{"id":101263,"date":"2018-02-20T18:06:27","date_gmt":"2018-02-21T01:06:27","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/basil-rathbone-residents-best-friend-now-needs-help-of-his-own\/"},"modified":"2018-02-20T18:06:27","modified_gmt":"2018-02-21T01:06:27","slug":"basil-rathbone-residents-best-friend-now-needs-help-of-his-own","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/basil-rathbone-residents-best-friend-now-needs-help-of-his-own\/","title":{"rendered":"Basil Rathbone \u2013 residents\u2019 best friend \u2013 now needs help of his own"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p><!-- gallery:157216de-d3fa-4dfd-bcfb-418cd125cecb --><\/p>\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed is-type-video wp-block-embed-youtube naviga-video-embed\">\n<div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"560\" height=\"315\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/4dFj-GLTBIc\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/div>\n<\/figure>\n<p>The service dog of Madison House Assisted Living recently underwent surgery. Now the people who love him need help to pay his bills.<\/p>\n<p>Basil Rathbone was named after a 1940s actor by previous administrator Ann Brown.<\/p>\n<p>Basil was brought to Madison House at 8 weeks old and has flourished there since. The residents have had a hand in his training, and he helps them by keeping them on their toes.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe had all the staff helping watch him when he was a puppy,\u201d Jaime Cohoe, resident service director said. \u201cTraining him to go outside for his bathroom breaks and not to chew on oxygen tubing was a hard one because he would go over and play and chew on them.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Now 8 years old, Basil spends his time playing with, entertaining and helping residents.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe have a lady who lives here now, and her son is blind and uses a stick,\u201d Cohoe said. \u201cWhen he comes in, he will call for Basil, and he goes over, and he will guide him to his mom\u2019s room.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Cohoe also told the story of a time when Basil was a puppy, and a man was having trouble with his wheelchair. Basil came up behind the man and tried to help push the wheelchair with his nose. \u201cHe is an amazing dog,\u201d Cohoe said.<\/p>\n<p>Basil has run into health problems.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe took him in for his normal shots, and they saw a mass in his badder. They thought cancer at first, which tore everybody apart,\u201d Cohoe said. \u201cWe got a second opinion in Farmington, and they said it was bladder stones.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Basil had surgery to remove the stones about a month ago. He has recovered well, but the veterinarian bills have piled up on Madison House.<\/p>\n<p>Madison House held a Navajo Taco Sale and spread flyers around town asking for help to cover his bills.<\/p>\n<p>Between the fundraiser and donations from different people in the community, Basil\u2019s veterinarian bills were covered for his first sets of tests, totaling about $1,700, Cohoe said.<\/p>\n<p>However, Basil\u2019s surgery raised the total again. Madison House, at 120 S. Madison St., is planning a silent auction fundraiser to help with these costs, set for sometime in early April.<\/p>\n<p>Cohoe said they are grateful for the generosity that residents have shown Basil in the past.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Madison House service dog recently had surgery and has some bills<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":101264,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[5736,5735],"tags":[408,21,13],"naviga_topic":[],"class_list":["post-101263","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-local-news","category-news","tag-charity","tag-cortez","tag-frontpage-lead"],"acf":[],"author_name":"dh_admin","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/101263","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=101263"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/101263\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/101264"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=101263"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=101263"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=101263"},{"taxonomy":"naviga_topic","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/naviga_topic?post=101263"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}