Peaches
Peaches
is a young (2+ years old) fawn Doberman who needs your help. As a young pup
she had demodectic mange and it affected the lids around her eyes, causing
them to roll inward. The result was that for a
good part of her young life she lived with fur and eyelashes constantly rubbing
her eyeballs, causing pain, irritation and infection. Amazingly it doesn't
appear as though there is permanent damage done to
her eyes, and she did have one surgery done already since coming into DAR&E to
correct the problem, but a recent consult with an eye specialist revealed that
she needs another. The first surgery was done on
her lower lids and it appears that she needs more work done on those, in addition
one of the upper lids also needs to be done. When that surgery was performed,
some sort of hard foreign body was found
lodged between her 3rd eyelid and the eyeball, so that was scratching her eye
for whatever length of time it was there. They also discovered that Peaches'
eyes are not currently producing enough tears so
her eyes are too dry and that is causing more irritation. She is now on 3 different
meds to help correct that problem and make her more comfortable. The specialist
doesn't think there will be any
permanent damage caused by all these eye problems, but we need to move forward
on the corrective
surgery.
Peaches is a highly intelligent, active, sweet Doberman. With basically no socialization as she grew
up, Peaches doesn't have a high level of trust in human beings, but amazingly she does have a high
level of confidence which is helping her overcome her fears. She initially tested strong positive to
Lymes disease and has been on antibiotics for that. She currently still tests low positive and so will
need to be monitored. In addition, Lyme's can also affect the eyes and she does have retinal lesions,
but there's no way to tell if that's from the lyme's or inflammation that was allowed to go on for so
long.
It became evident very quickly after she came into DAR&E that Peaches is quite
the character. She delights in playing with (and yes, tormenting) other dogs.
She plays endlessly (until he gets tired!)
with her Dobe buddy in her foster home and apparently feels it's her job to protect
him from the other dogs of the world! She's passionate about finding (terminating???)little
fuzzy things and will spend
hours searching the wood pile for their hiding places (just a touch high drive!!??!)
Also for some reason, to her foster Mom's amusement, Peaches must be elevated
to poop. Picture a Doberman
spread-eagle on a vertical fence, so that her front feet are not touching the
earth, pooping.... If not there then she will leap up on a brick wall, balance
herself carefully and poop there.....
A fallen tree will also do.... Go figure!!!
At the end of the day Peaches loves to cuddle. She scrinkles up her little face,
almost but not quite a smile, and manipulates herself onto your lap to look adoringly
into your eyes....gives a little sigh
of contentment and goes to sleep. She's faultlessly loving to her people, lavish
in her adoration and totally trusting of them. Peaches is a very special girl
and she deserves to finally live pain free
with nothing restricting the vision in her beautiful eyes as she looks out at
a world that she is now
learning is a very good place! DAR&R is currently working on raising the funds
to get Peaches her second (and hopefully last) surgery that will finally enable
her to live as she deserves to and they have
asked our help.
You can mail us a donation or use the
PayPal button below if you would like to make a tax-deductible donation
for Peaches. All help is very much appreciated!
Updates!
12/23/04 - From the good folks at DAR&E: "Peaches has had her 2nd surgery as well as her re-check from Dr. Bromberg at South Paws (canine ophthalmologist) and has been made available for adoption. Her eyelids look good, and she's being her usual bratty self! :) For Christmas, Santa is bringing her lots of toys and special treats!" Way to go peaches! Her bills have mounted though and we can definitely use everyone's help! Thanks!
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