02.26.08
Desperately seeking help!!
Why do they always find us? Probably because of you! Someone knows that here, because you are there, these dogs will be cared for.
So, while we were getting the LSSTLAR mini shelter set up, these dogs desperately needed help!
The Engle dogs. Received an email in January - four older dogs need a new home. “Dad” has gone into assisted living and can’t take his dogs. Once we got Deogi Dog Center up and running, we were able to take them in. Here is what we got.
Bridgette Bardot Turner
Jackie Chan Turner
Cricket Marie Turner - yes, this dog does have a face - it’s just covered with mats full of, ahem, poop.
Spike Lee Turner
Although neglected, three of these dogs just needed cleaned up and lots of good food. Bridgette was another story.
Yes, little Bridgette tried to urinate about every 45 seconds the afternoon her “people” brought her to us. We immediately (thanks Sherry) rushed her down to SOVH for a vet appointment and what he found was just astonishing. Her bladder was stretched beyond recognition and contained dozens of bladderstones, one about the size of a normal bladder.
This is what the x-ray looked like when Dr. Moore first saw Bridgette. That bladder looks about 3x as large as a normal bladder and stuffed full of stones. Here is what was removed…
This mess of bladderstones was huge!! Can you believe this mess came out of one tiny little dog!!!
Obviously, she went into surgery immediately and for several days after surgery, it was touch and go for her. The wall of her bladder was so inflamed and thickened, we were worried that the stitches would pull completely out. Her bill was $850. HELP!
If you can help this little neglected and needy girl, please donate HERE for paypal or if you can send her a check, go HERE. Download the credit card authorization form here. And, thanks for your consideration. Without you, these dogs would not have been saved.
And then they is our tiny little Mae Davis. Remember her? She was one of the Houston SPCA confiscations. After her heartworm treatment, she recovered fine. But about two months ago, her left eye started to swell and continued to get bigger and bigger. We took her to see Dr. Herrmann at the Animal Eye Clinic and he said her eye needed to come out. Unfortunately, about that time. she came down with kennel cough so we had to wait a month for her to get healthy again. Finally, last week, she was healthy enough for surgery. Her bill for the Opthalmology consult and surgery was $275.
Mae Davis just after surgery. She’s recovering well. In fact, she is much more lively than she was just before the surgery which tells me her eye was causing a bit of pain.
If you can help little Mae Davis, please donate HERE for paypal or if you can send her a check, go HERE. Download the credit card authorization form here.
Then there is Miz Baybee Harris. She came to us as an owner turn in to a shelter - elderly “mom” that just couldn’t take care of her. Her eyes had been neglected. One was huge and the other shrunken. She is totally blind and the pressures continued to rise in the large eye so we had Dr. Moore remove that eye. He took pity on us and charged us only $175 for that surgery.
Miz Baybee right after surgery. Thankfully, she can hear exceptionally well and just loves people.
If you can help this little neglected and needy girl, please donate HERE for paypal or if you can send her a check, go HERE. Download the credit card authorization form here.
We are going to be working very hard to get all of the little dogs’ bills funded over the next few days. Our vet has warned me that there is at least one and possibly two very expensive surgeries coming up. Little Jackie Chan has had such massive infections in his ears that we MAY, it’s currently a MAY have to have them both removed. This is a Gulf Coast type of surgery too.
But for now we are concentrating on the ones that have had medical problems in just the past few weeks. So please help us help all of these little dogs!!