Our wonderful family and friends,
Well, we are at it again, but please dont think we are crazy!!! We are currently FOSTERING a dog for the next month or so. Yup, that moves our pack number up to 4. I meant to send this email out sooner, but it has been quite busy in the Kincaid household and a long story to tell. I will try to give you all the short version. There was a boxer dog/puppy up for adoption at the local animal shelter with a hurt leg. He was not going to be adopted out and the local boxer rescue group was unable to pick him up because of his injury. They do not have funds to care for a hurt dog. My husband, with the heart of gold that he has, decided that we needed to take the dog and give it at least a temporary home, since he was going to be euthanized this week. We brought Brutus home on Friday, and I cant begin to tell you what a love of a dog he is. The other dogs have taken to him like he has always been one of the pack and its great to see them playing together. We knew upon adopting Brutus last Friday his leg was broken, but were told by the animal shelter vet it was an older injury, and he could live a normal life without surgery, since the muscles had already started to atrophy and almost form a cast around the break site. He is not in pain, but his right hind leg is immobile and he uses it almost like a cane or crutch while he walks. We took him into our vet this week to get his rabies shot and get his injury looked at, and thats where the situation gets interesting. Turns out, Brutus' break is not as old as we originally were told, and is in need of surgery, a pretty doggone (yes, pun intended) expensive surgery if I do say so myself. Mike and I came home and talked about it, and decided we felt the tug on our hearts to go ahead and move ahead with the procedure, after probably a hundred phone calls, and an exhausting few days, Brutus will go under the knife tomorrow. Its all of a sudden, and I was hoping to let you all know about him well before that was scheduled to happen, but our vet/surgeon let us know tonight how important it is to get the surgery done quickly and soon, to avoid further injury and higher costs. We have already worked out the first payment, which is around 3/4 of the payment, and we have already received a guaranteed $250 in donations from various organizations with at least $150 in donations that have been "promised." Brutus will go in tomorrow morning, and will be staying two nights at the vet, he is going to have to have dead/weakened/ and other wise hurt muscle cut away and repaired, as well as growth of the break site cut away, and then we believe they are going to put the bone together with pins and plates!!!! Yikes! That's a lot of work for a dog who is only 1.5 years old! He will be under pretty strict orders for the next 4 weeks but is expected to recover beautifully! We are eager to see him finally using all four of his legs!
And who will be taking him after all this is said and done? Mike's parents have stepped forward and offered to house him for us, at least for the duration of the time we are living at Point Mugu, then he will be able to come home with us!
I know you all might think we are psycho, and maybe we are, but hopefully you can see the heart of the matter, and we can definietely see the thankfulness in our Brutus boy's eyes when he's in our laps on the couch!
We love you guys and cant wait to hear how crazy you think we all are for attempting this new adventure!
Attached is a picture of the big/little man who is about 10-15 pounds underweight, another thing we are working on conquering!
Well, we are at it again, but please dont think we are crazy!!! We are currently FOSTERING a dog for the next month or so. Yup, that moves our pack number up to 4. I meant to send this email out sooner, but it has been quite busy in the Kincaid household and a long story to tell. I will try to give you all the short version. There was a boxer dog/puppy up for adoption at the local animal shelter with a hurt leg. He was not going to be adopted out and the local boxer rescue group was unable to pick him up because of his injury. They do not have funds to care for a hurt dog. My husband, with the heart of gold that he has, decided that we needed to take the dog and give it at least a temporary home, since he was going to be euthanized this week. We brought Brutus home on Friday, and I cant begin to tell you what a love of a dog he is. The other dogs have taken to him like he has always been one of the pack and its great to see them playing together. We knew upon adopting Brutus last Friday his leg was broken, but were told by the animal shelter vet it was an older injury, and he could live a normal life without surgery, since the muscles had already started to atrophy and almost form a cast around the break site. He is not in pain, but his right hind leg is immobile and he uses it almost like a cane or crutch while he walks. We took him into our vet this week to get his rabies shot and get his injury looked at, and thats where the situation gets interesting. Turns out, Brutus' break is not as old as we originally were told, and is in need of surgery, a pretty doggone (yes, pun intended) expensive surgery if I do say so myself. Mike and I came home and talked about it, and decided we felt the tug on our hearts to go ahead and move ahead with the procedure, after probably a hundred phone calls, and an exhausting few days, Brutus will go under the knife tomorrow. Its all of a sudden, and I was hoping to let you all know about him well before that was scheduled to happen, but our vet/surgeon let us know tonight how important it is to get the surgery done quickly and soon, to avoid further injury and higher costs. We have already worked out the first payment, which is around 3/4 of the payment, and we have already received a guaranteed $250 in donations from various organizations with at least $150 in donations that have been "promised." Brutus will go in tomorrow morning, and will be staying two nights at the vet, he is going to have to have dead/weakened/ and other wise hurt muscle cut away and repaired, as well as growth of the break site cut away, and then we believe they are going to put the bone together with pins and plates!!!! Yikes! That's a lot of work for a dog who is only 1.5 years old! He will be under pretty strict orders for the next 4 weeks but is expected to recover beautifully! We are eager to see him finally using all four of his legs!
And who will be taking him after all this is said and done? Mike's parents have stepped forward and offered to house him for us, at least for the duration of the time we are living at Point Mugu, then he will be able to come home with us!
I know you all might think we are psycho, and maybe we are, but hopefully you can see the heart of the matter, and we can definietely see the thankfulness in our Brutus boy's eyes when he's in our laps on the couch!
We love you guys and cant wait to hear how crazy you think we all are for attempting this new adventure!
Attached is a picture of the big/little man who is about 10-15 pounds underweight, another thing we are working on conquering!
2 comments:
Brutus is adorable and I hope you can fatten him up in no time sissy! I hope the surgery goes well too!!
So how many boxers do you have? 3 and then another kind of dog?
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