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Rayna
 Hi Kathy,
Attached are a couple pictures of Rayna. She is about 7-8 months
old and very sweet. She was brought into the clinic on Monday,
April 14th. Her owner said she had been hit by a car on Sunday
the day before around 5 PM. When brought in, she was not able to
use her back legs at all, and scooted around using only her front
legs, at which the owner and his kids thought it was funny and
laughing at her. The doc pinched her feet with hemostats and she
was not able to feel anything. At that point, the owner - not
even wanting to hear his options of treatments - told us to put
her down, even when we told him it could possibly be only
temporary. One look into her sweet face and I knew I couldn't let that
happen, not without a chance at recovering. So I asked him to
surrender her to me, which he did. After a couple of x-rays, we saw that she had a fractured disk
pinching her spine. The next day I took her to Dr. Alex Shelley
at Elk Creek Animal Hospital where she had back surgery. Dr.
Shelley thought the surgery went well and gave her a 50/50 chance
of walking again. It's been 1 1/2 weeks since her surgery and she
now has feeling in both legs, and even able to stand on them (her
right leg is much stronger than her left). Everyday she gets a
little better, and we are optimistic that she will be walking
again on at least 3 legs, if not on 4.
She is full of life and energy right now, and it is so hard to
keep her on restricted confinement. But we do have a ways to go
before I can place her in a forever loving home. I am checking
around in finding a used doggie wheelchair to use for her
rehabilitation therapy, so if by chance you know of anyone that
may have one and willing to loan it out would be wonderful.
Because we were dealing with a spinal injury, we needed to get her
into surgery as soon as possible. I had no time to try to gather
up the $500 we needed. Thank God for credit cards...we charged it
in hopes of possibly getting some financial help. We would SO
APPRECIATE any help we could get.
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