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Spotlight:
Tucker's Doggie Delights
| Tucker's Doggie Delights is a wonderful pet food store located in the Calistoga Shopping Plaza in New Lenox, IL. Most days, Tucker himself is at the door, waiting to greet customers as they enter store, and Nick, Stacy, and Stacy's dad, Terry, are a fantastic resource when it comes to canine and feline nutrition as well as the quality foods, treats and supplies they sell.
Tucker's has a very special place in the history of CSTR as they were our first supporters, allowing us to have our first adoption events there while we waited for confirmation of our nonprofit status.
CSTR has adoption events each month at Tucker's so be sure and stop to see us and check out this wonderful store! |
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Yankee Candle Fundraiser!
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February 7-21, 2011, CSTR will be holding a Yankee Candle Fundraiser. CSTR will get 40% of the profits, so this has the potential to be a very good fundraiser for us! If you're interested and are in the Chicagoland or Tallahassee areas, email CSTR for more information on how you can order!
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President's Message
January turned out to be a very busy month for CSTR.
We received a plea the second week of the month for some puppy mill dogs needing to get into rescue. One of our Illinois foster homes agreed to squeeze two more foster dogs into her home but wound up with three when an extra dog was released from the mill and had nowhere to go. The dogs were young and healthy for the most part other than one sweet female who turned out to be almost completely blind.
A week later, I was contacted about a backyard breeder in south Georgia who had gotten in over her head and wanted to release her dogs to me. I was initially told that she would be releasing 12 dogs, but when I went to pick them up, the breeder brought 14. I was able to find rescue for 12 of the dogs and took two into the CSTR program.
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1.5 year old Colleen, a beautiful, friendly black/white Shih Tzu girl, turned out to be heartworm positive, as did 3 others who had gone to other groups. 4 year old Garrett, while heartworm negative, is currently still recovering from severe bacterial infections in his ears as well as skin infections. The breeder had told me about 5 remaining dogs, including one she described as having "severe allergies and no hair", and so I continued to communicate with her in the hopes that she would release those last dogs to me. Two days later, she agreed, and I picked up the dogs from her on February 30.
Three of the dogs are gorgeous, 7 month old puppies, and one is a
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beautiful 5 year old female, mother of one of the puppies. But the one I was most concerned about was the male the breeder had told me about, the one with "severe allergies and no hair." I've been doing rescue for a long time, but this dog, who I named Malcolm, was one of the saddest creatures I had ever seen.
I took him to my vet first thing the next day (Jan. 31), and it was determined that he was suffering from something much worse than just "skin allergies". Poor Malcolm has a condition called sarcoptic mange, aka scabies, an infectious mite that burrows in the skin and causes horrible itching and sores. He also has severe dry eye and is heartworm positive.
He has begun treatment for the mange, which is the most pressing issue, and will begin heartworm treatment in approximately six weeks, once the mange has been cleared up.
As I am sure most of you reading this newsletter can imagine, the costs for Malcolm's treatment, alone, is considerable and ongoing, and that is in addition to Colleen's heartworm treatment as well as the costs to get the other dogs brought current and healthy so that they can be adopted in a couple weeks. And of course, we have the costs of the puppy mill dogs that came in earlier in the month as well as an owner-surrendered Shih Tzu who got a bad rap through no fault of his own. So my refrain remains as it always is although with a more desperate note to it.. we need financial help badly. If you have been thinking about donating but haven't done so up to this point, we really need your help. And if you have donated in the not so distant past but can dig a bit deeper and help us again, we would greatly appreciate it.
These dogs - and in particular, Malcolm - are why we are in rescue, but in order to make the difference in his life that he needs, we need your help. If you need a little more inspiration and examples of why we do what we do, be sure and check out the CSTR: Before and After video, created by CSTR foster mom, Crystal Tiffany.
If you can donate even the smallest amount, please do. As always, the dogs need us and so we need you.
Leann
Leann Lund
President
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Gabrielle Update
Gabrielle continues to grow and learn how to use her front legs  properly. The report from her foster mom has been great as she learns to go up and down steps and run and play. She has a follow up appointment with the orthopedic vet this week and then will get her last set of vaccinations and spay in the next week or so. Again our deepest thanks to all of you who helped make the surgery for this beautiful girl possible!
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Hope and Puppies Update
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Hope and her puppies, Destiny and Kelsee, continue to thrive, and we are enjoying very much being able to share pictures and updates of the puppies via our Facebook page each week as they get older.
Hope is continuing her treatment for demodex mange, and unfortunately, both girls are beginning to show signs of it, too. The girls are 11 weeks of age now, and so they will begin treatment for it next week. Once they have completed the treatment, they will be spayed and available for adoption.
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Home At Last
January saw three CSTR foster dogs find their forever homes. We are thrilled for Ginny, Kennedy and Brandon!
If you've been thinking about adding a new canine member to your family, be sure to visit our IL/IN Petfinder page and FL Petfinder page to see the dogs we currently have for adoption.
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