​Fund raising for special friends ~ They saved our dogs lives ~ Please help them.

At the end of 2012, on our last day at the old broken-down house that had been our home for 30 years, we still had not found a new home for three of our four dogs or even for ourselves.  We had managed to find a home for our beautiful puppy, Chester Peanut, but Woody, Mr Dudley Peanut and Mrs Poppy Peanut had not found homes yet and we could not take them with us as we had not yet found a home in our new town.  

​We were beyond exhausted from worrying about our unknown future and from all the packing and throwing away, in order to take as little as possible with us while we stayed with family.  I was at my wits end, not knowing what to do about our beloved dogs.  We called various kennels, but being so close to Christmas, many were fully booked and the one we found that had space wanted to charge us an exorbitant amount a month for each dog.  We could not afford it at all. 
 
There was only one other option, and that was to have our dogs put down on that very day.  We cried and cried and it was a very traumatic day for my son and I.  I called my middle son in a fit of tears and told him that I could not see any other way to save our pets and he told me to hang on, he would try to make a plan.  Within a very short space of time, he called us to let us know that his friends, Deryn and Tracey had agreed to take our dogs for a month.  I could not believe it… there was hope at last.  Maybe in a month we would have found our new home for out dogs and ourselves.  Deryn and Tracey didn’t even know us and had a whole lot of dogs of their own, but out of the kindness of their beautiful hearts, they took ours in and ended up taking care of them for three months before we finally had a place of our own to call home and a place that allowed us to keep our dogs.  At last, we could go and fetch them and bring them home.
 
I remember when we arrived at the gates and I met Deryn and Tracey for the first time, my gratitude for what they had done for our dogs and us, was so overwhelming that I could not hold it all in… knowing also that I’d see my dogs again and that these people had saved their lives for us… Next thing, my blood pressure must have shot up so high that my nose started to bleed, and not just a little bleed, but it was pouring.  I don’t remember all the details, but someone brought a mountain of tissue to help me and my clothes were absolutely drenched in blood.
 
To this day, I love these two friends and their family so much for all they did for our dogs and us and it would please me greatly if I could in some way pay it forward for them. 
 
At this time, Deryn is desperately trying to raise money for a course he would like to study that would help him to find work so that he can support his family better.
 
Please may I ask my readers to forget my recent pleas for fundraising, for my own needs and to please consider helping these dear friends of ours to raise what is needed for Deryn’s studies.   I’d be so grateful for your assistance in this regard.
 
Please follow this link: http://fnd.us/01Pzoe?ref=sh_27eq5a
 
And here is the QR code also:

Thank you so much,
Panayiota.