Archive for 'Dog Profile' Category
Lucy and Brinks Updates
25 August 2008Brinks’ Arrival Story
“From Shelter to Shelter”
Beginning in the summer of 2004, several of my family members and I began backpacking short sections of the Appalachian Trail in North Carolina. My uncle Brant (now in his early eighties) and my father Lane had talked about doing this for at least 20 years, but only until Brant’s […]
Help Us Get Brinks To A Safe Place
20 August 2008Meet Brinks, one of our OPP dogs. Brinks was found by Brad during a hiking trip at Deep Gap. (Click here to read about how Brad found Brinks). Brinks has led a very troubled life that has left him with severe emotional wounds that has made it difficult for him to bond with many […]
Sniffles Update: Sad News
22 May 2008Most of you have been keeping up with Sniffles and the challenges he’s faced. To bring everyone up to date, Sniffles has been at NRVC for over 2 weeks now. His original hurdle was to gain an appetite so that he could get enough weight on him to undergo treatment for the heartworms. […]
Sniffles Update: Heartworm treatment on hold
12 May 2008Sniffles has really not been feeling well at all over the last week. He had a brief respite at the lake with his foster mom last weekend. He returned to NRVC on last Monday. Last week, he stayed at NRVC because he just wouldn’t eat. The kind folks at NRVC gave […]
Sniffles Update: Sprung from the Vet but will begin Heartworm Treatment
3 May 2008Sniffles improved enough over the last couple of days so he was released back to his lap of luxury at his Foster Mom’s house. While at the vet, Dr. Shepherd found some blood levels out of whack and this may be contributing to Sniffles feeling poorly. Dr. Shepherd believes that the abnormal levels […]
Sniffles Update: Doing better
1 May 2008Sniffles is still at NRVC. Jody visited him yesterday and he is eating and has gained 2 lb. Yesterday they had to wake him to get him to go out and kind of shake him up to eat. So the boy has some issues yet to be discovered. More test results are […]
Sniffles Update: Back at NRVC
28 April 2008Sniffles returned to his foster home Friday. He was doing ok, but then stopped eating again. This morning his Foster Mom took him back to NRVC where they started him on fluids. As of this afternoon, he had eaten a little bit.
Sniffles has heartworms and other parasites which means that he is […]
Sniffles Update: Sadly, all was not as it seemed
24 April 2008First, Sniffles is doing better physically. However he is going to stay over another night. The IV is out and he is eating better.
The sad… sad… news— actually infuriating news…
NRVC X-rayed Sniffles head and found a bullet and shrapnel lodged behind his jaw. So it appears that his deformity was caused by […]
Sniffles Update: Visits to the Vet
23 April 2008Jody, Sniffles foster mom, took him to North Roswell Veterinary Clinic (NRVC) where Dr. Shepherd gave him a thorough examination. He seemed ok but, Dr. Shepherd found that he has parasites and heartworms. The Dr. said his lungs and heart sound good.
Dr Shepherd doubts the age that Douglas County gave us of 1-2 […]
Sniffles is Safe. Now He Needs A Home
17 April 2008After a lot of concern and attention, we are happy to report that Sniffles is Safe!
He has a great foster home with an OPP volunteer, Jody. We know there is a perfect home out there ready and waiting for Sniffles… so spread the word about this special pup.
Here is what we know so far…
Sniffles […]
