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Meet Jolie and Skipper!
 Jolie
is only 3 years old and a owner surrender to the shelter. She
sat in the shelter for 5 days before we were contacted. During
that time, she had no medical attention. When we pulled her,
her skin was flaking off in places, her ears were very red and
swollen, her eyes were matted shut from a eye infection. She was
thought to be a male because of a large tumor on her rear. She
was very scared, and didn't make a peep - barely moving in the
car. Once we got her eyes opened, and the vet check done on
her, she became a different dog. She let us medicate her eyes,
ears, and skin several times a day without any trouble. During
her first few medicated baths, her elephant skin areas that were
so crusted over, started filling up the drain in the bathtub.
After her baths she started wiggle butting like nothing had ever
happened to her. She is now fully vetted, she is heartworm
negative, spayed, and her skin, eye, and ear issues have all
made wonderful improvements. The tumor was bleeding and causing
her some discomfort so we had to go ahead with the surgery to
have it removed - the sample is being sent to UT for a
histology. Jolie's potential adoptive family came to look at
Rosie, but since they had young children (ruled out Skip) and
another dog (ruled out Rosie), they took a look at Jolie. Even
with her nasty smell, bad eyes, unknown seriousness of her tumor
on her rear, they fell in love with her winning personality. We
did the application (approved), the meet and greet with their
other rescued cocker (approved), and they were more convinced
than ever that Jolie is the dog for them. She truly is a love
and has the winningest personality you could ever imagine. I
have kept them in the loop about everything going on with her,
and they even transported her to and from the surgeon. We are
all a mess currently as we await the results of the histology.
Due to the immediate need for Jolie to have surgery CARA has
assured the Veterinarian we will cover the cost. So we
really need help.
 Skipper
came to us from the shelter as a stray. A lady called me to
tell me that she found a horribly matted cocker in the parking
lot of Wal-Mart and not knowing what to do with him, she took
him to the shelter. He was not altered, no tags, no microchip,
and his rear leg was matted to his belly making it painful for
him to walk (hobble). The shelter confirmed that he was
severely matted and unaltered, so I asked them to shave him
while he was sedated for the neuter. They declined. When I
picked him up, his leg was still matted to his belly, his ears
were so matted that we could not tell where they started and
stopped, and he had matting covering most of his body. The
shelter did not give him any shots because they said that they
had "ran out" of vaccines - but at least he was neutered. The
shelter vet did shave him for the neuter surgery, but that was
all. In the car, he was Mr. Personality. Very happy go lucky,
lively, and vocal. Once we got him to my vet office, and we
started trying to examine him and trying to remove the matting,
he started snapping and growling. He was so scared with
everything going on, that he started fighting like crazy. He
did not trust people at all. We had to muzzle him, and then had
to sedate him because he was fighting so much - fighting for his
life in his eyes. Anyways, after we got him shaved, we saw
where someone had tried to cut the mats off of his ears, but
they actually cut off part of his ear and left a piece hanging.
The ends of his ears had blackened with no air circulation, and
were very painful. Every time someone went to touch him, or pet
him he snapped. The boarding facility (my vet office) thought
that he was being nasty, and could possibly be a candidate for
being put down, but I
 couldn't do it. After the
temperament test
(I don't temperament test initially due to the very likelihood of
failure with stress in new situations) I saw that his ears were
the cause of his issues - and we have successfully treated
them. He can still be testy with new people until they gain his
trust with a cookie or two. After delivery of a cookie, he
warms right up to people. He is a vocal fellow - and will sing
himself to sleep as you are petting him. He is showing some
separation anxiety with me, but then again, I am the only one
"springing" him from his cage right now. Skip is now neutered,
responding well to training, housetrained, and becoming very
affectionate. He is also heartworm positive. He is a very
lively, athletic, fast, food motivated, spunky bundle of cocker
love who is learning to trust people. Skipper is HW positive and
needs to be treated. CARA needs your help.
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