Bill Arnold's Daily Straydog Log
SUNDAY JUNE 13 2004
10:30 A.M. UPDATE
Erin's Adoption Day Report ...
Puppy Thelma was adopted again, this time by Pat Seward's neighbor!
When Thelma was returned a week ago from her guardian (who realized after adopting Thelma that he wasn't going to be able to be at home enough to take proper care of the dog), Volunteer Pat Seward kept Thelma overnight before I picked her up the next morning to bring her back to Straydog. Pat's neighbor fell in love with Thelma that evening and decided a week later to fill out the adoption papers. Pat did a home visit, and will be sending a full report and pictures after the couple gets home from a car show (Saturday afternoon). I think they were going to take little Thelma to the car show too, so we look forward to hearing all about this!
Two of Angie's lab puppies went to good homes today
There remain three of the pups from this litter, plus the four little black lab mix puppies we're fostering, who are two or three weeks younger. When all the members of this first litter of pups are adopted out, the pups we're fostering should be ready to go to Adoption Day, so we'll have black lab-mix puppies at PetsMart for the next several weeks! Come out and see the cute babies!
No other adoptions but interest in Rosie and Kerry
No one adopted Scooby, Whiskers or Louise, but Rosie was visited by an especially interested person who needs a friend for her Border Collie. This woman was very nice, but she isn't sure that she's ready for a new dog after her Border Collie's companion just passed away Monday from bone cancer. She seemed in love with Rosie, though, and I imagine we'll be seeing her again.
Kerry also may be having a home visit next week.
Email from Pat Seward about Thelma's adoption
From: Pat Seward
Date: Sun, 13 Jun 2004 00:10:12 EDT
Subject: Thelma's Adoption
To: Straydog@Straydog.org
Bill,
Here's the Thelma adoption update--you should see her, she is sooooo happy in her own backyard. I think Erin took one picture of Dianne and Thelma at PetsMart. I will try to get some pics of Thelma and the family tomorrow. HEY, another homeless little doggie found her forever home!!!!!! Thank you for all you do. Pat Seward
Thelma's adoption
For those who have been following Thelma and Louise, you will remember that on June 3rd I went to pick up Thelma in McKinney to return her to Straydog. On that Thursday night Thelma was an overnight guest at my home, and I had told my good friend and neighbor, Dianne Tidwell, that I had the sweetest dog that she just had to come over and meet. Well, the rest is history. Dianne fell in love with Thelma as she and Thelma sat in our yard getting to know each other. Dianne's husband, Mike, came over to our home to meet Thelma later (after a late meeting).
Since that Thursday night Dianne has been researching the Chow/Akita mix breed dog trying to learn everything about the breeds. So after I did a home visit at Dianne and Mike's home (to be sure their wrought iron fence was secure, etc.) and after she completed the paperwork, Dianne came in today to pick up Thelma. Dianne said Thelma sat in her lap all the way home to Frisco. What a happy pup Thelma was!
I talked to Dianne late Saturday night, and she said Thelma was seeing her reflection in both the kitchen and living area windows and was doing a low growl trying to scare off the "bad guy." How funny! Thelma is an adorable pup and will be much loved by Dianne and Mike and will be a friend to their daughter, Georgia, and her boyfriend, Blake's, young pup, Sadie.
Dianne is a unique person. She is a happy (always happy) person, and she and Mike will give Thelma the best of love and care. Mike and Dianne are retired (very early retired, I might add), and Mike is into restoring '64 Chevy convertibles, and you just might see Mike, Dianne and Thelma riding in a parade one day soon in one of those cars.
Just a note: Bella, my Great Pyrneese pup, whom I adopted from Straydog back in September of '03, when she was only 4-1/2 months old, will be going to the PetsMart "Big Dog Obedience Class" with Thelma. Bella had started the Big Dog Class back in February, and shortly thereafter she had to have shoulder surgery after having attended only three classes. So now Bella is starting class over again, and Dianne and Mike want Thelma to be classmates with Bella. I will be sending photos of them as they attend their classes. It will be fun.
I'm sure that since Dianne has a new digital camera, she will be sending photos of Thelma growing up. And I am truly happy that I will get to see little Thelma grow up in person!
Thanks for your help in this adoption, Pat, and thanks for the report!
Previous Daily Updates
Bill Arnold's Daily Straydog Log
CHRONOLOGICAL TABLE OF CONTENTS OF PREVIOUS UPDATES
(Click on any day below to see the update of that day)
LAST WEEK
* Erin's Adoption Day Report ...
* Email from Ann Story, Sam and Baxter's mom, who's still looking for a job (Can anyone help Ann?)
* Rocky's not producing his own platelets, which are needed for the blood to coagulate;
* Thanks to all of you for your thoughts and condolences!
* Yesterday's vet visit to Dr. Reeves' clinic [LOTS OF PHOTOS];
* Email from Jana, mom of Blind Chubs and Sister Cassie [PHOTO];
* Katie once again says, "Not Yet!" [PHOTOS];
* The latest rescued litter of four abandoned Lab pups is doing fine [PHOTOS];
* Two very nice email messages from Brenda McCullough.
