No Dog Left Behind on GTMD by Heather/Jon

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No Dog Left Behind
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We have fostered 10 dogs through No Dog Left Behind in the past year, your donations help save more!

$160

raised by 5 people

$1,000 goal

Last year for Give to the Max day Jon and I helped raise more than $600 for No Dog Left Behind.  On the biggest fundraising day of the year, No Dog Left Behind hopes to raise $15,000!  Jon and I hope to exceed last year and raise $1,000 this year!  Did you know in the past year we spent more than $300,000 on Veterinary expenses and saved more than 1,000 dogs as a rescue?  Jon and I helped save 10 of those dogs last year by fostering them in our home and finding them their happily every after:

*Five breeder releases: Perry a 6 month old Pomimo (Pomeranian/ American Eskimo), Jalo a 8 year old Coton de Tulear, Sheba a 18 month old Golden Retriever, Merlot a Minature Australian Shepherd who came to us with her two 2 week old Aussiedoodle puppies and Anya a Minature Australian Shepherd about to have puppies any day!

*One owner surrender, Winnie, who we ended up adopting, now Mr. Marco ;-) 

Our first Foster since last Give to the Max Day, we had the biggest impact on this year! His little face is our featured photo! And here is Oliver Twist's story....

On December 20th, 2021 I was looking at the No Dog Left Behind Volunteer page and saw a dog posted stating the following: "Emergency Foster Needed: Oliver Twist was hit by a car and for sure has a broken leg.  He will be going to Wellhaven Maple Grove tomorrow and will need a foster to pick him up.  Oliver Twist is a male Dachshund.  Love dogs, cats and people." Our last foster left a week prior and I have lots of experience with medical fosters as I worked as a Vet Tech at an animal hospital for years.  So, I talked my husband into letting us take him.  I thought, oh he's injured, the vet will probably amputate his leg and he'll be on crate rest and an easy foster.  So, the next day I went to pick him up at Wellhaven after work, and it turned out his leg wasn't broken at all, he instead had "Multiple chronic pelvis fractures", two diseases he contracted from ticks, one anaplasmosis and the other tapeworms.  They also discovered during his x-ray and exam he had a foreign body in his stomach and one of his testicles hadn't dropped so he was cryptorchid. Two weeks of strict crate rest was ordered to see if his pelvis would heal.  He dragged his entire back end with him everywhere, and kept trying to walk and get to people.  He screamed in his crate and sedatives didn't help one bit.  We resorted to as much lap time as we could handle, carrying him around strapped to me and a puppy pen until he could climb over or under it.  After five weeks of rest and improvement he went back to the vet to have a recheck x-ray as well as his complicated cryptorchid neuter and gastrotomy to remove the foreign body from his stomach.  His x-rays and exam showed improvement and hip surgery was not needed at this time!  That mystery object in his stomach was removed and it turned out to be a marble! After several weeks of small bland meals and rest, Oliver was ready to find his forever family. In his six+ weeks with us we knew he had separation anxiety and would do best in a home where he could be around lots of people as much as possible and didn't need to be in a kennel, which he hated, much.   Oliver went to an event in St Paul called the Doggie Depot and was the star of the show all dressed up and looking for pets!  There he met a family who had recently lost their elderly Dachshund and was looking for a new companion to help with PTSD as a result of being a St Paul firefighter.  It seemed meant to be as Oliver didn't like being alone either.  On February 18th, 2022 after 8 weeks in rescue and lots of healing, Oliver went home to a family that needed him and lots of kids to play with and cats to chase ;)

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