POLA Foundation

04/07/2025

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H E L P - EMERGENCY
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BENJI is sick. On my way to vet with him now. Not sure what is going on with him. May be neuro.
Donations will enter you in rraffle Drawing extented to april 14
WE NEED YOUR HELP PLEASE
Venmo.
PayPal [email protected]

03/31/2025

Basket from Ivy and Stone drawing extended to April 14, 2025.

We did another thing this week. I was reading the story about Benji at Caddo and immediately tagged him.
So his back story is he was sold or given away on FB and within a few days after getting a new home, he was surrendered to Caddo. Then he was immediately adopted, however, he wasn't fixed. So he sat there for 2 weeks waiting to get fixed. His adopter was notified he was ready and they had changed their minds. U G H
So WELCOME TO POLA BENJI.
He will be going for grooming this week at the amazing Howling Hotel with Melody.
This is why we do the fundraising throughout the year. Remember Prissy and Sebastian from Caddo? Well, they have some major reactive behaviors we are working on before we can even think of moving them. We've taken them to Robinson's Rescue Low Cost Spay/Neuter 2 times and that did not go well.
Oh and also now 501c3 are required to pay Caddo $50 if we tag a dog within 7 days of it be fixed. That can literally buy a medium bag of food. It seems to just keep getting tougher and tougher and financially, it is a HUGE struggle.
Please help us to be able to continue to help these babies. We can not do anything without your help.
THANK YOU FOR LOVING THE POLA BABIES AND YOUR SUPPORT
VENMO
PAYPAL [email protected]

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03/25/2025

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POLA has an amazing raffle going on right now. Ivy and Stone has donated this beautiful basket worth over $200. POLA is adding a POLA tshirt to go with it. All the details are in the pic below.

We really need your support right now. We have 8 dogs we are getting ready to take to vet for their rabies and one that has developed a growth and skin issues. This adds up so so quickly. I'll be updating all of our dogs that are available in the next week.
Feeding, vetting and just daily care of all the POLA dogs at our little shelter is so expensive. Once they are saved and we have tagged them, the hardest part is finding fosters and adopters. We have to take care of the dogs we have before bringing new dogs in. We still try to help as many as we can, however, right now, it's been extremely slow.

If you could please support these POLA babies and buy a chance or 2 on this beautiful gift basket and tshirt, it all adds up.
As always, I appreciate your support and for loving the POLA Babies. THANK YOU

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03/17/2025

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WE ARE EXTENDING THE DRAWING TO APRIL 14.

IT’S RAFFLE TIME. We are so excited that Ivy & Stone has donated this absolutely beautiful and amazing gift basket to POLA.
We will also include a POLA FOUNDATION DOG RESCUE Tshirt to the lucky winner.
This gift basket is valued at over $200. All donations will go directly to POLAs vet bills.
THANK YOU FOR SUPPORTING THE POLA BABIES

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03/14/2025

THANK YOU HUGE Bossier Federal Credit Union
We loved yall coming to love on our babies ❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️

03/13/2025

COVERED THANK YOU SHELIA AND NANCY

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HELP PLEASE
We have 2 dogs that need to be in Minden by 9am Friday and then we need someone that can pick them up by 5pm and bring back to WAGVILLE.
If Friday isn't doable, then Monday is an option.
BONNIE & CLYDE
They are both very very good riders.
PLEASE PM ME IF YOU CAN HELP

02/12/2025

WINNERS:
1ST QUARTER DANA SMYTH ❤️❤️donated back to POLA Thank you Dana
2ND QUARTER ALICE GREEN ❤️❤️donated back to POLA Thank you Aliice
3RD QUARTER CAROLYN SEIDEL
4TH QUARTER MARIAN EBARB

CONGRATS!!!! PLEASE PM US

UPDATE
ALL SQUARES SOLD THANK YOU ALL SO MUCH
GOOD LUCK

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So a bag of food is $60
6 people buy a spot pays for about a week of food for the POLA babies
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PLEASE HELP US FILL THIS POOL
AND KEEP OUR BABIES FED
Thank you