WEEK BEFORE LAST
* Erin's Adoption Day Report ...
* No Straydoggers adopted, but two of Angie's pups were adopted;
* Two skinny pups were found living under a bus stop bench in West Dallas [PHOTOS TO COME];
* Email from Lana Isom concerning 73-year-old rescuer, Jesse Evens;
* Patch and Whiskers are doing fine;
* Both Lucy and Gordo (two of General Manager Juana's kids) came to help their mom today [PHOTOS]
* A year ago today at noon, with my consent, the hospital took Pat off life support;
* Thank you, Cher, for the following very kind email message you sent to us yesterday;
* Would Pat be proud of us and happy with how we've continued her mission?
* Thanks to everyone for your continuing support over the past year.
* Rocky continues to improve, though he hates taking his meds [PHOTO];
* Erin and Tina are at Dr. Reeves' clinic in Tyler with six dogs this morning;
* Thelma (who became Coco for a short while) is being returned;
* Do we need a new adoption form?
* Email report on Sassy from her new dad;
* Thelma has been picked up and is now at Pat Seward's home;
* We just got Pat Seward's email a little after eleven o'clock this morning;
* Puppy Thelma is back at Straydog and moves in with Scooby [PHOTOS];
Mandy is one of our long-haired dogs who would rather be in Canada or Alaska than here in Texas! She would love a home where she could be inside the air-conditioning and on a loving guardian's bed! Mandy is very sweet and playful. She's is approximately seven years old and gets stressed out going to Adoption Days, so we don't take her often. Occasionally (but not often enough) we feature Mandy here on our update to give her another chance at someone seeing her who might want to adopt her. Some folks have written in about her, and contacted us, but no potential adoptions have worked out so far. Sometimes Mandy is picky about being friends with other dogs! Right now Mandy has a loving kennel-mate named Bear, so she isn't too lonely here at Straydog. But it's just not the same as being an inside member of a family that would be able to spend a lot of quality time with Mandy. Does anyone know of a nice home for Mandy? You can read more about Mandy via "Our Dogs for Adoption" link above, which takes you to our Straydog pages on Petfinder.org.
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Thanks very much to those who have printed out even just one copy of the above three pieces of our newsletter and have passed the newsletter on to (or mailed it to) a potential Straydog supporter. If you can, please print out two or three copies (or five or 10 copies) and distribute them to potential supporters. If all 300 of our daily readers printed out and distributed just one copy, Straydog would be exposed to 300 new people. If all 300 of you printed out and distributed 10 copies, we would reach 3,000 new people!
First email from a reader who printed out and mailed out copies of our newsletter
Thanks a lot to longtime supporters Deana and Jim Hanson, who followed my suggestion to make copies of and mail out to friends the PDF files of our newsletter--with color photos too!
It probably won't happen anytime soon, but the technology is here to do away with mass printing and mass mailing altogether. It's already possible to read and print out entire books on the Internet.
We encourage others to do what Deana and Jim have done:
Bill,
We printed newsletters, and Jim put them in the mail today. Good luck! Please let us hear from you if your shelter runs short on anything. We'll try and help.
Happy Easter,
Deana and Jim
If you have a big enough list of people to pass out (or mail out) our newsletter to, you can simply call your local copy center (a Kinko's, for example) and tell them to go to this website (www.Straydog.org) and print out as many copies as you want of the three PDF files via the above three links. Then you can have the copy shop deliver the copies to you or you can go pick them up and do your own mailing of our three-piece newsletter. (And please never worry about the copyrights to our website materials. We want as many people as possible to make copies and distribute them!)
Expanding (or growing) our list of contributors will be our salvation
If a mailing list of 2,500 people can sustain our operation as it has, just think what a mailing list of 3,000 or 3,500 contributors could do.
Before the first article about Straydog was published in The Dallas Morning News (on March 13, 1997) we didn't know there was anyone else in the world who felt the way Pat and I felt about homeless dogs, and we had never asked anyone to help support our shelter. We believed that most people thought we were crazy. (And indeed many humans did and still do.) During 1992, 1993, 1994, 1995, 1996 and the first quarter of 1997, we (with no donations from anyone) paid all the expenses of taking care of all our rescues--a total population of eight rescued dogs in 1992 which had increased to 24 dogs at the time of the publication of The Dallas Morning News article in 1997. Pat and I always felt tremendous appreciation for the financial and moral support we began receiving from our supporters after that first article appeared in the newspaper. Six hundred people contributed more than $40,000 to Straydog (or the original "Arnold Stray Dog Fund") in March 1997, and from that point we continued to grow and grow and grow until we finally (two years ago) put a limit on ourselves of 65 dogs, which population has since swelled to 80+ dogs, which total population we are finally controlling here at Straydog by taking in a new dog only after we adopt at least one dog out.
Thanks so much to all of our contributors! We couldn't keep this operation going without you. Pat always said you all would continue to support us, and you have. And we at Straydog continue to rescue, care for and adopt out homeless dogs exactly the way Pat would have wanted. Thank you so much for your continuing support! ... Bill Arnold