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Look at all the cute pooches who are in the Top 12 of the Fur Kids Foundation Photo Contest! These pets are all hoping to make it to the cover of the 2020 Pet Calendar! But, wait ... where are the kitties? Or horses. Chickens? Bunnies? While we love to see all these adorable pups, and really appreciate all the money you are donating to get them in the Top 12, we also want to see other pets represented! Enter your pet today >>> Or, vote on the ones who have already entered >>> We have 94 pets who are hoping to be featured in the pet calendar! Pet's aren't just featured in our calendar for months, and on other sheets in the calendar, they also get some free HURTTA swag and can win a 2020 Pet Calendar for their owners! The contest will close on July 31, 2019. Spread the word! Below are some quick rules/details:
Learn more >>> Remember: proceeds from this photo contest help Fur Kids Foundation provide funds to cover the costs of unexpected emergency veterinary care for families with pets in Campbell County, Wyoming.
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 This best friend is Buddy, he’s a 3-year-old toy Australian Shepherd.
This is what Buddy’s mom has to say about him: “Buddy is no less than a best friend. I have two other dogs, and though they love me it is somehow apparent that Buddy loves me the most. To him I think home is not a place, but it is me, and it is much likewise for me and all my dogs.” Buddy was looking forward to a playdate. His mom was having some friends over and they were bringing their dogs to play with Buddy and his fur siblings. None of the furry friends had ever been aggressive before, but at this playdate one of the visiting dogs snapped at Buddy and broke his leg. To properly diagnose a broken bone in a dog, it’s very important that you take them to the vet, and get proper treatment. Without it, your dog may develop other health issues related to the break. Once a vet has diagnosed the issue, it’s important that you help your dog care for their broken leg. Check out these great tips by Hills®:
Buddy’s mom had just started a new job and was taking care of her disabled step-dad. His mom knew that she wasn’t going to be able to afford the care Buddy needed to repair his leg, so she applied to Fur Kids Foundation for help with the emergency veterinary care. On the plus side: His mom’s friend felt terrible about the accident, and wanted to help pay for Buddy’s surgery, so she set up a fundraiser. Thankfully between the fundraiser, Buddy’s mom, and Fur Kids Foundation, Buddy was able to get the surgery he needed and is making a full recovery! Fur Kids Foundation is 100% ran by dedicated volunteers who give their time to help the Foundation raise money, take applications, and spread the word about the good work the Foundation does in Campbell County, Wyoming. If you would like to help Fur Kids Foundation continue to help local families with animals afford emergency veterinary care, please consider making a tax-deductible donation via PayPal or signing up to become a volunteer. You can see a list of those who support us on our Supporters page. Check out more Success Stories.  This handsome sweetheart is Hercules, a friendly pit bull. Hercules has had a rough go of it lately. In March, this poor pooch was hit by a car. His parents rushed him to the vet and were told Hercules had two options, amputation or wait to see how his let healed. With money being tight and recovery uncertain, Hercules’ family chose to wait and see how his leg fared. In June, just three months later, Hercules started to go lame in his healing leg. He was also licking his paw raw. Not only had Hercules seen some hard days, his parents also ran into bad luck as they had been incarcerated. Knowing Hercules needed help, a friend of his parents gave Fur Kids Foundation a call. He wanted to make sure Hercules was going to be OK, and completed an application for assistance to get Hercules evaluated by a vet. Hercules had found a friend when he needed it most! At the vet, Hercules was given some pain medication and his new-found friend was given book suggestions that would help provide additional education about Hercules’ injury and recovery. Hercules is in good hands until his parents get home. His new friend will keep Hercules happy and pain free until the family is reunited. It’s a heartbreaking thought, and we hope you never need these tips by the Canine Journal, but here’s what to do if your dog is hit by a car:
Fur Kids Foundation is 100% ran by dedicated volunteers who give their time to help the Foundation raise money, take applications, and spread the word about the good work the Foundation does in Campbell County, Wyoming. If you would like to help Fur Kids Foundation continue to help local families with animals afford emergency veterinary care, please consider making a tax-deductible donation via PayPal or signing up to become a volunteer. You can see a list of those who support us on our Supporters page. Check out more Success Stories.  This just in: “Amazon Prime Day” is two days this year! Yippppppeeeeeeeee!
This year, Amazon will be offering a slew of special offers for Prime users on July 15 and 16 (we sure hope you’re excited). If you’re going to participate, make sure you do some good while you’re getting the goods! Fur Kids Foundation is an official AmazonSmile charity. What does that mean? Well, when you shop at Smile.Amazon.com, you can help FKF receive a charitable donation. That’s right, and yes, it's that simple. For every eligible purchase you make at regular price, Amazon will donate 0.5% of the purchase price to Fur Kids Foundation—this happens on Amazon Prime Day and every day, in case you didn’t know! Please follow these steps to select Fur Kids Foundation, and be sure to navigate to Smile.Amazon.com to support FKF with all of your Amazon purchases.
