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Tuesday Night, Sept 23, 2014

Gem of the Day: "We're all broken in one way or another, some just hold the pieces together better."

~Author Unknown~


11 month old little Bentley was rescued yesterday from a shelter near Chicago. He was in danger because he has a broken front elbow. He is in pain and needs surgery. Please help us to save that leg.
He's just a baby and so very sweet.

The Small Paws Rescue Online Auction is starting soon! Donated auction items are needed!

Click here to donate an item! It can be anything that is new or gently used! Funds raised from this online auction will go to help the Bichons in need!

See Vet Bills Paid by Small Paws Rescue for the First 22 Days of September, 2014, coming to $19, 911.33, Which Is An Average of $905.06 Per Day

The 16th Annual Okie Bichon Bash and Retreat is Coming Up!
You Are Invited! There are only three rooms left so hurry!

Everyone is invited to the 16th Annual Small Paws Rescue Okie Bichon Bash Retreat Weekend in The Hills Just West of Beautiful Downtown Tulsa, Oklahoma, on Friday October 31, and Saturday, November 1, 2014

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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 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!

If you missed our previous newsletter, here it is.

We have taken in an 11 month old little male with a broken humerus. (Elbow)

He can't walk and he is in pain.

The thing abut this particular surgery is that it needs to be done as soon as possible after the injury, so time is not on our side this time.

He is presently at the:

Naperville Animal Hospital
1023 E. Ogden Ave. Naperville, IL 60563
(630) 355-5300

Though some of the vets there are pretty good surgeons, they say that this break is a bad one and it must have a Board Certified Surgeon to do it.

Arboretum View Animal Hospital gives us a 30% rescue discount and we have used them several times with great results.

VCA Arboretum View Animal Hospital
Phone: 630-963-0424
2551 Warrenville Road
Downers Grove, IL 60515

That's the good news.

The estimate to save this baby's leg, with our discount is for from $2800-4200.00.

Now we could amputate for probably $300-500.00. But this is a BABY with a long life ahead of him. I really want to try to save his leg if at all possible.

We don't know what happened to him, but it was some kind of trauma.

He will end up being a blessing to someone where he can give and receive love, and it will be easier to place him with four working legs.

This is a short week for me. I have this heart ablation thing scheduled for Friday, Sept 26, and I have to be there at 6:30 A.M.

So we need to do this now if we can.

For those of you who are new to Small Pawsing, I'm the Co-Founder, along with Susan Sebring. I'm also the Executive Director.

The thing I like LEAST about my job is to come and ask you all for money for yet another dog, for yet another broken bone or illness.

And when this one came in, I truly had a talk with the Lord about this one and I asked, "Really? Now? Really?"

And I'm sure He just laughed and laughed, at and with me.

You see, He knows me inside and out and He loves me anyway. He is a Friend like no other. He knew me before I was conceived and nothing that has or ever will ever happen to me, or to any of us, is a surprise to Him.

In fact, God loves you more than anyone else ever has and more than anyone else ever will.

The miracles I've seen in my life, as we operate this Bichon Frise rescue organization have been unbelievable, to say the least.

Many of them, you all have seen, too.

These two miracles come to mind first.

Tennessee Tommy is FOUND!

This was the day that God taught me to be specific in my prayers to Him.

And the one that changed my life for ever, was this one.

You all know it.

Alligator Annie's Story

He guides my path. He leads me to go this way or that.

So, when a week like this one is happening, and it is a short week for me, even with them falling from the skies, I trust Him that He indeed knows what He is doing. He is my Lord Jesus and I trust Him. He's proved Himself over and over and you all know what I mean.

Now, you all don't think that Bentley is the only emergency to come in this week do you?

In an apartment complex near Dallas, someone evidently moved off and left their Bichon in the parking lot. He is estimated at a year and a half old.

Before I introduce you to "Dickens", I want to show you what Dr. Wilson, at the Colleyville Animal Clinic, sent to me.

"Here is a before photo and the matt without the dog. Sorry the tech forgot to put a ruler down on the table for perspective, but the matt covered base of the neck to the start of the tail. So about 12 inches."


Here is little Dickens.

He didn't come in through a shelter.

He came in through a brave CAPTURE from a very special group called Duck Team 6 Street Dog Rescue. They tried to trap him for days and finally. late on Friday night, he was out in the parking lot and about to go into their humane trap.

He had almost done this once before when a boy came running at him, shooing him away.

Instead of loosing THIS moment, they netted him and got him!
(He was not harmed in the net.)


They tried to clean him up a little. He stayed with one of the Duck Team 6 people the first night. The next morning, our North Texas Team Leader, Susie Perez, picked him up and got him to the hospital.
He had been loose for months, scourging for food on his own.


This is how we knew he was a BICHON! This and, wait for it..
SUSIE SAW HIM DO THE WAVE!!

So the great news is that we got him before something else did. (Cars and coyotes come to mind.)

The bad news is he is a mess. The matts protected him from mosquitoes so he is free of heartworm, like Alligator Annie was.

But he had all kinds of other worms. He had to be shaved while he was under anesthesia for his neuter. His bill will be $400-600.00 by the time we are done.

I named him "Dickens", because they had a DICKENS of a time capturing him!

SO we have these two great saves.

AND Sara Pace is bringing two more in from one of the shelters near Chicago. Pics to follow. Each of them will be $400-600.00 also.

And one just came in in Northern California with something terribly wrong with his eyes. I'm guessing glaucoma. Thank you to Small Paws Volunteer, Susan Silverstein, and to Shannon Shankle, our North California Team Leader, for assisting with this owner surrender. We knew nothing about his eyes being in this bad of condition. We are getting him to a vet ASAP.

This is Pepper in Northern California. Oh My Lord.


He is four years and 10 months old and at least he is a happy boy, but those EYES need attention and fast!

So these are our needs. For Bentley, Dickens, and Pepper.

If they could type, we wouldn't need me. That's what I'm doing now.

Telling you that they are asking for your help and thanking you for supporting this magnificent obsession we call Small Paws Rescue.

I will issue any matching challenges that come in.

Thanks for listening.

All My Love, Robin

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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 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

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If you are going to shop at great stores anyway, why not help SPR at the same time?



July $2,000 Contest and $5 New Member Bonuses Mean Bigger Donations for Small Paws Rescue Inc.

Hi Robin,

Summer's a great time to help Small Paws Rescue Inc. just by sharing. Tell your friends, even friends who support some other cause or charity. Each person who joins iGive in July for the first time can mean $5 automatically donated to his or her cause, no purchase necessary! All they need to do is try the iGive Button through 10/15/14.

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Share your special Tell A Friend link to get credit for the contest (it's the only way to get credit).

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We have links up there to our SPR Cafe Press Store for SPR Logo Items.



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 Foster Parent!

See how we REALLY feel about our volunteers!

(Always remember. God loves you more than anyone else ever has,
and more than anyone else ever will!)

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For Those Who are Broken of Heart from the Loss of a Beloved Pet

Information About Our Programs
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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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