Hi, my name is BUDDY and I'm about three years old. I'm new to this rescue thing, so I'm a little scared. You see, my Dad had an accident with chemicals at work, and has been very sick. He's a young guy, early 30's, and has had two strokes and a heart attack due to the accident, and hasn't been able to take care of me.
I went to the clinic for a fecal before going to my foster home, since the standard procedure at SOS is to keep the dog (that's me!) in isolation until he has a clear fecal. Well, it didn't go so well. I have all kinds of worms plus coccidia and clostridium. I am getting meds for all except the coccidia. The Dog-ter wants to wait until my tummy is better before attacking that one. At least this explains why I am so skinny!
They also found blood in my urine. I'm going to a different Dog-ter for other tests and vaccines, so we'll know more soon. In the meantime, I got a bath and some grooming done, and I smell and feel a lot better! I had really bad mats in both my ears, which made it impossible to look inside the ears much less clean them, but the mats are gone now.
I was very good for grooming and for cleaning my ears, which were very dirty and infected. I have sores on my belly, back, hind legs, and no hair on my stomach or between my back legs, but the hair will grow back once I get over itching due to fleas. I hate those nasty things! Anyway, as I was saying, I was very good even though my ears and skin really hurt. My foster mom was very proud of me! More about me later!!
Fostered by Sue in OH.
Save Our Setters, Inc.
BUDDY
