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Small Paws^® Rescue Inc.
3316 S. 72nd. W. Ave.
Tulsa, Ok. 74107

See Vet Bills Paid by Small Paws Rescue for the First 12 Days of August, 2019 coming to

$11,466.76 which is an average of $955.56 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. Enjoy our new, user friendly, secure site to make your credit card donations.

Dear Small Pawsers,

Meet Charlotte and Olivia who very bonded! They are the ones that were abandoned where one was in  crate and one was tied to the crate, on concrete, in very hot weather. We got them yesterday! We have them both!

“Charlotte” and “Olivia”

And we also got “Moose” out of the shelter, yesterday! And was he ever happy!

Thank you all so much who have helped so far!

We have the following matching donation challenges! Many thanks to those who issued them and to those who are able to match one of them!

First, from  Dawn Bove at d.bove@fcpmllc.com, we have this generous matching challenge for $1000.00. Dawn thank you so much and I hope someone will be able to match you!

>Robin, I am so thankful you are doing okay now. And I thank God for watching over you. I pray He will continue to always do that and to watch over your wonderful army of volunteers. I pray we all continue to support all of you with prayers and financially as much as we can. Please issue a challenge for $250.00. For urgent matching challenge. In honor of Robin and her being watched over by Him! Thank you, Lord Jesus, for taking care of Robin! These poor precious babies need her so much, along with all of her wonderful volunteers, and they need all of us who can give whatever amount. It will all add up! 

Thank you and all the volunteers, again, for all you do for these precious fluffy gifts from Him. Love, Janet Bartos>

And from Deborah Berger, and her celebrity Bichon, Boris Berger, we have this challenge for $150.00. Thank you Deborah!

Robin, I’ll issue a challenge for $150.00. Deborah and the Big “B”.

And from Marge Gottesman at mgee5674@aol.com we have this Dog Lovers Happy Birthday Challenge for $100.00. Is there anyone who can match this first time challenger?! What a fun challenge!

Awwww Robin, I am so far away in California. I wish I were close to physically help you as much as I would be able, but since I’m not, I will issue a matching challenge for $100.00. Take care of yourself. God has put you in a very difficult work of love. I know you get desperate at times, and I certainly understand. Will keep holding you and your faithful team and your little desperate incoming babies in prayer.

Sending love, Kat and the Girls>

Lastly, I want to thank you for all of your prayers for me. Truly. I feel them ever so strongly!

All My Love, Robin                                                        

Dear Small Pawsers,

It’s very late here in Tulsa Oklahoma and it’s August. Dreadful, worst month of the year for all charities, August.

When I was younger, I could handle it better at 41 than I’m seem to be handing it at 62.

The stress of paying the bills for these Bichons, and the things that people are doing to them, and I use the word people, lightly, is really starting to get to me.

I love what I do. You all know that.

But I’m getting older and there are times when I wonder if it will ever stop and unfortunately, I know the answer.

But then He reminds me that He sent YOU. Our dedicated volunteers and transporters. Our Blanketeers. Our Team Leaders. Almost all of these folks work full time and yet they still volunteer for these Bichons.

I haven’t come to you in a couple of weeks, dreading when the awful “A” word would appear. August. And it did. It has a habit of doing that every year for the past 21 years of Small Paws.

But I know that you won’t know what’s going on unless I come and tell you, and show you.

It’s what you’ve told me to do over and over and yet, each time I need to do it, I dread it.

I know what stress is. Believe me, in this job, I know.

The last thing I want to do is to put stress on YOUR finances to save a life that you’ll probably never ever meet.

Please, if donating for their care is going to run YOU short, then don’t do it. That adds more stress to me than wondering how to pay the vet bills. Thinking that you are wondering how to pay your bills.

Instead, please pray for others to help who can afford to help them. Maybe someone who has never donated to us before.

I wasn’t going to tell you this. Really I wasn’t. But I can tell you. You are my family.

I was writing a newsletter to you all last week, when I knew something was wrong. 

Last Tuesday, I ended up in the ER of St. Francis Hospital. It was something I’ve not had happen before. In fact, usually, things are just the opposite.

My blood pressure was very high at 221/90. They asked me, “Is anything stressing you”? (Dale started to laugh but they had me hooked up to IV’s and Heart monitors so I couldn’t even get at him.)

I told the Doctor or P.A. or Nurse Practitioner or Orderly, or whoever he was, that my job is stressful but I’m used to it. 21 years now.

(That day we took in three owner surrenders and were $6000.00 in the red.)

These people wanted to keep me overnight for “observation”. So I could observe myself CATCHING some superbug??

I told them I was going to listen to an audio book about a serial killer with KNIVES if they did that. I’d show THEM high blood pressure. My heart EKG was perfect! My Blood work was perfect! Even my weight was perfect! My Blood Pressure WAS NOT.

After a battery of tests (I do have a brain and it is NOT bleeding) and 13 hours, they called my endocrinologist at home.

She knows me very well and loves me anyway.

She told them this is episodic high blood pressure, completely abnormal for me, and to give me one pill and a prescription for more if I needed them. She told them it was stress and would go back down without being on blood pressure meds and to let me go HOME right now.

She was right. I have had only that one pill.

All week my blood pressure has consistently fallen back to normal.

For me it’s around 110/50, where it was this morning. 

So I’m ok. thank you Jesus. Our Board knows, Sara knows, (She even helped process an owner surrender while I was at the ER) and she has written a little about what is going on. BUT READ ABOUT THE LAST TWO WHO ARE IN DANGER. WE NEED YOUR HELP TO GET THEM. Thank you Sara.

From Sara Rhoades <pacess4@att.net>