Piglets story
About 2 months ago I foundthis sweet lil bull with the saddest eyes on petfinder at a shelter anhour away. When I got there I found out she was in bad shape and had toargue my way into a back room for authorized personnel only they calledthe red room;just to see her. The shelter said she was a bait dog andshe was not doing well. I'm not saying she was; that's just what I wastold. When I finally got back there they wouldn't let me in her cage orher out of it. She was in really bad shape and needed medical attentionbadly.She couldn't put any weight on her front leg and was whimperingand whining.She was all scarred up, had some missing teeth, a broken offK9to the gum, a ripped ear, a broken tail and she was emaciated aswell(especially the back half of her). She hobbled over towards meon3legs and started licking my hand through the cage and wagged her tailthe best she could. Her leg was twice the size of her others andwas an oozing bloody mess. I could see she was a very sweet dog andI couldn't let her suffer and die.
To make a long story short Iknew she was going to be euthanized and she needed medical attentionbadly; so I contacted a small private rescue and we fought with theshelter fora week to get her out of there and to a vet. They wouldn'teven release her for a couple hours to the rescue so we could get her toa vet and stated she couldn't leave until she was spayed. The guy whoruns the rescue had all his paper work to prove he was a legitimatenon for profit rescue. So they eventually spayed her and a week latershe was living with me.
I was supposed to be fostering herand totally fell in love with her.She is such a well trained, sweetand loyal little girl that I'm finding a new place to live just so I cankeep her.Good thing I fell in love with her because the guy at therescue has flaked on me after realizing the costs associated withthis dogs treatment. She was definitely used and abused because she wasvery hand shy with me when first got her but I have gained her trust butshe still doesn't trust strangers until she knows they aren't a threat.She also had something tied around her good front arm that left areally deep and nasty scar that goes around the whole arm(looks likea skin bracelet).She is an amazing dog though. She's been through somuch an dis just the sweetest and most loyal dog! This breed ingeneral just seems so loyal to its little pack.
Here's myproblem. She has a severe bone infection (osteomyelitis) and I've beento different vets with her almost every 3 days since I got her gettingcultures,needle aspirations, xrays, blood tests, etc... After 2 weekson Baytril and NSAIDS and no progress my vet didn't know what to do withher leg and said it was the nastiest looking x ray he's seen that didn'tinvolve a bone tumor. He recommended me to an orthopedic surgeon whoalso said her xray was absolutely horrible and thought she may of hadbone cancer.Thankfully the needle aspiration proved she didn't havebone cancer. He basically said he needs to do a bone biopsy and removethe dead sequestered bone and pack the wound with antibiotic lacedpacking.The problem is he gave me an estimate of$ 2300-2800!!!!!!!! Ican't afford it. So we decided to temporarily pump her full ofantibiotics(twice the Baytril and a ton of Clindamycin) and see what anew xray shows in a month. She is doing a little better now that she'son so much antibiotics but still has really bad days; every couple daysshe can't put any weight on it and tries to hobble around all day withher bum leg in the air. Other days she's prancing around like a happylil bull (I stop her from running any time I see it). But she keepsdoing good for a few days and then has a horrible one and it takes acouple days to get back to where she was before and it happens again.I'm already spending about $ 500 a month just on her meds and havealready spent at least $ 2thousand on her treatment so far. Please helpme save Piglet's leg! She has lived a hard life and deserves to live therest of her life peacefully.
To make a long story short Iknew she was going to be euthanized and she needed medical attentionbadly; so I contacted a small private rescue and we fought with theshelter fora week to get her out of there and to a vet. They wouldn'teven release her for a couple hours to the rescue so we could get her toa vet and stated she couldn't leave until she was spayed. The guy whoruns the rescue had all his paper work to prove he was a legitimatenon for profit rescue. So they eventually spayed her and a week latershe was living with me.
I was supposed to be fostering herand totally fell in love with her.She is such a well trained, sweetand loyal little girl that I'm finding a new place to live just so I cankeep her.Good thing I fell in love with her because the guy at therescue has flaked on me after realizing the costs associated withthis dogs treatment. She was definitely used and abused because she wasvery hand shy with me when first got her but I have gained her trust butshe still doesn't trust strangers until she knows they aren't a threat.She also had something tied around her good front arm that left areally deep and nasty scar that goes around the whole arm(looks likea skin bracelet).She is an amazing dog though. She's been through somuch an dis just the sweetest and most loyal dog! This breed ingeneral just seems so loyal to its little pack.
Here's myproblem. She has a severe bone infection (osteomyelitis) and I've beento different vets with her almost every 3 days since I got her gettingcultures,needle aspirations, xrays, blood tests, etc... After 2 weekson Baytril and NSAIDS and no progress my vet didn't know what to do withher leg and said it was the nastiest looking x ray he's seen that didn'tinvolve a bone tumor. He recommended me to an orthopedic surgeon whoalso said her xray was absolutely horrible and thought she may of hadbone cancer.Thankfully the needle aspiration proved she didn't havebone cancer. He basically said he needs to do a bone biopsy and removethe dead sequestered bone and pack the wound with antibiotic lacedpacking.The problem is he gave me an estimate of$ 2300-2800!!!!!!!! Ican't afford it. So we decided to temporarily pump her full ofantibiotics(twice the Baytril and a ton of Clindamycin) and see what anew xray shows in a month. She is doing a little better now that she'son so much antibiotics but still has really bad days; every couple daysshe can't put any weight on it and tries to hobble around all day withher bum leg in the air. Other days she's prancing around like a happylil bull (I stop her from running any time I see it). But she keepsdoing good for a few days and then has a horrible one and it takes acouple days to get back to where she was before and it happens again.I'm already spending about $ 500 a month just on her meds and havealready spent at least $ 2thousand on her treatment so far. Please helpme save Piglet's leg! She has lived a hard life and deserves to live therest of her life peacefully.
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