Healing Hearts Program
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Our Healing Hearts Program was established to help special needs animals get the treatment and care they need to live a happy healthy life. This program helps treat conditions as normal as Thyroid problems, Heartworms, and Mange to conditions much more severe such as dislocated hips, broken bones, limb amputations, birth defects, and life threatening emergency procedures. Our Healing Hearts Program helps animals who would otherwise be euthanized due to medical conditions that are treatable, but costly. Sometimes the difference between an animal being adopted or euthanized comes down to one very simple issue, Funding. Our aim is to never have to turn a needy animal away due to lack of funding. The only way for us to achieve that is with the support from our community in building our Healing Hearts Program. |
Thumper came to us because he was facing euthanasia at one of our partnering animal control facilities. Thumper was born Deaf, and had recently suffered a broken leg after being thrown from a moving vehicle, and had severe anxiety on top of everything. He went into a foster home and through his long recovery he had an outpouring of supporters. Through his story our Healing Hearts Program was born. Thumpers has since been adopted by his foster mom, one of our staff members, and now regularly attends offsite events and education programs to help spread awareness about special needs animals, as well as help promote our Healing Hearts Program.
Duke
Duke 8/7/2018
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We want you to meet a VERY special puppy named Duke. You may need a happy tears tissues!This boy came to us Saturday 8/4 and we knew he needed immediate attention. He has a hematoma on his head, and had pus pockets in multiple places, but more importantly his gums were completely white. We were scared for little Duke, as he was not looking good.
Dr. Matt Moskosky at Fredericksburg Equine Veterinary Services answered our desperate calls and rushed in from time with his family to examine this sweet baby. Unfortunately for little Duke he desperately needed a blood transfusion, so the AMAZINGLY caring Dr. Moskosky took Duke home for the weekend!! Yeah, he's really that awesome folks. He set up his transfusion in the living room and we soon figured out Dukes biggest problem was he was so overloaded with worms that they were killing him. After a weekend of constant care, and cuddles from Dr. Moskosky's 2 year old daughter(who named little Duke), he is doing wonderful. We still have a road to recovery, but Duke is back with us and in foster with one of our staff members, and we are SO beyond ecstatic around here. We do need your help though, Duke's care this weekend is going to add up quick, donations of absolutely any amount would be greatly appreciated, so that we can continue to save the little ones like him. |
Marvin
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Meet Marvin! This scrunchy faced boy is in desperate need of your help.
Marvin came to us in September of 2017 from a coastal shelter affected by Hurricane Harvey. We noticed he had a funny walk and knew something was wrong. After an evaluation from an Orthopedic Specialist, it was determined that Marvin had Cranial Cruciate Ligament Disease in both of his hind legs, also known as a torn ACL. The good news is that there is a surgery that can repair these ligament but the bad news is that unfortunately we do not have the funds to do so. His vet will want to fix one leg at a time and each leg will cost $4400. Once we receive enough donations for one leg, we will go ahead and be able to do the surgery. After he heals from that surgery, his vet will evaluate him and decide if amputation of the other leg would be the best course of action or if we will have to do surgery on the other leg as well. If surgery is decided, the total cost will be $8800. We have been trying to raise money for Marvin for almost a year now and have not been successful. Marvin deserves a life without pain and won't be able to find his forever home without the surgery! If you have a few dollars to spare and can miss tomorrow mornings coffee, it would make a tremendous impact on the life of this amazing shelter animal. Marvin has the sweetest soul and even loves to talk to us with the cutest grumble while in his kennel. He has the most positive outlook on life and now it is up to us to give him the better life he has long been waiting for. Can you be his hero? 
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Current Healing Hearts Cases
Harry was born without a paw on his rear leg, causing one to be drastically shorter. We are currently looking into the possibilities of prosthesis or amputation.
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Hannah was born with "CH" or Cerebellar Hypoplasia. She has a wobble when she walks and her balance isn't always stead, but boy does she love all other animals. Cats, Dogs, kittens, and puppies this mother hen is the greeter of all!
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Marvin came to us during Hurricane Harvey and what was once though to be a broken leg turned into a severely broken leg AND two torn ACL's Marvin has had MANY interested adopters, however due to the exorbitant cost of surgery Marvin has not even begun to think about the future.
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Astro is a staff favorite and true success story. He was completely shut down and in an open intake shelter where he faced Euthanasia due to his temperament and injuries as a result of being hit by a car, and heartworm positive status. Fast forward two months and this boy is completely healed up, loves EVERYONE, and has almost completed heartworm treatment!!
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April came to us pregnant and ready to pop, this mother-to-be had been living on the streets her entire life, and this last time was hit over the head with a board causing a small fracture. She successfully raised 13 babies, and is going through heartworm treatment and once finished will get some masses biopsied, and until then we are keeping our fingers and toes crossed for her!
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Daisy is a Hurricane Harvey survivor who came to us emaciated, overbred, heartworm and lungworm positive, and in congestive heart failure. To say she was a wreck is an understatement. This girl is now down to only two medications a month, loves everyone she meets, and is finally ready to find a loving family.
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Some of our 2017 Healing Hearts Animals
We would not have been able to save these lives without your help....
