ruby55
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We went to visit with our new foster today. She's now home with us. We visited with the old foster mom, the bm rescue coordinator who pulled her from the pound, & the vet who saw her when she came out of the pound.
This poor girl was so dehydrated when she came out of the pound that her eyes were sunken. She also had kennel cough, with some serious snot in her eyes & nose, hacking all the time. She could just barely walk. She is seriously underweight. She has no fur on her belly & the underside of all 4 legs; all the way around her neck. But you can see the new growth coming in. Her teats bang into her knees when she walks.
She's gained 4 pounds in 5 days. Her blood sugar is still bouncing all over the place, but it doesn't seem to get so high that she's going to convulse, or so low that she'll go into a coma. She's blind from cataracts. She won't be getting them removed, as she's not a good candidate for any kind of surgery. Besides, messing with the cataracts often triggers glaucoma in dogs (that's what happened to Magee). She is still intact, & will stay that way unless she gets pyometra or something, because once again, she's not a good candidate for surgery. She is also heartworm positive. The vet she was seeing suggested we wait a few weeks to start treatment; let her get on a steady diet, & get her sugar under control.
Her build is so much like Magee it's uncanny. After getting a history on her, we realized that she might be a half-sister to Magee. She's 6 - 10 years old; from the same area in the state as Magee; and she has the red brindle coat that Magee's daddy Sumo had, which is kind of unusual. Her facial shape, along with her pushed in nose & crooked teeth are almost exactly like Magee's. And she's tiny like Magee was.
The pound had her name listed as Alfredo. I know the pound just randomly assigns names; but Alfredo? Really? She's a red brindle; and she's not a male (Alfredo is a male name). She's not the color of alfredo sauce. So her other foster family was referring to her as Ally. I think that it's a good name for her, even if she doesn't know it.
And we already lover her to pieces.
Her tail never stops. She's always got that smile on her little bully face.
We're going to get her out in the sun tomorrow so we can try to get some pics. I'll put them up asap. Happy gotcha day, Ally!
This poor girl was so dehydrated when she came out of the pound that her eyes were sunken. She also had kennel cough, with some serious snot in her eyes & nose, hacking all the time. She could just barely walk. She is seriously underweight. She has no fur on her belly & the underside of all 4 legs; all the way around her neck. But you can see the new growth coming in. Her teats bang into her knees when she walks.
She's gained 4 pounds in 5 days. Her blood sugar is still bouncing all over the place, but it doesn't seem to get so high that she's going to convulse, or so low that she'll go into a coma. She's blind from cataracts. She won't be getting them removed, as she's not a good candidate for any kind of surgery. Besides, messing with the cataracts often triggers glaucoma in dogs (that's what happened to Magee). She is still intact, & will stay that way unless she gets pyometra or something, because once again, she's not a good candidate for surgery. She is also heartworm positive. The vet she was seeing suggested we wait a few weeks to start treatment; let her get on a steady diet, & get her sugar under control.
Her build is so much like Magee it's uncanny. After getting a history on her, we realized that she might be a half-sister to Magee. She's 6 - 10 years old; from the same area in the state as Magee; and she has the red brindle coat that Magee's daddy Sumo had, which is kind of unusual. Her facial shape, along with her pushed in nose & crooked teeth are almost exactly like Magee's. And she's tiny like Magee was.
The pound had her name listed as Alfredo. I know the pound just randomly assigns names; but Alfredo? Really? She's a red brindle; and she's not a male (Alfredo is a male name). She's not the color of alfredo sauce. So her other foster family was referring to her as Ally. I think that it's a good name for her, even if she doesn't know it.
And we already lover her to pieces.
Her tail never stops. She's always got that smile on her little bully face.We're going to get her out in the sun tomorrow so we can try to get some pics. I'll put them up asap. Happy gotcha day, Ally!