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02/09/2025

Earlier today Carla posted about King.
https://www.facebook.com/share/p/1BX5MhHGbG/

If you don't know the story of King, please read. Carla found him in 2018 and has literally nursed him back to health from day one. The many complications of him being diabetic have been a difficult road but Carla never gave up on him. He has had many many up and downs, very difficult to regulate, but Carla never gave up. It was thought at one point he had cancer, had surgery and healing from the surgery was very difficult and he wasn't healing properly because of the diabetes but Carla never gave up. Carla has fostered him since day one because adopters weren't lining up to adopt an older diabetic dog.
Normally if a dog throws up and has diarrhea, you know it's not an emergency. But when King got sick today, being diabetic, not eating, not being able to get his insulin, you know it's an emergency. And Carla knew. King has been at Valor all day today. Carla has been on the phone getting updates and earlier tonight went to visit. King's body was so tired, 12 yrs old, very rough start for the first 5 years of his life. 2018 was the beginning of life for King. He was on his own, starving, hw pos, full of hooks and everything else imaginable and diabetic. Carla has given King the very best life that boy could possibly have had. Carla never gave up.
Tonight she told King to be strong, rest easy and that she loved him. She told him to fight if he could. Sadly, King's body just couldn't fight anymore. Carla's King is now running free and eating anything he wants.
💔💔 WE LOVE YOU KING

If you would like to donate to King's bill today,
Call VALOR at 318-752-5590 or
paypal [email protected]
or the DONATE BUTTON.
Our Venmo received something last night and is locked. We don't know what is going on but, we are working on it.
Please keep Carla in your prayers. Thank you Carla for loving King.

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02/08/2025

🆘🙏🏻🙏🏻🙏🏻 PLEASE HELP OUR BOY, KING!!!🙏🏻🙏🏻🙏🏻🆘
Our long term hospice foster, King, is at Valor Emergency Clinic right now. He has been a diabetic since we found King in 2018. His diabetes has been hard to regulate over the years, but he has received excellent vet care to get him healthy. Overnight, he became very sick with vomiting and diarrhea. Refuses food and treats, which is so unlike him. He is very dehydrated and has continuous diarrhea. Possible diagnosis is major gastro issues OR diabetic ketoacidosis (this can be very dangerous). He has to stay for round the clock care for 48-72 hours. This is going to be very expensive and we can't afford this vet bill without your help. Quote is up to $3,000, which includes 24-7 care, fluids and meds, glucose tests, different blood tests and urinalysis, and possibly radiographs. If you can donate to help us with this vet bill, we would appreciate your support, big time!

💙You can call your donation to Valor Veterinary Emergency Hospital for King's care (POLA Foundation) at 318-725-5990
OR pay through PayPal at [email protected]

💙Backstory of King: Carla found him emaciated, weak, all alone in a field in the middle of the hot summer in 2018. She begged POLA to jump in and help him so we did. He was extremely malnourished to the point he looked like a bag of bones, plus he was heartworm positive, and full of hookworms. He was very sick and we spent a lot of time at the vet with him. He turned out to be diabetic. It took a lot of TLC to get him healthy. With King being so malnourished, getting his insulin balanced was very difficult. It took a while to put weight back on him because he had to be on prescription food. So he has had expensive special prescription food and insulin he needs twice a day. With the cost of his care being so high, no one ever adopted King. He has been in long term foster care with our Carla for a couple of years now where he has been living a happy life with excellent care.

