By Angie Crawley | Director
We have some wonderful Happy Tails from our rescue efforts the last few months.
A litter of seven beautiful puppies were thrown out on the side of the road in a ditch. A kind person rescued them and brought them to us. They were only one week old and so tiny and helpless that it is a miracle any survived. Although one had sustained injuries and didn’t make it, the remaining six grew up to be adorable puppies that now have forever homes!
Brett, a super sweet dog, was rescued after someone saw him being thrown from a vehicle, but he too is now in his forever home!
One dog, Lennon, had been evading capture for months but our persistence paid off and we now have him safe at our shelter undergoing heartworm treatment.
Unfortunately, these stories are just a few of the many rescues that we have been involved with in the last few months. Our team found abandoned animals in the city park, in the middle of the road, and even one poor dog that was left tied to our gate. As upsetting as these stories are, the fact that these animals have happy endings is what makes all the difference.
A dog we had previously adopted to a family, Daisy, was found running loose in another state by a very kind person who contacted us. Our team drove to retrieve her immediately. She enjoyed the road trip and it’s a good thing because she made another one last week right back to where she was found. She was adopted by the very people that found her who said that they realized that they just couldn’t live without her!
In the last few months, we have had 142 adoptions!
We have saved our best story for last:
Boone, a blue heeler, came to us in November as a stray from a man that found him hanging around his barn. He was around twelve weeks old and weighed only a little over seven pounds and was severely malnourished. His left eye is deformed and blind and during his assessment we discovered that he is also deaf.
Boone was placed in a quarantine kennel and much to our surprise, we soon discovered that he had been living on a diet of acorns, a lot of which were coming out in his feces. He was happy to realize that he now had access to all the puppy food that he could ever want.
If that wasn’t enough going against this little guy, he also began having seizures. On a visit to our veterinarian he was diagnosed with epilepsy and was prescribed three anti-seizure medications. The seizures meant that he now needed around-the-clock care so he went home with our director, Angie, who slept in the recliner with him to monitor him. His seizures are now mostly under control but he does have occasional break-through seizures. Our veterinarian needs to remove the bad eye, but that will have to wait until the seizures are under a lot better control.
Even with all of these health problems, Boone has gained weight, going from seven to twenty pounds and he has the run of Angie’s house and the shelter office. She always has him by her side. He’s a playful little guy with a huge will to live and that’s exactly what we want to help him do: live his best life.
By Angie Crawley | Director
By Angie Crawley | Director
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