Please help my humans to save me!

Hello readers, my name is Sascha, or Sasch, or Sascha Cakes or Sweetie. Mummy and Daddy have lots of different names for me and I respond to them all, especially if there’s a treat in it for me!

I am at least 9 years old, although my vet thinks I could be older than that, I really don’t care. All I know is that I have spent the last 6 years in my forever home.

Unfortunately I have a nasty disease called Cushings which is really affecting my life and I’ll tell you more about that in a bit but I want to tell you a little bit about me first.

I was adopted by my forever Daddy in November 2018 from the RSPCA, no one knows what I went through before being rescued but I had a lot of puppies and having had a difficult life I became even more anxious in the RSPCA kennels. I was so happy when my Daddy took me to my forever home. I lived with my Daddy, it was just the two of us and I had some wonderful walks, lots of snuggles and, of course, treats.

Fast forward 18 months and I met my forever Mummy, I was nervous when first meeting her as I was still unsure when meeting new people but by the time we’d had a walk I treated her to a face lick, and I don’t give those out to anyone! The next year I met my first human brother, Teddy and then the year after Arthur followed and I was now the loving guardian of 2 very special small humans (along with Mummy and Daddy of course!)

My life is still very full of love and snuggles, Teddy always asks me to go to his room at bedtime to give him a night night snuggle and help him settle. I’m also always there to give my love to both boys when they are poorly and I love nothing more than lying with them to help them feel better.

Sadly in mid 2022 I started to feel a little strange, I found myself wanting to drink a lot of water and I would try and steal any food I could get my paws on, even going through the bin for scraps. I also felt very anxious and didn’t like any loud noises, even the washing machine made me feel scared. Mummy and Daddy knew this was not normal for me as I had always been a very good girl (you should see my bum wiggle when I get told so!) We went to the vets and after a lot of tests and consults they diagnosed me with Cushings Disease. Cushing’s isn’t curable but the medication, Vetoryl, helps to alleviate the symptoms. This initially helped me feel a little more like my old self. I still got very anxious and actually bit the end of my tail off, my vet, Moritz, said he thought he was going to have to amputate it but with the help of antibiotics, a buster collar, aloe vera gel and a lot of TLC it got better and I am still the proud owner of my own tail!

My medication was increased and this further helped me and I haven’t tried to bite my tail since, it’s a lovely tail so I’m glad about that.

Unfortunately even the increased dose of my medication has now stopped working for me and I am drinking lots of water, stealing food and becoming very anxious again. The vet has even talked to my Mummy and Daddy about putting me to sleep. I love to sleep but this doesn’t sound like a nice thing as I’ll not see my Mummy, Daddy, Teddy or Arthur anymore and who is going to look after them if I’m not here?

My vet has spoken to another vet who specialises in Cushings Disease and they have recommended that my medication can be increased, by up to 4 times. Unfortunately this medication is very expensive and Mummy and Daddy just can’t afford it, which makes me sad but I understand. So at the moment I am being loved and cared for as best they can and I am very hopeful that you, my lovely reader, might be able to help me and my family get the medication and care I need from the vets. A list of the monthly costs for my proposed treatment make scary reading but here they are:

Vet consultation - £35.00

Prescription cost - £18.50

Blood test - £120.00

Vetoryl medication - £458.40

Total: £631.90

My Mummy and Daddy are really hopeful that all you lovely pup loving people reading this will help them make it possible to get my treatment sorted for the next 6 months which is a staggering £3,791.40.

I cannot express how grateful I and my family would be if we can achieve this and let me get back to the pup I am without this horrid disease having its nasty affect on me.

Thank you for taking the time to read about me

Lots of licks and wags

Sascha Cakes ❤️