Update on Parvo Situation

It has been a rough weekend and week.  From being snowed in to losing another pup, I think we were ALL going stir crazy. 

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Cassidy has been officially pre-adopted to a home out of Tennessee.  She is doing great – still eating like a horse and LOVING playtime with the other healthy pups.  Her favorite new activity is CLIMBING!  Yes, she has learned how to climb wire crates….I call her my little Ape!  I plan on continuing to foster her until she goes to her new home on the 20th.

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Kora is still a wild child.  Running, bouncing, loving on me always and sucking down her food like one of the big pups.  She is being held here for another week to watch for any potential signs to appear.

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Natalie – I lost Natalie suddenly on Sunday evening.  Natalie had started coming around late Saturday and was showing signs of improvement.  She followed all of the typical signs that the others had.  Apparently, though, the Clavamox was not effective in treating what appears to be a respiratory condition which appeared suddenly Sunday Afternoon.  I had moved her upstairs Sunday morning to monitor her, as she seemed a bit lethargic Sunday morning.  I was on the phone with our veterinarian when she suddenly started breathing heavily and crying.  I dropped the phone and went to pick her up to put her in the car and she had already passed.  Needless to say, she took a piece of me with her.  I had one of our vets come to the house to diagnose the others and to assure me that I was following protocol.  As I was told, this is just how things happen sometimes with this horrific virus.  Unfortunately, that does not stop my heart from aching.  RIP sweet Nattie…you were loved.

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Jack is doing well in his new foster home – and despite their efforts to NOT adopt this one, I have been informed that the possibility does exist…he is in love with ALL of them, and ALL of them,kids included, are in love with him…

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Buck is doing great!  He was transferred to a foster home yesterday and I have never seen him move so quick!  He was running and playing and roughousing with his new foster mom through the night.  He has been pre-adopted out of state and will be going home next week sometime! 

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Shannon is still a big footed, clumsy goofball!  She is SO much fun!  Very healthy and active and is enjoying playtime with the other healthy puppies.  We are seeking a foster home for her still…

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Beautiful little Sage….just look at her!  She is the most beautiful and precious little girl.  Granted, she gets going and she is a wild pup at best!  But knows when to stop, and reacts to reprimands by sitting.  She is a VERY well behaved baby who just needs a good home.  She also needs a foster home….?

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Previously James, now renamed “Chuck” was ill for a while.  I was getting quite concerned about him.  Luckily, yesterday, he turned the corner and is now back to healthy status.  Solid stool, eating A LOT, and getting into mischief again….I missed him!!!  He will need a foster for a few weeks to build his immunity back up.

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Sandy is SUCH a SWEET SWEET DOG!!!  VERY submissive, and shy…but fun and playful as well.  After she was released from the hospital, we brought her into a crate upstairs to monitor her.  We have started letting her run with our dogs a few times a day, and she just blends right in.  My family ALL agrees that she has got the sweetest and calmest personality of all of the dogs that we have had.  She is doing GREAT health wise and we are looking for a foster home that can spend more time with her than we are able to.

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Jennie is an older pup and showed no signs of Parvo from the start.  We decided that it was in her best interest to go back to the shelter, along with 5 others who had healed/recovered to try to find a home quicker.  Confining her to a crate was not in her best interest.  The shelter has kennel runs where she can go in and out.  Completely crate trained, the poor thing would hold it until the next “out” time and had her own special spot on the basement floor.  We never got any offers to foster Jennie – if anyone is interested, we can pull her back out of the shelter and put her into your home temporarily.  She is DEFINITELY a sweetheart and DESERVES the best that life has to offer.  If the shelter gets full, Jenny and the others will come back here temporarily.

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Another older pup, Reece never showed a sign and was returned to the shelter with Jennie.  You should have seen them when they got there – playing and romping and having a good old time!!!  Same situation as Jennie above….WE NEED FOSTERS!  Leaving them in crates is the ONLY option in my home at this time…WITHOUT foster homes, it is not fair to isolate them to a 42″ crate – if the shelter fills up, she will go back in that crate…but until then, ADOPT!  FOSTER!  Contact us or the shelter…we would love to match you up with Reece or another sweet pup/dog from the shelter.

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Johnny showed parvo like signs for only 2 days, and was back on his paws!  We held him to ensure he was recovered, and returned him to the shelter to increase his chances of adoption (A.A.R.F. only operates one day a week in public – the shelter is open 6 days a week!!!).  We are hoping that Border Collie rescue will come and take him away!!!  Such a SWEET personality!

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Chris showed only slight signs for 2 days, like Johnny, so we brought him back as well.  He is a VERY active pup and was going absolutely insane in his crate all the time.  He is much happier back at the shelter. 

