SPREAD SOME GOLDEN SUNSHINE

SPREAD A LITTLE GOLDEN CHEER....

Most of you know Ida Marino of Golden Touch of Paws.  Ida has donated many pieces of jewelry to the Nationals and the Golden Retriever Foundation events. 
Unfortunately at this Ida is experiencing some very difficult times.    As many of you know Ida was stricken with cancer and it has spread.  She has been undergoing chemo therapy but her insurance has now been canceled.  She needs help.  We all need help some times. 

If you were ever considering ordering a piece of Ida's work - well now would  be the time - you can contact Ida through her Ad on EverythingGolden under vendors.

If you would like to make a donation to help Ida pay her medical bills and help her get her insurance back so she can continue the chemo therapy she needs,  you can do that too.

We have supported a lot  of Golden People in their time of need and another one needs us now.

Send donations to :

IDA MARINO

5001 Homewood Lane
Baytown, Texas  77521

GTOP4@aol.com
713.424.3445

Any size donation will help and will be much appreciated. 

THANK YOU.

Your Editor, Julie Caruthers

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Cross posted with permission

You may remember me a few weeks ago with Golden's needing to be rescued . I wanted to give an update thus far.

So far, 62 Golden's have been pulled and put into rescues, 5 to 6 are pregnant and we also have many puppies. One adult did not made it but we have hopes the others will do well. Rescue is in great need of money and this is a plea for help. Rescue gets about 5 to 10 dogs a month and SEVA GRREAT has taken on most of the load by taking in over 30. Needless to say this is a huge financial hit. So if you can PLEASE donate to Seva and help with the medical these dogs so desperately need. Here is a link to the story..

http://www.wavy.com/dpp/news/local_wavy_iow_dogs_update_removed_from_farm_20090128

I have one of the pregnant girls here and its just plain sad, another breeder friend, Brenda Hux has another. Both girls are full size golden's and if they were not with pups we estimate that they would be about 30 lbs. We went last week to get 15 and ended up with over 30. I will update as things move on.... Most are emaciated and have many health issues.

Please help anyway you can!!!

Here is the link for SEVA and it also has a few more links to the story..

http://www.adoptagolden.com/

If you want more details feel free to email me.

Sportingdogs@mindspring.com

Thanks!

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Beth