10/02/2025
Yesterday I got a call for a puppy. I was told one month old hydro. But I wouldn’t have guessed this little girl would be what I was receiving.
To be clear she is alive in the first video, but barely. I was afraid she wouldn’t make it home because her breathing was so shallow.
She was emaciated, dehydrated and hypoglycemic upon pickup. Regurgitated blood specks with bile when I got home and I immediately got to work on getting her fluids and warming her body up.
She is getting tube fed as she is too weak to eat on her own. But we have to do reintroduction feeding so that her vital organs don’t shut down.
I tube fed her small meals via tube feeding all throughout the night. I stayed up with her because I was afraid she wouldn’t make it through the night.
She has an eye infection as well. I started her on meds for that and she has a small rasp in her chest, likely the beginning of pneumonia, so additional medications for that as well.
This morning she is lifting her head and I’m terrified to get my hopes up. This will be a long journey, weeks and months if she can pull through. She is 6 oz and one months old. I want her to make it so bad. She deserves to feel better.
Sometimes in a litter, you will have a runt or failure to thrive. Caring for those needs to be a skill that is learned to help them if they start to fail. If not the right thing to do is get them help, even if that means you can’t keep them or sell them. All lives deserve their chance and I will always be grateful for the opportunity to help those in need. But please if you see your dog suffering and failing, get them help sooner than later. Even if that means going to rescue.
Please send this darling girl so much love and prayers. We could use our community to help support her and myself in this time.
I get very emotional over the puppies I take into rescue and treat them like my children. I hurt when they hurt. So this little girl just breaks my heart.
We have named her Justice, please send her lots of love.
