June's Bark-It List

10/08/2024

Wow! Thank you so much everyone who has donated to The Bobo Fund in Bobo's memory. 🥰 We are already 70% of the way to our goal! This will help us start-up the organization and be able to help pet owners as soon as we receive our 501(c)(3)!

In case you missed it, I am in the process of starting a new nonprofit: The Bobo Fund will be committed to providing assistance to pet owners facing financial crises, ensuring that their beloved pets with chronic illnesses receive the essential medication they need.

If you would like to contribute to the fund to help pet owners in the near future, you can donate here: https://gofund.me/33e412dc

I will continue to keep you all updated, and share ways that you can help by getting the word out or even volunteering. So stay tuned. Thank you for your support as always. 🧡

This is when I took Bobo to get his picture with the Wienermobile earlier this year. 🌭

08/08/2024

Hi friends. I am excited to share a project with you all that I have been working on for the past few weeks.

I am in the process of starting a nonprofit called The Bobo Fund in Bobo's memory. As you may or may not know, Bobo had both Cushing's disease and hypothyroidism. In the last few months of his life, he also had chronic pancreatitis and had to eat prescription food. As you likely know, these things can be very costly, but are necessary for maintaining quality of life.

The Bobo Fund will be committed to providing assistance to pet owners facing financial crises, ensuring that their beloved pets with chronic illnesses receive the essential medication they need.

It will be our mission to make sure that when pet owners are faced with a financial crisis, that their pets with chronic illnesses do not go without their required medication. Many times, abruptly stopping these medications can be very harmful to a pet's health and cause even more problems. Additionally, pets may have an ongoing medical problem that is diagnosed as a chronic illness, and symptoms can be alleviated once treatment begins, but pet owners may not be in a financial place to afford the medication to see if it helps.

These are the types of situations that The Bobo Fund will assist with. We hope to be able to help alleviate the financial burden from pet owners in order to improve or maintain their pet's quality of life.

As of today, The Bobo Fund is a registered nonprofit with the Texas Secretary of State, a registered "business entity" with the IRS, and is applying for 501(c)(3) status with the IRS, but this can take several months to be approved.

This GoFundMe is to help jump start our fundraising efforts, which will mean that once we receive our 501(c)(3) status, we can help pet owners more quickly!

I will keep you all posted about the progress of the organization and look forward to sharing it with you all.

❤️ Sarah

Donate here ➡️ https://www.gofundme.com/f/help-launch-the-bobo-fund-for-pets-with-chronic-illnesses

And if can't donate, please share or like/comment/engage with this post so others will see it. Thank you all!

07/08/2024

Here's the official fundraiser link for Buster's dental and other medical care... Thank you to those who donated through Paypal or otherwise! 🤎

ICYMI: Buster is our friend who we drove to Round Rock, TX this weekend. His momma very unfortunately lost her job and car and a very kind rescue is taking care of 13 year old Buster while she gets back on her feet--he is her BEST friend, so this was a very difficult decision for her, but it is currently 104 degrees here and she could not take him into a shelter with her. He went to the vet first thing Monday morning and needs a VERY extensive quality of life dental. If you can donate even a few dollars, anything helps! Thank you!

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Help Buster, and show Cats and Dogs Forever Sanctuary that they are not alone in their quest to save animals. Cats and Dogs Forever Sanctuary is a rescue located in La Vernia, TX. They are a 501 (c)(3) non-profit, verified by CUDDLY. Buster did have someone who loved him dearly. His person did her b...

05/08/2024

Friends! We have a sweet senior who needs your help!

Meet Buster! 😍 Very long story short, Buster and his momma ended up in an unfortunate situation where they lost both their home and car and were out on the streets in North Texas where it's been over 100 degrees every day. Buster's momma could not even go in the local shelter because they do not allow pets. His mom found a VERY generous rescue/sanctuary near San Antonio (about 5 hours from us) who was willing to keep Buster temporarily and help with his medical care while mom got back on her feet. They even paid for them to stay together in a motel while they arranged transport. We met her Saturday morning and drove Buster just outside of Austin on Saturday morning and met a friend of the sanctuary who took him the rest of the way... He is the sweetest boy, and reports are that he is doing great! He went to the vet this morning, and in addition to an expensive initial visit, the rescue/sanctuary was quoted ~$900 for a very extensive and much needed dental. Poor Buster has some of the worst teeth I have ever smelled, so this is more than necessary.

