In This Issue: 9th Annual PuppyUp Calendar Contest Has Begun!; Promising Research; Upcoming Events in July; Shop Amazon Prime Day and Help Support the PuppyUp Foundation; Crystal Barnhart — Pup of the Month. To subscribe to our newsletter, please email Ginger at ginger@puppyup.org or Erich at erich@puppyup.org.
Our Annual PuppyUp Calendar Contest Has Begun!
It’s here! The annual “Cancer Can’t Keep a Good Dog Down” Calendar contest!
There’s nothing more fun than a room full of puppies. But, the next best thing just may be the Annual PuppyUp Foundation’s “Cancer Can’t Keep a Good Dog Down” Calendar contest.
This is the ninth year that the PuppyUp Foundation will produce our beautiful calendar, and we hope you’ll participate by entering the contest and honoring your canine cancer hero with his or her photo and story.
We know you’re eager to start, so enter here.
IMPORTANT DETAILS:
Who Can Enter? Anyone with a dog who currently has or has had cancer (living or passed) can enter, including dogs who have entered before.
How does it work? From June 28th to July 19th, register your dog as a participant in the contest. Then upload your best photo. Please submit a high resolution digital photo of the same image (minimum of 750kb, please) to Erich at erich@puppyup.org. 1MB resolution or greater is ideal for reproduction in the calendar.
Edit your home page by including your dog’s story and how they came to be touched by cancer.
When does voting begin? Voting begins as soon as you enter! Your $10 registration fee applies as 10 votes for your dog. (Votes are $1.00 each, with a minimum donation $5.) Share your page on your favorite social media sites, and encourage your family and friends to go to your page and vote for your dog.
If you want to enter more than 1 dog, there will be a separate registration fee for each, and each will have his or her own page.
When does voting end? Voting will end at midnight, EDT on August 11th.
What happens then? The 13 dogs with the highest number of votes win a prominent place in the calendar. Along with their photos, the 13 winners will also have their stories published in the calendar as well. Don’t forget to include your dog’s story on your page. This will help show their personality and increase votes for their photo!
Your dog’s photo and story will provide inspiration for an entire month in the PuppyUp Foundation’s 2017 Calendar.
ALL of the photo entries will be included in our 2017 Calendar. Every dog gets his or her photo published in the Gallery section of the calendar. No one is left behind.
We’re looking forward to all this year’s entries, and, through your participation, funding vital canine cancer research. But we can’t do it without your help. So, come join the fun, enter your dog, share their story, vote for your favorites, and help make a difference. Each vote supports critical canine cancer and comparative oncology research.
For questions about the contest or technical issues with your photographs and stories, please contact Erich Trapp at erich@puppyup.org.
If you need additional help getting started uploading you photo and story, check out the help page.
Promising Research – Rescue Dog Rosie Is First To Try Potential Cancer Cure
Rosie
Rescue dog is first to try potential cancer cure.
Rosie traveled from Louisiana to Washington for lymphoma treatment.
(By Jennifer Crockett) BELLINGHAM, Wa. —Rosie is a 2-year-old pit bull dog rescued from a shelter in Louisiana. She had been dropped off there by an owner who used her for breeding.
But before she could be adopted, her foster family in New Orleans noticed a strange lump on her stomach. The lump turned out to be lymphoma.
Rosie’s cancer went into remission following the standard chemotherapy treatment, but there was no cure. Her cancer was expected to return. And that’s where Save an Angel stepped in. Formed in New Orleans after the cancer treatment of the founder’s dog, Angel, the nonprofit helps afford life-saving treatments for dogs.
Save an Angel raised enough money this spring to get Rosie from the Gulf Coast to the U.S. – Canada border for a new treatment, a bone marrow transplant with targeted radiation, at the Bellingham Veterinarian Clinic in Washington state.
“It’s a way of minimizing the side effects of radiation but getting the same results as radiation for a bone marrow transplant,” Bellingham veterinarian Ed Sullivan explained.
But to get the new radiation, Rosie needed another hospital, one only open to people. Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center in Seattle agreed to administer the radiation, called astatine 211. Doctors there are also following Rosie’s results because canine lymphoma is almost identical to Non-Hodgkin’s lymphomas, which occur in humans.
