When I met Lilly her condition was pretty poor. Lilly, a 4 week old pup, came to us from one
of our spay and neuter clinics we attend.
She was brought in with her siblings and her mom because her mom was
there to get spayed. When we picked up
the pups to put them with their mom, we noticed that Lilly had a hole in her
back that was very infected. When asked
about the condition of the pup, the owner denied ever knowing that Lilly was in
the condition she was in. In all the
work that I have done with dogs I haven’t seen the condition this pup was in
and not taken a notice to the stench of rotting flesh or the big gaping wound
on her back. I still wonder to this day
how naive the lady was and how she could have walked past this pup every day
and seen the condition she was in but still not do anything about it. We talked
to the vet who diagnosed the wound as being caused by a botfly. The lady surrendered us the pup and the chore
of saving her life began.
She was put on an antibiotic and we had to flush the wound
multiple times a day. The rescue took
her on because we were willing to help her and do anything to save her
life. What people don’t understand is
that when a dog like this comes in (luckily she was young so this doesn’t
really apply) we not only work with the wound but rehabilitating the dog after
a trauma like that. Lilly went to one of
our foster’s and did amazing. She healed
within two weeks and then came back to my house to learn from my adult dogs how
to be a good dog. When she was eight
weeks of age she went to her new home and is doing great in her new
family.
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