Imgur client OhHiDenny took to the web to share the account of a gaunt stray they saved on a Sunday morning. The tragic story has its good and bad times, yet you’ll be happy you stuck around for the end!
“My better half and I went out on the overhang Sunday morning before taking off for the afternoon. Wouldn’t be back til late that night since we had multi day of errands arranged. I look down from the railing to see a pooch. Without anyone else’s input laying in the grass. I look around to check whether there’s a proprietor adjacent. Most likely simply taking her out for a walk, she got worn out, and chose to set down. There’s nobody around. I can tell that she’s depleted. She looks up at me and I quickly realize that we need to go down and keep an eye on her.”
“We get some turkey and water at that point head down to mind her. It wasn’t until we got very close when we saw she was totally canvassed in bugs and appallingly starved. She had a neckline however no labels. She ate a tad of the turkey yet wouldn’t drink any water. I hurried back up to the loft, removed the majority of my garments from my clothing bushel, and darted down. We scooped her up and carried her to our front entryway. She had no vitality, no feeling, no excitement. We considered calling the nearby haven, yet we couldn’t go out on a limb of them simply abandoning her the minute we dropped her off.”
“I rushed to the store and bought flea bath shampoo while my girlfriend sat with her. Splish, splash, she was taking a bath! She took it like a champ. Sure she wanted to get away from the water, but she was such a good girl. We gave her two baths with multiple scrub downs while picking off fleas and washing them down the drain. The amount of fleas was unreal. Every time we thought we had them all, another would rear its ugly head.”
“The baths were complete. The sweetest face I’d ever seen came out after all the pests and dirt were gone. Good lord, I couldn’t keep it together. I think I was more of mess than my girlfriend was. I went back to the store to buy dog food, a crate, and of course a little toy for her.”
“She didn’t know whether or not to trust us enough to fall asleep. She needed sleep badly, but her past definitely damaged her trust in humans.”
“Here you can see how skinny she actually is. I can’t believe someone would just abandon a dog as sweet as her. Something so innocent doesn’t deserve that. She threw up multiple times in our apartment. She would drink a little water. Throw up. Eat a little food. Throw up. I thought it might be because she hadn’t had anything for so long that her system couldn’t handle it, but we didn’t know for sure.”
“She didn’t mind her crate at all. She was so good! Although, I think she knew the word “vet” because as my girlfriend and I were talking about taking her the next day, this is the look we got. Don’t worry little girl, it’s for the best.”
“X-rays didn’t show us what we wanted to see. She had a major blockage. Hence the throwing up. Her little body was rejecting everything. The vet gave her a warm water enema while we waiting in the room. Thirty minutes pass and the doctor returns only to tell us that she didn’t pass anything and that surgery would be needed. He gives us the estimate and we nearly throw up just as our newly found pup has done. Since we didn’t know what the blockage was, the doctor couldn’t give us a chance of survival on the surgery. He said since they were going in blind, they wouldn’t know until they actually got in there. What do we do? How do we decide if it’s worth it?”