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Location: Poodle Heaven!
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Spare a thought for a couple of rescues.
We have 3 doodles come in weekend before last. One, a girlie, was very matted and had been shut in a stable and/or a car. When we took her coat off she had an abcess under one of her front legs which had spread down her leg. Off to the vets and the poor girl had blood poisoning (not sure what would have happened if she'd not been collected when she had). The vet suspects that the abcess was due to a rat bite. Anyway she seemingly got better and her temperature went down only to shoot up at the weekend to 105
where she required more emergency tretment. Fortunately her temp is now down and she is eating and drinking well. Once she is fully recovered she will be spayed then rehomed.
Another one who came in at the same time is currently at the vets having his hips x-rayed as he was supposedly diagnosed with hip dysplasia before he was a year old and has been on pain killers ever since (about 6 months
). He has had little or no exercise resulting in a complete lack of muscle to his back end and legs. He's had no pain killers since he has been with us and has shown no sign of pain so we are hoping he has reasonably clear x-rays as someone is already interested in him (yipeee!)
On sunday someone handed in their little poodle. He had this huge lump on his neck which they said was as a result of an injection because he was yelping and the vet couldn't find anything wrong so just gave him a couple of jabs of anti-inflammatory a week apart. They said they could no longer afford to keep him (that's another story as they had an 08 car and were very matter of fact handing him over). Anyway turns out this was over a month ago and the huge lump on his neck was an abcess, we are talking a very small dog with an abcess the size of an egg on his neck for about a month. When we checked his teeth they were just one solid mass of tartar. He had his abcess lanced and his teeth cleaned yesterday of which 10 had to be removed (and he isn't that old). He is nothing but skin and bone, they said he wouldn't eat but with his teeth like they were I'm not surprised. He's eating and drinking now and he too has a home lined up for when his abcess is healed, it's open and smelly at the moment! Got to give it a flush. (he has spent most of the time he has been here on my lap
So spare a thought for these and send them some good vibes to get well and rehomed asap please.
Becky