 Meet sweet Ava, a 2-year-old pit bull. Ava has been adjusting to some changes in her life. Her parents recently divorced, and Ava was living with mom. Ava suddenly started vomiting, refused to eat, and was losing weight rapidly. Ava’s mom wasn’t sure if Ava was current on her vaccines and was worried she might have parvo.
After a quick trip to the vet, Ava’s mom was relieved to learn it wasn’t parvo but a bacterial infection that could be easily treated with medication. What is parvo? According to an article on Purina, parvo is short for parvovirus. The virus first appeared in the 1970s and is spread from dog to dog through feces and vomit. Puppies are most at risk for getting parvo and the risk decreases as the dog gets older. Parvo is preventable with an inexpensive vaccine! Shots for parvo are given every two to three weeks from the time a puppy is 6-8 weeks old until they are 4-6 months old. If your puppy hasn’t been vaccinated, don’t wait! Contact your vet today! Ava’s mom made sure to bring Ava up to date on her vaccines, so she’d never have to fear parvo again. If you have a young dog or puppy in your life, check out the AKC's puppy shot schedule online. It's important to note that the parvo vaccination is a yearly vaccination that Fur Kids Foundation encourages families to get for their dogs. The cost of the parvo vaccination runs between $15-25, while an average cost for parvo treatment can run from $500-$2,000! FKF helped Ava's mom with the unplanned visit to her vet for the bacterial infection, not for Ava's vaccinations. Fur Kids Foundation is 100% ran by dedicated volunteers who give their time to help the Foundation raise money, take applications, and spread the word about the good work the Foundation does in Campbell County, Wyoming. If you would like to help Fur Kids Foundation continue to help local families with animals afford emergency veterinary care, please consider making a tax-deductible donation via PayPal or signing up to become a volunteer. You can see a list of those who support us on our Supporters page. Check out more Success Stories.  Meet Oreo, a 7 year old mini Aussie. Oreo has lots of energy and loves to play. She also has an older sister, Hope, who is like most older ladies, and gets a little crabby when it comes to young whipper snappers. Anxious to play, Oreo tried to get her older sister to join in on the fun, but Hope had other plans: she bit Oreo on the nose because she wasn’t ready to play.
Oreo’s mom cleaned the wound and kept an eye out for infections, thinking Oreo was in the clear. Then Oreo started to have seizures. Oreo was in pain and just wasn’t herself, which meant her mom brought her to the vet right away. At the vet, blood tests were run trying to find the cause of the seizures. The blood tests kept coming back with perfect results. A bit confused, an x-ray was done of Oreo’s nose. Oreo’s nose had been fractured during the bite and was likely causing the seizures as a response to the pain. Oreo stayed a few nights at the clinic, was given antibiotics and pain medication and is expected to make a full recovery. Did you know the average bite strength across three large-dog breeds is 269 pounds of pressure? According to PetMD, here's what you should know if your dog is bitten by another dog.
If you know that your pet has been bitten by another animal, it's important that you take them to the vet for an examination. Fur Kids Foundation is 100% ran by dedicated volunteers who give their time to help the Foundation raise money, take applications, and spread the word about the good work the Foundation does in Campbell County, Wyoming. If you would like to help Fur Kids Foundation continue to help local families with animals afford emergency veterinary care, please consider making a tax-deductible donation via PayPal or signing up to become a volunteer. You can see a list of those who support us on our Supporters page. Check out more Success Stories.  Do you know that one of the most common reasons a dog is taking to the veterinarian is due to a bite wound from another family dog or a fight with an unfamiliar animal? And, for some reason, Fur Kids Foundation has seen a rash of those lately.
Unfortunately for Kallie, a 6 year-old pit bull, that was her story, too. Kallie was bitten by her housemate, and the puncture wound left really made her parents concerned for her health. According to VCA Pet Hospitals, dog bites can cause significant injury to the skin—their teeth and jaws can crush or tear muscles and skin, collapse lungs or cause other serious injury to organs. The other thing to consider is that a dog’s mouth is full of bacteria, so any bite that punctures the skin will introduce bacteria below the skin surface, where it can grow and spread. This means that ALL bite wounds can become infected, which can cause abscesses (tissue infections) that can spread to other areas. Obviously, if your pup is bleeding and you can’t get it stopped, is having a hard time breathing, weak, crying or whining, limping, or has pale or blue gums, they need to be taken to the vet immediately. However, please keep in mind that sometimes bite wounds can be so small that they can be easily missed; therefore, it’s important that you take your dog to your vet if you know that they have been in a fight with another animal. Kallie’s family recently changed jobs and were in a tight financial spot and knew that they couldn't afford an emergency vet visit. So, when they took her to the vet, they applied to Fur Kids Foundation for help. Luckily, all Kallie needed was the laceration (aka deep cut) to be cleaned up, and to take some medication afterward to make sure she didn’t have an infection. Fur Kids Foundation is 100% ran by dedicated volunteers who give their time to help the Foundation raise money, take applications, and spread the word about the good work the Foundation does in Campbell County, Wyoming. If you would like to help Fur Kids Foundation continue to help local families with animals afford emergency veterinary care, please consider making a tax-deductible donation via PayPal or signing up to become a volunteer. You can see a list of those who support us on our Supporters page. Check out more Success Stories.  This is Ashley, a 1 year-old Siamese. Her dad says she's his, "companion and best buddy!" So, it’s completely understandable that he was upset when Ashley started throwing up, not wanting to eat, and acting sluggish. He decided it was best to take his sweet kitty to the vet.