02/06/2025

01/31/2025

CAN YOU SPARE A FEW HOURS A WEEK OR A MONTH?
Let me be real real for a few minutes. Rescue - it doesn't stop when we bring in a dog. That's just a very small part of it. We still have to pay vet bills, get the dog healthy, work with dogs who have behavior issues, socialize them, clean up after them, feed them, bath them and hope and pray someone can see the loving soul of the dog.
POLA does operate a small shelter at Wagville. Dana comes every weekend to help me. There are a few others that come when we get in a bind and I appreciate it so much. It cost at a minimum of $600 a month in food and basic vetting to keep these babies here. I have personally been funding their boarding, and I don't get it for free either.
I can not continue to do everything that needs to be done. I can not financially continue to pay for everything. I appreciate all of our supporters and donors so much.
So my point here is POLA needs a few volunteers who can come to the rescue on a weekly or monthly basis to help with the POLA babies and the property. We also need monthly donors if we are going to continue.
Here's an example, Prissy and Sabastian. Yes they ended up being friendly BUT they have some issues which makes them unadoptable at this point. I took them to be fixed Monday and literally Sabastian laid down in the middle of my 2nd row and absolutely would not come out. Prissy was so scared and was growling at everyone, so I brought them back to work with them and socialize them.
We have alot of property work we need help with and also help with the dogs. I can be there anytime. If you are interested, please let me know. You'll get to play with the dogs but we need help working outside on the property. We have holes where the dogs have dug in the yard and the rest of the dig defense put in.
IF YOU ARE AVAILABLE TO BE PART OF OUR TEAM AND SUPPORT THESE BABIES, PLEASE REACH OUT.
IF YOU CAN HELP US FINANCIALLY, PLEASE REACH OUT
I WOULD LOVE TO GET SOME OF THIS DONE THIS WEEKEND.
I appreciate you all so much THANK YOU
The address is 6897 Hwy 1 Shreveport 71107
VENMO
PAYPAL polafoundation@gmail
HOPE TO SEE YOU THIS WEEKEND

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01/24/2025

🔵🔵THE RESCUE STORY OF
PRISSY AND SEBASTIAN OUT OF CADDO🔵🔵

This may be a little long so please bear with me.
I had seen on fb about the dogs abandoned by the lady who got evicted. Melissa made a post about the 2 dogs that were brought to Caddo.

https://www.facebook.com/share/v/15dhTfco7d/?mibextid=wwXIfr

So Wednesday was eu day for them at 3pm. Something was telling me to go see them and possibly they were just fearful. So I call Dana and she gladly meets me up there. We were there about an hr and a half and while he was out of the kennel, he was not willing to walk out. We spoke to Travis and asked him to please give them a bit more time. We discussed sedating them to get them out. Now that was scary as heck to me, sedating 2 dogs that no one can get out. Well, we agreed to go back today.
I went to bed last night and woke up this morning questioning myself. What if they were just aggressive. What the heck was gonna happen.
Well, Both dogs were sedated and loaded into my SUV. Dana and I both headed back to unload these 2 dogs. I drove like a crazy person to get back because I didn't want either fully waking up.
Now the male, yellow dog never was completely out. He was out enough he could do anything but make some weird noises. Oh let me back up, the female, black dog, was loaded first. Then the male, yellow dog was loaded and when he was laid in the back, he literally somehow snuggled up to the female and started wagging his tail.
So Dana who is AMAZING picked each one up and put in a gazebo. We had arranged them so the doors were facing the back play yard. They were both woke up enough and when I tell you, both of their tales never stopped wagging they are still wagging.
Now he barks at everyone but he walks up and wags his tail. She is actually very submissive and the quiet one.
Now if you have seen the video in Melissa's post, you would think she would chew you up and spit you out.
We are committed to working with these 2 to get them ready for a real home. They are both a few days short of being 1 yr old. They both need to be fixed and fully vetted.
VIDEOS IN COMMENTS
They will not be ready in a day or a week. He's got some quirks but nothing horrible.
As I was watching them run and play this afternoon, I knew we had done the right thing and that had it not been for gut feelings and Melissa's post, both would have been eu yesterday.
WE NEED SOME HELP WITH THIS If you could help us please donate
VENMO
PAYPAL [email protected]
THANK YOU SO MUCH

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01/21/2025

UPDATED WHAT NUMBER DO YOU WANT?

LET'S GET THIS FILLED AND HELP SOME POLA BABIES

01/21/2025

YALL GET YOUR NUMBERS. WE ONLY HAVE A FEW SOLD. ILL BE POSTING UPDATE

LET'S GET THIS FILLED AND HELP SOME POLA BABIES