Click on the Pic	TINY TIM IN NEW JERSEY 19 DECEMBER 2009
On 3 December, Pat Dumas writes to the CRUSA Intakes List: Today, I visited the local Humane Society In Tinton Falls, New Jersey and I met a beautiful Cairn Terrier that had been rescued in Newark, NJ and looked like he had some scrapes & scratches on his belly from a close call with the road. The folks there told me he most likely would need surgery for luxating patellas. With all this, he was charming. Lovely manner - calm and not nippy. Even when I stroked his front and back legs from behind, he didn't react. He was great with the cats in the cat room, too. I post this because I feel your rescue organization might want to pull him and put him in a foster home. Even with his special needs, I feel you are dedicated to Cairns that much. If the foster network is interested in this guy, it would be great. I would even try to foster him for you as well. This young, wheaten-colored male (about three years old) was a rescue from Newark, NJ. He has scrapes on his belly that look like he took a skid on the road. I spent some time with him yesterday, and he is neutered, housebroken, and knows 'sit'. Looks like he had a nice home at one time. I took him out of his cage and he immediately did his business outside. He was appraised by the shelter's vet as needing possible surgery for luxating patellas in his two back legs. Although he has been said to have this problem, and he has a bit of a hard time getting up the stairs, he let me touch him all over with no growling or aggression. He was very good in the cat room - not interested in the "test" cat they brought out to inspect him. I would say (and I owned a Cairn for 12 years) that he was pretty mild-mannered for a Cairn, with no noticeable Cairn grumpiness.
		Please see if you can give him a chance. I would bring him to his foster home, or consider fostering him. He is a beautiful dog. Thank you.
On 8 December 2009, Kim Facciponti writes to the CRUSA Intakes List: Cairn Terrier in need of surgery at Monmouth County Shelter I have been looking to rescue a shelter dog and I came across this very sweet Cairn terrier (a benji dog) who is just shaking in pain from his knees being out of place. There are four grades of this. Grade 4 is the worst and most painful and this is his diagnosis. He can barely walk and he just shakes in pain constantly despite the pain meds administered to him twice a day. Further, these pain meds cannot be continued because it will kill his liver and the shelter cannot fund these meds forever. He is a very sweet five-year-old dog that was found near Newark somewhere. Every day I think about how stressed he must be just being in the small cage that the shelter can offer him plus all of the chaos that goes along with living in a shelter - the visitors, the barking dogs, not to mention his daily pain. It sickens me to the core that he must live in pain every day . . . please help this poor innocent, deserving animal. On 14 December, CRUSA President Violetta Argueta writes: I went to visit this dog yesterday, in the middle of the rain and fog. So much for the rain ending by noon! In any event, the dog is very sweet and does look in pain and in need of help, so I'm making arrangements with the shelter to take him into CRUSA. I talked to the Tinton Falls shelter manager yesterday. They have the dog on Rimadyl. We'll be calling him Tiny Tim. The dog has great potential; he is very sweet and licks your hand despite his pain. The vet that saw him thinks he has Luxating Patellas, grade 4 on both legs and some sort of hip issue. However she did not take xrays, so it could also be that he got hit by a car. In any event, he'll stay with me and I'll take him to my vet who is a great surgeon and does orthopedic surgeries all the time and that should keep the cost reasonable (by reasonable, I mean around $2500 to $3000 - I think he'll need more than one surgery just from watching him walk). I'll pick him up on Saturday. A SPECIAL THANK YOU TO PAT DUMAS & KIM FACCIPONTI FOR ALERTING CRUSA TO THIS BOY. A CRUSA SALUTE (WOOF!) TO YOU BOTH! Violetta brought Tiny Tim into CRUSA on Friday, 18 December. Here is a video of him trying to walk. TISSUE ALERT! If the embedded video doesn't work for you, go HERE PAT DUMAS: I'm so happy that Tiny Tim is in rescue! You all do a great job . . . . BOB ANDERSON: He's more touching than Dickens' Tiny Tim!

TINY TIM GOES TO THE VET HERE