01/02/2025
Welcome to Featured Foster, Day 2...Thanks for continuing to share our Featured Fosters, we appreciate you! We'd love for every foster with Megaesophagus to find their forever family and every share helps! Today, and this week, we're featuring Kira. Here is this beauties story...
Kira was born on January 27, 2024 and is just 1 year old! She is a beautiful Caucasian Shepherd, but Kira is no little girl! She already weighs 85 pounds! She will most likely weigh over 100 pounds when fully grown.
Kira is showing typical behavior for her breed...She will alert you when people are coming. She takes her time to approach them. Kira is affectionate and playful. She has a great time playing with her rope toys outside. She is housebroken and just loves her crate. While Kira was at board and train, she was eCollar trained.
Kira has a medical condition known as Megaesophagus (Mega E). Mega E is an enlargement of the esophagus which interrupts the normal flow of food to the stomach. When Kira eats, she needs to be sitting up. Her foster has ordered a special chair for her called a Bailey chair. Kira will learn to get in and out of the chair, eat sitting up and will need to remain upright for 10 to 15 minutes, after eating. Kira will need inexpensive medication for the rest of her life. The medication will help the food move down her esophagus and into her stomach.
Kira can run, play, and love on her people like any other dog. She just needs some extra TLC at feeding time.
Kira is available through Hail Mary Rescue, based out of Louisiana, but is currently being fostered in Danville, Virginia.
If you're interested in this beauty, an adoption application can be sent to the link below and a volunteer will be in touch:
https://form.jotform.com/.../hail-mary-rescue-adoption...
Beautiful graphic credit to Janice L McUne and Ryder Yukon-In Loving Memory.