This is Honey

For those who don’t know, Honey is one of our great rescue dogs and she had a bowel obstruction and needed $4000 worth of hospitalization, IV’s & surgery. We have been having a drive to help pay that bill at Guildwood Animal Hospital.

Honey came home yesterday looking like a skeleton with a foot long, stapled incision and has to eat expensive vet food 6 times per day and be on leash restriction too.

She is an amazing dog who was here for weeks nameed Vicki with no applications until i changed her name to Honey – then she had 5 apps in 24 hours and was in surgery in 48!! Don’t know now if Honey is a jinx name or a good one!!

There are a number of ways to donate – Paypal on the rescue site – see Honey’s bio and pics too http://www.petfinder.com/shelters/ON258.html call the vet directly to make a visa orM/C  pmt 416-265-5000 please leave your NAME, credit card number and expiry date on the machine as they are a business and may not alwasy be able to answer the phone), call or visit us to process a visa. M/C or if here, debit card pmt too.

We really appreciate all the help we have gotten so far and know people will step up to help us. WE ARE GETTING CHARITY STATUS SOON!!

Adele, Janet & Timbit, Bob & MAdeline & Chase – all made donations to the Guildwood vet! Thank you

for donating so kindly to these dogs!

This little girl came with her mom to look at rescue dogs one day last June. They weren’t quite ready for a dog but Meara really liked Joey (who DID get a home a few weeks later with another girl).

I got an email from Meara’s mom a week or so ago telling me that for Meara’s birthday the last few years she’d been asking her friends to give money for a charity she chose INSTEAD OF GIFTS!! (This girl is 8 yrs old!! How many previous birthdays could she have done this!! She started YOUNG!!)

Last year she donated the money to the Liver Research Society because someone close to her had liver disease.

THIS YEAR she chose US as the charity, donating $275!! UNBELIVEABLE!! She said she liked what we did for dogs like Joey and all the other ones too.

Last Monday she came with her mom, sisiter and brother to present us with the money and bring a new dog toy (which Cammie promptly grabbed and ran off with it)  and play with some of the dogs. She was sad not to see Joey but glad he had a home with another little girl.

This little girl kind of knocked my socks off – I keep telling people $1 or $5 helps and if this little girl cares enough about dogs she doesn’t even own and a place she barely knows MAYBE there are OTHER LITTLE GIRLS AND BOYS out there who’s want to do the same thing on THEIR birthdays this year?

A challenge perhaps to all the little kids who’ve come here to see dogs or adopted dogs or wanted to adopt a dog. If YOUR dog was blessed to have you in their lives, maybe it’s time to help other dogs NOT YET SO FORTUNATE?

Dogs who come here are USUALLY fairly easy to adopt out but i have to be careful to pick dogs who HOPEFULLY won’t get sick here or be a drain on resources precluding other dogs from being saved.  Many of my dogs are from KILL SHELTERS, REALLY THEY ARE PUT DOWN if the pound is over crowded, if it’s a puppy or a pregnant dog it goes first.

Every day i see great dogs begging for a place to be safe and help find a new home. Lots of you think I’m nuts for having 40 dogs at a time or taking 20 in at once. Aside from the work – IT’S A LOT OF WORK – and food, i can handle that.

What i can’t handle without help is the Ray’s who need testing and maybe eye surgery, the Gwens who eat their stitches and cost me almost $600 to re stitich  - Schroder getting pneumonia to the tune of almost $1000. Jelly Bean too. Louie was adopted last monday and while i thought he had kennel koff it did, within 24 hours of adoption, turn into a fungal pneumonia!! He also has heart worm (the test was a false negative – the 2nd one in 5 years) - unforseeable stuff like that - THOSE dogs absolutely financially KILL me – i Have $305. o/s at Orono Vet 905-983-9010 and $4900 o/s at Guildwood Animal Clinic 416 -265-5000 if anyone wants to call in a visa or Master card and pay off that $1 or $5 that add up quickly – buying Heartworm and Flea Prevention, antibioptics up the kazoo this month but usually just for kennel koff. I get 20% off on SERVICES and NOTHING OFF ON PRODUCTS AND PRODUCTS IS THE BULK OF WHAT I NEED THERE. I’d LOVE to help the new owners of Ray and especially Louie get the help they still need – KUDOS TO JENNIFER AND JEFF for keeping Louie and loving him IN SPITE Of the costs they are incurring and i can’t help with.

