Boston
Terrier finds a home
A very nice woman named Sue adopted a sweet Boston named Simon last year from
Roie. He had suffered a spinal injury and had trouble walking & getting
around. She works for a vet & offered to have her vet (neurology specialist)
work with Simon now renamed & called Wendell. With her love & special
care he is now doing great - walking & running! She just adopted a 2nd
Boston Terrier named Butterball yesterday to be a friend for Wendell. Butter's
family could no longer keep him as they had no time for him and could not
potty train him. The pic is the two dogs - Wendell is on right. Letter from
Sue announcing the arrival of their new Boston Terrier:
Hello
everyone, Hope you like the picture. Wendell (othe right & special needs
dog) was adopted by us last summer and now he has a brother "Butterball".
We just picked him up today and he seems to be fitting into the family very
well. Sue
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Two
Special-needs pups are saved from death row and find a home
Two pups from SC were scheduled to be put down in a gas chamber because they
had deformed legs & no one wanted them. All the other pups in the litter
were adopted. Roie adopted them and sent them to a foster home. Here is the
message from their foster mom:
My vet sent the pups x-rays to an orthopedist, and I just heard back. She
said all the joints are there and she recommends physical therapy,
hydrotherapy and range of motion exercises. She says it's possible that the
ligaments and tendons are too tight, but now is the perfect time to try to
loosen things up and get the legs growing more in the right direction while
they are still young. The pup that has both legs affected may benefit from
some sort of "binding" to hold his legs a little closer together
while he
walks, because his legs like to go out to the side a lot. She doesn't feel
surgery is the answer, as the only thing she would do surgically is fuse the
joint, and that doesn't seem necessary. So it seems to me that the person
who adopts these pups will need to commit to spending the time to give them
whatever therapy and exercises are necessary to help them. The adopter should
really bring them to a vet who can teach them exactly what to do, possibly
set up some sort of a program for them, and then follow them.
UPDATE~
Jan C. in MA who is a fantastic friend to many special needs pets over the
years has adopted the boys and has committed to their therapy & care.
She calls them Frankie & Johnny. Jan will do whatever is necessary to
help these darling pups.
A
thank you from Roie:
I can not tell you how happy I am that Jan has adopted the Hushpuppy brothers.
We could not have asked for a better home for them! Thanks to all of you who
helped save Frankie & Johnny - there is a special place in my heart for
all of you! Fondly, Roie
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