Annie, possible megasophogus
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Hello everyone my name is Zaarah and my husband and I ran a puppy rescue about two years ago that dissolved because I needed to continue my graduate degree. In that time we rescued close to 200 dogs and puppies from the Florida area provided them vet care to the best of our financial ability and found them forever homes. The experience we gained in those two years is what lead us to this little pup ( unnamed at the moment because we are auctioning naming rights to help raise funds!)
I was pointed in the direction of an advertisment via craiglist from a former adopter of ours via our face book page "broken tail puppy network". What alarmed her was that a breeder from New York had posted a bogus post "cheap Frenchie pup for sale". When our former adopter called, she learned from the breeder that this puppy has been vomiting food through her nose, was snorting, hacking and uninterested in food. The breeder had no reguard for her well being, her justification to us was "the pups cheap" ($500, or in her own words 75% off) adoption fee and move on. I called the breeder and asked her to keep us in mind. I explained to her our history and experience with special need pups, and that we have dealt with a similar condition. This breeder said, "if you got $500, you can come get her," and hung up.
For 24 hours my husband and I pondered what to do, ethically I can never justify paying for a dog, ESP from a breeder. However, we also did not want to risk this puppies life over a few hundred dollars. I called her back to see what options we had, she informed me that she was going to have the dog put down because she was frustrated with the "low ball" offers she was getting, and this pup was no longer worth her time. I will never know if it was a ploy on her end or the truth but I can never let something so petty come between Life and death esp when the condition is manageable. So we took her. we paid $400, to break her free from that breeder, but that's okay because today, she ate, drank and played like a normal dog... Why? Because just like I suspected she has megasophogus aka mega E and we fixed her regurgitation issue with a change in how she ate.
Mega E is a condition where the esophagus needs assistance from gravity to allow food down. So quite literally dogs with Mega-e need to eat vertically!
For now we have been feeding her in our laps sitting up right by spoon and she is doing amazing, not a single episode, no labored breathing or hacking and certianly no loss of appetite !
THis is where your donations come in to play. I estimated cost at atleast $1000. I will adjust according to vets diagnoses.
We want to take her to a vet to confirm the diagonisis. Get whatever medical care she needs associated with her condition.Have her spayed, vaccinated, microchipped and get her a specially made chair ( bailey chair) to help her eat vertically.
We plan on adopting her out to the absolute perfect home for her, and will continue to foster her ( for however long it takes, even years!) to make sure she has the best chance of living a happy healthy normal life. We also are not planning on adopting her as our own simply because if we adopted every dog we fell in love with our home would not have room for other fosters.
Yeah we are crazy dog people, but if you read our whole story, sounds like you are too <3 and there is nothing wrong with that! Please help us change this dogs life.
Peace love woof,
The baribeaus.
I was pointed in the direction of an advertisment via craiglist from a former adopter of ours via our face book page "broken tail puppy network". What alarmed her was that a breeder from New York had posted a bogus post "cheap Frenchie pup for sale". When our former adopter called, she learned from the breeder that this puppy has been vomiting food through her nose, was snorting, hacking and uninterested in food. The breeder had no reguard for her well being, her justification to us was "the pups cheap" ($500, or in her own words 75% off) adoption fee and move on. I called the breeder and asked her to keep us in mind. I explained to her our history and experience with special need pups, and that we have dealt with a similar condition. This breeder said, "if you got $500, you can come get her," and hung up.
For 24 hours my husband and I pondered what to do, ethically I can never justify paying for a dog, ESP from a breeder. However, we also did not want to risk this puppies life over a few hundred dollars. I called her back to see what options we had, she informed me that she was going to have the dog put down because she was frustrated with the "low ball" offers she was getting, and this pup was no longer worth her time. I will never know if it was a ploy on her end or the truth but I can never let something so petty come between Life and death esp when the condition is manageable. So we took her. we paid $400, to break her free from that breeder, but that's okay because today, she ate, drank and played like a normal dog... Why? Because just like I suspected she has megasophogus aka mega E and we fixed her regurgitation issue with a change in how she ate.
Mega E is a condition where the esophagus needs assistance from gravity to allow food down. So quite literally dogs with Mega-e need to eat vertically!
For now we have been feeding her in our laps sitting up right by spoon and she is doing amazing, not a single episode, no labored breathing or hacking and certianly no loss of appetite !
THis is where your donations come in to play. I estimated cost at atleast $1000. I will adjust according to vets diagnoses.
We want to take her to a vet to confirm the diagonisis. Get whatever medical care she needs associated with her condition.Have her spayed, vaccinated, microchipped and get her a specially made chair ( bailey chair) to help her eat vertically.
We plan on adopting her out to the absolute perfect home for her, and will continue to foster her ( for however long it takes, even years!) to make sure she has the best chance of living a happy healthy normal life. We also are not planning on adopting her as our own simply because if we adopted every dog we fell in love with our home would not have room for other fosters.
Yeah we are crazy dog people, but if you read our whole story, sounds like you are too <3 and there is nothing wrong with that! Please help us change this dogs life.
Peace love woof,
The baribeaus.
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Zaarah Baribeau
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