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For a year now I have had in my care a male yellow lab that needs heartworm
treatment. He needs this to save his life and so he can go to his forever home. I have tried all kinds of things to try and raise the money, all have failed. You would think that it would take nothing at all to raise $200 dollars to get the treatment, but I repeat myself all has failed. I have already crate trained him and leash broke him so that, when he receives the treatment, he can be crated and kept quiet for the duration of his treatment. He is on preventative to keep from acquiring anymore worms and is in the waiting stage. His age was undetermined at his last vet check and he is due back for shots and his yearly exam. Please, if you can spare anything at, all even a dollar, would you consider helping Buddy. He needs help to change the course of his life, that his previous owners set him on? He may be in limbo here but time stands still for no one and the disease will continue to progress to shorten his life. All I can do is keep him happy and provide the basics for him. If you would like to know more about Buddy feel free to email me. His picture is located here at our website. http://www.angelfire.com/pe2/tawni/found/ Thank you, Happy holidays Gina's Home For Wayward Pets |
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Shadow Walker wrote: For a year now I have had in my care a male yellow lab that needs heartworm treatment. He needs this to save his life and so he can go to his forever home. I have tried all kinds of things to try and raise the money, all have failed. You would think that it would take nothing at all to raise $200 dollars to get the treatment, but I repeat myself all has failed. I have already crate trained him and leash broke him so that, when he receives the treatment, he can be crated and kept quiet for the duration of his treatment. He is on preventative to keep from acquiring anymore worms and is in the waiting stage. His age was undetermined at his last vet check and he is due back for shots and his yearly exam. Please, if you can spare anything at, all even a dollar, would you consider helping Buddy. He needs help to change the course of his life, that his previous owners set him on? He may be in limbo here but time stands still for no one and the disease will continue to progress to shorten his life. All I can do is keep him happy and provide the basics for him. If you would like to know more about Buddy feel free to email me. His picture is located here at our website. http://www.angelfire.com/pe2/tawni/found/ Have you checked into Care Credit? Honestly, running a rescue requires more than just sheltering dogs. It requires having the funds to meet thier medical needs (which are frequently a lot more than $200) If you can't afford the HW treatment for this dog, I have to wonder how you afford spaying and neutering (which is usually at least close to that price range.) I know there is a legitimate Labrador rescue in Texas (we sent one of our yellow labs from the shelter to them) I think your best bet is to find a rescue that has enough funds to take care of their dogs and let them take him, before the HW does more damage. BroomSandy. Thank you, Happy holidays Gina's Home For Wayward Pets |
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I am not a large rescue I work with other people to get these animals off
the street into homes or other facilities. I take a lot of animals that are ready to the SPCA so spaying and neutering is taken care of through them adopting them out. I place very few animals myself the ones I do place are only to homes that guaranty spaying and neutering. This dog took a very long time to get ready for treatment. Neutering him will cost far less than the Heartworm treatment will. I have all that worked out just the cost of heartworm treatment is not flexible. Have you checked into Care Credit? Honestly, running a rescue requires more than just sheltering dogs. It requires having the funds to meet thier medical needs (which are frequently a lot more than $200) If you can't afford the HW treatment for this dog, I have to wonder how you afford spaying and neutering (which is usually at least close to that price range.) I know there is a legitimate Labrador rescue in Texas (we sent one of our yellow labs from the shelter to them) I think your best bet is to find a rescue that has enough funds to take care of their dogs and let them take him, before the HW does more damage. BroomSandy. Thank you, Happy holidays Gina's Home For Wayward Pets |
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Thank you Very much for the information.
