SOPHIE'S FUND UPDATE: WE ARE AT GOAL!

[Karen, Jasper and Jackdoodle]

http://www.petfinder.com/petnote/displaypet.cgi?petid=12403847

UPDATE- SOPHIE IS GETTING HER SURGERY! AND YOU HELPED DO THIS! THANK YOU ALL!

HOMELESS GD NEEDS OUR HELP!!!!
This beautiful curly 2-yr-old girl is desperately in need of costly cataract surgery to restore her eyesight! She was surrendered to a humane society shelter by her owner, who was unable to care for her. The Humane Society would not adopt her out due to increasing blindness because of operable cataracts, and would not pay for the surgery to restore her sight; Second Chance Animal Rescue pulled her from the kill shelter and is trying to raise money for the surgery. Please take a look- we can give her 14 years of being able to see this wonderful world around her! Any donation in any amount will help; even $5. Thank for looking. (photos also below)
Second Chance Animal Rescue
PO Box 10533
White Bear Lake, MN 55110
label donation for SOPHIE'S FUND
FOR PAYPAL CLICK HERE: http://www.secondchancerescue.org/contributions.aspx

[Karen, Jasper and Jackdoodle]

Thank you, Joy, for your kind heart.

[Joy Williams]

My Pleasure!! Where is Sophie anyway? Is she there at the Second Chance Animal Rescue, or are they just the ones trying to raise money for her? Just curious...

[Karen, Jasper and Jackdoodle]

Second Chance keeps all their dogs in foster homes; the rescue pays all expenses, and the foster home (foster parents are the most giving, caring, necessary part of the whole rescue chain) takes care of them until they are adopted, often working to housebreak, socialize, etc. Many rescues, IDOG included, do not actually have a facility for housing dogs, and rely on volunteers who take these dogs into their homes and help them begin their new lives. These rescues pull dogs from kill shelters and other facilities where they have little chance of getting proper care or being adopted. If you look at Second Chance's website, you'll see that they mention that they can only take in as many dogs as they have foster homes for. Let's hear it for the fosters!

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Karen,

I was about to write my annual check to the Humane Society, guess who got the money instead?

We had a blind dog that we rescued from a breeder that was going to have the 6 wk old puppy euthanized. We had her for 3 years, until, she became dangerous (180 lb Great Dane) and we had her euthanized. Unfortunately, we could not have surgery to have her site restored and she ultimately did have to be put down. However, she had 3 wonderful years that she would not have had otherwise.

Sophie can have 12 -14 more wonderful years of SIGHTED life. I am so proud of everyone at DK.

Should someone post this at the other Doodle sites?

[Karen, Jasper and Jackdoodle]

Anywhere you think people will respond, absolutely copy & paste it. And thank you so much for your caring heart.

[Jacquie Yorke (DRC)]

FYI-When you give your money to The Humane Society of the US, unless you give to a specific shelter and/or insist that it be used for a particular animal, your donation goes into the general fund and is used to cover their "operational" expenses....That means that your money pays their bills and salaries.....Which is fine...but HSUS has a tremendous amount of funding from MANY different resources including Government, foundation grants and endowment......It would shock you to know how much money is filtered through that organization and what their operational budget is....Unless you are donating to the HSUS Puppy Mill National Campaign, I believe that your/our donations are best put to use at individual shelters and rescues...

[Jacquie Yorke (DRC)]

I sent my donation to Sophie's Fund yesterday...It was a meager $25 bucks but I'm scraping the bottom of the barrel here myself...I wish that I could have done more......Hopefully my business will pick up soon and I will be able to make larger donations in the future....

[Karen, Jasper and Jackdoodle]

$25 is a lot in this economy! Thank you so much for your kind heart, & all you do for the homeless doodles!

[Jacquie Yorke (DRC)]

and to you!...and all YOU do for homeless doodles and doodles in need....

[Karen, Jasper and Jackdoodle]

Let's give this discussion a big old BUMP!

[Paula]

Good morning All! Let's keep up the good work and donate for Soph!

[Karen, Jasper and Jackdoodle]

They probably won't update the site til Monday...hope the money is coming in from lots of sources.