Buster's momma LOVES this boy. She even has a tattoo of him on her chest. I can't imagine how hard this was for her to give him up, even temporarily, so let's try to help fix him up so he's good as new for when she sees him again. ❤

The rescue is Cats and Dogs Forever Sanctuary. You can donate to them directly through Paypal to: [email protected]

They do not have Venmo, so if you don't have Paypal, you can Venmo me and I will donate on your behalf (I'll message you the receipt). My Venmo is - If you would like to donate another way, let me know and I'll ask the rescue what is best.

Thank you friends!

27/06/2024

We had to say goodbye to Bobo very unexpectedly on Tuesday. I am beyond heartbroken. Thank you all for cheering him on and loving him with me over the past four years. He was the best little guy. 💔

01/06/2024

Wow! It’s crazy to think that June was born 27 years ago! Don’t forget to eat some cheese and french fries today in her honor! Love you forever Junie. 🫶🌈🧀

05/04/2024

Friends! Bobo needs your help again for a super easy favor! If you have an Instagram account, please vote for Bobo in the Raising Cane’s Bark Bracket in the stories here: https://www.instagram.com/raisingcane3!

He is one of only 16 dogs! Can you also share in your IG stories with your friends? Just save the screen cap and tag in your stories so people know where to go! Voting is only on Instagram. Thank you always! 🍗

31/03/2024

Happy Easter to all our friends 🐰🪻🫶

22/03/2024

Thank you so much everyone for voting for Bobo! He didn’t make it to the semi-finals, but he did raise a lot of money for PAWS - Progressive Animal Welfare Society because so many people know that he is the best! Today he has decided to have a pancreatitis flare-up, so if you could turn those voting vibes into get well soon vibes! Thanks again 🫶

21/03/2024

Friends! This is Bobo's final plea to vote for him! Voting ends tonight at 9 central. He dropped to 7th overnight, so I think it will be pretty hard to move back up at this point, but one last little push won't hurt. Thank you everyone who vote for him over the past few weeks! He's America's Favorite Wiener no matter what. 🫶

🗳️: https://americasfavpet.com/2024/bobo-b126

20/03/2024

Wednesday voting reminder! Voting ends tomorrow at 9pm central. Bobo dropped to 6th place overnight, but I'm not giving up! You can vote for free today and tomorrow! Thank you everyone who has voted. Come on Bobo!

🗳️: https://americasfavpet.com/2024/bobo-b126

19/03/2024

We had a little first day of spring puppy craft day! 🌼🎨🥜

Bobo doesn’t like peanut butter so he played with his you and walked on the bag instead. 🥰

⚠️ The paint is sealed inside the bag! They are licking peanut butter off the outside of the bag ⚠️

19/03/2024

Tuesday voting reminder from Bobo, Nimzy, and, look closely: June!

🗳️: https://americasfavpet.com/2024/bobo-b126

18/03/2024

Okay friends! We are getting down to the wire! Voting ends on Thursday at 9pm and Bobo must be in 1st place to move on to the semi-final round! If you haven't voted yet, it's free and literally takes all of 3 seconds. You can vote for free once every 24 hours until Thursday! Please just take a second to vote for Bobo. He's so good and deserves to be a wiener! 🥹

Thank you so much to everyone who has voted and gotten him this far!

🗳️: https://americasfavpet.com/2024/bobo-b126

15/03/2024

Daily vote for Bobo reminder and also a reminder of his epic weight loss transformation! 🤩 I’m determined to get him back to the top!

