Post-Adoption Support-Cushings
Shown, first photo: Wrigley arrived stray and unspoken for, you might say abandoned, to the Austin Animal Center with multiple lymphomas. Donors made it possible for us to provide his medical care and comfort during the last 8 months of life with two sisters who fostered him in love, like one of the family. The legacy of Wrigley, and the wonderful ladies that helped him, passed next to Bruce who lived his last months with hemangiosarcoma.
Photo of Wrigley by Sarah Jurgensen Throop
Dogs that are helped through our medical sponsorship program each have their own unique set of challenges, from mobility issues to bleeding tumor removals, to medically necessary dentals to managing conditions like Cushings and heart disease. Foster dogs that are in our medical sponsorship receive full nose to tail care. Your donations ensure we can remove barriers to adoption, help avert shelter surrenders and provide comfort care for hospice dogs like Wrigley and Bruce. On behalf of all of them and their caregivers, we thank you kindly for donating.
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Some senior dogs reach the shelter and are able to be adopted to new families without extensive medical work. However many arrive stray or abandoned and neglected with major medical barriers standing in the way of securing a new home. And for a smaller portion of those arriving senior dogs, sometimes the end may not be far off, but it's not here,,,not today,,and not in a shelter. They may reach us too late for treatment. Our medical sponsorships help both types of cases, restorative and comfort care. For those with treatable medical needs we get to work on rolling back years of neglect, so they can be viewed as adoptable pets and join a loving family. For those that are not treatable, we provide comfort and final needs care. Whether a senior dog arrives too late for treatment or just in time for help with years of their life ahead, fosters provide the vital link, a "friend till the end" for those that may not be adoptable, and a land bridge home for those that can be treated. Your donation helps to improve a senior shelter dog's remaining life, because every dog deserves a loving friend until the very end.