(Editor’s note: Animal names in this story are full capitalized, as specified by the paws4people group.)
After a month of waiting, Nicholas Cain has a new service dog to call his own.
In April, Nicholas’ guide dog, SHAW, passed away.The Cain family did not have the necessary amount of money to get Nicholas a new dog, but when their friends and people in the community found out, they stepped up to organize a benefit to meet the family’s need.
In July, a Boston Butts sale was set up by Leisa Henderson and Brenda McLamb. Anyone in the community could get a Boston Butt for $50 and pick it up at Piney Green Missionary Baptist Church on Aug. 17. All the meat was donated and cooked by the Grateful Shed.
“We knew on the date of the fundraiser that we were very close (to raising enough money),” Myra Cain, Nicholas’ mother, said during a phone interview last week. “I think it was Sunday afternoon, which was the very next day, they all got together and counted the money and paid the expense and we knew that we had enough.”