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Originally Posted by KazzyK810  She's a cutie! Why is she in fostercare? |
Gianna, has a story behind her. Last week she was hit by a car and left to die on the side of the road, when a young lady found her and rushed her to the nearest vet hospital. The vet hospital agreed to minimally stabalize her, but she was in bad shape and according to their progress notes did not expect her to pull through. If she did and an owner did not show up or someone who would be responsible for her bill, she was scheduled to be turned over to the county shelter. I don't know what it was, but something kept pulling me towards this little girl and so hubby and I drove almost two hours last week to the vet hospital where she was at and brought her some things and spent some time with her. Even then she was in pretty poor shape. When we learned that she would be handed over to the shelter, we knew she'd never make it in that environment and my hubby (Gotta say I was surprised) told them he'd donate $500 toward her vet bill if they agreed to let me take her rather then turn her over to the shelter. Shelter was going to give them nothing toward the bill. A little bit later they came in and told us, that that shelter said it would be ok for them to surrender her to me (They had me listed as a rescue on the discharge papers. Not really am, but I do rescue on my own if the situation arrises). Any hoot, we picked this little girl (who the hospital named Gianna) up on Monday. She made incredible progress between Friday and Monday, which happily surprised me. She is incredibly thin, and still unsteady on her feet, although she is better this morning then she was yesterday so she is getting better each day. At this point we are going to fatten her up, give her lots of love and evaluate her as to what type of home she would do best in. As hungry as he was she had no food aggression, you could take food and bones out of her mouth with no issue. She is the most loving little girl. At first I thought she may have issues with dogs but she seems to fine with dogs now. I think she was just intimidated and frightened the first day and having my crew sniffing around her when she sitll didn't feel well, was probably the reason for the initial growling at them. She loves to get a bath and be groomed, so I assume at some point she was loved. What happened I don't know. No one is looking for her, we and the hospital searched all over and she is not chipped. However, I would have great reservations about returning her to anyone after I saw how emaciated she was and she was infested with fleas when the hospital had her. They treated her for that as well so now she is flea free and looking beautiful.
I have Yorkie 911 (Heidi) helping me out with anything I need and she will help me place her when the time comes. Right now it will be at least several weeks of resting and fattening up and some good love.
