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Our 2026 BOB Calendar Drive is Underway!
Surprised By Joy Indeed!!! Our Hearts are All a Glow over
the Incredible Success of our 18th Annual BEAGLE BASH FOR CASH on Sunday! As of today, thanks in part to all who contributed to Giving Tuesday, we've now raised over $16K in support of our BEAGLE BASH and thoughtful
donations of the Season keep coming through!
THANK YOU!!! Let's keep that LOVE Flowing for our little Beagle Repair Shop!!
With Every Calendar Sold, More Deserving
Beagles can be Saved throughout the New Year! Now THAT's worth HOWLING about!!! Order your 2026 BOB
Calendar TODAY The BOB Calendar is a very special tradition for us…
The
rescue stories are always so inspirational and heartwarming. BIG thanks to Jennifer Ditta for coming back
this Year as our Graphic Designer! And special thanks, as always, to Deanna - our Calendar Girl - who takes all the
orders and prepares all the deliveries! On-Line Orders within
Canada - $30 (1 Calendar) (2 Calendars for $55!) On-Line Orders to the US - $35 (1 Calendar) (2 Calendars for $65!)
*Our Calendar Campaign is very popular so please send an email to this address to ensure Availability
before making payment! If you wish to order more than 2 calendars, require an International Order,
or have any special instructions, please email to this address as well to get an estimate
before making payment! *Please note
Calendar Orders are not tax deductible so payment can ONLY be made by e-transfer
to bigonbeagles@primus.ca (no password required) or via our Paypal Link below! *Of
course, you are most welcome to add a Howliday donation to our Beagles along with your payment for the Calendar(s)! We will
issue you a tax receipt for the donation portion! https://paypal.me/BOBRescue?locale.x=en_US&country.x=CA
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| BOB Beagle Auggie Wins 2nd Place in the BADDEST BEAGLE Contest at the BB4C! |
It’s easy to get bogged down with the serious
business of preparing for an event as big as the BEAGLE BASH FOR CASH every November.
But
when that day finally comes and our BOBATEERS join together and cheerfully begin to transform the Party Room at K9 Central
into all that we envisioned… and when our Wonderful Guests (familiar faces and new ones!),
having travelled near and far, begin to fill the room with their energy & enthusiasm, that’s when it happens!
That’s
when we are all…SURPRISED BY JOY.
All
the hard work is forgotten. All the driving through winter weather behind us. We are there.
Together. For the Love of Beagles. For a shared Cause, a shared Goal, and a
shared DREAM. A day like that can’t help but be filled with JOY. This
past Sunday, you helped us raise over $15K for
our Beagles! A Record Breaker!!! That’s a whole lot of repair work ahead - covered in full!
Thank You doesn’t even begin to describe what this means to us but, we think you know.
We
save lives thanks to you. But we do more than that. Just look at Auggie, despite being a bit
stunned by joy at that moment. His doting foster mom told us when he got home from the party,
the first thing he did was put his new stuffed bear in his favourite bed for safe keeping.
We
definitely do more than save beagles. We transform them so that they too know what it is to be Surprised
by Joy.
We’re gonna take a moment out here to thank
some very deserving folks… BIG THANKS to our Event Sponsor!
Paul
& Lisa - FLYNN CANADA BIG THANKS to a Matching Gift Donor who wishes to Remain Anonymous! BIG THANKS to ALL who couldn't attend but made donations
in support of our BASH and continue to do so TODAY on Giving Tuesday! To our BADDEST BEAGLE CONTEST Sponsor! Global Pet Foods - Bowmanville To our PRIZE Sponsors!
SMACK PET FOOD
KONG
EARTHRATED
To Susan at Tim's Party Centre for once again covering the Rental Fee for the Tables! To our Special Guest! Heidi's Tail-Painting Courtesy of Jacoby Pippin's Pop-Up Beauty Parlour To the Yummy Complimentary Cider courtesy of Geissberger
Farmhouse Cider! To the Equally Yummy Complimentary
Cupcakes courtesy of Tina! To our Gentle Nail Trimmer Extraordinaire! Lori! To the generous donors of our
Raffle, Auction & Marketplace! CHRONICLE BREWERY DEVIL'S GLEN FARMINA PET FOOD GEISSBERGER FARMHOUSE CIDER
SMACK Pet Food
YARD BIRD
Bob & Karen (Foster
Parents to Auggie) Our friend, Loretta Our friend, Diane (Blind Joey's Forever Mom) BOBATEER Malki BOBATEER Maggie (Ruby & Jakey's Mom) BOB Board Member Erica (Astrid's Mom)
BOB Board Member Mary
Tina our Cupcake Lady
To our SPOT PRIZE Winners! Styx!
