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Spotlight
The Naturally Healthy Pet
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| The Naturally Healthy Pet, located in the Capital Plaza Shopping Center in Tallahassee, is a wonderful resource for pet parents and has been an invaluable partner to the CSTR Florida program. Owners Basil and Jerry have many years of experience in the pet supply business and carry only the best in pet foods and other supplies and accessories for both dogs and cats. The CSTR Florida program holds an adoption event on the second Saturday of every month at TNHP, so be sure to come out and see us and visit this wonderful store!
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Featured Fundraisers
We have three featured fundraisers for July, so if you can participate, we would appreciate it!
Online ThirtyOne Party!
Shop for gorgeous bags, totes and other items and help CSTR raise money at the same time. Click here to go to the ThirtyOne website and place your order today!
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Chocolate Bark
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Place an order of yummy treats for you and/or your furry friends, and Chocolate Bark will donate 20% of the sales amount to CSTR. So visit Chocolate Bark and place your order today!
Click the image above to shop our online fundraising store for magazines, jewelry and restaurant gift certificates/cards!
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President's Message
June turned out to be a busy one for CSTR and a devastating one for me, personally. We were able to bring several dogs into the foster program, including one from Chicago Animal Care & Control, two from Animal Welfare League in Chicago and another group of puppy mill dogs from Missouri, and as you will see below, we also did a number of adoptions, including three more foster flunks. So June was a very successful month for CSTR foster dogs!
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For me, personally, though, I unexpectedly said goodbye to the dog who inspired me ten years ago to begin rescuing Shih Tzu. Alex was found at approximately ten months of age alongside a road in rural Florida and became my first foster - and foster flunk - in 2001. He and I learned about rescue and fostering together, and he was the start of what would become my deep love of the Shih Tzu breed. We started out fostering one other Shih Tzu at a time, and Alex was my co-pilot as we did weekend rescue transports along the Florida Panhandle/I-10 corridor. He welcomed each new temporary member of our household enthusiastically and took his responsibilities as role model/mentor/disciplinarian very seriously. He cuddled newborn kittens and comforted senior and sick dogs; he broke up squabbles between fosters and was the champion of any female Shih Tzu in distress.
Alex was my inspiration and constant companion and the reason that
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together we have fostered several hundred dogs in those ten years. On June 6 of this year, we found that what we had up to that point thought was a particularly nasty eye infection was actually secondary to an aggressive form of bone cancer that had decalcified and broken most of one side of his jaw. Unfortunately, my stoic little man had, up to that point, given no indication that he was in pain, and so we had had no idea that anything else was going on until it was far too late. The prognosis was very bleak, and so he crossed the Rainbow Bridge from my arms the next morning.
If not for Alex, I would not have become immersed in the rescue of these wonderful dogs. He has left a permanent mark and hole in my heart, and the world has lost a wonderful ambassador for his breed and for rescue dogs as a whole. If not for Alex, I would not be the person I am today, and I am a better one because of him. If not for Alex, Crossroads Shih Tzu Rescue would not exist, and so in his memory, I have been asked to set up the Alex's Memorial Fund Chip-In as a way to recognize the contribution that Alex made to CSTR and Shih Tzu rescue in general. All proceeds will go to the CSTR Vet Fund and for the care of the dogs in our program.
Leann
Leann Lund
President
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Galen Update
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We are very pleased to report that our little semi-feral puppy, Galen, has made significant progress in the past month. The Bichon/ Maltese mix puppy, who spent the first five months of his life in one of the worst puppy mills, came to his foster home untouchable and absolutely terrified in early May. Since then, though, he has graduated from his exercise pen and now much prefers his new frequent perch on the couch! He got his first haircut on June 29th and seems to be much more comfortable. He is also giving kisses and allowing himself to be picked up, so we are very optimistic that in the coming weeks or months he will be ready for a forever home of his own.
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Home At Last
June saw several CSTR foster dogs find their forever homes. We are thrilled for Garrett, Macy, Charles, Valerie, Alec, Destiny, Kelsee, Aaron, Nena, Tommy, Emily and Quinn! We are also thrilled to congratulate foster flunks, Ashlee, Reagan and Bryant!
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.
 | | Macy and Janis |
 | | Nena, Tommy and the Weedons |
 | | Destiny, Kelsee and the Grahams |
 | | Quinn and the Dubinskys |
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