“What we are hoping for is that she will be cured of her lymphoma by this procedure, and if she is, that will start to open the door for other dogs and for people to have the same treatment,” Sullivan said.
Rosie recovered from the treatment without complications, and her cancer is still in remission.
“With this exact treatment, this has never happened before. So Rosie is the first dog to have this kind of treatment and get to the step that she’s at right now,” Sullivan said.
Brittany Kemp is a vet tech at Bellingham and cared for Rosie during her treatment. Kemp’s dog, Max, died of lymphoma in December. She fell in love with Rosie the first time she met her and said the decision to adopt Rosie was easy.
“The fact that she’s in remission is just incredible. I feel very lucky to be able to adopt her and have her as one of our own,” Kemp said.
Following her treatment, Kemp brought Rosie home to her 10-acre farm in Washington.
Rosie’s health will continue to be monitored for any sign of the lymphoma returning.
The human side of Rosie’s story is still being studied, so her treatment is not available to people yet.
To see Rosie’s video, please follow this link.
Upcoming Events in July
July 11 Bark in the Park with the Lincoln Saltdogs (6:35 PM to 9:00 PM)
PuppyUp Omaha has teamed up with the Lincoln Saltdogs to hit cancer out of the park.
Bring your dog(s) or foster dog(s) to any of the three Bark in the Park games for only $10. Bark in the Park games are on June 6th, June 13th and July 11th. Tickets can also be used for berm seating at any of this year’s 50 home games.
For more information on this event, including how to get tickets, click here.
July 17 Paint Your Pet with PuppyUp (2:00 PM to 5:00 PM)
Village Canvas and Cabernet, 6457 Frances Street, Suite 180, Aksarben Village, Omaha, Nebraska 68137
Enjoy a fun afternoon painting your favorite pet, sipping wine and visiting with friends as you help support PuppyUp Omaha in our third year to raise money for comparative oncology with humans and canines. Register here.
July 30 PuppyUp Strike Out Cancer Bowl-A-Thon (1:00 PM to 3:00 PM)
Oak Hills Lanes, San Antonio, Texas 78229
The PuppyUp Bowl-A-Thon fundraiser, hosted by Toki Poki®, is celebrated in loving memory of Toki who passed away from her 10-year-long battle with canine cancer at the age of 15½ on July 30, 2015.
As you know, the PuppyUp Foundation holds fundraiser walks across the country every year in hopes of creating a world without cancer. Toki was honored to be the Canine Cancer Hero for the 2012 PuppyUp Walk in San Antonio, Texas.
For more information on the Bowl-A-Thon, please click this link.
Shop Amazon Prime and Help Support the PuppyUp Foundation
Amazon Prime Day — Please Help Support the PuppyUp Foundation
Most of us love to shop on Amazon. It’s convenient, fast, the selection is huge, and there’s always some new dog toy or goodie to add to the people order. So we hope you’ll be shopping Amazon on their second annual Prime Day, July 12. They’ll be featuring more than 100,000 deals exclusively for Prime members, making it one of the biggest shopping days of the year.
When you #StartWithaSmile on #PrimeDay, Amazon donates to the PuppyUp Foundation (2 Million Dogs 2 Miles). Shop for great deals here.
Crystal Barnhart
Crystal Barnhart — Pup Of The Month
(by Judy and Gary Barnhart) Crystal came into our lives as a result of a puppy mill raid. She was terrified, confused, abused, matted and hungry. With much time, love, patience and understanding, we developed a bond that was unsurpassable. She was very much our beloved companion. She was the definite alpha dog of our pack and ruled the household with an iron paw.When not performing her alpha duties, she was the sweetest, most lovable little girl we’d ever had.
Crystal was diagnosed with a high grade sarcoma in her spleen in 2007. After enduring many weeks of chemotherapy, shots and pills, our fur baby lost her battle. With much dignity she crossed the Rainbow Bridge where we are sure she once again is performing her alpha dog duties.
Our tears are tears of joy and sadness. Soon those tears turned from tears of sorrow to tears of remembrance. We smile each time we think of her special personality.
She had her way of “looking down” on the others in her little kingdom – never letting them forget who was in charge.
For the sake of others like Crystal, we need to take charge of this deadly disease and find a cure as soon as possible.
(Crystal was a contestant in our 2013 calendar contest.)
