**Updated pics!**Very sad cases....**caution aweful pic**

Reptscue · #1 (**permalink**) 03-18-2007, 03:57 AM

The last couple weeks have been the most emotionally trying for me.
Last Tuesday we had a younge female dog brought in that had a buckle collar embedded into her neck. She was terrified. But as I scanned her for a microchip she didn't even flinch to make a move. She was once someone's pet that either gotten loose or was dumped. The smell engulfed the whole clinic. The next morning we run a heartworm test and blood work and it shows she has heartworms. We do xrays and see that her heart and lungs are fine. So we knock her out ato clean her neck and suture her back up. Well, she didn't wake up...... I had named her Patience, because she would need alot of it to come around and make her the good dog I know she could have been....
On this past Wednesday we had an owner come in with a dog that ad a neurological problem since November. She wwas dragging her right front leg. Well, since she didn't follow through with her previous vet, the dog had drug the leg to the point that it was gangreenous. The infection went sustemic and she was in lateral recumbancy. She couldn't even lift her head. She would wag her tail for us and that was it. Aniamal Services was called and the owner was kept by our staff for them to show up. The dog was taken and humanly euthanized and the owner was thrown in jail. When the owner was let back into the kennel the dog wouldn't even wag her tail for the owner. She did for every one of us.
Now a few of you know that I petsit for a Rhodesian Ridgeback breeder. I always keep an eye on Animal Services for the neglect cases and purebreds that I can get into breed rescue when I can. I was this poor girl there that was so emaciated that I was suprised she was still alive... We went down there to evaluate her for rescue. She is so scared. Not a mean bone in her body. She looks to have been beaten on her back in a couple places.... She was found as a stray. Well... she is going to get out of there and go to my friends place. She is under a year old and has great potential. to be a wonderful pet.
Here she is....

dhonaker · #2 (**permalink**) 03-18-2007, 04:03 AM

that is so sad

amercnwmn · #3 (**permalink**) 03-18-2007, 04:07 AM

Thats awful! It's prevalent with every hobby, birds, aquatics, herps, mammals. That is what is REALLY sad.
That would be a tough week, and a time that would make it hard to say, "ok there is good coming from this".

Reptscue · #4 (**permalink**) 03-18-2007, 04:11 AM

You want the cherry on the cake???
I had to bag 3 of my own animals this week.......

amercnwmn · #5 (**permalink**) 03-18-2007, 04:15 AM

Oh no....what happened??
Were they IBD related deaths?

Reptscue · #6 (**permalink**) 03-18-2007, 04:17 AM

One was a sick Blue tongue skink I had. And the other 2 yes...

amercnwmn · #7 (**permalink**) 03-18-2007, 04:34 AM

Oh, I was hoping that was all over with for you..That's awful. I'm so sorry to hear of your losses. I know each animal you work with is loved as if it was your own.
I hope something really inspiring happens at work, and you see a happy ending to help put the bad things into perspective.
I think what you do is admirable, and it makes such a wonderful difference in the lives of the animals.

Reptscue · #8 (**permalink**) 03-18-2007, 04:40 AM

I only have 7 boas left. From about 20 just 13 months ago. I don't think I'll own them again. If I do it will be just one or a pair of HI boas. No more...... I can't ever do this again.
Thank you.....

deadliestformula · #9 (**permalink**) 03-18-2007, 04:44 AM

I am so sorry to hear about your animals. And it was just heartbreaking to read about all of those animals in your post. I never understood how people could mistreat/neglect animals that badly.

zsanorah · #10 (**permalink**) 03-18-2007, 04:44 AM

That poor beautiful creature. I cry every time i see something like that. Its wonderful that you are here to help them all. I know that not everyone can be a happy ending, but at least some can. Thank you for helping them far more then I could ever dream of.

Adrya · #11 (**permalink**) 03-18-2007, 04:51 AM

Oh man I am so, so sorry.

I watch Animal Precinct and other shows like it on Animal Planet a lot and it's such a shame that so much of that goes on... and I'm so sorry for your losses, too.

I wanted to become a veterinarian or at least a vet tech, but after thinking long and hard about it, I don't think I could do what you do... you're a very strong person.

Reptscue · #12 (**permalink**) 03-18-2007, 05:02 AM

All I have to say that I believe in karma... What goes around comes around and these people will get theirs. Just pray they don't do it agian.

Thanks again...

Oh and instead of my job getting easier... after almost 10 years it gets worse.
I am seeing animals that I saw as a pup or kitten now grow old. And have had try cry with some very good clients/friends.

MED04 · #13 (**permalink**) 03-18-2007, 05:36 AM

Kim - I'm so sorry for the awful weeks that you've had. I've often thought about volunteering at a shelter, but I couldn't do it. I admire you for doing what you do and continuing to do it, many animals are better for it

-=krissi=- · #14 (**permalink**) 03-18-2007, 05:45 AM

Wow, I'm so sorry to hear all that!
I miss being able to help those animals but that kind of stuff is the part I'm not looking forward to dealing with again after I move & start at a new shelter.
I fully know what bad weeks like that are and I give my condolences.
Just think though, for all the bad you see you help bring good out of it in as many cases as you can.

Reptscue · #15 (**permalink**) 03-18-2007, 05:49 AM

You know... when it rains, it pours!

Thanks Meg and krissi.

zsanorah · #16 (**permalink**) 03-18-2007, 05:57 AM

You are so much stronger then I. When i was a little girl i dreamed of becoming a vet so that I could help all the kitties and the puppies. Then I grew up and realized that sometimes the best help i could offer was holding them and stroking silken fur as their final sleep overcame them, that sometimes it wouldn't always be better or get better and that i would see some truly awful things and I realized that as much as i want to help all the little ones of the world that was not the way for me. I could never harden myself to an animals sufferings, a humans perhaps but never an animals and my emotions would get in my way.
So you are so much stronger then I, and you are one of those people that I look up to.
Keep doing the work you do, bring light into the lives of those that have none, you are appreciated.

Stargazer · #17 (**permalink**) 03-18-2007, 06:07 AM

I am very saddened to read these stories. I volunteer at an animal shelter and see every week the sad abused, abandoned, and unwanted cats. I cannot leave every week without wiping tears from my eyes. I don't know how you do what you do, but I'm glad there are people like you out there to care for these poor animals.

Reptscue · #18 (**permalink**) 03-18-2007, 06:14 AM

Sometimes the most love-filled thing you can do for an animal is to let them peacfully go to sleep. I will always cry for them, but I have to be strong for their needs.

Thank you for your kind words.

Gotta go get another Smirnoff...

zsanorah · #19 (**permalink**) 03-18-2007, 06:21 AM

That is true, but still it would be hard. I made myself a promise that when its time for my boy to go, when he is no longer healthy or himself that I will let him go instead of making him suffer for me to have him. And I will hold him as he goes to sleep and it will be the hardest thing ive had to do. But that is the measure of love i do believe and you do this sometimes more then once a day.
I honestly do no know how you do, it would destroy some part of me each time.

Gaujo · #20 (**permalink**) 03-18-2007, 06:29 AM

What are heartworms?

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