Handipets Needs a Little Help

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Hello Friends of Handipets

Most who frequent the Handipets sites know what we do.  We help people raise funds for medical care for this special needs pets or we help them find the special home that can give their pet the care that is needed.

Locally we were taking non-medical disabled pets.  Our kennel is full and we do not accept any new comers but we do need to take care of the ones we have promised.

Our acceptance is narrow, blind/deaf, limb disorders, balance/coordination disorders, food allergy and related issues, food aggression, hostile/fearful toward humans (feral/hard stray rehabs), toothless and just plain gross or ugly ones that families can’t seem to deal with.  We offer them an outdoor area (which most prefer) and we keep it all natural.  They also have access to a portable building which is my office and where I spend all of my days and they have access to my bedroom where of course I spend the rest of my time.  Only a fraction like to come inside though so we need as much outdoor space as we can confine with a full netted canopy.

The winter snow storms that blew in there on Feb 12 (highly unusual for South Carolina) not only caused my partner to go off the road and into a ditch…but the snow laid heavily upon the nylon netting that is the feline containment canopy that covers the entire kennel, it weighed it down so badly the netting dropped 6 feet and touched the ground!!!  It snowed through the night and the weight of the net pulling down damaged the timber side walls of the kennel pulling them inward and breaking several cross boards that hold the chicken wire netted walls as well as the nylon canopy netting.  The netting tore from the office building and mobile home.

Now we have a badly damaged kennel and this makes feline escapes an extremely high risk.  We have been needing to rebuild the kennel for quite some time now, I have have a chip in donation widget in the left column but now It’s URGENT.  Sidney was shot by a neighbor and it was after his shooting we worked hard to come up with funds to build a kennel and feline containment system.

We get some help from Dixie Thunder of Aiken County with annual benefit fund raiser events which help us keep up on the kennel and of course the other needs of the animals inside the kennel but now it’s in such rough shape we simply need to build a new one with all new lumber and order new canopy netting.

I will have labor help to build a new kennel but I must have lumber and supplies.

PLEASE promote this fund raiser as you do those who need medical help.  We will do what we can to patch the damage once all the snow melts but as anyone who must contain cats knows, you can’t make mistakes…they will find the weak points.

UPDATE! After being able to see the damage better today I realized we need to get something up there FAST.  To do fast we need to scale things down to a more reasonable amount.  So with measurements and another plan I have reduced the cost to between $1,000 and $1,500.  I will get photos of the damage tomorrow, it was too dark by the time I got home today.

The photo below is a layout of my property seen from Google Earth.  It’s clickable if you need to view it in a larger size.

Be revising the plan a little and doing a combo of stockade and wire mesh fencing, making it smaller…we brought the estimate down.  Here is a new estimate for just the panels which is what we need first and fastest.  We can recycle lumber as we tear out the damaged kennel.  We at least have to have all the supplies for one wall before we start since we will have to tear out the existing to re-use what we can on the new one so one must come down and one must go up all in one day.

The paypal email address is handipets@comcast.net  (this is also my contact email address)

Please give us a hand to keep our special critters safe and healthy

Kenneth, Holly, Kennie Marie and Nicholas Keenan.  All I know is the fire broke out Sunday night while Holly and Nicholas were in bed and Kenneth and their daughter Kennie Marie were watching TV.  He smelled smoke and went to investigate, by that time the fire was well on its way under the house and into the walls.

Dixie Thunder and Driven By The Spirit have collected food, toiletries, a microwave, blankets, towels and I have a list of household items already that people are willing to donate once they get a permanent place.

We have a guy standing by to help him move the old trailer off the lot once he is ready.  He has a track hoe and can get the trailer in dumpsters for Rooster at no charge.

Any financial help is needed and would be appreciated.  They will need to get a new place to live in as soon as they get the old place gone.

