Midwest 25th Anniversary Small Paws® Bichon Bash on July 1, 2023, Terre Haute, IN.!
We have added our Text-to-Donate feature! It’s simple and secure. You can use any major credit card as well as Google Pay and PAYPAL! Text the number 44321 (how easy is THAT number to remember?!) and type the letters SPR ( all capitals) in the message area. A secure link will come up with simple instructions. After that, you can text a donation of any amount to Small Paws anytime without filling out your information again! We hope you enjoy the ease and security of Text-to-Donate, to help the Bichons!
Gem Of The Day: “Dogs have a way of finding the people who need them, and filling an emptiness we didn’t ever know we had.” ~Writer Thom Jones~
Dear Small Pawers,
Many thanks to Board Member and Donation Coordinator, Louie Bertolino, for stepping in for me for a couple of newsletters!
I’ve been swamped here and Louie knows how exactly this magnificent obsession operates. He knows many of you and has for years. So if you hear from him from time to time, he’s helping me! Thank you Louie!
We have one more matching challenge for our newest little guy.
From Gisela Towner in Ohio. Thank you Gisela!
“Gisela Towner <artgoose@yahoo.com> wrote:
Beamer asked me to issue a matching donation of $100.00 for this poor baby.
Beamer and Gisela Towner.”
Our newest little Witness protection boy has been shaved under anesthesia, neutered, and is having his teeth cleaned today! Thank you all for helping him.
Normally, a dog 3-4 years old doesn’t need a teeth cleaning, but the vet told us just to tell adopters that he will need a teeth cleaning in 6 months to a year.
I told her that’s not how we do it.
We want every Small Paws to be fully vetted for a year, so he’s getting his teefers cleaned right now. He was under anesthesia for long enough after neutering and stripping those mats and dreadlocks. So they wanted to do the dental seperately.
He was home with his new Foster mom, last night, and she sent these pictures for you to see this morning.
That’s just got to feel better.
His ribs are showing from malnutrition.
The safe backyard of his Foster’s home. Ladies and Gentlemen, we have a Bichon!
He looks like he’s all eyes here from this angle.
This is a toy the Good Samaritan who saved him bought for him.
He carries it around because it’s his.
He’s PLAYING wif his toy from his Good Sam!
We need to put some weight back on him and then he will be ready for adoption.
Saving one life at a time.
It’s just what we do. And nobody does it better than YOU! THANK YOU! All My Love, Robin
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We have added our Text-to-Donate feature! It’s simple and secure. You can use any major credit card as well as Google Pay and PAYPAL! Text the number 44321 (how easy is THAT number to remember?!) and type the letters SPR ( all capitals) in the message area. A secure link will come up with simple instructions. After that, you can text a donation of any amount to Small Paws anytime without filling out your information again! We hope you enjoy the ease and security of Text-to-Donate, to help the Bichons!
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We have added our Text-to-Donate feature! It’s simple and secure. You can use any major credit card as well as Google Pay and PAYPAL! Text the number 44321 (how easy is THAT number to remember?!) and type the letters SPR ( all capitals) in the message area. A secure link will come up with simple instructions. After that, you can text a donation of any amount to Small Paws anytime without filling out your information again! We hope you enjoy the ease and security of Text-to-Donate, to help the Bichons!
“This is Louie Bertolino, (louieb@smallpawsrescue.org) who many of you know as your Donations Coordinator, and I’m putting this newsletter together because we have an immediate need of funds for our most recently surrendered Bichon.
Yes, that’s a Bichon, starving and covered in dreadlocks.
We have a 3-4 year old male Bichon Frise who was surrendered to us by a Good Samaritan, and he needs immediate care.
He is now safe, and in the Small Paws® Rescue witness protection program. He has never seen a veterinarian in his entire life, until now. Fortunately he is heart worm negative, but he needs to have full vetting, and will need to be sedated and shaved. This little boy probably was never groomed once his entire life! Because he never seen a vet before, it is estimated at $1,000 just to get his basic vetting, and cleaned up.
He is matted and filthy. Even dirtier than the ground he was laying on.
He probably spent most of his time outside, collecting dirt, being rained on, braving all the elements, and wishing to be picked up and held. The vet says he is skin and bones under all of those mats and dreadlocks. There is a wound on his skin under all of that.
Now now that he is ours, he will get the love and care he needs, then into a wonderful home. But first he needs to get shaved down, and vetted.
He was so matted and neglected, he probably collected every bug and piece of dirt he walked across.
It’s amazing he was even able to see where he was walking, running loose.
He needs immediate attention and full vetting.
He must feel miserable under all those mats of fur, and desperately wants to be held.
I am here, and ready to run any donations at your request.
If you’ve made a past donation by credit card, you may e-mail me, Louie Bertolino at louieb@smallpawsrescue.org and let me know the amount of your donation.
Robin is also ready for any matching challenges.
I am sure under all those mats, he is one handsome Bichon, and once he is in his new home, he will be pampered the rest of his life. Let’s make that happen.
God bless,
Louie