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View our collies currently needing homes here.

Click on the Animal Rescue Site logo above.

Click the purple "Click Here to Give - It's Free" button Take a moment to feel good about helping feed rescued animals. You can bypass this step, but don't!

In the next window, you'll see a little banner just below the tabs at the top of the page that reads "Help your favorite shelter win in our All-Star Challenge" and a small button that reads "Vote Today." Click on the button!

In the following window you'll find a purple box and the words "Search and Vote for a Shelter." Type in Southwest Collie Rescue Inc (be sure to include the "Inc") and NM for the state. Then click the "search button.

Another purple box will pop up with "one shelter found" and our name plus a "vote" button. Note that after you've voted for the first time, the Southwest Collie Rescue information will automatically appear at the bottom of the purple box. click the "vote" button.

Identify the animal that pops up in the next window. Note that the amphibian is always a frog, not a toad, and that what looks like a rat is actually a mouse. click the "confirm vote" button.

Pat yourself on the back! Repeat tomorrow! And the day after...and the day after that…every day until the contest ends on August 22nd!

Invite two other people with computers, family or friends, to add to our vote count daily. We have won this challenge before, and can do it again. VOTE DAILY, AND INVITE OTHERS YOU KNOW TO VOTE.

We rescue every purebred collie in our area needing help, no matter how old or how sick. All donations to Southwest Collie Rescue are tax-deductible under Sect. 501(c)3 of the Internal Revenue Code.

A COLLIE PUPPY, IN PAIN, NEEDS YOUR HELP!


Kit, a pup in January 2010, a carefree youngster.		Kit, a bit older but still very much a pup, in May 2010 after being hit by a vehicle.

Kit was a happy, curious 6-month-old puppy in Taos, NM when he slipped through a fence in late May and was hit by a truck. We rescued him a few days later, and since then his foster parents in Los Alamos have worked hard to follow the veterinary advice given to us: Keep this collie quiet and still, and wait for his injuries to heal on their own. Sure enough, Kit began to heal. Trouble was, as we recently learned, he wasn’t healing right. He should have had surgery immediately for his injuries, which were more serious than anyone had realized.

New X-rays show that Kit has multiple fractures of his pelvis. Worse yet, his pelvic bones have moved too close to each other and now threaten to compromise vital functions.

Kit needs immediate, costly orthopedic surgery.

We have a surgeon — Dr. Robert Gruda, in Santa Fe, who has worked miracles with many dogs whose bones have been smashed by cars and trucks. We also have an appointment for the morning of July 1.

Now we need to raise as much as $3,000 so that Kit has a chance to walk and run and live a normal life.

He is a sweet, sweet boy. He tries to stay still. He tries not to cry when his pain medications wear off. He wags his tail and gives kisses to the family he has come to love.

Please, if you can, help us restore Kit to health and become a happy collie again.

Kit Update as of July 7th!

Kit has been allowed to go home!

He's taking various meds, including antibiotics. And he needs physical therapy, since the muscles of his left leg have tightened since the accident. Kit's foster father, Marsh, will manually stretch the leg forward and backward several times a day. Kit will need to be kept in a cage or small X-pen for 6 to 8 weeks.

It won't be easy for him, but at least this time he's truly on the mend.

You can send donations earmarked for Kit to: Southwest Collie Rescue c/o Lee More, 52 Estrada Calabasa, Santa Fe, NM 87506

FOR MORE INFORMATION ABOUT SOUTHWEST COLLIE RESCUE, CONTACT leemore@mac.com