"MauiJNP" wrote in message ... http://animalresourcescentral.homest...icalBills.html help for medical bills, good luck |
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Shadow Walker wrote:
I am not a large rescue I work with other people to get these animals off the street into homes or other facilities. I take a lot of animals that are ready to the SPCA so spaying and neutering is taken care of through them adopting them out. I place very few animals myself the ones I do place are only to homes that guaranty spaying and neutering. This dog took a very long time to get ready for treatment. Neutering him will cost far less than the Heartworm treatment will. I have all that worked out just the cost of heartworm treatment is not flexible. http://www.txlabrescue.org/ http://www.dfwlabrescue.org/ http://www.labrescuenorthtexas.org/ http://hotlabrescue.org/hotlab/ http://www.texaslabrescue.org These are all Labrador Retriever rescues in Texas. You are in Texas. The dog appears purebred. Contact a legitmiate rescue and offer to foster this dog for them. That way, the necessary treatment can begin, you can continue to foster the dog, he can be neutered and responsibly placed and they can be at least partially reimbursed with his adoption fee. If you had started networking a year ago, this dog would no longer be suffering the continuing damage of a load of HW. No responsible rescue adopts dogs on a "guaranty of spaying or neutering" I also don't really understand the concept of taking the dogs to the SPCA to be adopted when they are ready. It honestly sounds to me like if you want to help dogs, volunteering to foster and do other work for a legitimate shelter or 501C3 rescue organization would be a much better idea. BroomSandy |
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"Shadow Walker" wrote in
: For a year now I have had in my care a male yellow lab that needs heartworm treatment. He needs this to save his life and so he can go to his forever home. You've had this dog an entire YEAR and not treated his heartworm???? Are you actually trying to kill this dog? I have tried all kinds of things to try and raise the money, all have failed. You would think that it would take nothing at all to raise $200 dollars to get the treatment, but I repeat myself all has failed. Yeah, it wouldn't take much to raise the $200 for emergency (I repeat.... *emergency*) treatment for one dog. As someone who does rescue from time to time, all it takes is ties to the community, a willingness to pound the pavement and a modicum of respect from the local dog owners. At least that's how its always worked for me and for the local rescues I know of. I have already crate trained him and leash broke him so that, when he receives the treatment, he can be crated and kept quiet for the duration of his treatment. In a year, you've not treated him for a serious medical condition (which has also caused him to remain unneutered), and only managed to crate train and leash train him? He is on preventative to keep from acquiring anymore worms and is in the waiting stage. This makes no sense. My understanding is that prevention in a heartworm positive dog is likely to kill the dog. You don't hive prevention to a dog that has heartworm. His age was undetermined at his last vet check and he is due back for shots and his yearly exam. Please, if you can spare anything at, all even a dollar, would you consider helping Buddy. He needs help to change the course of his life, that his previous owners set him on? He may be in limbo here but time stands still for no one and the disease will continue to progress to shorten his life. All I can do is keep him happy and provide the basics for him. If you would like to know more about Buddy feel free to email me. His picture is located here at our website. http://www.angelfire.com/pe2/tawni/found/ Too mant scams out there to believe what you've said. Too many odd red flags in your post to believe what you've said. Too many ways you could have easily raised money in your own community (as long as you have any credibility there) to believe what you've said. Good luck anyway, though Tara |
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Thank you very much for the information.
"Sandy in OK" wrote in message oups.com... Shadow Walker wrote: I am not a large rescue I work with other people to get these animals off the street into homes or other facilities. I take a lot of animals that are ready to the SPCA so spaying and neutering is taken care of through them adopting them out. I place very few animals myself the ones I do place are only to homes that guaranty spaying and neutering. This dog took a very long time to get ready for treatment. Neutering him will cost far less than the Heartworm treatment will. I have all that worked out just the cost of heartworm treatment is not flexible. http://www.txlabrescue.org/ http://www.dfwlabrescue.org/ http://www.labrescuenorthtexas.org/ http://hotlabrescue.org/hotlab/ http://www.texaslabrescue.org These are all Labrador Retriever rescues in Texas. You are in Texas. The dog appears purebred. Contact a legitmiate rescue and offer to foster this dog for them. That way, the necessary treatment can begin, you can continue to foster the dog, he can be neutered and responsibly placed and they can be at least partially reimbursed with his adoption fee. If you had started networking a year ago, this dog would no longer be suffering the continuing damage of a load of HW. No responsible rescue adopts dogs on a "guaranty of spaying or neutering" I also don't really understand the concept of taking the dogs to the SPCA to be adopted when they are ready. It honestly sounds to me like if you want to help dogs, volunteering to foster and do other work for a legitimate shelter or 501C3 rescue organization would be a much better idea. BroomSandy |
