Proverbs 12:10 No-Kill Animal Rescue Needs Urgent Help

Got an email last night from Lavonne, at Proverbs 12:10 No-Kill Animal Rescue, in Nashville, begging for urgent help. This is the shelter that took in John’s sister’s 2 dogs, when she died. Lavonne’s email message:

Wed morning, one of Proverbs 12:10’s foster -mothers (Jill) was driving home on Highway 100 near Kroger in West Nashville, when she saw a boy on the side of the road. She stopped; the boy was with a severely injured, profusely bleeding Heeler mix whose faithful friend, a female Beagle was sitting by his side. The little girl dog was sitting with the injured dog and wouldn’t leave it. The boy told Jill that no one else would stop to help him. She scooped them up and took them to the nearest animal clinic, Bellevue Animal Clinic (615-646-4545); she was afraid he would bleed out.

X-rays and blood work were done to determine the extent of his injuries – a broken pelvis that should heal on its own, bruised liver and chest. His leg was shattered and while the vets performed surgery to attempt to place a plate and pins, it was too severely damaged to save. Bellevue Animal Hospital estimates cost of x-rays, bloodwork, surgery, plus all follow up care and rehab. will probably be about $2500.

                                                                  Meet Billy Joe (BJ)

                                                                                     the day after surgery
The little girl (Bobbie Sue) got her shots, checked for spay scar (it is there), and was heart worm tested. (Additional money) and is now in temporary foster care with Jill.

All of this comes on the heels of the two senior dogs

(Buster a Westie mix   and Teddy a Maltese)

whom we pulled from Murray County Animal Control, after their owner died and the family took them there. 🙁 No one else offered to save them.) They are in bad shape and the estimated cost of the necessary vet services is over 800.00.
  That is added to the tiny Pom, Goldie, found abandoned who required over 900.00 in vet care (she is now thriving and available for adoption)

             
javascript:viewFullsize('http://d1ihe8iurr5ss7.cloudfront.net/animals/fullsize/s2736a3634832m8896598.jpg', '520', '404');                                                                                                         Goldie Now (such the little Diva)

We also just had a litter of parvo pups who were treated and all but – sweet little Bryna survived.

                                                  

 Lastly, we have been contacted about a standard Poodle in a kill shelter who is near death from starvation and who needs extensive dental care. We simply cannot pull the poor thing if funds aren’t in place and God bless him, he deserves that chance.

                                             

These are just the large cases we have had in a few weeks. Add to that the normal expenses we incur,boarding, and I have to say, we need your help. Please forward this far and wide and help us “help the helpless” who are suffering. We always welcome payments made directly to the vets with specifics as to whose bill it is applied. You can also give via paypal on our website or mail to the address below. All donations are tax deductible and no amount is too small.
 Cornerstone Animal Hospital 615-446-9071
 Bellevue Animal Clinic           615-646-4545

Helping “His” Helpless,
Lavonne Redferrin – Director/Founder

P.O. Box 279

Burns, TN 37029
Proverbs 12:10 Animal Rescue
www.proverbs1210rescue.org

About John

About John John Bolinger was born and raised in Northwest Indiana, where he attended Ball State University and Purdue University, receiving his BS and MA from those schools. Then he taught English and French for thirty-five years at Morton High School in Hammond, Indiana before moving to Colorado, where he resided for ten years before moving to Florida. Besides COME SEPTEMBER, Journey of a High School Teacher, John's other books are ALL MY LAZY RIVERS, an Indiana Childhood, and COME ON, FLUFFY, THIS AIN'T NO BALLET, a Novel on Coming of Age, all available on Amazon.com as paperbacks and Kindle books. Alternately funny and touching, COME SEPTEMBER, conveys the story of every high school teacher’s struggle to enlighten both himself and his pupils, encountering along the way, battles with colleagues, administrators, and parents through a parade of characters that include a freshman boy for whom the faculty code name is “Spawn of Satan,” to a senior girl whose water breaks during a pop-quiz over THE LAST OF THE MOHICANS. Through social change and the relentless march of technology, the human element remains constant in the book’s personal, entertaining, and sympathetic portraits of faculty, students, parents, and others. The audience for this book will certainly include school teachers everywhere, teenagers, parents of teens, as well as anyone who appreciates that blend of humor and pathos with which the world of public education is drenched. The drive of the story is the narrator's struggle to become the best teacher he can be. The book is filled with advice for young teachers based upon experience of the writer, advice that will never be found in college methods classes. Another of John's recent books is Mum's the Word: Secrets of a Family. It is the story of his alcoholic father and the family's efforts to deal with or hide the fact. Though a serious treatment of the horrors of alcoholism, the book also entertains in its descriptions of the father during his best times and the humor of the family's attempts to create a façade for the outside world. All John's books are available as paperbacks and Kindle readers on Amazon, and also as paperbacks at Barnes & Noble. John's sixth book is, Growing Old in America: Notes from a Codger was released on June 15, 2014. John’s most recent book is a novel titled Resisting Gravity, A Ghost Story, published the summer of 2018 View all posts by John →
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