Bill Arnold's Daily Straydog Log
SUNDAY JUNE 27 2004
NOON UPDATE
Our June 2004 Straydog Newsletter is finally at the printer
Most of this June 2004 Newsletter comes from the June 1, 2004 Straydog Update, concerning the first anniversary of Pat Arnold's death, and that's why it took so long to prepare and release to print. Every time I tried to work on the newsletter, I would have to stop after a short while and go work on something else. I finally got it finished and to the printer, my former employer of 25 years, who graciously contributes to Straydog all our printing needs.
If you get a chance before you receive your black and white copy in the mail, please read our online color version via the following links:
We will be very grateful for any early contributions! Please send checks to:
Thanks so much to all of you supporters who continue to make it possible for Straydog to stay alive and keep going!
Update on Blackie
Randy Hopkins, our overnight man, reported this morning that Blackie coughed much less during the night and had some appetite this morning, finishing half of his breakfast. His meds must be kicking in.
Update on Parvo Puppy Summer
This little girl is still holding her own. You can tell by looking at her that she's sick, but we keep forcing down plenty of liquids (with an oral syringe), and she has a small appetite and wags her tail a little. Her last bowel movement early this morning was between runny and firm. Please keep praying for Puppy Summer's full recovery. Summer's three sisters are no longer showing any Parvo symptoms.
Report on yesterday's Adoption Day
No adoptions but lots of photos:
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LAST WEEK
* Bad storm hit us yesterday just before final feeding [PHOTOS];
* Gretchen was adopted yesterday by Pam and Gary Bollinger [PHOTOS];
* Puppy Summer has symptoms of Parvo Virus [PHOTOS];
* Puppy Lucy (the white Pit Bull) was spayed Monday;
* Russell was vomiting this morning and wouldn't eat breakfast;
* Puppy Summer is taking her meds and holding her own against the Parvo Virus [PHOTOS];
* Russell still won't eat his regular meals, but he'll take biscuits;
* Parvo pup, Summer, ate a half can of tuna this morning;
* Dr. Reeves says to stop the anti-diarrheal meds;
* Gordo just announced that Puppy Summer ate some more of her tuna fish;
* Blackie's got a cough that started yesterday; Toby started coughing today;
* Lucy had a good night at her new home with Caregiver Bobby;
* Schwarzenegger Wants Strays Killed Faster;
* Bill's comment on "The Terminator's" proposal;
Back to Bill's Straydog Report ...
* Blackie's got a bad cough and will see the doctor this morning [PHOTO];
* Katie's still going through her daily routine seemingly okay;
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.
Spanna, Degenerative Myelopathy
help and information: Spanna
(has good cart links)
Doggon' Wheels - Wheelchairs for pets, dog carts: Doggon'
Wheels
Dog Mobility - boots, harnesses, equiwrap: Dog
Mobility
WHEELCHAIRS FOR DOGS: providing mobility for dogs with hind leg
disabilities: Wheelchairs
for Dogs
Ty-Lift Enterprises® - Specializing in Patented Animal Transport
Units On Wheels: Ty-Lift
Dog Cat and Handicapped Pet Care Products Services Support and
Classifieds: Handicapped
Pet Care
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 April 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.
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 first article about our shelter in The Dallas Morning News in March 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