07.25.07
I GIVE UP! MORE AND MORE AND MORE DOGS HAVE BEEN TURNED IN TO LOCAL SHELTERS!!
Ok, we took a few days off to work the Houston Dog Show - can you spell “T I R E D.” But it was such a blast. We had tons of volunteers - thanks to many of you new volunteers from Houston! We had plenty of coverage for the first time ever.O
After the sadness of Myrtle and then the dog show and Monday and Tuesday working on a HUGE transport of nine of our little fluffs to their adoptive or foster homes in PHoenix, now I MUST get back to my real “job” in this rescue - helping dogs!!! And for those of you that thought I was depressed about Myrtle, I was!!! But in her honor, we will continue rescuing those who need us!
Of course, while I was “off” the dogs kept coming so here we go….. we desperately need help!!!
I give up! I cannot even keep up with all the dogs that need us. It seems like everytime I close one email, another shows up with yet another dog or two that has ABSOLUTELY NO TIME. Thank goodness, Princess got a home, but there are 20 more waiting. What is going on????
Everyone acknowledges that this has to be the absolutely WORST year in many, many years of doing rescue. Never have there been so many dogs left at shelters. Never have there been so many dogs turned in by their owners.
We have taken in a lot. All of the absolutely wonderful volunteers in the group have been running at breakneck speed to pick up dogs from shelters. They’ve been on the phone begging and pleading with our vets to let us shove in just ONE more. We’re treading water fast but so far our heads keep bobbing up barely long enough to catch a quick breath.
I have to be honest with you, we have taken in many, many, many more than we have room for. And at such a fast pace, I did not even have time to come and get funds in place to pay for their boarding. We’ve been moving dogs in and out well, our throughput is excellent, but we’ve still been using a ton of boarding - mostly for the quarantine/isolation period, but a little just because there is just NOT A SINGLE FOSTER SPOT to put them and I didn’t want them to die just because their owners picked this horrible time to dump them.
So, I’m coming hat-in-hand to tell you, we’re incurring massive boarding bills right now. We have at least eight boarded in Houston OVER our free boarding spaces and another 4-5 in the DFW area. We’ve incurred these boarding fees for right at a month now and have an other month to go.
On top of THIS, most of the dogs we’ve taken in lately have been HEARTWORM POSITIVE. So, we now are in REAL dire straits!! We need to treat heartworms for the following dogs: Edith Burke, Braxton Harris, Hobo Ranger, Aerosmith Harris, Hendrix Harris, Kelsey Davis, Clara Ranger, Kiera Capers, Santana Harris, Julius Davis, Augustus Davis, Octavius Davis, Flavia Davis, Mae Davis, Toby Turner, Winslow Oaks, Jazzy Oaks. That is SEVENTEEN DOGS! SEVENTEEN that we’ve taken in lately that HAVE HEARTWORMS!! It’s easier to count the ones that do NOT have heartworms.
So with the boarding fees PLUS the heartworm dogs, we need to raise several thousands of dollars with our ART FUNDRAISER!! Please help us by sending a link to this fundraiser to each and every friend, co-worker, relative, hey send it to your enemies, and help us get the treatment these dogs MUST have to get into a home!!!
Each and every $5 donated from now until July 31 will result in one entry in the fundraiser. This is a chance to do good and be rewarded yourself!!
Please, please help us!! We are so stretched right now and I just do NOT want to close intake.
Here are the dogs we’ve been worried about these past few weeks - and their disposition.
PRINCESS
Princess - sweet little 13 year old shih tzu dumped at the Canton shelter by her “folks” who were having a baby. Our volunteer Missie was watching carefully for many days, but when her time became limited, she started getting a lot of publicity. Well, you know that, YOU all were some of the first to step up and say “give me that girl!” Fortunately for her, another rescue also stepped up, Love of a Lhasa Rescue in the DFW area, and she is now SAFE!! Go Darlene and thanks Marty for offering to foster her anyway!
We picked up this one - let me introduce Doolittle Collins.
We got this little cutie. Please meet McDermott Collins Lone Star.
We got this little gal. Her name is Pink Worth and she is a six year old lhasa. I think she could be Hiram Galvez’s sister.
This is little Garrett Mesquite - another little Lone Star dog!
Adopted at the shelter - lucky little boy is now in his OWN forever home!
This little gal is now a Lone Star dog - say hello to Kiwi Mesquite.
This little sweet guy is now a Lone Star dog - I’m pleased to introduce Navin Worth.
This cutie was picked up by STARS in DFW. YEAH!! Thank you STARS.
Teah Oaks - another lucky Lone Star dog from Dallas Animal Control.
This is little Garrett Turner. Can you spell C U T E??
Ok, I’m running out of time right now and want to get this posted. I’ve been working on this post for two weeks now. I will update with more pictures and information as I find it.
Please consider donating to the little dogs needing heartworm treatment and/or those needing boarding sponsorships. We desperately need to generate a lot of funds with our ART FUNDRAISER.
To help the sweeties needing heartworm treatment, GO HERE for paypal or HERE to pledge a check!!
To help the ones needing boarding sponsorships, GO HERE for paypal or HERE to pledge a check!!
Thank you, thank you, thank you
Patty said,
July 26, 2007 at 12:54 am
Teresa, I have $160 in pledges for the Blogathon and I’ll tell my sponsors to send their checks/Pay Pal asap once it’s over on Sunday. Thank you and all your volunteers for getting all of these dogs that were not adopted or rescued by another group!