Feline Fido Guest Post
The following is a guest post from Feline Fido, a fun site with great collars, leashes, and key fobs, that also is promoting awareness of great causes!
Aimee handed me this wonderful opportunity to tell you a little about my store, FelineFido.com. We offer many designer pet collars, for everyday wear, holidays and a collection of awareness pet collars, leashes and key fobs for the ‘fashionably aware pet’. We are most proud of the way we have managed to combine our love of pet fashions with a way to promote awareness for special causes such as breast cancer, spay & neuter and autism. For each of these causes we offer collars and leashes that send a message and we also donate 15% of the proceeds from the sale of these items to their respective causes.
For the last few months, we’ve been working hard to promote our autism awareness dog collars, leashes and key fobs. The incidence of autism affecting someone in any of lives is on the constant rise, with the number now averaging 1 out of every 150 children in the USA being diagnosed with a type of autism spectrum disorder. Because our items are unique and geared toward pets, it seemed suiting to find an organization to donate to that had similarities. That’s why it was so exciting to be able to contribute to a wonderful organization called 4 Paws for Abilty. 4 Paws raises and trains service dogs for children with autism. They are even trained to track their child, and will autistic children having a large tendancy to wander away - this is of utmost importance. In finding the 4 Paws organization we stumbled upon the website of a little boy named Trapper Leeth who had just been approved for his very own 4 Paws dog. Trapper’s story was very touching, he is a 3 year old boy living in a very remote area of Alaska, he was diagnosed with Autism at the age of 2 and the nearest services for him are nearly 8 hours away and can only be accessed via Ferry. Trapper has no words, he doesn’t even answer to his name, and what’s worse is he has a very bad tendancy to wonder off - living in a remote area of Alaska with water and wild animals close by, this poses a very serious hazard to Trapper. Back in October, just days after Trapper was approved for his service dog, his family was in a vehicle roll-over accident that landed his mother in the hospital for a few months. Today she is back home in braces and her doctor has recently reported that her back and neck fractures have not healed and she’ll likely need surgery. Trapper is required to meet a fundraising requirement of $13,000 that will cover the costs associated with caring for and training this very special dog. As you can imagine, this vehicle accident certainly put a damper on the family starting the fundraising needed to bring hom Trapper’s dog.
For this reason, Feline Fido donates 15% of the proceeds from any autism related item purchased from our store to 4 Paws for Ability in honor of Trapper Leeth. Once Trapper achieves his fund raising requirements, we’ll continue on to help another child bring home his very own miracle dog. I hope that more and more companies will join in to support other families in obtaining their autism service dogs, hopefully those with bigger resources than us. I can only imagine the overwhelming relief and excitement felt by these families when they find out, they raised the required funds!
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