I need to rethink what i’m doing here – I can’t expect others to help when it’s my choice and my burden to do this rescue thing but i would be sad to not do it.

We ARE in the process of getting Charity Status (Thank you Bram Lecker for lawyering for us) so that would be tax recipts for financial help given  but at the moment i don’t have Sponsors or Angels out there helping and i am using all boarding income to cover rescues,  food etc (beleive me – the Adoption Donation covers NOTHING – each dog on average costs me $600-700 EACH).

So the challenge is – How many kids (or adults for that matter or even your dogs) want to use their birthdays to raise money for Camp LotsaDogs Rescue?  We can help the dogs no one would pick to help and especially take care of the ones we do pick and maybe help Jennifer with Louie and Julia who adopted Ray (now Ben by the way).

Well we got Ray neutered yesterday and he sailed thru the surgery and is pretty much back to normal.

We have an appt on july 10th with an opthamologist to look at his cataracts and help us decide about surgery.

We are now seriously fundraising (no we don’t know how to go about it) and are hoping for some help.

We obviously have space for a good party with vendors too.

The appt with the opthamologist will cost in the $300 range and that’s just to decide if it’s worth it to do the testing to find out if it’s worth it to do the cataract surgery. Testing i think is in the $500 range and actual surgery is in the $3500 range.

I have a call into that vet (East Oshawa Clinic where she works out of on alternate fridays – pls DON’T start calling there. We haven’t even met them yet) – to find out exact costs and will keep you posted.

If you’d like to help us make a fundraising party or donate either thru Paypal on the site http://www.petfinder.com/shelters/ON258.html (they do take a fee for this service) or calling us with a visa or M/C  OR once we know what the costs will be by committing to the vet clinic an amt towards the bill. Pug Angels (link is at bottom of page) is thinking of sponsoring him too.

If the surgery is more cost than value (he does really well as is but he has 4-5 good years left and shouldn’t have to be handicapped for them) we won’t do it.

Any funds collected would go to future ‘hard to adopt out dogs’ with problems due to age or imfirmity.

We’re getting charity status and shld have it soon we hope. it’ll give us the opportunity to give tax recpts to people who make donations to us and WE NEED DONATIONS!!

You’d be helping to save apprx 10-15 dogs PER WEEK – dogs like Ray who is 9 yrs old, blind and while he has 4-5 good years left is NOT likely to be adopted so we keep him til he is and that is food, HW meds in season, anything he needs… that costs money.

YES, some of you are thinking ’she picks the dogs, wants to do this rescue, it’s HER responsibilty” and you’re 100% correct! i realize this and while i do ask for donations, i don’t expect everyone to help.  IT IS MY CHOICE TO DO THIS.

Sometimes too many of you want to help but think that $10,20 or 30 dollars isn’t enuf.  I used to be c ollector in my last life and i had to collect Eatons accounts from welfare mothers – I asked each to send $5 in on their accounts and i got $2000 in ONE DAY so seriously, no amt is too small.

Soon we’ll even be able to issue tax receipts!!

Thank you to Pat who donated $100 to us ‘in memory of Chili Maloney” and Kathy who donated $50 to us as well ‘just because’ to our rescue dogs. These kind ladies work for our insurance broker and how many of YOU get money BACK from INSURANCE companies?? ))

Also, thank you to Bob & Maddy who donated $100 directly to one of our great vets for the rescues – Guildwood Animal clinic.  Anyone can call our vets, guildwood is 416-265-5000 and Or0no vet 905-983-9010. They all have balances and credits sure won’t hurt for future rescues.

See our rescues http://www.petfinder.com/shelters/ON258.html 12 new one arriving june the 12th!