Help Me Save My Dog Mila PLEASE!
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I thank you first of all for taking the time to click on this link and hopefully help me save my dog Mila's life. Previous to June 27th of this year 2015, my baby girl who's only 4 years old was happy, playful, energetic, super hyper, loved running and to know her is to fall in love with her as many of you have without even ever meeting her, now she's a ticking time bomb.
I had taken her to a private boarding on June 23rd and was to pick her up at 4pm on June 27th. She had been to this boarding many times before with up to 14 other dogs at times ranging from all breeds, pitbulls, shepards, wolf dogs, little dogs etc. without incident. She is my documented companion animal, very loving, sweet, cuddle buddy and thinks she's a 60lb lap dog.
I got the call from the owner of the boarding at 1:30pm just almost 2 hours before I was supposed to pick her up. He said there had been a "situation" and Mila was injured and it was serious I needed to get over there asap. At this moment I didn't have a vehicle but I was there within 30 minutes. When I got there I first saw the dog who attacked Mila and that dog had one injury to its forhead. I was brought around to the side of the house to where Mila was to find her stapled up and full of wounds, scared and shaking. The owner who is not a vet had taken it upon himself to staple her up without my permission. How he stapled her up I till this day do not know whether it was humane or not. He refused immediately to pay for any vet bills or give me any information to contact the owners of the dog who attacked Mila. I never signed any paper work of any sort including releasing him from any liability. By the time I got home I looked and documented every bite and wound she had and she had over 25, till this day I still find more I missed. She had wounds all over her body literally, arms, feet, hind legs, back, right side, left side, face, ears, behind her ears, armpits, chest, belly, between her hind legs and her neck. I don't know how one dog (Mila) could have almost 30 wounds and one dog (other dog) have one. Well, I'll tell you she's doesn't know how to fight, I know rare for a pitbull but that shows you the character of my dog and nobody must have been watching them for that long of an attack to occur.
Since the attack my Mila is a completley different dog! She's been not only super traumatized by the attack but also serverely ill from complications relating back to the attack. Within a week from the attack she got servere edema in her neck the size of a tennis ball (caused by a bite or punture wound to the neck) and what we thought was kennel cough, we now know was a misdiagnoses. Her edema has spread through out her entire body, between her 2 last vet visits which was last week she gained 4lbs in water wait over 3 days. Her health was rapidily deteriorating. Her last vet visit was this past Sunday July12th in which the Dr. took an
x-ray of her lungs, which we found fluid between her lungs and chest cavity. The Dr. said "Do Not Take Her Home, you will wake up to a Dead Dog", she was slowly dying drowning in her own lil body. He sent us to West LA ASEC Emergency Hospital where that night they drained 880ml from her right lung which was already partially collasped due to the pressure of the fluid and 400ml from her left side. They kept Mila overnight in the ICU. They did alot of extensive tests and all her major organs are healthy, heart, kidneys, bladder, white/red cell count etc. So how this fluid got there is unknown but what is known is until we figure out how she's filling up with this fluid, it will keep filling up and keep needing to be drained, its just a matter of time. Which today July 16th I think it already started to fill back up because she's showing the same signs as she did this past Sunday. So why I need your help is to continue being able to drain the fluid out of her chest cavity so she dosen't drown in her own body and do more extensive tests to try and find the source of how the fluid is getting in there. One therory is due to the massive trauma from the attack and the servere edema, her heart couldn't keep up with all the fluid and got backed up pushing fluid into her chest cavity. But now that its happened its going to keep happening until the Dr.'s figure this out. And we all know vet hospitals aren't like people hospitals, even thou they knew my dog would die, without any sort of down payment this past Sunday night they would have sent me home and my Mila would be dead.
I've had my own health issues, almost losing my left leg to compartment syndrome with a mrsa infection the end of last year, which most of you followed and I thank you for the love and support you showed me. Fortunately, through 4 leg surgeries they were able to save my leg and I'm still recoverying from that. I thought about doing a gofundme account for myself last year but you know what I can make payments or arrangements to pay those debts (which are huge) but my dog can't and vets won't accept payments or arrangements; that's why this is an urgent matter of life and death for Mila. That's why I am starting this account. I hope that you find it in your heart to help me save my dog Mila's life. I just want my old Mila back, it breaks my heart to see her so lethargic, in pain and suffering.
