Thursday, June 11, 2009
Good News for Baby Jax
Baby Jax had his liver shunt surgery Tuesday and is recovering nicely. A huge thank you to all that helped Baby Jax!
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Thursday, April 30, 2009
Help Needed for Baby Jax
I am reposting the text below from the Central Florida Pug Rescue website. If Jax has the surgery he will be having it at the same place Sol had her mandibulectomy. If given that opportunity he will have nothing but a bright future. The surgeons, doctors and staff there are top knotch. Just look what they did for little Sol.
BABY JAX DESPERATELY NEEDS YOUR HELP!!!
Jax started out life by being placed in a crate with his mom and newborn siblings and tossed out on the side of the road near Jacksonville, Florida on New Year’s Day, 2009. Fortunately a caring passerby saw the crate and movement inside and stopped. Central Florida Pug Rescue was called in and the new family became part of OUR family. They received immediate medical attention and lots of love, and after a time, all were placed in loving forever homes. Little Jax found a family of his own, who love him very much, but he has had to stay in rescue longer. Our vet noticed that Jax was not quite right…he had periodic spells of deep lethargy. This past week baby Jax began having seizures leaving him nearly comatose. Our vet immediately administered a round of tests…and found that Jax had a liver shunt…a genetic malformation that prevents his liver from functioning correctly and causes a back up of toxins in his body.
THE GOOD NEWS…this condition is easily remedied by surgery.
With surgery baby Jax will live a long, happy healthy life with his new adoring family.
WITHOUT SURGERY, HE WILL DIE BEFORE HE IS A YEAR OLD.
Central Florida Pug Rescue has found a surgeon who will do this procedure but the cost will be $4,000.00. We have one month to raise this amount and save baby Jax’s life. We can’t do it without your help. We know times are hard and money is scarce…but help us give this little boy a chance.
Any donations, large or small, are welcome and may be sent by check made out to “CFPR” and sent to P.O. Box 953744, Lake Mary, FL 32795 or made by credit or debit card at www.centralfloridapugrescue.org by clicking on the “Help Baby Jax” donation button On the Front Page. You can also make donations in person at any of our CFPR adoption events.
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“HELP BABY JAX”
*This will take you to the donation page(push the bone that says “donate”.)
*Please type the name “JAX” in the Purpose line
*Fill out the donation amount and send your donation.
*Thank you so much for helping to save this baby’s life.
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Sunday, January 25, 2009
Belle is home!
Great news! Belle’s big trip to Canada went very well on Saturday! Here are a few words from her new Mom posted on Pug Village.
Belle is home forever. We just arrived here about an hour ago, and Belle has eaten, strolled in the snow, and is sleeping beside me on the couch. It has been a very long, but wonderful day for all of us. Claudette was so nice, I think she is going to miss Belle a lot. Belle owes her, and Sarina, and everyone on Pugvillage, a great big thank-you. We will send lots of details tomorrow, and thanks again. Joan, John and Belle ps Our little Bella traveled with us to Spokane, and met her sister Belle, and kept her company all the way home
And later the next day, Belle weighed in with her thoughts on her new forever home:
So I have arrived!!! It is cold here, but the house is warm, and I had a good sleep last night, so feeling refreshed and ready for anything. Breakfast was good, but not near enough of it, so I barked and demanded more, and received a few treats in return. Good to know how that works…I will put it in my memory bank. There are lots of pugs here, and all bigger than me, so I am being called Peanut for now, as I have a sister named Bella already. Also, unbelievably there are some here that can’t walk either, and they have wheels! Apparently later today, I am going to be fitted for some of my own. I will send pics later today when it warms up. They keep different time here from Florida. So they were 3 hours late for breakfast, and evidently spring is going to be really late as well. But I like the snow, and as long as I am not out too long, it is quite fun. When I am ready to go back in, I just pull mum at full speed, and away we go!!!
Want to than each and every one of you who made this all possible. there are so many of you that kept track of me and prayed for me, and planned and donated for my trip. Particular thanks to the Ellzays, Sarina, and Claudette. These are the people I know by name, but it too so many more of you to literally save my life.
Have to go and snooze now, it seems to be snuggle time, and I don’t want to miss that! I will write later today, and send pics.
