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Trying Wall Street Journal for award ceremony report
The WSJ has been my favorite newspaper since high school and readers know they do human interest stories from time to time I have contacted them with the following:
In November a Newfoundland dog was lost in Western Kentucky. The loss was posted on Newf Net a world wide group of Newfoundland lovers. We became immersed in Chelsea’s story. After days of agonizing Chelsea was found. Here is the posting from Newf-Net about that.
Hello
Great News we found Chelsea. This morning around 11:00 two deer hunters found her in a cow pond that was drying up from the drought where she had become stuck in the that muddy slilt. It took those two kind men and a truck to get her out. They found me and I met them at the vet hospital. She was extremely dehydrated and fluids were started immediately. She had to be shaved to find that her whole body was covered in sores and had maggots all over her. She has holes on either side of her lips and is still at the vets tonight with fluids running. She cannot walk on her own but is trying. We have to hold her in a sling and she moves that way. The thing now is to make sure her kidneys are going to function. I will go back to vet in the morning and hopefully all will be well. She was drinking and eating a little when I left. When they pulled up to the vet I was waiting on her and when I opened the doore and called her name she started whinning. She has really been through a lot the past 6 days and I pray God continues to bless us with her full recovery. I cannot thank everyone enough for the outpouring of care and concern and the prayers. I walked our horse pasture last night crying and praying that God would bring her home. He did. She ended up being about a mile from us from the road and about 300 or more acres from us off the road. She had to have heard me yelling for her. I will forward pictures of her ordeal and let you now how things are going. Again thank you so much. Pennie
Unfortunately Chelsea was too injured to survive. Her death prompted the world-wide group of Newf-Netters to create an occasional humanitarian award for those who go to extreme measures as these hunters did to try and rescue an animal. The first Chelsea award is to be presented to the two hunters on Dec 14th by the Lieutenant Governor of Kentucky.
As a long time reader I know you sometimes publish human interest stories. Notice in the Wall Street Journal would make a wonderful contribution to the cause of those who love and work for animals. Frankly, I think it would make a wonderful front page story for you. The world-wide interest of a group of dog lovers, the willingness to make financial contributions to support this award in a time of economic downturn and most of all the kindness, care and hard work undertaken by HUNTERS to save an animal is more than worthy of front page consideration. Please consider having a reporter there to write this story for the world to see. It’s time we saw a little good news, and while this outcome was sad beyond belief for Chelsea, her family and those of us who came to feel we too knew her, the emotions within the story are wonderful news. Worldwide, people came to care about Chelsea, to try and help her and her family and most of all those hunters did what was right and kind and good. True heroes.
Emmie Lou Tucker
5852 Parsons Rd.
Milton, Fl. 32570
850-623-5999
Owner of 1 Newf, 3 Labs, 2 Rhodesian Ridgebacks, 2 Pit Bull mixes, 1 Keeshond and an assorted 4 others.
The WSJ has been my favorite newspaper since high school and readers know they do human interest stories from time to time I have contacted them with the following:
In November a Newfoundland dog was lost in Western Kentucky. The loss was posted on Newf Net a world wide group of Newfoundland lovers. We became immersed in Chelsea’s story. After days of agonizing Chelsea was found. Here is the posting from Newf-Net about that.
Hello
Great News we found Chelsea. This morning around 11:00 two deer hunters found her in a cow pond that was drying up from the drought where she had become stuck in the that muddy slilt. It took those two kind men and a truck to get her out. They found me and I met them at the vet hospital. She was extremely dehydrated and fluids were started immediately. She had to be shaved to find that her whole body was covered in sores and had maggots all over her. She has holes on either side of her lips and is still at the vets tonight with fluids running. She cannot walk on her own but is trying. We have to hold her in a sling and she moves that way. The thing now is to make sure her kidneys are going to function. I will go back to vet in the morning and hopefully all will be well. She was drinking and eating a little when I left. When they pulled up to the vet I was waiting on her and when I opened the doore and called her name she started whinning. She has really been through a lot the past 6 days and I pray God continues to bless us with her full recovery. I cannot thank everyone enough for the outpouring of care and concern and the prayers. I walked our horse pasture last night crying and praying that God would bring her home. He did. She ended up being about a mile from us from the road and about 300 or more acres from us off the road. She had to have heard me yelling for her. I will forward pictures of her ordeal and let you now how things are going. Again thank you so much. Pennie
Unfortunately Chelsea was too injured to survive. Her death prompted the world-wide group of Newf-Netters to create an occasional humanitarian award for those who go to extreme measures as these hunters did to try and rescue an animal. The first Chelsea award is to be presented to the two hunters on Dec 14th by the Lieutenant Governor of Kentucky.
As a long time reader I know you sometimes publish human interest stories. Notice in the Wall Street Journal would make a wonderful contribution to the cause of those who love and work for animals. Frankly, I think it would make a wonderful front page story for you. The world-wide interest of a group of dog lovers, the willingness to make financial contributions to support this award in a time of economic downturn and most of all the kindness, care and hard work undertaken by HUNTERS to save an animal is more than worthy of front page consideration. Please consider having a reporter there to write this story for the world to see. It’s time we saw a little good news, and while this outcome was sad beyond belief for Chelsea, her family and those of us who came to feel we too knew her, the emotions within the story are wonderful news. Worldwide, people came to care about Chelsea, to try and help her and her family and most of all those hunters did what was right and kind and good. True heroes.
Emmie Lou Tucker
5852 Parsons Rd.
Milton, Fl. 32570
850-623-5999
Owner of 1 Newf, 3 Labs, 2 Rhodesian Ridgebacks, 2 Pit Bull mixes, 1 Keeshond and an assorted 4 others.
