Honey!

Honey is a 9 to 10 year old red girl who is cropped, docked, and spayed. She was relinquished to Doberman Rescue of Colorado by her owners and has been in foster care for approximately six weeks. She is also featured on the Senior Doberman Project site.

Honey came to Rescue after being on long term doses of predisone and with untreated hypothyroidism. She is now off the pred and is on medication for thyroid problems -- she is getting body tone back and has lost at least 10 lbs. of excess weight. She is temporarily on antibiotics for a bacterial skin infection, and she has been successfully treated for mites.

Honey has a very severe allergic response evidenced by her skin condition. Blood serum tests have have shown the following allergies:
Food:
     potatoes
     venison
     turkey
     soy products
     carrots
Environmental:
     cottonwood
     juniper
     certain strains of grass

Her vets wish to start a course of serum injections to see if they can raise her immunities. They think that much of her allergenic responses will decrease the longer she is off the pred. It is their opinion that the long term pred dosage compromised her immune system. It might never come back fully normal, but perhaps it will be mitigated over time. For her age she is an incredibly spry girl, and suffers her treatments with aplomb if not joy.

Doberman Rescue of Colorado has already put a great deal of money into her care and diagnostics. The serum injections will be the last extraordinary expense. We need your help with this. Please help Honey by using the provided PayPal button, or mailing a tax-deductible donation.