Chase, doing what she loved most.

 Here is an article recently published on the Dog Mountain News site. Please see the link at the end of the article to check out or purchase  a beautiful print and support the "Chase Away Canine Cancer Campaign" of the ACVIM Foundation.

 Love Ya,
Cera

"Chase" was a black lab and a dock diving champion who passed away on June 28th, 2006 just shy of 7 years old, too soon for her time as many others.

Below is a short excerpt about Chase as told by her "Mom", Cera Reusser,

"I could tell you the longest story about the worst day of my life but that's not how Chase should be remembered.

She left us yesterday after I took her to Sauvie Island one last time for a swim off a dock she has played on for years. It was strange: I have never seen the water in the Willamette so clear that you could see her entire body and her legs swimming away. She had a happy smile on her face and her tail was up and she enjoyed play time at the river. The cancer was getting her quicker than anyone expected so it was time for us to say good bye. My vet did a wonderful job and I held her to the end. She will never ever be forgotten and will fill our hearts forever with so many great memories."

To learn more about Chase the "Dock Dog", the Campaign and other work by the ACVIM foundation, please click here.

Here's the new T-shirt, if purchased at events the donation of $22.00 will get you sporting one, if you need one shipped it will be $25.00 with 2XL and up a tad more.

Well the year is up and running and quite smoothly I might add with funds coming from many events from across the country and lots of great hard working volunteers and their dogs have been busy raising donations to "Chase Away K9 Cancer."

The new Tally as of Mid May is $124,000 :-) GREAT JOB EVERYONE AND KEEP UP ALL THE FUN WORK !!!

As most of you know the Stephen Huneck Gallery has donated artwork to the Chase campaign and the official Dock dogs / Chase away K9 cancer T-shirts have been made up along with patches to help raise donations and share everyones passion to help rid cancer from our dogs lives. They can now be purchased directly from www.chaseawayK9cancer.org or at events from volunteers, if you would like to be
one of those volunteers to take them to events and raise donations from them please contact me and we'll get them heading your way. Please email me at this email address.

Sarah Simone and Forrest Gumpy

When I lost Chase almost two years ago I never would have dreamed of what my future would hold and what a simple idea would have accomplished in such a short amount of time. There are so many folks are out there wanting to help "Chase Away K9 Cancer" and the following is a note that was posted on quite a few forums by a 13 year old girl who is jumping in to help "Chase Away K9 Cancer" she's not asking for much but if alot of folks respond it will all add up and quick. If you could take the time to send her a card with $1.00 and also maybe forward this email on to your friends together we will find better ways for our best friends to fight cancer and win. 100% of the proceeds go to the American College of Veterinary Internal Medicine Foundation to fund K9 Cancer studies.

www.chaseawayk9cancer.org

thank you for everything,

Cera Reusser

Hello Everyone,

My name is Sarah-Simone and I am a Young Handler with the Ontario Dock Dogs. This fall one of my best friends was struck with an illness that no kid wants to hear. Forrest Gumpy had stage 4 lymphoma/cancer. Gumpy is only 5 years old and is a rescue that has had nothing but a hard life for 4 years. Now he has to fight once again. Since Gumpy's diagnosis I have decided to do what I can to raise fund for the Chase Away K9 Cancer Fund so that no other kid has to face this battle with their best friend. My goal for this year is to raise $1000.00 by October 2008. This is the date of Gumpy's diagnosis.