It’s all about the mops!
Flavia, aka Gidget, and her new parents, Mavis and Don.
Augustus, aka Gus, and his parents Eileen and Howard.
GO puppers. They are so lucky, they got the best Christmas present ever – a new home.
Remember THESE pupsters? Well, two of these babies found forever homes this weekend. Lucky babies!!
Augustus Davis – this adorable little boy has made such amazing progress since he was rescued out of a nasty breeder situation. He came to us with heartworms and successfully went through phase I of his treatment then came down with some sort of intestinal virus. He threw up his dinner Friday night, had very bad diarrhea and didn’t eat a single bite of food all weekend. I had him at the vet at 10 am on Monday. He was immediately put on IV’s and hospitalized. At first, we thought he might have an obstruction since he didn’t respond to flagyl over the weekend and since he had been so sick for the entire weekend, we decided that we needed to exclude an obstruction asap. He had a barium series on Monday. Thankfully everything flowed through him correctly, but very slowly, leading our vet to determine that it was an intestinal virus. After a few more meds, Augustus started responding and ate a meal on Tuesday. He stayed hospitalized through Wednesday. We’ve spent $475 on his ICU bills, which included $240 for the barium series to rule out an obstruction. Now, he’s back to being normal. Unfortunately, while he was in the hospital, Animal Planet came to video the second installment in the puppymill dog episode that will air in about six months. Poor Augustus, his aspirations to be a movie star didn’t materialize.
Donations: $220 – thanks Pat Heitmann, Marty Howard, Cat Martindale, Anne Schwartz.
If you think you can help, please go HERE for paypal or go HERE to send a check(please be sure to indicate Augustus Davis)
I had to share. Remember the little breeder dogs in the story below. Here are the original videos when they were rescued…
VIDEO ONE shows Mae and Flavia in one cage and Augustus and Octavius in the second.
VIDEO TWO shows Julius all by himself – all matted up and just “checked out.”
Here is a video I took this afternoon staring JULIUS, MAE and AUGUSTUS. Octavius does a quick cameo, but little Flavia had to stay inside - she’s still really sick with kennel cough.
UPDATE: July 13, 2007
We are pushing to get them to the vet for heartworm treatment next week – so really need to try to get their funding in place.
These situations are difficult to deal with because we cannot say anything until the very end – although we knew for several weeks that we might get one or two, it wasn’t for cetain until ownership had been granted to the SPCA.
You know the story – mid June, the SPCA was called out to a home in north Houston and found horrible neglect conditions. Eight tiny little shih tzu living in a small shed in the back yard – breeding!! Horrible conditions – the dogs were all totally matted (surprise!), several had severe eye infections and their eyes were stuck shut with pus and mats. One was in such bad shape, they had to euthanize him.
The others were transported to the SPCA where they allowed me to come and take pictures. I finally found THE VIDEO I took that day. The first two in this video are Mae and Flavia. The second two are Octavius and Augustus. HERE is a second video of little red and white Julius. Please notice how five (the five we got) are totally non-responsive to my attempts to engage them.
All seven of the remaining dogs are heartworm positive – the SPCA is going to treat two and asked us to take on the other five. Here are our little new Lone Star Dogs.
Click on the photos below to expand. Check out the before and afters.
BEFORE
AFTER
Mae Davis – tiny, tiny girl. No more than 7 pounds, about five years old, but 95% blind and her ears are so full of GUNK that I’m not sure whether she can hear or not. Has kennel cough right now but is slowly recovering. UPDATE: Yes, Mae can hear. After cleaning those gunky ears twice a day for a week, I can say, this baby can hear. She cannot see, but when I call her name, she comes straight to me. And she is so loving. When she’s walking around, if she finds me, she puts her front feet up on the couch to tell me she wants up. She LOVES to sit in a lap. She does not bark yet.
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AFTER
Augustus Davis – beautiful brown with black tips boy – about 12 pounds – only about two years old and very friendly. This one is almost normal. But, sadly, he sounds like he has been debarked. Oh well, let’s make lemonade from this lemon – perfect apartment dog. And, he is doing extremely well in learning house training.
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AFTER
Julius Davis – this is the red and white that I thought had “checked out.” He was almost catatonic. Absolutely no reaction to anything when I first visited him – just sat there barely even moving his head. Now, after being here for a week, he is slowly starting to come out of his shell and he LOVES to be petted. Very thin and of course, now has kennel cough, but doing ok. UPDATE: Julius has become a playing fool. He runs after all the other dogs AND my husband just begging to play. How cute. I must try to get some video of this. After seeing his “checked out” state the day he was rescued by the SPCA, I honestly thought he would be one that stayed in the “terrified” state. Nope, his little tail wags all the time now. And he eats a ton. Good too, because he needs to add about 1.5 pounds.
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Octavius Davis - C U T E little blond boy. Very nice and pretty friendly. Around two years old. He is the most “normal” of the five. Has NOT been debarked, to that I can attest – LOL.
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Flavia Davis – just precious little girl about 11 pounds. Crawls on the floor asking for attentiong. Just beautiful little gal. Maybe two years old. UPDATE: Very shy and unsure of herself. Coming around nicely on housetraining. Really bad kennel cough right now. And not eating so I’m having to syringe meds and food into her!
All need heartworm treatment and won’t be available for adoption for at least three months. All are already making huge strides towards housetraining!!
Of course, we need to do their heartworm treatment! We have about two weeks to raise the funds, they all have pretty serious kennel cough and we cannot do any medical procedures to them (surgery, shots) until they are clear of kennel cough.
If you can help these little guys get healthy to get a new home, please CLICK HERE FOR PAYPAL or go HERE to send a check.
Fund update: Noon Friday, July 13, 2007:
Wow, you all must like these little faces – we already have enough to pay for Mae’s heartworm treatments…huge thanks to:
Melony Robichaux in honor of Kimmy, CM&C,C,C, Joan Samara, Nancy Croft in honor of Kentucky Lucky, Donna Ferris, Cheryl Oyaski, Melissa Lombard, Denise Welch, Wyatt Edenfield, Lelia Yeutter, Marla Barrow!!
Looking good!!
Now we just need to raise the funds for Julius, Augustus, Flavia and Octavius!!
