This sweet fellow just came in to NEESSR and he requires quite a bit of medical attention. He needs to have all of his vaccinations and necessary testing as well as neutering. We have started treatment to clear up his nasty skin problem. The vet believes that Brady had a bad reaction to flea bites, causing the condition that you can clearly see in the photos. Brady’s foster family reports that he is responding already to the meds and baths, but it is going to take a lot of work to get Brady totally healthy. Brady has a wonderful happy springer disposition – so it is a labor of love. Donations to help pay for Brady’s care would be gratefully accepted.

Sophie is a rescue who was returned because her owner couldn't handle her medical needs. Her ears are are badly infected. The vet is doing a culture and expects drug resistant rods of bacteria. She has a ruptured cyst on her back that is badly infected and a ruptured anal sac. She has a bad yeast hot spot on her neck and her eyes are oozing. Her feet are raw and she has inter digital cysts. The vet has drawn blood for allergy testing, a full panel for general health, and she's going to retest the thyroid since there was a previous diagnosis for hypothyroidism. Sophie will be on a special diet, and she was put under this past Thursday 4/28) to take care of the infected and ruptured cyst and anal sac and flush out her ears. The one good thing is that the trunk of her body is mostly ok and she is a very patient girl while she goes through all her treatment.

06/03 - The growth on Sophie's hind-end was benign, thank goodness. I couldn't begin to tell you what kinds of cells they were, but their best guess is that it all began as a hair ball hat became a cyst and got infected & then ruptured. No connection to the anal gland or any of those kinds of cells, what-so-ever. She said that this was a very strange and unusual thing, indeed. Its going down as a "ruptured cyst" in her records, I believe.

The ear still has the pseudomonas, but the good news is, that it is still sensitive to and should respond to the current ear drops. (Triz EDTA and Surolan.) Yay!! So--hopefully at her next check up, we will have some improvement on that front. :)

Her skin had 3 different things going on. The worst is a drug resistant Staph and the anti-biotic that she is currently on, (Ciprofloxacin) won't touch the Staph. So, the veterinarian is calling in another anti-biotic that is in the Sulpha family and hopefully that will kill the Staph. There can be GI side effects of vomiting & diarrhea and dry-eye, too (which she already suffers from in her right eye)--So, keep your fingers crossed that these aren't too bad. Given all that she has been through, I'm really surprised that she hasn't had a bit of diarrhea and she has only thrown up once, in the past month. She seems to have a pretty sturdy GI system, I guess. Thank goodness for some things going for her!

09/09 - Sophie's skin issues have required very regular visits to the vet and we have started her on Atopica. We have already spent over $1000 on her vetting and she will be seen next week by a dermatologist at Angell Memorial in hopes he can get her stabilized.

09/22 - Very encouraging visit with the super dermatologist at Angell! With the loving and diligent care provided by Sophie's foster family - and the very expensive meds ($$$$$) that NEESSR is providing - the prognosis is good. Sophie has improved a lot - but will have to stay on Atopica as well as a cocktail of other meds to get her at 100% good health. We will then work with the dermatologist to figure out how to keep her that way. Please consider contributing to help Sophie.

Sophie

12/06 - Sophie's dedicated foster parents are pleased that there has been progress, but Sophie's ears are still not clear. Also - her lipfold infection has gotten worse and will require "nip and tuck" surgery. The hope is to remove those areas where all the nasty germs hide and allow for nice healthy skin. With the help of the veterinary specialists, we will continue the mission to GET SOPHIE HEALTHY. NEESSR has spent $4,500 on Sophie's vet bills and meds already. Donations towards her expenses would be gratefully accepted.

Murray has had some health challenges. The vet anesthetized him to clean out his ears and culture the bacteria. Unfortunately, it's 2 different psuedomonas strains causing the nasty infection. We will try baytril/ ciproflaxin. We may have to consider the very expensive ticarcillin if that does not work. While he was out, the vet also checked his teeth. Unfortunately, he had 4 very rotten (and painful!) teeth that had to be removed. He spent the weekend at the vet recovering, so that they could give him morphine for the pain. He is back at his foster mom's, being kept quiet, he's on pain meds, and getting soft food. He also has a growth inside his left ear canal which the vet was unable to remove or biopsy. As of today we've spent $900 on his care.

09/30 - Murray went to the vet this week and is doing much better. His ears are infected with pseudomonas, but luckily they are responding to Baytril. He has a growth in his left ear and will be going back in 2 weeks for another recheck of his ears and sedation so they can biopsy the growth. His head tilt is 75% better and the vet believes he had a bad ear infection and a vestibular episode from which he is recovering.

Murray

11/28 - Murray's ear is completely healed and he is doing great! He is available for adoption.

Rescue has spent $1500 to date for Murray.

Allow us to introduce Spanky and Cinnamon. These 5 year old boys just came into foster care. Our organization would be very grateful for your support with these guys. While they are generally in good health, they have never been to a vet. Consequently NEESSR is looking at some significant expenditures on these two.

Both will have to be neutered and have a blood panel done, which includes the "triple test" for heartworm, lyme and ehrlichia. They will also need fecal exams and all vaccinations. They both also are being treated for ear infections. In addition, they each need to have a dental while they're under for their neuter, as they have excessive tartar buildup which could cause problems down the road. Finally, they will be getting "very necessary" grooming. All of these costs will exceed $1,400.00.

09/13 - Today at his vet recheck Spanky still had an ear infection, so the vet did a culture to send to Cornell. The results will be back in a week. This has been quite an expense for our rescue and donations are needed and will be greatly appreciated. Spanky is a wonderful loving guy who has been very cooperative with the vet as we work to get his ears healed. Additionally in the last week he started to get some small crusted spots on his skin that would open and have some drainage. The vet looked at them today and his skin infection is back...probably a staph infection. Cinnamon's skin infection is back as well so both are back on an antibiotics for a week again. Cinnamon's left eye started to have a discharge so the vet checked his eye it is thankfully, only irritated and he will need drops in for a week

These boys are young, active and very sweet fellows. It bears repeating that they had never been to a vet before coming into NEESSR foster care - so lots of medical care is needed.

To date we have spent over $1,800.00 on this pair.

09/22 - Cinnamon is doing much better - but the culture from Spanky's ear is positive for pseudamonas - which is such a nasty antibiotic resistant bacteria. He has started treatment that we are hopeful will clear this up. In the meantime - his skin infections are proving to be very stubborn. Skin scrapings will be cultured so we can better treat this issue. Spanky is a young dog and will make a wonderful addition to a lucky family. Please support us in this endeavor!

Spanky

11/01 - Its been another month or so - Cinnamon is healthy and has been adopted. Spanky's very stubborn ear infection just does not want to go away. He has an appointment set up with a dermatologist at Cornell. We hope the specialist can come up with a successful course of treatment so that Spanky can be declared "healthy" and be placed in his forever home.

11/03 - We at NEESSR extend a huge thank you for the support you can give in helping Spanky!

11/09 - Somewhat discouraging news from the dermatologist. Spanky's ear is still badly infected and he has fungal infections in his paws as well. His foster family is wonderfully dedicated and will be spending lot of time implementing a new course of meds as well as special hypo-allergenic meals that they will cook up special for Spanky. The trick will be to determine what allergies are causing all these problems. Spanky is reported to be a real trooper through all this - and his sweet personality just shines.

12/06 - Spanky's ears are going to need a surgical clean-out to help him on his way to recovery. He is still on the allergy food trial. NEESSR has spent $2,200 on Spanky's medical needs so far. Please consider making a donation towards Spanky's care.