03/12/2025
Good morning friends! We raised over half of what we needed for our vet bill on Giving Tuesday… thank you!!! We raised $750!!! The great news is one of our friends and adopters, Jennifer Chance, has offered a FREE Virginia Real Estate Licensing Course for the first person who donates $200 or more! Wow!!! What an incredible gift! So, if you’d like this course, be the first to donate $200 toward our vet bill and comment below with “DONATION FOR THE WIN”!
Thank you all for getting us to our vet bill goal!
Hey Friends!
For , we are hopeful that some kind humans will pay down our vet bill. A few weeks ago Diamond was urinating buckets, but in all other ways was a happy and active dog. We assumed she was diabetic or something of the like and booked her into our vet. After some tests, Diamond’s urinalysis came back positive for Lepto. Diamond was healthy and active, so we had already Integrated her Into our play groups. She had ZERO symptoms besides urinating a lot of diluted urine. She was only 2 days away from getting her second booster shot. She had 2 families interested in adopting her. And then, BAM. Positive for Lepto. Diamond had to be on 2 weeks of Doxycycline, which was easily affordable, BUT because I had integrated her into our kennel, EVERY DOG in our kennel had to go on 2 weeks of Doxy PLUS get Lepto boosters. Fun times. We also pulled everything out of our kennel and spent 2 days pressure washing and sterilizing every piece of floor, kennel bar, water bucket, toy, food bowl, blanket… you get the point. Every. Single. Thing. And because we assume Diamond picked up the Lepto in our kennel play yard (we have possums and deer and mice, and those things get into puddles and mud), we had to cancel all incoming rescue boarders for 2 weeks as not to risk any more exposure, while we bleached possible risk areas. In all my years working in kennels, this was by far the most stressful thing I’ve ever been through. With that said, and because it’s thankful season, I am THANKFUL it was Lepto and not Distemper or something worse. And I am THANKFUL that everyone is ok, Diamond is doing well, and we made it through to the other side of this mess.
So, our currently vet bill is $1,300. To be honest we got off light. We have an amazing Veterinarian and Vet team that we work with. If anyone can help pay this down, I am putting the Vet Invoice photo in the comments. You can see I’ve underlined our Acct # and their phone number. You can just call over and make a payment on our account. Or if it’s easier for you, I will also put our PayPal and Venmo info in the comments.
PS - we are not a 501c3. We just do a ton of free and costly stuff for shelter and rescue dogs. The boarding fees that we charge for rescue boarding helps to cover the expenses of all the free work we do for overfull shelters, and long-term behavioral residents. Even still we are often short of funds when an emergency arises, and the monies and items you all send enable us to continue helping in all the ways we do. We are happy to be able to help an overfull rual rshelters when they ask, or give a dog with behavioral issues a safe place to decompress and live until their perfect adopter comes along. And we could NOT do those things without your help. So THANK YOU!