I thank you in advance for every and any penny, nickel, dime, quarter or dollar you can donate.
Thank You..
Evita & Mila Padilla
I had taken her to a private boarding on June 23rd and was to pick her up at 4pm on June 27th. She had been to this boarding many times before with up to 14 other dogs at times ranging from all breeds, pitbulls, shepards, wolf dogs, little dogs etc. without incident. She is my documented companion animal, very loving, sweet, cuddle buddy and thinks she's a 60lb lap dog.
I got the call from the owner of the boarding at 1:30pm just almost 2 hours before I was supposed to pick her up. He said there had been a "situation" and Mila was injured and it was serious I needed to get over there asap. At this moment I didn't have a vehicle but I was there within 30 minutes. When I got there I first saw the dog who attacked Mila and that dog had one injury to its forhead. I was brought around to the side of the house to where Mila was to find her stapled up and full of wounds, scared and shaking. The owner who is not a vet had taken it upon himself to staple her up without my permission. How he stapled her up I till this day do not know whether it was humane or not. He refused immediately to pay for any vet bills or give me any information to contact the owners of the dog who attacked Mila. I never signed any paper work of any sort including releasing him from any liability. By the time I got home I looked and documented every bite and wound she had and she had over 25, till this day I still find more I missed. She had wounds all over her body literally, arms, feet, hind legs, back, right side, left side, face, ears, behind her ears, armpits, chest, belly, between her hind legs and her neck. I don't know how one dog (Mila) could have almost 30 wounds and one dog (other dog) have one. Well, I'll tell you she's doesn't know how to fight, I know rare for a pitbull but that shows you the character of my dog and nobody must have been watching them for that long of an attack to occur.
Since the attack my Mila is a completley different dog! She's been not only super traumatized by the attack but also serverely ill from complications relating back to the attack. Within a week from the attack she got servere edema in her neck the size of a tennis ball (caused by a bite or punture wound to the neck) and what we thought was kennel cough, we now know was a misdiagnoses. Her edema has spread through out her entire body, between her 2 last vet visits which was last week she gained 4lbs in water wait over 3 days. Her health was rapidily deteriorating. Her last vet visit was this past Sunday July12th in which the Dr. took an
x-ray of her lungs, which we found fluid between her lungs and chest cavity. The Dr. said "Do Not Take Her Home, you will wake up to a Dead Dog", she was slowly dying drowning in her own lil body. He sent us to West LA ASEC Emergency Hospital where that night they drained 880ml from her right lung which was already partially collasped due to the pressure of the fluid and 400ml from her left side. They kept Mila overnight in the ICU. They did alot of extensive tests and all her major organs are healthy, heart, kidneys, bladder, white/red cell count etc. So how this fluid got there is unknown but what is known is until we figure out how she's filling up with this fluid, it will keep filling up and keep needing to be drained, its just a matter of time. Which today July 16th I think it already started to fill back up because she's showing the same signs as she did this past Sunday. So why I need your help is to continue being able to drain the fluid out of her chest cavity so she dosen't drown in her own body and do more extensive tests to try and find the source of how the fluid is getting in there. One therory is due to the massive trauma from the attack and the servere edema, her heart couldn't keep up with all the fluid and got backed up pushing fluid into her chest cavity. But now that its happened its going to keep happening until the Dr.'s figure this out. And we all know vet hospitals aren't like people hospitals, even thou they knew my dog would die, without any sort of down payment this past Sunday night they would have sent me home and my Mila would be dead.
I've had my own health issues, almost losing my left leg to compartment syndrome with a mrsa infection the end of last year, which most of you followed and I thank you for the love and support you showed me. Fortunately, through 4 leg surgeries they were able to save my leg and I'm still recoverying from that. I thought about doing a gofundme account for myself last year but you know what I can make payments or arrangements to pay those debts (which are huge) but my dog can't and vets won't accept payments or arrangements; that's why this is an urgent matter of life and death for Mila. That's why I am starting this account. I hope that you find it in your heart to help me save my dog Mila's life. I just want my old Mila back, it breaks my heart to see her so lethargic, in pain and suffering.
I thank you in advance for every and any penny, nickel, dime, quarter or dollar you can donate.
Thank You..
Evita & Mila Padilla
Organizer
Evita Vida V Padilla
Organizer
Los Angeles, CA
