Please Help Carina : here?

I wasn't sure where to put it, so I put it in journeys & endings, but maybe it should be here. Please move it if nessessary. It's titled Please Help Carina.
Thanks. Please read it. www.pugdogrescue.com

My heart broke for little Carina. How anyone could let a defenseless little puppy get in such awful condition! I will keep Carina in my prayers.

ooh...Carina..:( my heart just breaks seeing her that bad.
I hope everything will be ok and she gets a good home!

My heart broke as soon I saw this and tears pour down my face. How can someone do that to a PUPPY! Or any liveing animal. So many prayers comeing her way and puppy pug kisses from ollie.

I am a fan of Mason the Pug and always read his blogs. Today it was about Carina. She is worse than little Miss Sarah who our MN Midwest Pug Rescue is helping. They have many of the same problems. Sarah is doing nicely after several weeks of much needed care.

I will be sending a donation for Carina too.

I just sent in a donation. I saw the pic real quick but could not read how this happened to her, can someone tell me, did the owner just leave her outside or what?

Donna wrote:I just sent in a donation. I saw the pic real quick but could not read how this happened to her, can someone tell me, did the owner just leave her outside or what?

Donna, they pulled her from the shelter, so they don't really say where she was before that. She was full of ticks and fleas, so obviously some awful awful conditions, probably beyond comprehension.

Tyson&LuLu'sMom wrote:

Donna wrote:I just sent in a donation. I saw the pic real quick but could not read how this happened to her, can someone tell me, did the owner just leave her outside or what?

Donna, they pulled her from the shelter, so they don't really say where she was before that. She was full of ticks and fleas, so obviously some awful awful conditions, probably beyond comprehension.

Thanks, I did not want to see her pic as I knew it would just haunt me but I could not help it.
I sure hope she is able to pull through.

She is still hanging in there. Here's the update I got today.

Hi guys!



Sorry that I haven’t sent an update for a few days. Was handling the preparation for the fair and functioning on 2 hr. sleep a night L



In my opinion Carina is doing better. She had a check up on Friday, and clinically I am told she is about the same. Her skin is about 40% better after the baths and getting the scabs pulled off a little bit at a time. She still has the UPI (upper respiratory infection) but it hasn’t turned into bronchitis or pneumonia, so we are hoping it will hold up. We did discover a hernia on her belly, but that is nothing we will worry about now. Her eye ulcers are improving a lot, and we are pretty sure we won’t have to remove the eye at this point.



I have been cooking her a balance fresh food diet and she is now eating very well 3-4 meals a day. She actually looks forward to it now where before she didn’t look at the dog food that much. I know the cooked food will help her build her immune system faster. It is the same food my own dogs get.

Today after I bathed her, which is the most painful part of this process, she was in her bed and I was getting her e-collar ready (I have to tape gauze all the was around the neck so the plastic doesn’t hurt her sores) I actually saw her trying to pick up the nylabone I had for her. Due to the paralysis on her face it make it difficult for her to pick up things, but I was so encourage that she tried to do that.



I think she is much more alert. I have been weaning her off the pain meds and bought some VERY expensive powder some one told me about that helps heal faster, I started that today, so we will see how that goes.



Since I can’t hold her because she hurts every where and movement makes her skin bleed, I just sit next to her and talk to her. As I always do to my sick babies I sing to them “you are my Sunshine” on Saturday night, I was cleaning her area and started signing it to her, she started wagging her body and wanting to get to me and gave me tons of kisses!!! I cried with joy.



My gut feeling tells me she will make it, though the Drs. told me she is not out of the woods. I rather listen to my gut feelings J



Continue to pray for her PLEASE!!.............../Tina

Very good news. I'm saying prayers for little Carina and for Tina. Bless her for taking Carina in.

I've made my donation and will keep her in my thoughts. Thanks for the update!

I think of Carina all the time. Thanks so much for updating us Lisa.

Thanks for the update, Lisa! Continued prayers for Carina & Tina.

Thanks for the update. I think about her a lot and am glad to see she's improving even just a bit.

Just got another update & now they have her sister!!

Hello every one! We continue to get donations and calls about our beautiful Carina. We thank you from the bottom of our hearts. Before giving a little bit of info. on Carina, we want to give you some new news. Yesterday we rescued Carina's sister, Carisa (see picture) from another shelter. We were alerted last week of her existence. We have been working very hard to get her out and we did. It appears that the same person dumped them both at different shelters two days a part. It is impossible to know for sure. But the coincidence are too numerous, they look a lot a like, same age, very similar issues, except luckily Carisa is not in critical condition. She just needs a lot of care. Her skin is bad, but not nearly as bad as her sister. Less ticks and fleas. Her eyes are a lot worse and she appears to be almost totally blind, she has SEVERE Pigmentation Karititis on both eyes, even that Vets were shocked as to how bad it was for her age, so most likely poor breeding and genetic, as it is uncommon to have this so bad at such a young age and they both have it. We did take her to the eye specialist to make sure we were not missing anything. That Vet too was very surprised at how bad they are. She will need Cyclosporine for life in both eyes. But due to her condition we can not administer yet, is it prevents healing and now we need to concentrate on her skin and other issues. Luckily we got her in time as to not to get like Carina. Of course this mean double the cost on these babies, so we need your help that much more now! Carisa is a bit on the wild side, not very socialized, tends to be a bit aggressive in a puppy way. She bit my cheek pretty bad yesterday, so lots of work in that dept too. These are not the only dogs in need of care, but some dogs hit people's heart more than others. We have many in-house that have on-going care. One had his second leg surgery yesterday as he came in with a severely broken leg 6 months ago where the bone was deteriorating from being broken for so long. The first surgery didn't take as well, as his bones were so brittle. With good care and good nutrition the bones got strong enough for a second surgery. The second surgery was very successful. Once this heals he will have to have back surgery. Two others had back surgery last month. Each surgery is around $4,000-$6,000. We stop at nothing to get them well, but right now we are $35,000 in debt and that was before Carina and Carisa, so your help is extremely needed.

Now regarding Carina, she is improving daily, more active, eating very well, think the home cooked meal really helped in her on-going recovery. Her skin still looks really bad and it has been over a week. Just raw! The baths are very painful to her but needed. She is truly an ANGEL, so loving so grateful for everything we do. Accepting of everything that is being done to help her. She is going for a battery of test on Friday to access her condition further. I continue to be very optimistic. Even though the Vets are still cautious about her condition, I feel it in my heart that she will make it. It will be a long journey and not an easy one, but we can do it.

Again thank you all very much and as time progresses please continue to support us. After the initial shock of these babies wears off, there is still a long way to go to make them well.

Does anyone know how she's doing?

I follow her on their blog, the last update was April 10th but it seems like she continues to slowly improve.

http://pugsnpals.blogspot.com/