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Thank you Very much for the information. I will be checking into that as
soon as possible. "Dachsie Doozie" wrote in message ups.com... As a rescue I understand too. I go to the local thrift shops and buy items, clean them up and sell them on ebay. You might try also taking pictures and selling them for $2.00 on ebay, state what your selling them for. You would not believe the kind hearted people out there that will help. It paid for one of my rescue doxies surgery. Knock on doors, let them know who you are, and what you do. Get your face out there and talk and be seen! Best advice I can give you. Shadow Walker wrote: For a year now I have had in my care a male yellow lab that needs heartworm treatment. He needs this to save his life and so he can go to his forever home. I have tried all kinds of things to try and raise the money, all have failed. You would think that it would take nothing at all to raise $200 dollars to get the treatment, but I repeat myself all has failed. I have already crate trained him and leash broke him so that, when he receives the treatment, he can be crated and kept quiet for the duration of his treatment. He is on preventative to keep from acquiring anymore worms and is in the waiting stage. His age was undetermined at his last vet check and he is due back for shots and his yearly exam. Please, if you can spare anything at, all even a dollar, would you consider helping Buddy. He needs help to change the course of his life, that his previous owners set him on? He may be in limbo here but time stands still for no one and the disease will continue to progress to shorten his life. All I can do is keep him happy and provide the basics for him. If you would like to know more about Buddy feel free to email me. His picture is located here at our website. http://www.angelfire.com/pe2/tawni/found/ Thank you, Happy holidays Gina's Home For Wayward Pets |
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Thank All of you Very much for the information. I'm sorry if all did not
understand all of what is going on but to go into all the details would take pages and pages most do not want to read about. Everything I find here helps despite the lashings about how I'm doing things. Nothing I have done has gone unsupervised by a vet. I just checked back with the news group and read your posts and many of you seem to not know that Ivermectin that is in heart guard and heart guard plus is used as a treatment and a preventative of heartworms. This is a slow way but in dogs of unknown age and with health problems it has been the safest way to relieve the heartworm load on the dogs body. It kills the microfilaria and prevents the dog from being a reservoir for mesquites to tap into as well as preventing the dog from acquiring more heartworms. Dogs with heartworms do not acquire more from the microfilaria that they harbor, the microfilaria must cycle through a mosquito back to a dog to grow into an adult. Were they grow and become mature in the heart chamber and major lung arteries. What my plea is for is to get this dog treated as quickly, get nurtured as soon as possible so he can move on to his forever home. Being here has helped him get over alot of health, psychological and physical problems that do not vanish over night. Thank you, Gina's Home For Wayward Pets "Sandy in OK" wrote in message oups.com... Shadow Walker wrote: For a year now I have had in my care a male yellow lab that needs heartworm treatment. He needs this to save his life and so he can go to his forever home. I have tried all kinds of things to try and raise the money, all have failed. You would think that it would take nothing at all to raise $200 dollars to get the treatment, but I repeat myself all has failed. I have already crate trained him and leash broke him so that, when he receives the treatment, he can be crated and kept quiet for the duration of his treatment. He is on preventative to keep from acquiring anymore worms and is in the waiting stage. His age was undetermined at his last vet check and he is due back for shots and his yearly exam. Please, if you can spare anything at, all even a dollar, would you consider helping Buddy. He needs help to change the course of his life, that his previous owners set him on? He may be in limbo here but time stands still for no one and the disease will continue to progress to shorten his life. All I can do is keep him happy and provide the basics for him. If you would like to know more about Buddy feel free to email me. His picture is located here at our website. http://www.angelfire.com/pe2/tawni/found/ Have you checked into Care Credit? Honestly, running a rescue requires more than just sheltering dogs. It requires having the funds to meet thier medical needs (which are frequently a lot more than $200) If you can't afford the HW treatment for this dog, I have to wonder how you afford spaying and neutering (which is usually at least close to that price range.) I know there is a legitimate Labrador rescue in Texas (we sent one of our yellow labs from the shelter to them) I think your best bet is to find a rescue that has enough funds to take care of their dogs and let them take him, before the HW does more damage. BroomSandy. Thank you, Happy holidays Gina's Home For Wayward Pets |
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