Sweet Olive has gone to a volunteer’s home because we have not found a foster for her. She is still settling in and missing her family lots. She whines for them and stares at the door all day, waiting for them to come back for her.
When people decide to give up their dogs, they don’t see the sadness and dejection that we see. The dogs would be thinking, why me? Why give me away? What did I do wrong? And the answer is always the same; they did nothing wrong. In fact, despite being given away, these dogs still love and remain loyal to the ex-families.
We have done blood tests for Olive and her results are surprisingly good. Olive is 10. Olive has a huge tumour in her right ear – we can’t even begin to imagine how long she has lived with that pain and discomfort; blood constantly oozing down her face. We did a chest x-ray to see if her cancer has spread to her lungs but fortunately, we don’t see the spread yet.
Olive has a pretty bad heart murmur, Grade 4 (out of 6) and so any surgeries that she undergoes, there is a risk of losing her on the table; but how do we let her go on living with a huge oozing ear tumour?
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| Olive was surrendered at the vet |
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| Very bad skin chewed till she bled |
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| We wonder how long she has been living with this huge tumour? |
Next step, Olive will be scheduled for a heart ultrasound asap, followed by a surgery to remove the tumour. Its going to cost a lot and we will need to start raising funds for that soon.
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| Extremely dry eyes |
Rescuing senior dogs doesn’t come cheap because they often come with a host of health issues and often it is our very own volunteers that pay from their own pockets. One volunteer sponsored Olive’s home grooming as she was a smelly mess. And how cute she looks now! The volunteers also bought her a collar, harness, name tag, pee pads etc all from their own pockets.
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| After home grooming, sponsored by a volunteer - so much neater <3 |
If you would like to contribute to Olive’s ultrasound and upcoming surgery to remove the huge tumour on her ear, please email us hopedogrescue@singnet.com.sg Thank you.
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| Olive looking cute after her grooming |
