Walter Adopted But Needs Surgery

A couple of weeks ago little 5 year old Walter was found at White Rock Lake when someone put him in a little blue crate with an old stained pillow and left him on the side of the trail. Thankfully a caring person came along and took him in. People came out of the woodwork to adopt Walter for reasons I'm sure you can understand. We knew this would be a fast adoption and we only needed to get him vaccinated, neutered and microchipped. During his neuter our vet discovered an enlarged bladder and we assumed he had a bladder infection so we put him on antibiotics. A week later he still hadn't improved. He's already been adopted and was in his new home with his three new little sisters but we still needed to figure out what was wrong so we had them take him back to our vet. After some x-rays we discovered he had several bladder stones that had move in to his urethra. Fixing this was going to cost 900.00 and thanks to our animal loving friends we were able to raise 500.00.

 

Today, 3/27/17, Walter went in for the procedure but hit a road block or should I say urethra block. As much as our vet worked on him one of the stones are locked in there. This problem leads us to a new procedure. I don't know another way to say this but the only way to fix this is to have a delicate surgery to create a new place to pee from. This surgery will run 2,500.00 on the low end to 3,500.00 on the high end. As happy, playful and affectionate as this little boy is you would never know he has such a serious problem. We're putting him on a special diet to try and help dissolve the stones but time is of the essence. If he becomes completely blocked it could be a death sentence for him. Since we do not have this much in our account we're reaching out for help. He has a new family who just loves him and we want to make sure we get him healthy so he can have another 10 to 15 years with them. We thank you all for your donations. If the donations go over the actuall amount we need the rest will be applied to the other dogs we currently have in rescue. We will post the final expenses.