For the Beauty of
GRACE
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always said when I had the ability to rescue, I would, and I would take
the ones no-one wanted, the bitches needing to whelp out puppies or with
puppies or the seniors.
My first foster was Tanjier with her four 4-week old puppies.
That was interesting as the puppies were about the size of newborn
Rottweilers! |
While at the SW MO Humane Society, a high kill facility, I saw a euth order on a senior rottie girl. She looked so miserable, I had to go in the run and spend some time with her. Beauty has small lacerations at different places over her body. It looks to me like she has traveled through brambles, has been rolled by a car, or some accident of this kind. At least two of her pads are raw and bloody as are her ears. She acts sore all over. Even as miserable as she was, she obviously enjoyed my petting her and talking to her. She even wagged her rear a little. My guess is that she is a German Rottweiler because she has a huge head and although her beauty is faded from poor condition, there's no doubt she was a beautiful girl. I knew I had to try to save her even though she's older. Perhaps being an older girl, myself sparked the decision, and maybe it's because a classy, quality, senior should not die by a needle in a shelter. She does not deserve this. I contacted a rescue I thought would take her in, but they are full. Can someone help? I don't think there are any broken bones, and her difficulty in walking is probably from the sore pads. To top it off, a concrete run with no outside access probably has enough cleaner and urine to burn the raw pads. Can someone help me save Beauty? I can send pictures if you want to see how thin this poor girl is. She is one of the sweetest dogs I've ever met. Her beautiful brown eyes are deep and gentle. If we can save her, please contact me asap. Connie Foster SW MO K9s |
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| 4/1/05 Hi Bridget, If you can take Beauty, I know that would be the best What day is the transport, and how close to me does it I would suggest the rabies shot be given after her treatment SW MO K9s |
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can see her hip bones and ribs jutting out and the damage on her
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4/3/05
Hi Bridget,
I'm sure a Google search will tell you all you
need to know about mange. This is Sarcoptic, which is the contagious kind. Beauty cannot be around other animals until at least the second treatment. The mange mites don't live very long off the dog, so you don't have to disinfect like with Parvo, but the crates need to be cleaned well before another dog uses it, and bedding should be washed in hot water. It's not the "horrible" ailment that many people think it is.
Beauty is in a foster home where she has a very large yard all to
herself. At night, she is crated in the kennel in a side room from
the other dogs. She is getting up and wandering around now, so the
pain medicine is making it tolerable to be on her feet, and hopefully,
her pads are healing.
The Humane Society had her listed as 8. I thought her teeth looked
much younger, but the vet put her at 5 or 6. So, what do I know!
Beauty's bill has been paid, and I suggest you don't take her until
after her second treatment. If she were in danger, it would be a
different story, and it's up to you. You can already
see a difference in her. I think you will be very pleased when you
meet her.
Thank you for being there for Beauty.
Connie |
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Beauty stayed with her temporary foster home for two weeks. Just my luck, ARC Nat'ls was being held when Beauty was available to travel. Darlene Homebaker of THORR met Connie and Beauty and brought her from MO to IL for me. Thanks also to Joan Sweeney of WI Rottweiler Rescue who lent Darlene a crate to bring Beauty home in.
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Beauty was renamed Grace at this point. |
| Grace was no trouble. She did not want to be a burden and was extremely grateful for what she had. The poor girl smelled heavily of a chemical dip, but she |
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| Four days after I had this bitch, the light for life finally showed in her eyes. She danced around my kitchen as I grabbed my camera. I was really happy to see this. I consider myself still new to rescue and found it so sad that even being two weeks in someone's care that really cared for her, that there was no life in her eyes. |
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| While this is a blurry shot, it shows the roughness of her coat and the complete lack of muscle on her hindquarters. I estimated she should weigh around 82-86 pounds. She
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| She will sit when you ask her to. But then will
promptly roll over so you can pet her belly. |
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| She does a lot of what people call a 'U-Dog', here she is in the starting position. When she is done, her nose is at her tail, she dances around a few times and then promptly falls over so you can rub her belly. Again, here you can just see how 'rough' she is. Poor |
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| I tried to get a good shot from above, but she kept sitting on me. She was actually worse than what this picture shows. Grace had an issue gaining weight. When the vet records were faxed to me and she weight 69.3 pounds and 3 weeks later only weighed 70.3 pounds I knew something was still wrong. Thankfully I found a tape worm segment. Checked the dewormer given 3 weeks previously and found it did not cover tapes. Dewormed her for tapes and Grace started to gain weight at about 2#s a week! |
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Barb says Grace never moves. Here is proof that
she can manage to take her bedding and cleverly create her 'Cape Crusader'
outfit where she has been known to leap tall buildings with a single
bound! |
But I do have to admit... this is usually what Barb see's
and it is Grace's favorite position... Grace taking a sunbath!
This is about 3 weeks after I got her. Still thin.
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Here are more updated pictures of Grace. She now
weighs 84#'s. |
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| It was with tears in my eyes that I said goodbye to Grace as
I left her with her new foster family. She walked into the house and
said, this place will do just fine.
July 19, 2005 |
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