Saving Moses

A weekend on the Internet probably isn't the best time to launch a fundraiser. Perhaps Willi and I will procrastinate long enough to push it till Monday -- although I have a feeling we'll get this puppy, no pun intended, up and running in no time.

Some of you may already be familiar with the story of Moses. If you haven't been keeping up, I'm not referring to parting Red Seas or saving the people. Moses is a little black terrier, estimated to be about 13 weeks young that my brother found clinging to a rock in Christmas River over a week ago. This little furball has found his way into our home despite having a fracture in his rear femur. Somebody had tried to dispose of this defenseless puppy - which deviates a little from the Biblical tale. Moses' mom was actually trying to SAVE him from the pharoah -- there was definitely an attempt at puppy murder here.

Anyhow -- as this page has become something of an obit column the past couple of days, I thought it might be good to let you chew on something of substance. Willi and I are working on building up a dropcash account to SAVE MOSES. Moms and Willi have already taken him to three different vets (well, a couple of vets, the humane society and the Michigan State University Veterinary School) and all of them put the figure for rebreaking the already healing leg and resetting it either close to or upwards of $2000. Amputation is a little less -- but still upwards of 1.5k. Of course -- going the other route is a drop in the bucket --- $100. But we don't much feel like killin this here dog.

Hopefully setting this thing up and getting a little free publicity via linkage and what not will add a little to the funding -- I mean - the candidates can't take your money any more -- so maybe you should think of throwing it towards this cause (I believe he's still an independent). I'm thinking we'll have everything going by tonight -- unless of course Willi has given up on the idea already and continues to sleep on the family room sofa because he is too scared to wake up and face down the waves of reality. (Reality is -- I'm not confident we'll see any change -- which - by the way -- donations of non-dollar amounts will be accepted) Again - sometime in the next 48 hours we/I plan to have something set up...

Until then -- get on with your lives. Feel secure in knowing that we're doing everything we can to keep Moses safe. He has a pillow he likes to sleep on. He only cries at night, as moms says -- for "only 45 minutes." He only hobbles when he moves (Actually, it's more like hopping). He loves dog food -- cause its not cat food. Keep Hope Alive! And Moses too! We'll be back later...