SPONSERED WALK FOR TAMBA

The Friends of Many Tears have been deeply touched by Tamba's story and would like to help towards the veterinary costs that his treatment will incur. Just 5 Friends are doing a sponsored walk on the 29th September, if you would like to support Tamba please consider sponsoring them as a group for this 5 mile walk. Any sponsorship should be sent to:

Glenda Fry
50 Pastoral Way
Sketty
Swansea
SA2 9LY
Cheques should be made payable to Friends of Many Tears Animal Rescue and please mark the back of the cheque - Tamba. Please also include your e-mail address if you want to know that your cheque has arrived safely.

If anyone out there would like to join us on the walk in Swansea or do one wherever you live please contact Glenda at glendamfry@aol.com and she will arrange for a sponsorship form to be sent to you.





TAMBA





11-09-07 This is Tamba he is about 6 months old. We (Many tears rescue) are doing a video of him for you to be as appalled as we are. This pup can barely stand - he crawls on his belly or simply gets up only to collapse after a little while. I suspect he has no formed hips and will need extensive surgery. We will get him x-rayed tomorrow and then get a quote to fix this fellow. We will then probably have to ask for everyone's help. We will do an up date tomorrow.

12-09-07 UPDATE

These are sweet Tamba's x-rays. As you can see his hips and the next joints down are terrible. I am driving him to mid Wales in the morning for a specialist to tell me if she can mend him. I do not want him to suffer but I will not give up just because of inconvenience or money. I pray that where there's a will there's a way.

13-09-07
After getting up at 4am I have just got back from leaving at 7am to drive Tamba to the specialist vet. We talked and she gave me her professional opinion. She feels he is way too special and is saveable with effort.
So now he has ten days on Rimadyl, walks to slowly muscle him up and swimming every day. Then as long as his castration stitches are ok back to her to have his knee, which constantly is dislocating, stabilized and one hip looked at. Depending on his progress it will be decided as to whether his hip will need doing or not. Then he will need extensive physiotherapy and swimming and then the other hip may need doing.
I will go to the Jacuzzi place down the road to beg them to let me take him swimming there, or if needs be I will sell some of my things and buy a Jacuzzi and summer house so we have a permanent means to swim dogs here. Any ideas or fosterers with Jacuzzis close to us or the specialist who is the Bulith Wells direction please let us know. Where there's a will there's a way, and though some of you feel he should be put to sleep, you have not met him. I promise I would never put a dog through suffering. The vet said at 4 months this would have been a relatively easy opp!!!.

Watch Tamba's video:http://www.freewebs.com/manytearsrescue/tamba.htm .






UPDATE -17-09-07






17-09-07 Tamba is having his 3 times a day play time and 2 little walks a day. This has already muscled him up amazingly but as you can see he has trouble getting up and, of course, this is what we will are hoping to fix. We have worked very hard at trying to find a pool to swim him in and one of my staff offered to put her wet suit on and take him to the sea every day but of course there are waves and currents and it can be choppy. Just now I had an amazing call. I will give details of the offer I had if it arrives in writing but jut in case I am dreaming it - I will wait till then to say more.

Here is the offer from David Brooks of K9Surf in writing!!!!! THANK YOU!

Hi Sylvia,

Good to speak to you earlier. And pleased to hear that we may be able to help out Tamba. We were heartbroken to see the video clip of him struggling.

We would be willing to provide a pool 3m Diameter, 80cm’s deep (swimming depth 70cm). This pool will NOT have a jet system.

Filtration (ex-demo cartridge filter)
Heating (ex-demo 3kW heater)
Pump (ex-demo)
Solar Cover to Fit
Buoyancy Aid to fit Tamba

If someone could either collect the pool or pay for carriage (approx £40) this would be appreciated. And if someone could pay for Water Treatment & Test Strips (£20) this would be also be appreciated. You could add ramps and other accessories down the line if you wished to.

Please let me know whether you would like to go ahead with this. It’d take a few days to get all the parts together and as I said to you, I am awaiting a drain for this pool.

Hope this helps you out,
Kind regards,
David Brooks

P.S. – This pool is similar to this: http://www.k9surf.co.uk/poolkitslarge.htm (obviously without jet system and ramps).






UPDATE - 18-09-07

18-09-07 Last night Tamba went home with Liza our manager. He is in for a long hard recovery and I loathed him staying in kennels all the time. The compromise is whenever possible at night Liza will take him home. Until his pool is here she is taking him to the yacht club and will swim him off the ramp. It will not be choppy there and Lisa can get him home quickly to the warmth and dry him off.

Wonderful people have come forward to help and the pool will come soon. We took a new video and by the end of the week you can see his progress.






19-07-09 - Tamba's first swim!





Here is our manager Liza putting in many extra hours to help Tamba and here was his first swim. Until the pool comes he will swim in the sea at the yacht club. As it gets colder the pool will arrive and he will have warm water to swim in.

Thank you LIza for offering to help even though you work every day here.






24-09-07

Tamba is off to the vets tomorrow to have his first set of ops. He will be having his dislocated joints tied, but until the vet sees him and sees what progress has been made with him I don't know what else will be done that day.
He has swam ever day for five minutes... rain or shine (mainly rain!) and gone home with Liza each night and come back every morning. Now he has a reason to bother to get up he really is trying hard and as a result he is starting to get some muscle forming. He has also lost weight which is what the vet wanted as this will help him too.
We have not got the pool yet but when it comes we will have to think how to get some sort of shed or something for it to be in so it can be a warm area and can be used for other dogs who need it also. Till then the sea has been great. After surgery he has to rest and do nothing to start with, then swim and physio. I will up date again tomorrow after the surgery. Thank you all for your kind words support and interest. A huge thanks to all who are raising funds for Tamba's op and to Liza who has done so much for him.