
Help Ringo Starr with his veterinary costs please!
Hello, my name is Ringo Starr and I am a 10 month old puppy from way up North in Canada, called Kashechewan. I was all alone, hungry and scared and without my family, I was roughly 8 weeks old when I was found and rescued by an organization called 'Finding Them Homes'. Boy was I glad to see them! I had been all alone for about 2 weeks! They put me in what Mommy calls 'planes, trains and automobiles' to bring me down south to a place just north of Toronto.
Then the bestest thing happened, I was adopted by an amazing lady who has taught me so many cool new things, like what is called 'real food and clean drinking water', treats and toys and she showers me with love.! I was and still can be a bit of a wild child, so I know this lady is the kind and patient person I was meant to find. I get to call her Mommy!
My new Mommy named me Ringo Starr as she says I 'run heavy on my feet like a little drummer' and have a Siberian Husky howl of a singer. I'm also a cool dude like one of her favourite vintage musicians, my name sake, and I'm her 'Super Starr'! I love my new Mommy!
I was going to the dog park daily after Mommy was done her work, and in the 5 months I played there with all my nice new friends it was the bestest fun! Until one day when it was just Mommy and I there and a new BIG older Great Dane came into the park. Mummy asked the lady if he was friendly and she said "yes". So we did what us dogs do and gave each other a sniff.... except he swung his big head under my belly and side area and bit me hard! Mummy and I left as soon as we safely could, but unfortunately the lady was not forthcoming with help or give their contact information, and there were no witnesses or my usual peeps to help us.
Now 3 weeks later, I have had my umpteenth vet visit, had to see a nice new vet specialist many times who has done ultrasounds, injections, special tests, medicines, IV fluids and sedations to try help me. I don't like going to the vets but Mommy tells me they are trying to get me better. See when I was bitten my little kidneys and liver started to fail as the vet thinks that when I was scavenging I may have eaten or drank some bad things causing my organs to not develop properly. Well, when I was bitten by that grumpy old dog, he made my organs swell and bruise and the capillaries swelled closed and stopped working so I almost died! Scary right!
Mommy and all these vet peoples are trying to make the owie go away but Mommy says she has run out of money, is doing the best she can and she promises that she "will not fail me"! Did I mention I love my Mommy? She even gave all her saved next January, 50th birthday trip money to help me, and she had been saving for a long time!! 50 sounds really old to a 10 month old!
So tonight, after another 2 hours at the vets and another surgical table sedated ultrasound and procedure, Mommy decided that my story needs to be heard and maybe people can help. It wasn't my fault that I was abandoned as a baby in a harsh environment with no good food or water; nor my fault I was bitten on my underbelly/side and it's not my fault that the people didn't help when I was attacked or give us their contact information.
But I really am a little fighter, was a 'Lil Gangster' back on the block up North before I was rescued, so I promised Mommy if she doesn't give up on me, I'll keep fighting till my liver enzymes are back to normal, eating and drinking again, not needing antibiotics and other medicines and ready too do my zoomies with my cuddly toys. It's so much fun!!! I love my zoomies!
If you can help me get better by helping my Mommy pay my vet and medicine bills, I'll do an extra zoomies for you! Mommy says there will be lots of vet check ups, follow ups and stuff but that zoomie days are coming soon! Yay!
Thanks for reading my story. It's been a tough ten months on this planet for me! But just like in the Lion King movie.... which I love too by the way, like the song says :"I can 'feel the love tonight". Lol