TG Bus is on its way home and newbies again!
The TG Bus is on its way home with a full load of dog food and goodies. A full load down and a full load back up - now that is Economics personified! Thank you VAS for the dog food for our puppies - you are the best!! My babies will have the top of the line in nutrition and immune system build up. Wow words just can’t express how much we appreciate your gift.
Yesterday was Spay day which also means the pound dogs are neutered and come in then too. Thank you Richard for taking Lilianna in for her spay - she is doing very well and for picking up the new fellow from the pound. He is an under 1 year old now neutered lab/rottie mix - a gentle giant of a mushball. He may be very large but he has the soul of a lap dog. He is very gentle with the babies - they are not afraid of the big guy. Of course he needs a name - can’t keep calling him Big Guy now can I?
He is a big boy!
I also received a call from our veterinarian Dr Kye who had an euthansia that she would rather not perform. Bailey is a young (just three years old) spayed rhodesian mix who had broken her leg in January. She had been splinted ever since and their vet told them that it hadn’t healed and would need surgery to repair it - a plate/screws etc. They were quoted a very high cost and decided to euthanise her instead . They brought her to Driftwood for the euth and met Dr. Kye. She asked them to surrender her to Turtle Gardens instead and she would monitor Bailey’s leg. They were quite happy to do so. And I was very happy to help my veterinarian save a life.
Bailey is a wonderful, sweet, quiet, gentle girl. She hasn’t made a peep, slept in the doggie bed by the stove and has excellent doggie social skills. She does walk/weight bear on her leg though she does limp - but not as bad as I would have thought. The injured bone is the ulna which is the smaller of the two lower leg bones - much like your arm. The radius should support her weight as the ulna heals. That is what the specialist told me when Sweetpea has surgery on her ulna. We will monitor her leg and watch for pain and limping. Bailey is such a nice girl. She deserves this chance at the "good life"
Standing on all four feet.
©Turtle Gardens Animal Rescue Society. Have your pet spayed or neutered today.
hi yvette i sent you an email so that you know about all of the donations from LAPS and Waldo and Tubbs, and of course your care package, i sure hope Dave made it back to the apartment in Surrey , after the island trip, in order to get that hallway full of stuff for you and puppies. It is getting quite warm so i was relieved to see your blog, worried that you were camping already. hope you find time to read your email and enjoy goodies when they arrive, with so many pups you probably find it difficult just to sit down for food and tea.
we will keep the food and supplies coming, great to fill the van on the way back. good luck,
Marka and furry friends
Comment by marka — May 30, 2007 @ 4:12 pm
bear would be a good name for the rottie/lab mix or even teddy he looks like a big teddy bear u could hug and snuggle into. but he looks like a big black bear to with his broad build and stubby tail as well.
Comment by Gimpy — May 30, 2007 @ 6:12 pm