Cafeoutdoors.com: RAFFLE FOR A GOOD CAUSE-- PLEASE READ

I know you guys are well aware of Heart Worm in your part of the country---Out here where I live in Southern CA there have only been 5 documented cases since 2016---could be old #'s though, but that is the # I found on a Search. I have heard of it, but never knew of a dog hereabouts that got it... until now.
A lady friend's Black Lab was diagnosed several days back with the disease. She lives a couple miles west of me. I lost my beautiful Yeller Female Lab a few weeks back to liver cancer, so this woman's problem struck a chord within me. Thus far she has over a thousand dollars in testing, and now the boy is taking meds to kill juvenile worms and larvae as a prelim before the 3 heavy-duty injections to kill the adult worms in the boy's heart---she is a single lady raising a Special Needs son, and flat doesn't have the resources to see her Lab, Hunter's, care through.

I will hold a raffle here, and only here at The Cafe, with Wu's blessing, for one of my old Madison Mitchell Bull Mallard WORKING Decoys---And best I can figger it was carved in the 50's, on into the early 60's. It was made for the water as evidenced by the way it was rigged---doesn't appear to have ever hit the water though. But it has nick's and dings as can be expected due to the years.

The decoy has the often typical old Mitchell decoy crack at the top joint in the neck, as his heads and necks were always a 3-piece sorta deal...also has a small chip at the tail that I coulda fixed, but I have left it as is. The decoy has a nail underneath at the tail area; that nail typically denoted something special about the decoy. I probably have 15 of Mitchell's Tack Butt decoys, with a finish nail in the same spot---He put the finish nail in that spot on his Premium Northern White Pine Decoys---and charged a bit more for those made of that wood. Although, this decoy has a type nail that I have never encountered before, as it has a flat head. I asked a couple collector's I know in The Chesapeake Bay Region, and also a carver who learned from Mitchell in his shop there in Have De Grace Maryland---The collector's drew a blank, and the carver, Joey Jobes, said that it was there for a reason, no doubt, but he couldn't say just what it was all about. It may be a rare Mitchell, or maybe some A-Hole put that nail there years after it was carved???

Gonna ask for a donation to that Heart Worm Dog...The decoy is well worth over $200+, soooooo....a donation of $25 will be required to get a shot at it. That will be an 8+ to 1 POTENTIAL return for a donation.

The lady has a Go Fund Me Page, credit card only it would appear---and has also set up a PayPal direct account for her doggie --- the proceeds ALL at PayPal will then go to his medical needs.

If at least SIX of you fellers post up a pledge for a donation, it'll be a GO...again, it is for a good cause. Tell ya what, if more that 8 of you boys are interested, then I will drop the Donation needed to $20---Simply post up your interest/pledge, and we will go with 20 bucks on your word alone---deal?

I asked Wu to put names of contributor's in a hat, and then pull out a WINNER---I will ship direct at my cost, to include insurance.

Gonna send Wu the necessary Link(s) to contribute. So post up NOW if you are IN, and again, the price is variable ---as least 6 contributor's at $25 each, 8 or more at $20...Soon as she is notified of your donation, in the hat you go!!

Thank you fella's in advance---and just so you know, I am not banging this gal, nor do I have designs to do so ---This is all about saving that boy's life, which I didn't get the chance to do for my Yeller Girl Dog...

WF Jones, AKA: Uncle Duckin'