To anyone who loves animals, and has a big heart, from my wife.
To all my friends,
This is an urgent plea for your help. While I was in the Dominican Republic last week, I rescued a tiny little puppy the size of my two hands from drowning (see pix below). We managed to get the puppy back to New York, where my dad had agreed to raise her (since I just adopted another dog just last week), but unfortunately the poor little thing has taken a turn for the worst. She is currently in critical condition, and is in an ER vet clinic getting tests. Only an hour ago she stopped breathing, and when the vet called my dad to tell him, little August started breathing again and lifted up her head. I am so sorry for asking for help, but Rolo and I are sort of hurting for $$ right now, after the wedding and all.
Here’s how the story goes:
It was last Friday, August 20th, my birthday and the day before my wedding. I decided to take a peaceful run on the beach to clear my head, and spend some time being introspective and reflective. I had ran about two miles, when a little dark object caught my eye along a stretch of rocky shore. As I got closer, I recognized immediately that it was a puppy, being swept out by the tide, and then struggling helplessly everytime it washed up. I ran over and lifted it immediately from the warm waters. She collapsed in my hands. I asked some men who were preparing to sail out on their boat if it was their “perro,” but the shook their heads and asked me in spanish if it was mine and if I wanted it.
I poured the water I had with me into my hand, and she refused because she thought it was salt water. Without a question in my mind, I turned around in my tracks and walked back as fast as I could to the hotel. I felt like I couldn’t go fast enough. I stopped a few times to cover her in the shade of my body because it was so hot. I said outloud, “It’s gonna be okay, August.” (naming her after my old dog April who we had named after the month we had rescued her).
Luckily, outside the hotel, I met two of my friends, one who took the shirt off her back so that I could sneak her into the resort (that did not allow pets). I called room service for milk, improvised my cutting a straw in half from a juice box in the mini bar, and began feeding her milk through the straw. To my relief, she lapped it up immediately.
To summarize the rest of the story, Rolo and I spent the rest of my birthday finding a vet to take August in and administer shots, as well as get the right paper work. On Tuesday, my dad and mom and Rawlinson’s mom took the dog back to NY, making a 2 hour stop in the Agriculture office in the airport. Last night, as I flew back to LA, my dad woke up to hear August whimpering in pain, and he rushed her to the vet at 3am. She is currently there undergoing treatment and tests.
The vet has told me that they have to do a battery of tests. The estimate is completely unaffordable for us at this time, so I am asking you all out of the kindnesses of your hearts to donate whatever you can to August’s treatment. People had asked Rolo and I what we needed or wanted for our wedding, since we didn’t register anywhere. For us, gifts and money are not important…it was having our friends be at the wedding, and receiving all the phone calls and well wishes on facebook that counted. Now, however, I am asking that if you would like to give us something…please give us whatever you can to help save this little dog. That’s all that matters to us right now. Please make any contributions to Rawlinson’s PayPal account: rawls27@msn.com. Seriously, anything will help: $1, $5, whatever….Please pass this along to anyone who you think would like to donate to this cause.
Here is the link to see August pics on Facebook
Thank you from the bottom of our hearts,
Mollie and Rawlinson
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