03.06.08
WE’RE THERE!~
Wow, you all responded quick. All funding is close enough so all needs are met - today.
Stay tuned for status reports!!
03.04.08
HELP HELP - WE’RE DROWNING IN VET BILLS!!
I’ve spent so much time trying to get our little doggie center up and running, that I have been very delinquent getting the message out to you that we need HELP! We are investing at least 12 hours a day getting everything set up at DEOGI Dog Center but in the meantime, there were dogs that needed “rescuing” and they desperately need your help now paying their bills!!
We have little Bridgette who still (as of 3-5-2008) needs $496 to pay her bladderstone surgery. Mae’s eye surgery has been funded. Miz Baybee still needs the entire $200.
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. We STILL NEED $496. 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.
Miss Mae Mae says THANKS!!
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.
MIZ Baybee
Miz Baybee right after surgery. Thankfully, she can hear exceptionally well and just loves people. We still need the entire $200 for her eye enucleation. Please help little Baybee.
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 now we have little old Dori Hill, who was horribly thin when we got her. So thin, in fact, the vet would not do any anesthesia but she desperately needed a massive dental. We wanted to wait to see if she could even make it through the surgery to ask for the funding and she did. But we need $750 to pay her bills!!
Here is what her foster mom wrote when facing the prospect of the anesthesia for this little baby girl…
As a volunteer for Lone Star Shih Tzu & Lhasa Apso Rescue, I was asked to pick up two little dogs being held for us in a local shelter. In the middle of a wall filled with cages, I saw what looked like a small bundle of rags in the corner of one cage. My eyes filled with tears; I could not believe this little dog was even alive. She was barely moving when the caretaker lifted her out of the crate, nd a horrible smell drifted over to me. As I held her, I was stricken by how incredibly thin she was; it felt like I was holding a small bag of bones. She would not lift her head and cringed pitifully when I put my hand up to soothe her.
The caretaker told me she had been broght in by someone who said they had found her on the street and kept her for a while but could no longer take care of her. The shelter caretakers thought she was around 9 or 10 years old, but she was totally blind; the fur matted over her eyes. I was tryly sickened; I hd never seen a little dog who was in worse shape. She was so weak, she could barely move. She had been starving for who knows how long. Most people would have simply had her put down to end her suffering, but I knew without a doubt as she curled her little body close to me and licked my arm, that she wanted to live and be once again someone’s beloved and treasured companion.
I named her Dori. I could tell that she had been groomed within the last few months because the fur on her body was not as matted as her face. I took her straight to the vet’s office to have her evaluated. Surprisingly enough, the doctor said her heart and lungs were sound and her bloodwork showed no disease except a raging infection in her mouth. Her teeth were almost crumbling…the doctor said he had never quite seen a dog’s mouth in such horrible condition. He immediately put her on antibiotics to clear up the massive infection so a thorough dental could be done. Most of her teeth would have to be extracted. Then it dawned on me that Dori was literally starving to death because of her teeth.
That was the most horrible experience I had ever encountered in my yers of work with the group and I was determined that this precious little girl was going to get well. After almost FOUR MONTHS of antibiotics, she has gained enough weight so that we can finally have the surgery she so desperately needs. She is having surgery at this moment and I am praying with all my heart that she will come through it with flying colors. She deserves a wonderful forever home and will give so much love to some lucky adopter. For Dori, no amount of suffering is too much if she can be close to her person and give back everything she has.
Dori came through the surgery and is now recovering nicely. BUT, we still need to pay her bill. Please help!
If you can help little Dori Hill, please donate HERE for paypal or if you can send her a check, go HERE. Download the credit card authorization form here.
Now we have little Apple Burke on whom we just found mammary tumors. She is in Phoenix where the costs are unbelievably sky high. To remove and biopsy her tumors will be $750.
If you can help Ms Apple, please donate HERE for paypal or if you can send her a check, go HERE. Download the credit card authorization form here.
You all are always absolutely the best when it comes to supporting these needy dogs. We just wish we could do more to show our appreciation!