Tessa Update
Many of you will remember the heart-breaking story of Tessa, reported in the May 2010 Boxer Briefs. She was starving & weak, covered with infections & sores, and riddled with heartworms, tapeworms & ear mites when she first came to ABR. Her dedicated and loving foster mom Kamma patiently nursed her back to health. As the last step in getting Tessa adoption-ready, in May we made a plea for donations to enable us to pay for surgery to remove swollen and hardened tissue from her ears that was caused by the ear mites. Many thanks to our wonderful donors who came through for Tessa. She had her ear surgery early in June and is fully recovered now. We are very excited to report that Tessa will be comfortably settled into her new forever home, very appropriately, by Independence Day! ABR’s directors, fosters, and volunteers thank everyone for the support you give us that allows us to save great boxers like Tessa!
Foster Homes Needed
ABR is in dire need of new foster homes for our rescued boxers. Several of our regular foster parents are taking well-earned breaks from fostering during the summer, leaving ABR with not enough foster homes. If you have ever considered fostering as a possibility, please take the time and sign up now. Fostering is a great experience, giving our volunteers the opportunity to help save a needy boxer, and to help provide nice boxer pets for folks who love the breed. Our foster parents find it very satisfying and rewarding. While a few of our rescues have had health issues that required long-term foster care, most of our rescues are in foster care only three to six weeks before being placed into their forever homes.
You are invited to an Atlanta Boxer Rescue
“Night on the Town” Fundraiser!
Midtown Tavern, 554 Piedmont Avenue, Atlanta, GA 30307
Saturday, July 10, 6 p.m. – 10 p.m.
Join us at the Midtown Tavern for a fun evening of food & drink, pool & darts, television & talk, live music and dogs on the patio!
The Midtown Tavern offers an eclectic menu featuring selections you do not normally find in a typical drinking hole.
You can check out the menu at www.midtowntavern.net.
A percentage of all sales will be donated to benefit ABR.
We will also accept direct donations on-site.
Enjoy great times and support a good cause at the same time!
RSVP on our evite if you'd like to join in on the fun!
Heartworm Preventative
As summer time gets in full swing, we spend a lot of time outside with our pets. Spending time outdoors with our boxers is wonderful, but we need to make sure that precautions are being taken to make sure our dogs stay healthy! Two things that should be focused on are heartworm prevention and flea and tick prevention.
Heartworms live in the pulmonary arteries of infected dogs, and are transmitted by mosquitoes. The Southeast has some of the highest numbers of dogs with heartworms. If left untreated, it can live for up to 5 to 7 years inside the heart of your pet, but the damage has been done. Different heart problems come from this vicious disease and can have lasting, even deadly effects. Your dog can go up to two years without showing signs of the disease. The American Heartworm Society (AHS) estimates that only 55% of dogs in the U.S. are currently on a heartworm preventive, leaving 27 million dogs at risk of acquiring heartworm disease. If your dog goes untreated and acquires the disease, treatment is expensive, tedious, and in some cases, ineffective. Injections and crate rest are the two key components to the treatment, and success is not always guaranteed. Heartworm prevention is much easier and much more cost effective. One tablet a month, and you have helped prevent your pet from acquiring the dangerous disease.
Flea and tick prevention is also something that is easy and cost effective. You can time your flea and tick medicine to your heartworm prevention and get them done at the same time every month.
Boxerstock 2010 Date Set for October 24
Mark your calendars and spread the word! The 3rd-annual Boxerstock music festival will be held on Sunday, October 24 at Jim R. Miller Park in Marietta from 12-7 pm. With the great covered arena at Miller Park as our stage, Boxerstock will be held rain or shine. This year's event promises to be bigger and better than ever with a larger venue and a full day of music, food, vendors and family entertainment! We are currently lining up musical acts for the show and already, one of last year's featured performers, Thomas Tillman, has enthusiastically signed up to play again. New performers will be announced as we get closer.
As always, thanks for your interest in Atlanta Boxer Rescue.
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