After an examination, the vet suspected poor Ashley was suffering from Inflammatory Bowel Disease (IBD). If you don’t know, IBD is a syndrome (rather than a disease) that is caused by a specific reaction to irritation of the stomach or intestines. Inflammation is the body's natural response to an injury or foreign substance. With IBD, this inflammation invades the wall of the stomach and/or intestines, causing them to thicken, which then makes it harder for your cat to get all the nutrients they need and makes it harder for foot to move along the gastrointestinal tract (or GI). According to VCA Hospitals, possible causes of IBD include:
Signs your cat may have an issue with IBD include:
VCA also pointed out that: “Vomiting hairballs more than once a month or so is not normal. Vomited hairballs represent the inability of your cat to pass the hair through their GI tract. If this is happening on a regular basis, your cat may have inflammatory bowel disease.” Ashley’s pops is on a fixed income of disability and knew he couldn't afford the care needed, so he applied to Fur Kids Foundation for assistance. After a few days on some medication, and changing Ashley's food, we’re happy to report that she's already beginning to feel a lot better! Fur Kids Foundation is 100% ran by dedicated volunteers who give their time to help the Foundation raise money, take applications, and spread the word about the good work the Foundation does in Campbell County, Wyoming. If you would like to help Fur Kids Foundation continue to help local families with animals afford emergency veterinary care, please consider making a tax-deductible donation via PayPal or signing up to become a volunteer. You can see a list of those who support us on our Supporters page. Check out more Success Stories.  Thank you to everyone who attended the Pup Crawl on June 15. You helped us raise nearly $3,500 to help Campbell County, Wyoming families with pets afford emergency veterinary care! Thank you to Big Lost Meadery and Brewery, Atlas Therapy and Pizza Carrello for their support of the Pup Crawl event. And thank you to Red Hills Veterinary Hospital, 2019 Premier Sponsor; and Animal Medical Center Of Wyoming, 2019 Platinum Sponsor. We couldn't have done this without you! And, a huge paw five to our amazing volunteers! We are so blessed to have such wonderful people who support our mission: Alena Gronewold; Marci Zimmerman Kelhi; Steph Hyne; Fawna Sylvester Bartow; Brandi Brockmoller; Stef Crawford; Ashley Collins; and Crystal Ninas. If you didn't make it, the Crawl included Pawject Runway, a Cornhole Tournament, a paw-some silent auction, wonderful vendors (Animal Medical Center Of Wyoming; Annabelle’s Gourmet Dog Treats; Atlas Therapy; Big Lost Meadery and Brewery; Brooke Byelich Pet Photography; Pizza Carrello; Red Hills Veterinary Hospital; The Rusty Bucket; Simply Grooming; and Wyoming Basset Hound Rescue Foundation) delicious beer and adorable pups. You seriously missed out! Pictures are posted from the event in the Pup Crawl Album on Facebook. Feel free to share and tag any pictures of yourself and your pups. We hope you're able to join us for our Watermelon Eating Contest and Pooch Plunge, both coming up in August! And, don't forget to enter your pup in the Pet Photo Contest, going on right now.   Remember Fur Kids Foundation's Round up for Pets fundraiser with the Gillette Dairy Queen in April 2019? Guess what: Our pawsome supporters, wonderful DQ patrons, and lovers of ice cream helped us raise more than $3,750 to help families with emergency veterinary care in Campbell County, Wyoming! Way to go. This fundraiser was organized by our wonderful volunteer, Jill. Fur Kids Foundation wouldn't be where it is without our volunteers, and we are lucky to have Jill as one. We also need to say thanks to Chris and Barb, who manage the Dairy Queen in Gillette, Wyoming, as well as all of their staff who asked nearly every customer who ordered if they’d like to donate $1 to the local Fur Kids Foundation. Their hard work made this fundraiser a HUGE success. We look forward to doing this fundraiser with them again next year! We hope you stay tuned for more information about our upcoming fundraisers this summer, including the Watermelon Eating Contest at the Campbell County Fair on August 3, and the ever pupular Pooch Plunge on Saturday, August 17! We love it when people or businesses hold fundraisers on our behalf. If you are interested in helping plan or implement fundraisers with the Fur Kids Foundation, give us a shout. We would love to support you in your efforts.  |
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