Originally Posted by jodywilliams
(Post 2885236)
They sound wonderful. I am getting these dogs not for myself, but as part of a nonprofit I run that helps emotionally damaged and abused women for over 24 years now.
I have found the ones who stick out rehabilitation and treatment often have a loved pet. I know I once suffered so much trauma they said I would never get better - but I feel my trusted pet kept me going. Besides, many studies show pets help people heal faster, live longer, and it can even lower blood pressure (it does with me). Yorkies are also great to lift the depression.
When my grandmother was in hospice care, we took her yorkie, Elvis, to her beside. He was wonderful at helping her and the other patients as well. Yorkies were the perfect temperment for that kind of work and no one at the hospice objected because he was small, quiet and well behaved. I think when my mom brought him to stay with me when I was in ICU also helped my healing faster than doctors thought.
Many of the women I help have a hard time holding down a 9 to 5 job during early therapy and recovery. There was new legislation passed in June to put together a program for teens like this in Nevada and the people who wrote it say nothing now exists that works and they asked me to design something for them.
I have seen the power a pet can have. If the women became engaged with the dog, (which is easy to fall in love with these guys), they would stick in the program we are putting together in order to continue to see the dog they bonded with and are working with. I will be teaching them grooming, training, how to raise them, etc. I will also look into doing dog shows as further job training they would obtain plus it would get more exposure for this project, not to mention good PR for yorkies about how wonderful they are!
I have found a pet chain that will provide us with what we need as far as good and supplies, that sort of thing. A vet that will provide all the medical care.
Unlike most owners, I am home all day and this also is something I can do - and by doing this not come off like an authority figure to these girls. I don't want to put on a suit and call them into an office to talk to me. That will just shut them down. Things like suits and offices really scare these girls - but coming over daily to my house with these happy yorkies who will greet them with unconditional love and to have them help me walk and take care of the dogs and their littters will put them at ease and open them up to talk so I can help them better.
If tbey become suitable parents, we can find grants to pay for them so the girls can buy them once the women are recovered enough to handle the life long commitment (my mom's yorkie lived 16 years).
This would be a lot like the programs the inmates have training shelter dogs only I want them working with yorkies. It is hard to play like you are some "tough" person with a cute adorable yorkie on your arm!
Walking is the best exercise also for depression. I am going to have these girls come over to walk the dogs at least 30 minutes a day which is good for them and the dogs. I have found the girls won't exercise for any other reason - but they will walk my dog if I ask them to because they have so much fun doing it (I have a fixed pomeranian now).
Also once I have my first pair - then I know I can get grants and donations to fund this project with no problem. This is why I asked if something could be worked out for payments or even a receipt for a charitable donation to our nonprofit you can use to write off on your taxes just to get us started. Since I won't want to keep interbreeding - I will be in need of more adults to breed as time goes by and would agree to exclusively buy from the breeder who helps me get over that hardest first hump.
I will be setting up a site where I am going to make a documentary about this work and also post weekly videos about what is going on so people can also see how they are doing. If a breeder helps me get the first pair - I would add a banner for you as a sponsor of this project as publicity for you (if you wanted), along with the banner I will be placing for the pet store and vet that will be helping us.
I willl be granting interviews, on TV, radio, newspapers, magazines and speaking at groups about our project, progress, and the healing power of dogs - where I can also credit whoever gets us started to generate you some publicity also. Just as one example - many abused women do not know how to assert themselves as a "pack leader". By teaching them how to do this during the dog training - it will also help their confidence as well as reduce their likelihood of being abused again. Abusers look for fear and insecurity - but when a woman knows how to carry herself as a pack leader she isn't as likely to have that kind of man attracted to her as before.
I have raised dogs all my life and my grandmother even bred poodles - so I am very good with dogs. By having so many people around to play and take care of them, they will get a lot of love, the best care, and actually help a lot of people.
Once I get a study done (I have a PhD who agreed to observe the project and write about it), on our success I know we will have - there are branches we have in other states of our nonprofit (along with many others that help out abused women). I will then recommend and set up a model program for.
Whichever breeder helps us get started and becomes our sponsor - we could use you to get more puppies to supply these new projects for each city and state we set up in exclusively if you were to help me get that first step done. Yes I would write down all of this in writing.
I am trying to do it this way since I now live on SSI of $674 a month, (beforfe SSI I worked as a paralegal where I also helped abused women with legal matters when they could not afford an attorney to do things like get restraining orders and divorces and then also as a web/graphic designer and marketing as well as grant writer), so it is just impossible for me to come up with the cash to start on the first one. That is my huge hurdle I have to overcome and then everything else I can get done.
I can also offer some help with graphic design and internet marketing (I have done website design and internet marketing for over 20 years now before I became disabled.). But being disabled is a plus because it means I am home all day every day so they will never be alone. If I had a lot of money from working well then the dogs and their pups wouldn.t get the around the clock care I can offer them.
I am staying in Tonopah until January for my daughter to have surgery, (my house now though has a huge fenced yard), then I am moving to Reno into a house with a yard to get this project going so I will be close to the vet and the pet supply store that will be helping us.
I know that God will touch the right people to get us our seed dogs for this project if I just keep asking. I might even be able to help you sell a few of your other ones so you would consider working with me on the male and female as payment as I am very good with online marketing. If your dogs ever need any medical help - I am also great at grant writing. When my mom's yorkie got sick and required $4000 in surgery (for problems very common to yorkies), I was able to raise the money for him in a week by fund raising and writing grants. The vet said she had never seen anyone do something like raise that much money that fast. Elvis had his surgery and lived on another three years in my care until he died at 16 (which is old for yorkies).
If you can help me get my seed male and female to get started, please consider it and let me know. I can find a way to make it your while three times over or more than if you just sold them to a private family. Plus with them being part of this nonprofit, and me having a regular income and being home 24/7 you would never have to worry about me losing a job and having to give them up down the road, nor would you ever have to worry about me not being able to afford their medical care between our sponsoring vet and my ability to write grants for pet medical care.
Christmas is coming up and it's a time to think about doing something not only for the benefit of ourselves - but others. This is another reason why I am starting now on putting this together.
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