Oliver Needs Your Help

Oliver is a very sick Pointer fighting for his life from a terrible fungal infection called Blastomycosis. We really need your support to help with his vetting expenses and we also need your prayers that he pulls through.

Oliver's Story: He came into our program in November of 2020, having been found in a corn field in Newton County Indiana. He was scary thin and blood work revealed he was infected with heart-worms and the tick borne disease Ehrlichia. He was the ideal candidate for our slow kill program and after several months in foster care he moved to a loving Foster to Adopt home in northern Illinois in March of 2021.

Oliver was doing great in his new home with Jennifer and her kids- enjoying his daily walks and learning his invisible fence. He did seem to have a little cough we were concerned about. He did get loose from his original foster home in Indiana and was found running along a creek . My biggest worry was that he contracted Blastomycosis. We had blood work, x-rays and a Blasto PCR done, but that was negative. Looking back now- I wonder if it was a false negative.

On Memorial day, Jennifer brought Oliver out for a run and professional photos. With heart-worm slow kill, he can run without exercise restrictions. He looked great and all seemed well. The week of October 18th, Jennifer let me know that Oliver wasn't well and had a terrible cough and had stopped eating. He was heading to our vet and sadly x-rays showed some abnormalities and the new Blasto urine antigen test was positive. This was a different test then the spring. He has been given a 50/50 chance of survival but he is a strong Pointer and we hope he pulls through.

The extra vetting and medications are already into the thousands, but I told Jennifer that our Pointer friends will pitch in to help with his care and many folks are praying that he gets better. The week Oliver had gotten sick we were actually finalizing his adoption but of course that has been put on hold and I feel responsible for his care. I hope we can raise some much needed funds.