Paid By Small Paws Rescue in
November of 2012 totalling $9,106.90
for the first 5 days of November. This is
an average of $1,821.38 per day.
(After paying our vet bills, we were down
to negative $197.00.)
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
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
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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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