🗳️ http://americasfavpet.com/2024/bobo-b126

13/03/2024

Bobo was holding steady in FIRST PLACE since Monday, but this morning he dropped into 3rd. Please remember to vote everyday! This round is longer than the others and there are still 8 days left, so I'm not panicking yet! :)

🗳️: https://americasfavpet.com/2024/bobo-b126

11/03/2024

Okay friends! It's time to vote again! This time voting is for TEN DAYS. You can vote for FREE with your Facebook account every single day! This time Bobo has to be #1! Since you guys have been so good to us, we will provide some bonus doggie content in the mean time to thank you for your efforts. 🥰

https://americasfavpet.com/2024/bobo-b126

08/03/2024

Does this look like a quarterfinalist to you? Because it is! Voting starts again on Monday! Thank you everybody! 

07/03/2024

Last rally for Bobo y’all!

🗳️ https://americasfavpet.com/2024/bobo-b126

06/03/2024

Bobo is still in third and tomorrow is his last chance to move up just one spot and stay in the competition! Please vote today and tomorrow! Look how sweet he is. 🥹

Thanks y’all!

🗳️ https://americasfavpet.com/2024/bobo-b126

05/03/2024

Thank you so much everyone who voted for Bobo last week! This week he is in the group final! He is currently in 3rd place and has to be in first to move on to the quarterfinal or second to the move on the wild card round before Thursday night! Can you guys please vote? You can vote for free once a day and it takes literally 20 seconds. Thank you! Bonus pics for everyone to enjoy in the comments. :)

Bobo is a 14 year old dachshund who was rescued from a shelter at age 10 after his first owner passed away.

29/02/2024

ETA: Thank you everyone who has voted so far! He is currently in 4th!

Friends! You may have seen some requests to vote in the America's Favorite Pet competition come across your Facebook feed... I was trying to vote for someone else's dog at the very beginning and accidentally entered Bobo because I thought I was uploading a profile picture, haha! Well, today he is 5th place in his group and he can't fall to 6th or he will be eliminated! I know you guys can help me bump him up to secure his spot. It's free to vote with your Facebook account. Thank you so much!

Bobo is a 14 year old dachshund who was rescued from a shelter at age 10 after his first owner passed away.

01/12/2023

Wow! I didn’t know Snooty had already posted our wish lists until we started getting stuff in the mail today! Thank you Aaron and Jayme Q! I line every single one of Nimzy’s diapers with a poise pad and we go through 4-5 a day and Bobo takes four pills a day so these supplies are so helpful and we are always really grateful!

Here’s the link since some people have already asked 🥰: https://www.amazon.com/hz/wishlist/ls/3QZJ5T540SMKM?ref_=wl_share

Thank you!

29/11/2023

Hi friends! Some of you wanted to still keep up with Nimzy and I woke up this morning and was for some reason inspired to make her a TikTok, primarily for two reason: 1) I see a lot of dogs on TikTok in wheelchairs that people comment about how sad they look, and I wanted to share a happy wheelchair dog! and 2) I think the spirit of Nimzy is best portrayed in video, don't you? :)

So you if you'd like to follow her, you can do so here:

2 Followers, 0 Following, 18 Likes - Watch awesome short videos created by Nimzy

27/11/2023

Hi friends! Long time no see! I always think about you all this time of year. Thursday was 8 years since we said goodbye to Junie and some people even posted tributes to remember her which was super special to me that people still remember after all these years! ❤️

We moved to Texas almost 5 months ago! (Do we have anything North Texas friends?) And I was really surprised how well everyone did with the move since we had to drive almost 12 hours! It was really hot during the summer when we got here, but the weather is great now. We have a koi pond with three koi fish (Nimzy has dove into the pond once!!!) and a park two blocks away that we walk to almost everyday. The rabbits have their own shed and I can open the door and let them romp around the yard (before I had to carry them back and forth to the garage and it was a huge ordeal!). The weather here is a lot drier than in Tennessee and I think it has really helped with Nimzy's legs! I have hardly had to wrap them at all, and they've been unwrapped for months at a time, so that's a big deal! The reason they had to stay wrapped before was because even the tiniest scratch or scuff on her heels wanted to get infected, but now I only wrap one semi-occasionally. So that means we won't be doing Christmas bandages this year, unfortunately, but that's a good thing! I do still keep up with Bobo's Instagram, so you can follow him if you're on there:

Lastly, if you guys can send some of your magic to our Momma Kitty, who I know you all know, because she's been very sick the past few weeks. I don't know if it's something she is going to get better from, but just send some good vibes that she is able to stay as comfortable as possible.