(Best Howler) TJ! (Best Party Animal) Izzy! (Best
Beagle Wannabe)
To our BADDEST BEAGLE IN THE UNIVERSE Contestants! Earnest
Hemingway aka Quinn (3rd Place Winner) Auggie (2nd Place Winner) And…
Rio the Work Boot Thief! (Our Baddest Beagle in the Universe 2025!!!) To Our Bubbly BOBateers! My husband, Bill Erica & Rob Deanna & Andrew Aaron & Robin
Tanya & Greg
Tina & Dave
Anita
Amreen
Lori M.
Kathy P.
Kelly, Brandon, Kimberly
& Clara Mary C. Rocky Lorna Carol and last but not least, Maggie (Ruby Tuesday Dream Feather's Mom & Jake's Foster Mom!), for once again beagle-sitting
my brats while mommy hosted the Big Party! And of course to YOU for lighting up so much more than a Party Room! Wishing you all the Happiest of HOWLIDAYS!!!
OUR GIRLS ARE STILL MISSING...
Location: Brockville, ON Date of Disappearance:
Feb 14, 2024 Valentine's Day Contact if Seen or Found: 416-606-5718 We continue to
be blessed with a Search & Rescue Team, along with the Brockville community, still looking for our girls. And we are still
heartbroken. We continue to pray for sightings. Please DO NOT HESITATE to call if you have any information on our girls. We
are NOT giving up Hope. THANK YOU
Thank You for your
Support! It means the world to us and to our Homeless Howlers!
To Make a DONATION
to our Beagles, or to Set Up a MONTHLY GIFT via CANADA HELPS, please use our Canada Helps Donation Form below!
The Stories that Shape Us
We're BIG on beagles. No doubt about that. But we're also pretty darn BIG on people. The people who support us through
thick and thin --- our Friends & Donors, our Veterinarians, our Foster Families, and our Adopters.
As we all found ourselves navigating our way through the worldwide
crisis of a Pandemic none of us will ever forget, our incredible supporters somehow stuck with us. We will always be thankful
to you for that. And even now that the worst of it is behind us, we still get caught up in the rollercoaster that is life,
don't we? Let's slow the rollercoaster ride down for a moment and reflect on what really matters. LOVE. In good times and
bad, it sees us through. It shapes us.
It's
so important to us that we shine the light on folks that inspire us and remind us of just why we should keep doing what we
do. Here's just one story of LOVE that has helped shape this little Beagle Repair Shop.
We received this beautiful letter just before Christmas in that first mind-boggling
year of the Pandemic from a Family that embraced a few of our precious BOB beagles over the years. If only every broken beagle could
know a Family like this... Vincent and Teddy The Story of Vincent Priceless Vincent Priceless joined our family in the spring of 2008. We
know very little of Vincent’s earliest days, except that he was born in Ohio, somehow ended up at Toronto Animal Services,
adopted out, returned after one day (because he cried through the fence to meet the neighbouring dog), deemed as ‘unadoptable’
for this, all by the age of one. Luckily for him, Big On Beagles (BOB) came to his rescue. He was lovingly fostered
by BOB angels, Guy and Leanne, and their bevy of hounds. I remember
his first visit to our home. He was small and reserved, but curious. He had big brown eyes, a bushy fox tail and
fur as soft as angora. During a trial walk, he started braying at the ground. It was at that moment we knew he was the
soulmate to our basset-beagle boy Ted (another BOB beagle formerly named Vincent). A few weeks later, Vincent moved in (complete with almond treats supplied by foster dad, Guy). He
became the classic second half of ‘the heir and the spare’, often looking to his older beagle-basset brother to
be told what to do and how to do it. The two continued to track scents together while honking loudly, oblivious to the amusement
of passersby, earning the nicknames “donkey and chicken”. We waited patiently with hope to meet the ‘real’ Vincent. His pure ‘joie de vivre’ blossomed
one day; ears flapping wildly up and down as he ran full speed chasing my daughter and her friends during a game of ultimate
frisbee. There he was! Vincent thrived and bonded with us all, but mostly
with Ted. Over the decade they were together, it was not unusual to find the two crammed into one little dog bed. You
rarely ever found one without the other. In 2017, Vincent was diagnosed with
megaesophagus. This condition disabled his ability to keep food down and enabled the regurgitated food to travel into
his lungs, causing what is known as aspiration pneumonia. Left untreated, the pneumonia is fatal. With no known
cure, the prognosis with daily feeding intervention was about one year. We prepared ourselves and set out to make the
most of the next twelve months, fully aware that his next bout of pneumonia could very well be his last. Thank goodness
Vincent loved food enough to get him into his feeding box three times a day and tolerate sitting in an upright position for
gravity to help him out. During his mandatory 30 minutes, Vincent expected and demanded quality time with his humans.
