So...To my greatest disappointment, a very special animal of mine just recently passed away about 2 weeks ago...I havent had the energy to write a new journal entry so its a bit late to notify whoever gives a shit on here. He was a 6-7 week old rescued puppy. He was rescued from a local township with the rest of his litter after their mother was killed. The poor little babies were in such a bad state, riddled with fleas, worms, malnourished, mange...it was so sad but we ended up adopting one, who i named Fender. after a couple days he was starting to look healthier and happier and i managed to get rid of his fleas and worms, get him eating well again and just loving him. He was such a cutie, but still very young. i could hold him on his back in one hand, and being a german shepherd mix, thats VERY small. He was much too young to be away from his mother, but its a cruel world
so things were going great, i was with him every minute of everyday, he was my friend and company when i needed it and i got attached. He had serious abandonment issues and would cry and yap himself hoarse at night and when left alone until i came and held him again, then he would only fall asleep. after about a week his health decreased again with diarrhea and weakness out of nowhere, but then went up again and he seemed to be alright again. But then one night i noticed he wasnt acting like himself, he didnt want to walk, just stood there and then sat down. he wouldnt cry much and when put to bed he would keep quiet. The next morning, he was really sick, he just lay in his bed and kept quiet and there was also a lot of diarrhea in his enclosure. I got him up and took him outside for a while and he ate a little bit and drank a bit but when he was lying on the bricks i noticed how skinny he had got, i picked him up again and all his bones were jotting out of his skin. I was shocked because he was at a relatively healthy weight just the day before. i got really worried. so i left him in the kitchen for a bit while i went and did something in my room and came back and saw a little puddle of black diarrhea, i was quite surprised at the colour but as i was going to get some towels to clean it up, i nearly screamed when i looked behind me and saw black/very dark brown diarrhea all over the floor in a huge puddle, it was like water, black water and smelt like carcass. i know its disgusting but i want to tell you the whole story. so i was like holy shit. i dont know how that much liquid could come out of such a tiny puppy. i went to go find him and he was sitting in the lounge, acting quite normal. i immediately phoned my mom and told her that he was really sick. so i kept an eye on him but then left him on the patio in front of my house with some water and then i went to go see my gran for a while, and when i got back later my other gran who was staying with me at the time had gotten him a blanket and he had been sleeping the whole time. it wasnt normal and i was seriously stressing, he didnt even flinch when i came to him and stroked him and picked him up, he had such sadness on his face, his big eyes were so different, sick
it was horrible. briefly, for the rest of the evening there was a lot of extreme diarrhea and gagging and he was still deteriorating and getting weaker. We planned to take him to the vet the next morning.
in the morning he was even worse, he could hardly stand, he was just a little hairy skeleton. we got him to the vet and when i put him on the grass when we got there he just fell right down, he couldnt even stand
we saw the vet and he said he was severely dehydrated and anemic and that the black diarrhea means it has blood in it, which i knew. he said it was possibly Parvo but would have to be put into intensive care on a drip. this was strange because he was supposedly given his first inoculation when we first adopted him which was especially for the parvo virus.
Another asshole vet, who was put in charge of deworming and inoculating the rescue puppies by an animal welfare group in my town, who just puts the puppies down if they havent found homes before 5 oclock when the work day is over. He tried to make us pay R700 for the puppy when the agreed price for all the rescue puppies with both their deworming and first inoculation is always R50. now this fuckhead is trying to make us pay R700
my dad got hold of the woman in charge of the rescue work and she said it is only meant to be R50. he refused to pay that amount and the vet said okay fine but i need an extra R10 for the deworming. so he went and gave the puppy its deworming tablet and 'supposedly' its first inoculation (which he should have already done but didnt because he was just planning to put all of them down). He came back and rudely said to my dad that once that puppy is out of the building it is no longer his responsibility.
So back to my puppy at the vet, we left him to go into intensive care. about half an hour later, the vet i saw phoned me on my cellphone number i left with them and told me that Fender had passed away when they were putting the drip in. he said his immune system must have been so low that the shock of the drip being put in was the last straw and he was lost. they managed to get it in to try and revive him, but they couldnt
he was terribly sorry. i was so upset.
So it was now clear that it was indeed the Parvo virus and i think that asshole vet in the beginning actually in spite DIDNT give fender his first inoculation for the parvo virus, and then left us with that heartless comment, probably knowing what would happen. I hate him. I dont know how someone can be so heartless, hes an awful vet, always has been, hes just in it for the money, he doesnt care about the animals.
I'm still really upset about it, it all happened so quickly and i miss him
being alone all day is once again just as shit as it was before Fender came along
its hard going thru all the photos i took of him
I did everything i could to make him healthier and happier since day 1 and i hope that in his second chance at life, even if it was so short, he felt loved and happier than before.
Rest in peace Fender
you were an amazing little companion
Photos of Fender the 2nd day i had him:
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