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Penny was rescued from a high kill animal control facility. She was
severely abused prior to coming here. She was pregnant and HIGH
heartworm positive. She had 3 pups born on halloween of 2013 and she
battled a pretty bad case of mastitis. She had to have a partial
surgery to repair a softball size hole from the ruptured teet and
while she was under she had to have an umbilical hernia repair as
well. Once two of the puppies found homes, Penny started her slow kill
heartworm treatment that spanned over 4 months. She is now heartworm
negative.
Penny has come a LONG way. it took her over a year to
finally take a treat from my husband's hand. She still won't go potty
for anyone else but me nor use my yard, but we are trying to work on
that. But she has to be one of the happiest, most easy going and
loving dogs i have ever seen in my life. She will actually smile and
make faces at you when you go into her room and show her the leash to
go for her walk. She actually dances around when you bring her in her
food at mealtime. She loves to be around her people and give lots of
kisses. Something that she wouldn't dare do when i first brought her
home. She was so petrified that the AC officers had to force her into
my crate and we had to carry the crate to my car. Then my husband had
to pick her up and carry her into my house because she wouldn't walk
inside.
I first knew something was wrong with Penny about 3
months ago. She started getting these nausea spells. I would give her
a tums and it would go away. About 3 weeks ago, she had gotten one
about 8 pm on a Sunday night and no matter what i did, nothing would
help her. I even stopped her regular dog food and started giving her
some chicken and rice. So i called the vet and i was able to take her
Wednesday (it was the first opening the vet had) to be examined. They
kept her 2 nights and said they couldn't find anything wrong-even
after doing some bloodwork-but sent her home with an antibiotic to be
on the safe side. So i picked her up Friday morning and brought her
home. Well by Sunday evening it was all happening again. Only this
time, i noticed her starting to swell a little bit. I tried pepcid, a
while later i gave pepto, i tried a tums a while later-NOTHING worked.
John even video'd her behavior so we would have something to show the
vet on what she was doing-i even attached it to the fundraiser so
folks could see. So once AGAIN, i called the vet first thing Monday
morning and they said there was nothing else they could do since they
weren't equipped and suggested i take her to Texas A&M for some
scopes. Well, i called A&M and they gave me a
"guesstimate" on what those scopes would cost and it was
close to $3,000.00.
After much consideration, I decided to take
her to a highly recommended vet (Dr. Spence here in Tyler) in town for
a second opinion. The only problem i was running into was the money to
take her.After a friend had posted that i needed some help, i received
2 donations in order to take her to this new vet. He did a COMPLETE
blood series which included all of her organ functions. He found that
her cholesterol was VERY high causing her lipids to separate in her
blood. Also, her calcium and her potassium levels were EXTREMELY high.
He gave her some medication for me to give her 2x a day at mealtime
and changed her food to Science Diet Digestive Health for sensitive
stomachs. He also had me buy the equivalent to Maalox Plus (they dont
make maalox plus anymore) to give her as directed on the bottle after
the pills were gone (in case she had any palyups in her stomach) and
said that if this didn't work, she WOULD need a scope to see what
exactly the problem was, however, there was a vet in town that was
equipped to do scopes and it WAS much cheaper than A&M.
Our issue now is getting the money together to pay for the scope. I had missed MANY unpaid days off from work over a span of 8 months to care for my terminally ill mom (who passed away January 29,2015) and here in the last month my job has decided to regulate my hours. Instead of working full time, they seem to be working me as part time. In the last 2 weeks (from 6/22-7/3) they have given me 6 days off!! i am not able to survive any longer like this. yes, i have been putting in applications at other places-not only for full time work, but i'm even willing to stay at this job and work on my off days/hours or weekends. Not to mention, i am at risk of losing my house. I was served foreclosure papers and i had to file bankruptcy this past Monday (7/6/15) to keep from losing my home because we would have NOWHERE to go. Penny is not the only animal we have. We have 5 other rescue dogs and 3 rescue cats. My husband works as well full time, but once you get so far behind and into a financial hole, it's REALLY hard to get back out. especially when you have animals and children that depend on you.
Our animals and children come FIRST! We do without so they can have.
The animals have ALWAYS been provided with vet care any/every time
they have needed it-i can provide vet reference and a huge stack of
bills if needed. Anytime something has been suggested as far as the
animals go, we have done it-regardless of the cost. Unfortunately,
most of the animals we have taken in are ones that aren't able to be
placed in other homes. Ones that required either specialized care
(allergies, some aggression issues with strangers, But the simple fact
is-right now, we NEED help. Help to get Penny the care she needs. She
is no longer the happy girl she has been this past year. She no longer
wants to go for her walks, she no longer dances when i bring her the
food bowl, she is constantly having these nausea spells and she IS
miserable. It breaks my heart knowing there is nothing i can do to
help her:( i have spent MANY nights sitting beside her and just
crying.
I am more than willing to provide the Vets name who will
do the scope once Dr. Spence refers Penny there. If they allow folks
to call in donations, that would be fine to-and i will update all that
information once i know. Or, you can donate directly to my paypal
which is: unclebubba1965@aol.com. Please, if anyone can
help, any amount is never too small. it all adds up. and it would be
greatly appreciated from the bottom of my heart. i certainly wouldn't
be asking if this wasn't absolutely necessary. Thank you in advance!!!
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