No cellphone use permitted. Less than full engagement was met with protesting howls. All was forgiven if singing, meaningful
conversations and head rubs happened. Sadly, the box was no guarantee
of a pneumonia-free existence. There was no telling how long he would go between episodes. Each time the pneumonia flattened
him, and the first twenty-four hours were always a battle. To everyone’s amazement, he somehow managed to pull
through and thrive. After countless recoveries, we started calling him the “Comeback Kid”. He
even soldiered through a broken foot and the loss of his beloved Ted due to cancer in May 2018. In the end, it was kidney
failure at the age of 14 and a half, that would be his “Waterloo”. He quietly stopped eating and let us
know it was time for him to go on October 15, 2020. Vinnie Porkchop,
we promised you we would say goodbye on your terms and be with you until your last breath. We will always love you dearly.
Living years longer than your prognosis was truly a gift that we cherished every day. You were never a burden.
You were a blessing. We will miss you dearly; your silly bark, your ability to love, your beautiful face, your soft
ears. We hope you felt the love that your humans had for you. We pray that you are with Ted, ears flopping,
noses snorting, honking away eating whatever you want. Your empty feeding
box sits in the dining room, as we are not quite ready to let it go. It reminds us of your inspiring resilience, your
never-failing determination and your strength. Your name is from the Latin word vincere, meaning to conquer.
You were more than just ‘the spare’. You were the warrior, and despite your many battles, you conquered
it all, Vincent. Until we meet again. Much love, Your furever family And when all hope had gone away On that rainy, rainy day
We said goodbye; the hardest thing
to do.
But we could have told you, Vincent,
This world was always meant
For one as beautiful
as you.
A Continuing Salute to OUR Frontline Workers... We decided to continue to dedicate our Beagle of the
Month to the ones who make the happy new beginnings for our beagles possible. Especially during difficult times. Our veterinary
teams continue to provide the absolute best care for our beagles. Thank you, from the bottom of our beagle-loving hearts: - Beaches Animal Hospital
- Carter
Veterinary Hospital (Bowmanville)
- Dundas West Animal Hospital
- Allandale
Veterinary Hospital
- Northhumberland
Veterinary Clinic (Colborne)
- Toronto Veterinary Emergency Hospital - Scarborough
- Veterinary Emergency Clinic - Toronto
- West Brant Animal Hospital
- Blue
Cross Animal Hospital
- Gull River Veterinary Services
- Kingston Veterinary Clinic
- Nelson Animal Hospital
- Oxford
Animal Hospital
2020...it started out as the bright and hopeful beginning of a brand
new decade for this little beagle repair shop. Over 20 years rescuing beagles and we're still here. And even though 2020 took
a turn that nobody could have ever predicted, we are indeed still HERE. Because of YOU. Your continued faith and support in
our work makes it possible for us to keep saving the lives of beagles in greatest need. Senior beagles, those with serious
and chronic health issues, those in need of surgeries that are not within the budget of our animal shelters, and those suffering
from physical and emotional trauma. You make it possible. You bring the wag back to their tails. Please help us keep our doors
open as we set our sights on a future of endless possibilities! There are many options to your financial support for our beagles. You can make a gift to our beagles for
yourself or in honour of a loved one for a special occasion. We'll send them a card on your behalf so they know the
impact you've made in their name. You'll be making twice the difference for that special someone AND for a rescued beagle. Or, make a difference ALL year long. Join our family of Monthly BOBefactors
by setting up a Monthly Gift for our Homeless Howlers. Your monthly gift of $10 or more really can
make a difference for our beagles in need...one heartbeat at a time. But
even if all you can do right now is cheer us on, we'll take it. You lift our spirits with every single kind word. On
behalf of our beagle babies, THANK YOU. Wishing you good health and a positive spirit each and every day!
Raising the funds to support our important
work is crucial but without loving foster homes, our work would be impossible to perform. Please consider joining our
family TODAY! We need MORE FOSTER PARENTS!!! Don't wait another minute! Send us YOUR Foster Application TODAY!!!
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