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Poor little Karen.  This about kills me. She was the quiet one – the one that never complained or fussed or whined or anything.  She was in a standalone crate, not stacked like the others. She was always the last one to be cleaned and fed, and she would come out of her crate ever so gently and quietly.  She would eat her food gradually – never in one bite like the others.  A perfect little lady.  She would get bored through the day and would pull at some of the bed sheets on the shelf above her crate and bring them into her crate through the top – to make it look like she had a canaopy going on.  Absolutely beatiful, sweet girl.  Monday she started showing symptoms.  Today they have gotten worse.  She is continuing to fight and is still alert.  We have vet confirmation that we are doing everything correctly – but her chances don’t look so good right now.  I ask everyone who reads this to PLEASE PRAY for Karen.  She is quiet – but strong.  She just has to make it…

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Tell me this is not the most handsome dog…Armondo has fully recovered from his bout with Parvo and is being held until he is strong enough for adoption.  He is playful, active, eating and everything is looking AWESOME!  He’s really like a foster home….or a forever home…??

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Tiimid little Rhonda…so untrusting of people.  SO much potential….and someone read that on my last post and gracefully requested to foster her.  She arrived in her foster home yesterday, and the update today said “She is warming up to us a little bit. She will now come back in the house if I move way back out of the way of the door. The first few times I took her out it took a while to get her back in and I ended up having to prop the door open and move way back into the basement. This morning she even walked back up the basement steps on her own. When she doesn’t think I’m watching she plays. She tries to get the dogs to play with her but they act like they are scared of her”.  Thanks again, Betsy! 

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Jonas, the second Border Collie pup, has FINALLY recovered from his experience with Parvo.  He is eating, playing, romping and having a GREAT time with the others….seeking foster home……?

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Christy also recovered and she is back at the shelter seeking her forever home.  She is shy at first, but warms up quick.  LOVES her food and LOVES other dogs…if we had more foster space, we would have kept her in a heartbeat….

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Lisa has also recovered no problem.  Back at the shelter seeking her forever home…Tiny little thing….I would think she would be adopted VERY quickly!

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Oh sweet little Angel….for those of you just reading this for the first time, Angel was brought into the shelter one of the days that I was volunteering there.  I put her on my list to pull, as she was black and white and reminded me a bit of a Boston Terrier (my favorite breed).  She was adopted, and then returned on the 25th after she was diagnosed with Parvo.  Assuming the worst, I brought her home, and was preparing her fluids, when I look over and she was sucking down a bowl of canned food…???  Very unlike parvo.  I started her on the Tamiflu prevention and SubCu Fluids – she went through the normal Tamiflu reactions that especially the little ones (in my experience) go through.  I moved her upstairs when I saw little improvement and BOOM!  This cannonball just appears out of nowhere.  We assume now that she was just depressed.  She NEEDS to be near people – miss social butterfly just MUST BE center of attention!  She started eating, drinking, and playing and her stool solidified within a matter of a few days.  She was pre-adopted on Monday and will go to her new home on Saturday.  This time – it IS a forever home!  She is going to someone who wants HER just as much as SHE wants her new MAMA!!!

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FOR THOSE READING THIS POST:  DONATIONS ARE NOW NEDED MORE THAN EVER.  A.A.R.F. STEPPED UP AND TREATED THE SHELTER PUPS OUT OF OUR OWN POCKET.  WE WILL NOT SEE ADOPTION FEES FROM THESE ANIMALS – THE SHELTER NEEDS THEIR ADOPTION FEES TO CONTINUE OPERATIONS.  A.A.R.F. IS ABOUT SAVING LIVES AND RAISING THE FUNDS TO DO SO.  PLEASE CLICK THE DONATE LINK TO THE RIGHT OF THE SCREEN TO DONATE AS MUCH OR AS LITTLE AS YOU CAN TO ASSIST US IN RECOVERING FROM THIS EXPENDITURE.

IF YOU CANNOT DONATE FINANCIALLY BUT HAVE A USED WIRE CRATE OR EXCESS CAT LITTER, WE ARE DESPERATELY IN NEED OF BOTH!  WE LOST AT LEAST 3 CRATES FROM THIS BOUT OF PARVO THAT WE ARE TREATING AS THESE HEALTHY PUPS WERE NOT HAPPY IN CONFINEMENT (I would not be either!).  WE WILL ACCEPT ANY SIZE CRATE DONATIONS, BUT PREFER 36″ AND ABOVE, AS IT GIVES THE ANIMALS A LITTLE BIT MORE ROOM TO SPREAD OUT.

A.A.R.F. is a non-profit, 501(c)(3) no kill animal rescue organization.  We survive ONLY on donations from the public.  Without YOU and people LIKE YOU, A.A.R.F. could not and would not exist.  Please donate as much as you can…the next ones are waiting for us to save their lives.

Thank you,

Jennifer Farley, President