By Stacy Cole | Donor Communications
Hello to all, I hope you find this report positive and leaves you feeling MAHVELOUS to have supported us in the past and we hope in the future.
On August 19th WHBR celebrated it’s one-year anniversary by getting together in Chinook WA where Kathy and Les Colvin (board member/transporter) graciously opened their home to one and all. By days end we had around 50 volunteers, adopters and their pups, 24 pups to be exact! You read that right, 24 bouncing, wiggling bundles of joy tearing around and living a wonderful life while we enjoyed good food and friendship. DeAnn, our President, shared our year’s successes covering highlights, goals reached, awards won, pups who struggled to survive and our future. As well, she paid tribute to the pups that have passed, our current hospice pups and those volunteers who have stepped up to care for them to the end rather than foster a healthy pup. As she thanked all for their efforts and welcomed new faces the spotlight was ripped away by Olive sitting on her brother Moses’s head directly, behind DeAnn, who was perplexed why we all found her so funny. (see picture) Good food, good people. What a day it was.
Remembering our celebration day, I read through past reports. It was gratifying to see how far we’ve come and even bigger goals set for ourselves. Here are two foremost in my mind:
Our wheel of talent is lacking legal ‘counsel’ if you will. A lawyer willing to represent us and volunteer to advise us on concerns. Secondly, a law student/animal rights activist. A person willing to volunteer to keep us up on animal rights, bills ready to be presented, local, state and federal articles we should be aware of. We rescue Boxers but we also want to be a part in communities/states having better laws. Do you know someone you could share this with? If anyone should have interest we welcome a call or an email to discuss options.
A grant writer. Do you know a student in this field willing to write some grants? We have pups in great need!
ZARA- This girl, the trials she has been through. She was posted on Craigslist where she caught the eye of a concerned citizen who called us. We contacted the owner and upon arrival found she was in dire health. Severe difficulty breathing and emaciated, our volunteer took her straight to the closest emergency vet. This is where we found she isn’t quite two years old, we believe she has had numerous litters and quite possibly an at home C-section, her abdomen full of air and infection ravaging her little body. I think back the video our volunteer sent of her breathing enroute to the vet and shudder to think how long she had been slowly suffering. Today she rests in her foster home medicated, gaining weight and knowing love. A teeny tiny little thing, quite striking, she will be something when she gets back to full strength.
To answer a question that must be going through your head “what is happening to the owner?”. Yes, they are a backyard breeder, fancy themselves superior at what they do- we have notified authorities of their operation and we will report to any official request to see they get their just deserved. In the meantime- we need help with Zara’s medical bills. Vetting is expensive enough, emergency vets and overnight stays with them become quite costly. Anything, and we mean ANYTHING helps.
Woody- Another severely neglected, emaciated boy with massive growths and itchy coat. What a love he is, in the pictures by the concrete wall you see his get-away day when we took him from a California high-kill shelter. Woody then found himself on the Oregon Coast in his foster home where his life took a miraculous turn for the better. Having good food, baths and horribly long nails trimmed, he also underwent a long surgery to remove the mass from his neck and be neutered. Today Woody has put on weight, strolls about knowing life is good and looking for his forever home. We continue to work past his medical costs as well. When we can’t overcome medical costs, we can’t take more pups in- a frustrating reality but reality none the less.
Speaking of reality- our societies’ current reality is piles of euthanized dogs that continue to build up before being hauled away. Our volunteer's personal, tormenting reality is walking into a high-kill shelter and having to PICK who we can take with us rather than taking them all. To leave with some and not all is a mind etching action. Without donations we can't get any, let alone all of them.
Equal to saving Boxers is raising awareness of rescues vs shelters, neuter/spay, shutting down dog mills and last but not least abuse. Think it, see it, report it. As a rescue, we believe strongly in getting this info to our community members- trying to stop over breeding and abuse where it starts.
Without donations, we COULD NOT continue any of this work. Again, anything helps.
I hope this report finds you well as we roll into the fall and holiday celebrations with family and friends.
Feel free to drop us a line with any questions or suggestions. Wigglin' Home Boxer Rescue or our Facebook page
Don't forget to click on the attached pictures, it warms my heart to see how far these two have come.
By Stacy Cole | Donor Communications
By Stacy Cole | Donor Communications Lead
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