Mimi Barbour

Author

  • Home
  • About
  • Blog
  • Books
    • Her Sweet Revenge Series
    • The Best in Romance Series
    • Single Title Series
    • Angels with Attitudes
    • Elvis Series
    • Holiday Heartwarmer Series
    • Undercover FBI
    • Vegas Series
    • Vicarage Bench Series
    • Standalone Titles
  • Audiobooks
  • Extras
  • Contact Me

Meet Paulette Mahurin – Author and Dog Lover!

January 21, 2013 By Mimi Barbour 1 Comment

Create your own banner at mybannermaker.com!

Please welcome Paulette Mahurin to Believe! today. She’s written and has tirelessly promoted this wonderful book in order to give all the proceeds to a local animal shelter.

Need the book cover here

ALL FOR LOVE:
My Dog Tazzie
By Paulette Mahurin
Author of The Persecution of Mildred Dunlap

I have had several loves in my life, but ranking at that top is Tazzie, my beloved Rottweiler girl, who went on to the rainbow bridge September, 2011, seems like yesterday. I still miss her, the wagging of her little stubby tail when I came home, the drool at the side of her mouth to let me know it’s meal time, the spot on the carpet where her body left and imprint, beside my bed, her collar still hanging in the entrance hall, and yes a year later little black hair keeps showing up. I loved her with every cell in my body.

She lived a good long life, fifteen plus years for that breed is ancient. We got her from our local shelter, here in Ojai, CA, where I live with my husband, Terry and our two new babies, Max & Bella (also rescued from a kill-shelter), over sixteen years ago. She was a purebred, from a puppy mill in Arkansas, shipped out to a pet shop in Los Angeles, and sold to a couple who live in an adjoining city to ours, until the day she ran into the street and was hit by a truck. That was the day, they threw her away to be disposed of, seems the truck broke her femur and they didn’t want to help her. Since is was a straight fracture, it wouldn’t have required much, just keep her calm, but they still decided to throw her away. Lucky for me. Since my husband and I were into animal rescue for a lot of years already and I’m a Nurse Practitioner, taking care of a dog, no problem.

She came to us with another problem, a tick infestation, of which I contracted a few, one carrying the Lyme bacteria. Tazzie’s femur was fully healed by the time I became very symptomatic, fell off the face of the earth. In my worst days she was there, through all the years, at my side, some days she was the only thing that gave me any reason to want to live (I was debilitated with meningitis, cardiac valve involvement, crippling arthritis, and no energy). I look back at that time as a gift from God, she my angel, because it brought me to myself, to face everything in my life up till now I ran from. In facing, sitting at the seat of my demons, I gained a new freedom, to just be, without any need to be anything. With and through Tazzie, I found myself, what I like to consider is my authentic self. What greater gift could there be?

As the years moved along and I started to regain my health, hers failed. At first it
was her hind legs growing weak, then her heart, a cancer in an eye, until the day, at the ripe old age of fifteen years and two weeks, she stopped drinking and went to sleep. She died at home, in my arms, three days later. It wasn’t long after that; I finished my novel, The Persecution of Mildred Dunlap. It was also a coincidence that the first and only no-kill animal shelter opened in Ventura County, Santa Paula Animal Rescue Center, where I live. Tazzie would want me to help other dogs like her, throw-aways, to be disposed of because they were born or were an inconvenience, so it was no stroke of genius on my part to decide to give all profits from my book to this shelter, in the memory of my one of my all time best friends and great loves of my life, Tazzie Mahurin. (August 25, 1996 – September 7, 2011)

That’s why I tirelessly keep at it, promoting my book, in hopes someone will pick it, read it, spread the word, and fury kids like Tazzie will get out of those cells and find their forever homes.

