| The MrBuddy fund is pleased to be able to help Sammy with his eye surgery. We will be sending the maximum donation of $250.00. Here is a photo of Sammy. I don't have the specific techincal details of his eye problems I can tell the laymans part of his story; Sammy was dumped in a shelter, probably by someone who could not afford to pay for the treatment his damaged eyes required. He clearly had some vision left and loved to explore the yard and watch the brightly colored fish in the aquarium in his foster home. We wanted to do everything possible to preserve what little sight this sweet little guy had left. He was taken to a specialist for evaluation and was given several types of drops and medicines. After a week of medication, the more damaged eye was not healing. It was badly ulcerated and clearly very painful. It would require expensive surgery to halt the deterioration of the cornea but even that radical treatment could not actually repair the eye, just stop it from getting worse. There was so little sight left in that eye that it was determined it would be more humane to remove it. There was also some fear that a tumor might be causing the excessive bulging of that eye. Luckily, no tumor was found and the bad eye was safely removed. To protect the remaining eye, the specialist recomended a surgical closure of the edges of the lid. This would make it bulge less and allow Sammy to blink fully and prevent the eye from drying out. Sammy is currently on the mend. The swelling is less and less every day and he is finding his way around with less trouble. As soon as his remaining eye is healed, this pint-sized gentleman will be ready for adoption into a loving forever home. The MrBuddy fund is pleased to be able to help Sammy with his eye surgery. We will be sending the maximum donation of $250.00. Please let me know where I need to send the check to help with Sammy's care. Best wishes, Edalee, Connie and Arlene The MrBuddy Fund |
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| Cricket was discovered around the first of the year on a doorstep not far from Seattle by a veterinarian who was looking for a rental. He went to a certain address, and there was a badly hurt Boston. He felt that she had been hit by a car. Her pelvis, hip and leg were all broken. As he was "subbing" in an emergency clinic, all the work he did on her was after hours. He put her back together again with 2 operations, but the head of her femur got necrotic and another operation had to be done. Her back leg healed with it crossing in front of the other back leg...the pelvis and hip knit back together fine. He ended up going back to Atlanta, where he was from, and gave her to a nurse that he knew. After a week, she felt that the Boston breed was not for her, so at that point she contacted rescue. That's where we came in. She had seen a neurologist who recommended hydrotherapy, which the foster home did, also was walked 3 miles daily. Unfortunately, when the leg's nerves started "waking up" she developed neuromas..it felt like the ends of her nerves were on fire, she ended up self-mutilating her toes down to the bone. At that point we decided that we needed to go ahead with the amputation. What a difference...one day post-op she was laying on her "wound" and 3 days post op, she was back to partial walks.....zooming all over the place, nothing slows her down now. She went to a wonderful family who loves Bosties, as you can tell from the pictures, they adopted an old mistreated Boston boy from me a few years back. They love her to pieces. So, Miss Cricket has finally come home. |
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| On May 27,2003 the Mr. Buddy Fund is pleased to announce that we were able to help two little BT's in North Carolina Fufu and her sibling who are in foster care with BTRNC had horrible cases of Demodex. The Mr. Buddy fund was able to send the maximum donation to help these little ones |
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