Oh Beth, that is so sad! It is true that they spray the kennels down while the dogs are in it and have no where to hide, but have to stand in filthy water and sometimes icy water. It's horrible...I am so happy that you got her out of there. The one's that are in there for only a couple of days and then rescued are the lucky ones that usually aren't sick, unless they come from a PM. It's the ones like your little Vida that suffer the most trauma.
Beth, if you could keep doing this, I mean one at a time, you could open up a chip in with your Vet and I would support you and I am sure others would to. Something to think about. -------Original Message------- From: Beth Michl Date: 3/15/2011 3:59:31 PM To: [email protected] Subject: Re: [Chihuahuas] Update on rescue Chi I am too Lynn. This is my first rescue, but there are several more that I wish I could go save. If I had a bank account as big as my heart I would do it in a moments notice! It so sad that they come out so sick. I think people would do more rescues if the dogs weren't so sick!! Knowing they are going too put out a bunch of money, and go through allot of worry and heart ache, and even death of there new pup. I learned something about little Vida yesterday. I went out to water some new plants I had planted over the weekend. When I unreeled the hose she took off like lightning! & it hit me why she did this. When I was at the shelter that day they were spraying the kennels down with a hose. I am sure they sprayed the dogs too.. I went in and told her it was okay, she would never be sprayed again.. I am not sure she understood, but I will know in the future that its something she is afraid of. Beth --- On Tue, 3/15/11, [email protected] <[email protected]> wrote: From: [email protected] <[email protected]> Subject: Re: [Chihuahuas] Update on rescue Chi To: [email protected] Date: Tuesday, March 15, 2011, 11:17 AM Ohhh, so glad you went back for her. I bet those girls at your vet's office are thrilled to see her progress. This is such a feel good story, and we never seem to get enough of these types. Have myself gotten a little misty eyed of your updates on how well she is now doing. Your first pictures of her adorable face did not translate the awful truth of her extreme starvation. The big dogs she was so cruelly placed in with eating all the food leaving her with nothing. Poor little girl. I doubt she would ever want to leave you, her savior, anyway. Really looking forward to her updated I am so loved and fed pictures. Lynn In a message dated 3/15/2011 12:04:03 P.M. Eastern Daylight Time, [email protected] writes: Oh thank you Lynn.. She is a sweet little girl with the biggest doe eye's I have ever seen. It is fun to watch her change. You can't see her ribs now, but her back bone and hip/butt bones are still there. When I showed the pic's to the girls at the vet, they couldn't believe how good she looks in just less then two week I have had her. I found another picture I took the day I was at the shelter, this was when I first saw her, and had to leave cause I got so upset, then went back. Good updated pictures to come. I will try and take some tonight. Beth