AMAZON.COM:

http://www.amazon.com/s/ref=nb_sb_noss_1?url=search-alias%3Daps&field-keywords=The+persecution+of+mildred+Dunlap
AMAZON U.K.
http://www.amazon.co.uk/s/ref=nb_sb_noss_1?url=search-alias%3Daps&field-keywords=the+persecution+of+mildred+dunlap

GOODREADS: http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/14061559-the-persecution-of-mildred-dunlap

SHELFARI:
http://www.shelfari.com/books/28821838/The-Persecution-of-Mildred-Dunlap

FACEBOOK:
https://www.facebook.com/ThePersecutionOfMildredDunlap
BOOK’S BLOG: 
http://thepersecutionofmildreddunlap.wordpress.com/

TWITTER:
https://twitter.com/MahurinPaulette
BOOK’S WEBSITE:
http://bookpromogroup2.weebly.com/paulette-mahurin.html

PRESS ARTICLE:
VC STAR Sept. 9, 2012 Sunday Life Section:
http://www.vcstar.com/news/2012/sep/08/ojai-authors-historical-novel-teaches-tolerance /

SHELTER PROFITS ARE GOING TO :
http://www.santapaulaarc.org/

 
Join in the fun and prizes for the
First Love Blog Hop!!
 
 
Create your own banner at mybannermaker.com!

Share this:

  • Click to share on Facebook (Opens in new window)
  • Click to share on Twitter (Opens in new window)
  • Click to share on Pinterest (Opens in new window)
  • Click to share on LinkedIn (Opens in new window)
  • More
  • Click to share on Skype (Opens in new window)
  • Click to share on Tumblr (Opens in new window)
  • Click to share on Pocket (Opens in new window)
  • Click to print (Opens in new window)
  • Click to share on Reddit (Opens in new window)
  • Click to email a link to a friend (Opens in new window)
  • Click to share on WhatsApp (Opens in new window)
  • Click to share on Telegram (Opens in new window)

New in Audio!

New in Audio!

Available from:

Amazon | Audible | iTunes

New Release!

New Release!

Available from:

All Amazon Sites

Free! Start the Series

Free! Start the Series

Free from:

AmazonUS | AmazonUK | AmazonCA | AmazonAU | AmazonIN

Kobo | B&N | iBooks 

Free! Start the series!

Free! Start the series!

Free From:

AmazonUS | AmazonUK | AmazonCA | AmazonAU | Apple | B&N | Kobo

Visit The Authors’ Billboard

Visit The Authors’ Billboard

Check out the awesome selection of books!

Mimi’s Books

  • SweetRetaliation_CVR_MED
  • Justice_Revised_CVR_MED
  • Resolution_Revised_CVR_MED (1)
  • Endings_Revised_CVR_MED (1)
  • Faith_Revised_CVR_MED
  • Leni_Revised_CVR_MED
  • HMBbearCover
  • 51Ucrz6QfXL
  • SweetChristmas
  • ShesMe
  • HesHerCover
  • 51hDzj7eSvL._SY346_
  • 18674746
  • 18674767
  • TogetherAlways_CVR_MED (1)
  • MCAcoverLG
  • HDAcoverMED
  • LCAcoverLG
  • AWLcoverWhiteSM
  • Mischievous Christmas Angel cover
  • 23336483
  • 22454301
  • Partners_CVR
  • 16005574
  • 17319853
  • 17735230
  • 18042500
  • 18674784
  • SpecialAgent_CVR_MED
  • SpecialAgentFin_CVR_LRGXMAS
  • 26107618
  • 29630852
  • SpecialAgentBook_CVR_MED
  • SpecialAgentCharli_CVR_MED
  • SpecialAgentRylee_CVR_MED
  • PleaseKeepMe_CVR
  • 28006494
  • 28140805
  • FrostySnowPup_CVR_MED
  • 28152217
  • LoveOfLife_CVR_MED
  • APScoverLG Bk6
  • 25460238
  • 24066091
  • 25740014
  • 13382090
  • SurrogateSecret_Revised_CVR_MED
  • 2
  • BYCcocer
  • SpecialAgentJennie_CVR_MED
  • Privacy Policy

Copyright © 2023 ·Site is created and maintained by Bakerview Consulting