Love Belle aka Peanut
Thank you to everyone who helped make this possible. All the wonderful readers of OBP raised $440 to help Belle make the trip to her forever home! I have drawn the raffle winner and sent the lucky winner an email. As soon as I hear back from them I will announce the winner on the blog. Thanks again!
Update: Here are some picture of Belle in her new forever home.
Thursday, January 22, 2009
An Update on Belle
Great news! So far we have raised $305 for Belle trip to her new forever home. With your support and the support of pug lovers everywhere, Belle will begin her journey to her new forever home on Saturday. On Saturday morning she will fly to Washington state with her foster Mom who will assure that she has a very safe and comfortable flight. Once in Washington, she will cross the border into Canada. As soon as I have an update on her trip I will let you know.
As for the raffle and calendar offer, I will keep it open through Friday. I will draw a winner this weekend and as soon as I have heard back from the winner I will announce the lucky winner. Sarina, from Central Florida Pug Rescue, was also kind enough to sweeten the raffle pot. She has donated a pug rag quilt that she made. The raffle winner will receive the quilt along with the other goodies previously mentioned. So there is still time to enter the raffle. If the funds do not go directly to Belle’s travel they will most certainly be used to help another pug in need. If you do donate, just make sure to send your receipt to .(JavaScript must be enabled to view this email address) so that I can enter you in the raffle and get your calendar mailed out if you donate $20 or more.
Make a Donation to CFPR for Belle’s Homecoming
I would like to extend a huge thank you to everyone. Once again you pulled through in the clutch and I could never thank you guys enough.
Monday, January 19, 2009
Belle needs your help to get to her forever home
Belle is a 7 year old pug that has been in the care of Central Florida Pug Rescue since October 2008. Belle was found hiding out under a car and was severely injured. Once she was in the care of CFPR, they found out that she was most likely hit by a car and in quite a bit of pain. Her injuries left her paralyzed and unable to use her back legs. It was also learned that before coming into rescue Belle was a puppy mill dog and was used simply to produce more puppies. This has left her a little shy around people, but over time she will warm up to you.
After lots of TLC in her foster home, Belle was well on her way to recovery. CFPR even began to look for a forever home that could accommodate this little girl’s special needs. Happily, that day has come! However, Belle’s new forever family hails from British Columbia, Canada. That a long way from Central Florida!
Belle’s new forever family is quite experienced with special needs pugs. They have four pugs already in wheel chairs and have the knowledge needed to get little Belle zipping around in her cart in no time flat. They are very involved in pug rescue in their area and CFPR knows they can provide Belle the best possible home that a pug could ask for.
The thing that I have learned about from talking to those very involved in pug rescue is that nothing is impossible. A perfect family was found for Belle and there is no way that a few thousand miles are going to keep a pug from getting the best long term care available.
All that is keeping Belle from making her journey to her forever home is funds. So I am asking, once again, if all the generous pug lovers can help. In the past, we have been able to raise several hundred dollars by everyone just pitching in a small bit and I hoping that we can do that once again. The economy is rough and I am sure that we are all feeling the pinch, but when we team up we can do great things and I think it would be great to be able to say that we helped this little lady cross the border and settle in nicely with our friendly neighbors to the North.
So, here is what I was thinking, we can raffle off a few prizes. If you make a donation of any size to Central Florida Pug Rescue (see link below) send me your receipt (.(JavaScript must be enabled to view this email address)) and I will enter you in the raffle. If you donate $20 to Central Florida Pug Rescue, I will enter you in the raffle and I will also send you a 2009 Owned by Pugs calendar. But you must forward me a copy of your receipt (.(JavaScript must be enabled to view this email address)). That is the only way I will know that you donated.
Here’s what I had in mind for the prizes for the lucky winner:
- A Freedom Harness or a Puppia Harness
- An Engravable ID Tag
- An OBP T-Shirt
- An OBP Sticker
Make a Donation to CFPR for Belle’s Homecoming
As always pug lovers, thank you!
Monday, September 29, 2008
At the Hop
On Saturday we went to Central Florida Pug Rescue’s Sock Hop and we had a blast! First, let me just say, in our mad dash to get out of the house and get the truck setup to ensure the pugs’ maximum comfort on the trip, I forgot to bring the camera! Yup, how silly am I?
