Saving a Life

Emergency Fundraiser

Many of you may remember little Blancmange who arrived into our sanctuary September 2024 from the streets and who gave birth a few days later to 8 babies .

They all grew into beautiful pups and found the most amazing ,loving homes as did mum Blancmange.

On one of the puppies routine vaccinations our vet detected quite a severe heart murmur in one of the babies...Little Cheesecake ...always the smallest since birth and even at that stage she remained less than half the size of her siblings .

Cheesecake was homed to the lovely Deborah and and of course ,as a responsible, honest and open rescue we informed them of Cheesecakes condition ...It was still too early to tell if the suspected hole in her heart would close over or not but we promised that we would bring Cheesecake back into our vets for another check up at 6 months old .

She was and would remain our responsibility.

We kept in touch and in June we decided it was a good time for Cheesecake to revisit our vets to see if there had been any changes with her heart.

Sadly it wasn't to be and now we all knew we had to step up our game .

On our behalf Cheesecake was referred to and visited Northern Ireland Veterinary Specialists who specialize in heart surgery on dogs for tests and scans to see exactly where the problem lay and how great a risk it was to little Cheesecake.

The results were as our vet had thought and without surgery Cheesecake now 8 months old and still only weighing 2kg would more than likely not see her first birthday without a life saving and a life changing operation .

BUT ....The prognosis was GOOD ...

A 95% success rate that will give Cheesecake a long and normal life.

Without it she will die and here at Galway SPCA we have and will never put a price on a dogs life.

Let us quickly explain Cheesecakes condition.

Cheesecake has a hole between her Aorta and Pulmonary artery that normally closes as puppies take their first breath ...that hasn't happened so unoxygenated blood is leaking into the oxygenated area causing an imbalance in her heart ,added pressure and low oxygen levels .

The operation she will undergo this Thursday the 24th has a 95% success rate of giving Cheesecake a long and normal life ,which we all agree is what she deserves ...

However her operation is costing a minimum of €5000 which we agreed to stand over at the time of her adoption should this day come ...

And now here it is ....

Cheesecake is of course our priority but we now have to find these funds ....

Her mum and dad are hard at work trying to Fundraise too their side as are we .

In order to raise the funds for Cheesecakes upcoming life changing operation this Thursday we will be running an extra special Auction in her name between Friday 1st August and Sunday 3rd August over on our Auction page .

We have also added a Go Fund Me link to this post in the hope that anyone who follows our work ,reads this post will find it within their own hearts to donate whatever they can to saving Cheesecakes heart ....

We are as always forever grateful for any support you may be able to give ...and we promise to keep everyone updated...

Thank You