Miss you all!
Sarah

15/06/2023

Hey everybody! Long time no see. Dash is rootin' and tootin' and here to let our friends know that we are packing up and moving to Texas! 🤠 Yep, the whole gang: dogs, cats, rabbits (who will have their own fancy rabbit house) and all! And our new house even comes with three koi fish (names TBD)! Do we have any friends in the DFW area? We will try not to go so long without posting again and keep you guys updated on the move. Wish us luck and see you soon!

20/02/2023

You were probably wondering why we hadn’t posted about Rooster in a while… That’s because he was finally adopted! 🥰 I will share more about his forever family tomorrow.

Happy life, Roosty! 🐓

14/02/2023

Guess who wished me a happy Valentine’s Day?! Knick-Knack! 😍 (now Crosby). KK was adopted at the end of 2018 which makes him 20 years old now! 😱😱😱 His mom says he is as sweet and perfect as ever and in great health! Happy Valentines KK! 💌

31/01/2023

Bobo is 13 today! 🥳🥰🎂

Help us celebrate Bobo's 13th birthday by dropping him an HBD note in the thread!! BoBo is a forever foster due to Cushings and he lives a fantastic life with his foster family! Thanks to everyone who supports us to make our medical forever foster program a possibility for dogs like BoBo so they can keep on celebrating!!

18/01/2023

Wow, I can't believe it has been five years since Nimzy was in surgery at UGA for almost eight hours, and she was only five months old. People ask all the time "what happened" to Nimzy, and the not-so reader's digest version is below. The neurologists were in actual shock when they heard she was still walking a year later, and she is still walking. She has run and even flown! It has been a very big journey of many ups and many downs, but she has been the most resilient and bravest girl. 🖤

Okay, final update on Nimzy. She had a very long afternoon of surgery and we have just gotten the phone call from UGA with her post op update. Right now, she's doing well in recovery. It will be a long time before we know if the surgery had an impact. The focus over the next week is keeping inflammation down as the surgical site heals.
I'll do my best to repeat what they found once they got in there. So....the "lesion" seen on her MRI was a long fibrous tissue that was wrapped around her spinal cord. They were able to very carefully p*el this away, they also drained the syrinx and were able to gather the fluid from the dermoid sinus (tract that was funneling fluid into the spinal joints).
The good news is that they were able to remove anything causing the cord to be compromised. So, this gives her the best chance possible. HOWEVER, there is a big chance that
permanent damage has been done to the derma of the cord that cannot regenerate itself. And we just won't know this for a long time. If you've ever know anyone with a spinal cord injury, then you know how long it takes to see progress and change if there is going to be any.
Obviously she is heavily sedated, but she does have reflex and tone and everyone is thrilled about that. What we hope for now is to get through the next week slow and steady. Our first big milestone is to see if she can urinate on her own, which could take a few days....but voluntary p*e is our goal!!!
I have been on pins and needles all day....for her foster mama it has been even worse. I'm not sure what her response was after I called and gave her the post op details, but as I sat down to write this....I found myself crying some interesting tears. Tears filled with every emotion. Mostly relief. But also, I think I cried a little bit because I am so proud that we could offer Nimzy this chance. I'm proud to have fosters that give these dogs a shot at life and love. I'm proud to have the best vets fighting here locally and across the state line. I'm proud that supporters trust us with their donations and understand our passion for these special cases. I am just so proud to be a Snooty right now. Thank you, for everything.