Paypal donations are being collected through My personal Paypal account (Becky Raymond) With permission from the director of Driven by the Spirit and the Chapter Coordinator of Dixie Thunder of Aiken County.  I am also running a public Facebook page for the Keenan Family here:  Keenan Family Fire Relief

Remember if you use paypal to log in and agree to cover the fees of the donation so that fees don’t get sucked out of it.  If you do not use paypal you can just use your credit/debit card but please be aware that the fees are deducted from each donation at the rate of 2.9% + $0.30 USD

If the widget below doesn’t work for you the paypal donation email for this fund raiser is paypal@dixiethunderaiken.com  If you have a website, blog or MySpace page please visit the chip in page and grab the widget to share on your site.

http://rayhawk.chipin.com/fire-victims

Mick has access to the list of contributers and I’m also supplying him with PDF records of all contributions to paypal@dixiethunderaiken.com.

This is a wish from TheFerstFamily

If you can help at all please visit this link

I WISH To Help Raise Money for Funeral Cost for 3 boys

On Sunday January 24th, we stood helplessly as 3 boys, ages 7, 8 and 10 were pulled from the Sandusky River at Fremont Ohio. As we all prayed, hoped and wished and with each minute passing by we soon learned there was no hope, all three of these precious angels had gone to heaven.

I can not express enough, the sorrow felt by everyone. Each fire fighter, Emt, First responder… Seeing the momma run to her babies, it’s just all so horrific. Each time a boy was found a fireman would remove his helmet and place it on his heart.

The mother of 2 of the boys was at work when this tragedy happen, imagine getting that call. Her boys were under the care of a relative. She worked 2 jobs to take care of her sons. The parents of all 3 children decided to have one funeral for all the boys.

They are struggling very hard with the costs of the funeral and burial. And I want to help them. I have $10.00 from the proceeds from a auction I had and would like to raise at least 100.00 to help in some way, and more if we can.

A fund has been set up at any Croghen Colonial bank in Fremont Ohio. I will post the links so that this tragedy can be verified by donors. It has also been picked up by the AP. I must warn you, to have a box of kleenex ready when you read. The funds will go to my pay pal and tomorrow I will take the first round of funds over. If you would rather not donate to my pay pal, I think you could call the bank.

Thank you for taking the time to read my wish for De’Ante, Jay’Den and Rafeal and there families. You can see that there are several videos about this at the links I posted. I wanted to use the boys photos but not sure of copy rights and all that, so I will leave it blank.

I am using my account to make the wish, that is why it says Tiffin Ohio. The families are from Fremont Ohio which is about 22 miles from me. My sister lives right at the water and we were visiting her at the time.

www.thenews-messenger.com/section/NEWS01
www.wtol.com/Global/story.asp?S=11872446
www.wtol.com/Global/story.asp?S=11875608

Amy and I took part in the Holiday Run for Helping hands.  She didn’t get the day off as we had hoped but the run was set to start at 1 PM and she didn’t need to be into work till 2 PM so we hoped we could do the run and get her back in time to go to work.  We have only missed one Helping Hands run and that was the year I didn’t have a wheelchair or a scooter and was seriously limited in mobility  I am able to get around now and we sure didn’t want to miss one that helps children who have been abused or neglected.

Here are a few pics from that run:

Here is the article from the local newspaper

Annual Toy Run at Helping Hands makes children’s Christmas brighter

As the bikes rode in and the children began to see the toys and teddy bears attached to the bikes, their eyes lit up with joy. The sight of hundreds of bikes, while overwhelming, brought such excitement.

As each biker parked their bike, they gathered their gifts and made a steady stream into Helping Hands, leaving their gifts on a table. Each wore a smile knowing they were making a child’s holiday a little brighter.

“It is really great to see so many people show up even when things are really hard,” said Director of Helping Hands Carmen Landy. “It is really awesome. We are blessed to see them over and over; they don’t stop coming no matter how tough things get with the economy. Today is a remarkable turnout, and everybody’s spirits are so high.”

Landy thanked everyone who has supported Helping Hands over the past year and invites anybody who is interested in adopting a child for Christmas to give her a call at 648-3456.

“We get new children all the way up until Christmas Day,” said Landy.

Helping Hands is a United Way agency that provides 24-hour residential care to child victims of abuse, abandonment or neglect. Residents’ ages range from birth to 21 years old.

For more information about Dixie Thunder of Aiken ABATE, visit www.dixiethunderaiken.com.

Contact Rachel Johnson at rjohnson@aikenstandard.com.

Original Article is here–>>http://www.aikenstandard.com/results/1206Toy