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Monthly Archive for September, 2008
Over the past few weeks, several dogs taken in or rescued by PAWS were found to be in need of special medical care: there’s Iris and Lady who are both being treated for heartworm, John Lloyd for liver problems, Malcolm for severe demodectic mange.
Fortunately, all these dogs have gotten sponsors somehow for their treatment.
Yesterday morning, after a week of waiting to be rescued, “Romeo”- a thin dog with an injured leg roaming in the Greenhills area - was finally taken into the PAWS shelter.
Rescuers had to shuttle him from the PAWS clinic to a clinic with an x-ray. Romeo - sweet dog though he was- was in such pain, his snout had to be tied to keep him from biting the gentle hands which held his injured leg against the x-ray machine.
When the x-ray came out, it was obvious now why Romeo was in great pain: his hind leg was broken clear into two (see attached x-ray). Romeo needs to have a bone-pin operation that PAWS would be unable to afford.
Our choices:
1. leave him to heal on his own while giving him pain-killers. His bones will eventually fuse but he will be walking with one short hind leg for the rest of his life.
2. get him that bone-pin surgery he needs by asking help from supporters
We decided, of course, to try course of action #2 first by posting this message. Approximate cost of the operation is P15,000 (or perhaps less if we get some kindhearted veterinary surgeon to just charge us the cost of the meds and surgical materials)
Please, if any of you who are subscribed here would want to pitch in to help with Romeo’s surgery, send us a email indicating the amount that you pledge to deposit to our PNB account on or before September 30, 2008.
Account details:
Account Name: The Philippine Animal Welfare Society (PAWS)
PNB Current Account No. 072-830174-0
PNB Branch: PNB Financial Center (Main Branch)
*important: please send email first indicating the amount and when the deposit will be made or send us validated deposit slip via fax 475-1688 with the note- “For Romeo” plus your name and mailing address- where we can send the official receipt.
Thank you.
-The Philippine Animal Welfare Society (PAWS)
You may also email us at philpawsATyahooDOTcom
or call up PARC (the PAWS Shelter) at 475-1688.
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Update:
Our heartfelt thanks to those who responded immediately to Romeo’s case.
We were able to gather the quoted amount of P15,000 within only three (3) days from posting the alert. We had to inform the others who wanted to donate that the full amount has already been gathered by yesterday,Sept 29,2008:
Thank you to these angels who were the first to give their pledges:
1. Peachy S - P2,000
2. Popi L - P2,000
3. Adele F - P4,000
4. Elizabeth F - P8,000
Thank you to those who got in touch with us later wanting to send more but we would like to advise them to please hold on to their donations first until we get further updates from Dr. Nielsen Donato of Vets in Practice next week.
Dr. Donato says Romeo is not yet fit for surgery and they would have to see if he will improve in 5 days. What they did for the meantime is realign the broken bone (while dog was sedated) and bandaged it. They will see if the bone will fuse or heal correctly on its own.
We will update all donors and provide an accounting of the vet bills and payments.
PAWS would also like to thank Ms. Sue H who pledged to shoulder the hospitalization bill for Romeo’s first few days at Vets in Practice ( from Sept 26 up to Sept 29).
Thank you very much, in behalf of Romeo.
God bless all of you!
-The Philippine Animal Welfare Society
about these people that they again use melamine in food products???
Serial killers.
Bronx grapes, $4 a pound. More honey than grape really
Dr. Martens oxfords, $12. They’ll go nicely with my color tshirts and jeans.
Those American Apparel tri-blend track shirts. They’re like those old shirts your mom would want to turn into trapo but you kept hanging on to even if they turned transluscent because they were to comfiest comfiest. But prettier.
I want all the colors yata. Tangina 20bucks isa, they cost more than most of my button downs. I think I’ll get them from here.
I was in Las Vegas last friday to do a site survey (boy, was it hot. I cant believe how spoiled I’ve become about the weather na… what will I do when I go home to Maynila), and when I was there, at about 4pm, I got a call from our group lead and she told me that my company had decided to let go of some folks because of workload and performance. I had no inkling, and was quite freaked out at how quick it was done…
And just the day before I had been walking to the bus with one of them, and she was telling me she was worried about our slow period at the office and I said “Ya, but we just need to ride things through, and now is a good opportunity to learn etc etc” and the next day she was gone and I didn’t even get to pat her back bye.
I know it’s so glamrock but I wanna watch.
MEXICAN SHRIMP COCKTAIL
1 large can V-8 juice or Clamato (spicy if desired)
2 avocados, chopped
2 cucumbers, seeded and chopped
1 medium red onion, chopped
1/2 bunch cilantro, chopped
1 jalapeño, seeded and chopped
1 pound large shrimp, peeled, de-veined and steamed just barely cooked so it’s still crisp
Ketchup, to taste
limes, quartered
Tabasco sauce
Mix all ingredients except the shrimp and avocado in a large non-reactive container. Let sit for a few hours in refrigerator, or overnight. Before serving, mix in the shrimp and avocado. Serve with limes and Tabasco sauce.
I first had this at E’s place and love it so much I could have an entire pitcher in one sitting.
Friday, J and I decided to play hooky and get a headstart on the Labor Day sales so we headed off to the Vacaville outlet stores. J was particularly interested in checking out the Burberry outlet store (their suits fit him perfectly, but he is a 40L and for some reason there are hardly any of this size suits on sale…) and I was looking for a jacket to replace my Nice Collective Holey Armpit jacket. You see, I just realized that in most of my photos I am wearing this…and it really is battered.
We left SF at around lunchtime so we decided to pass by Vallejo to get some lunch. And I saw online that Sonoma Blvd had a lot of pinoy places so we headed there and ended up at Goldilocks for lunch. Not my first choice but apparently I had chosen a place that closed and was now a mattress store or something like that. So Goldilocks it was, and they had a portion of the restaurant as Ongpin express and we had the 2-ulam meals (bistek, kare kare, lechon paksiw, lumpia) but the highlight of this meal was the platter of chicharon bulaklak we ordered as an afterthought. Vein chilling joy.
Truthfully, I don’t think outlet shopping gives me the thrill I imagined it would. After going around the entire place I left with 2 lightweight jackets ($25 each) and 2 dresses (grey and black, both for about $30) from the Gap. You know, I think I am getting a renewed fondness for this shop, they just have the generics I like.
Oh and a bag of pretzels and maui-onion-horseradish dip that we ate while sipping some gatorade sitting on the grass in a hidden shady place we discovered, while we waited for our hothothot car seats to cool down.
Going back, as I saw the fog rolling in to cover us, I felt like cheering.
P.S. We reheated the chicharon in the oven 3 days after, and it’s still goodgood.
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