Straydog UPDATE posted MONDAY 3/10/03 at ~10:47 p.m. CT

Pat Arnold's Daily Dog Log

MONDAY MARCH 10 2003

The two new arrivals rescued yesterday are okay, and Freckles goes to see the doctor (or to be seen by the doctor, as this poor little doggie is totally blind--actually has no eyes).

      This morning I needed to take Freckles "to see" the doctor because she appears to have an eye socket infection, and I also wanted to be at the clinic by nine a.m. to have extra time to talk to the doctor about the two New Arrivals, who were rescued yesterday during our unsuccessful search for the two remaining dogs of the Jesse-Bear-and-Mama-Dog-Laura Family at Tenison Golf Course.

Freckles does have an eye socket infection

      Freckles, the little blind dog (who has no eyes), was the first to be seen by the doctor. When Dr. Morton tried to examine Freckles' eye sockets she put up such a terribly huge ruckus that, even with three of us trying to hold her still, the doctor finally had to sedate her to calm her down, and only then was he able to give her a thorough checkup, clean the cavities of her eye sockets and add medication, which we'll need to continue for several more days.

Dr. Morton gives Freckles a sedative so he can examine her eye sockets.

Freckles is now asleep.

Vet Tech Donna administers eye drops in the infected eye socket.

 

      When Freckles was wide awake again, I took her to the van while we checked on the new arrivals (the two females rescued yesterday at Tenison Golf Course in Dallas).

New arrivals from Tenison Golf Course

      When these dogs were first rescued yesterday, it was thought that the pair of females were probably mother and daughter, because of the close bond between the two of them, but today the doctor said that the dogs were both about two years old, and most likely had developed the strong bond because of being companion strays for so long.

The dogs appear to be okay

      By the time our employees, Guy and Tina (who were volunteering their days off), got to the vet clinic with the dogs, they had named the dogs Allie and Sally. Allie is the dobie looking dog with short, blackish/brown fur, and, per our vet, is a Shepherd mix. Sally, the brown dog with longer fur, is Shepherd mix too.

Allie lies on the lift table at the vet clinic.

Dr. Morton listens to Sally's heart.

      After the dogs were examined by the doctor, he said that other than the two of them being much too thin (except for their bellies now being so fat from all the food they've been eating since being rescued) they appear to be okay. They are both approximately two years old. Their preliminary heartworm tests done in his office both came out negative, and we'll get the official lab results of the heartworm tests tomorrow. They have the usual worms all stray dogs seem to have, and they were covered with huge ticks and fleas, but everything else seems to be okay.

      The doctor gave them their vaccinations, and I left Allie and Sally for their spay surgery to be done this afternoon. Tomorrow we'll be able to bring them to our shelter. They'll be staying in the kennel that had been prepared for Jesse's father and sibling, who haven't been rescued yet.

Snowflake had a fairly good day today--until this evening

      Today old Granny Dog Snowflake seemed to be feeling somewhat better than she has felt over the last few days. She ate well and kept the food down all day until this evening when we were almost ready to go to bed. I'd thought she was on the road to recovery, but apparently she is not. We just can't figure out what causes her to vomit daily. Tomorrow the doctor wants to see her again at 9:00 a.m.