So, our picture with Elvis is the only snapshot we brought home from the event. That is also our first official photograph with Elvis. The pugs have been photographed with Santa and even the Easter Bunny, but this was their first time meeting the King.
There were lots of vendors at the event, many of which had free treat samples. This went over quite with the gang, but especially Benny. We also got to chat with Ann from Central Florida Pug Rescue. Ann made the pugs a very special treat, that they had a chance to gobble up a little bit of on Saturday night and some more on Sunday. More to come about the pugs’ special treat from Ann on Wednesday.
We also had a chance to talk with Marcia and her friends from Compassionate Pug Rescue. Compassionate Pug Rescue is where we adopted Luna from so it was great to see Marcia again. We had not seen her since the day we took little Luna home over 2 years ago.
Overall, it was an awesome day that really tired the pugs out. The pugs slept the whole ride home. They had a great time and so did we!
Thursday, August 7, 2008
A big thanks to Carla
Thanks to Carla we can now say that the generous readers of Owned by Pugs raised $500 for Compassionate Pug Rescue in the OBP Raffle! We hit $498 selling tickets and when Carla saw that she donated an extra $2.00 so we had a nice round number.
Thanks again everyone!
Friday, August 1, 2008
And the winner is…
Last night I drew the two lucky winners for the OBP Raffle! Before I announce the winners I want to express once again how grateful I am to everyone who participated. Because of your generosity we raised $498 for Compassionate Pug Rescue! I think that is fantastic!
So, without further ado, here are the winning raffle ticket numbers:
1st: 7200831
2nd: 7200868
I have contacted the winners via e-mail and as soon as I hear back from them I will get their prizes sent out in the mail.
Thanks again everyone for participating! Looney would also like to thank everyone for helping out the pugs. She knows firsthand the difference a little TLC can make!
Have a great weekend!
Wednesday, April 30, 2008
Romeo Update
I just wanted to share with everyone the latest from Romeo’s foster mom.
He is doing pretty well, all he wants to do is play with my girls but since he still has a ton of staples he can’t. He seems to be in good spirits most of the time, sometimes you can tell that he is in a bit of pain from the incision. Of course, Patrick and I are spoiling him rotten and he eats up every minute of it. Today he goes back to the vet to have an hour long blood test to check out all his levels, hopefully everything checks out well. I will update you when the results are in. Please continue to keep Romeo in your thoughts! And please continue to get the word out there for donations…every little bit helps!
They also sent along a picture. Take a look at this cute little fella’.
I can’t thank you enough for sending donations Romeo’s way. Donations of any size are greatly appreciated and the Delaware Valley Pug Rescue group has opened a PayPal acount so if you would like to give you can now donate via PayPal as well.
Tuesday, April 15, 2008
Romeo
Romeo is a 14 month pug pup who currently is in desperate need of Liver Shunt surgery. The surgery Romeo needs costs $5,000. Without the surgery the toxins from his liver will start to affect his nueroligical system and will eventually be fatal.
Brenda from Delaware Valley Pug Rescue e-mailed me in hopes that we can get the word out about Romeo and help raise funds to get him the life saving surgery he so desperately needs.
I’m going to be sending over a donation from Owned by Pugs and H. Doodle and if any other readers could send in a donation I know the Delaware Valley Pug rescue, along with little Romeo, would certainly appreciate it. Whether big or small a donation of any size goes a long way in getting sweet little Romeo back on his feet so that he can live the true life of a pug pup.
If you would like to donate you can do so by sending a check made out to Delaware Valley Pug Rescue and sending it to:
Delaware Valley Pug Rescue
PO Box 861
Avondale , PA 19311.
Thank you pug lovers!
UPDATE: Last night Romeo’s health took a turn for the worse and he was rushed to the emergency vet. He will be undergoing surgery today. I will let you know as soon as I have an update.
UPDATE: In case you did not catch Brenda’s comment here is the latest on little Romeo:
Thank you so much for your well wishes and generosity. The other members of the rescue and especially Romeo’s foster parents were very touched by your support. Unfortunately, the surgery is on hold until we can get Romeo’s blood cell count up to a healthy level. Hopefully he’ll get his count up high enough in the next couple of days to get his surgery. Thank you for your well wishes and keep Romeo in your prayers the next couple of days
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