Smokey's night out

Sunday evening there was a special charity event at the biggest mall in Charlotte, South Park Mall. It's called the "Evening of Giving". They close the mall at 5 then re-open at 6 and you have to have a ticket to get in. Charities sell the tickets for $10 and we keep $7 of it, the rest goes to the mall's charities, so it's all a donation. The stores offer special prices, there's food for everyone to eat, and music to enjoy, and lots of raffle drawings. I took my foster puppy Smokey up to show him off. Everybody loved him, he's such a great little puppy, very friendly and yet calm. So here's a photo someone took of us - the famous team of Smokey and Skinny!! LOL

Update on Ralphie

Ralphie's been in his foster home for a full day now and what a day it's been. He's doing incredibly well and has far exceeded our expectations.


By lunchtime he was going up & down the stairs off the back deck to the fenced yard. He does this by himself. He plays with the two resident dogs but has bonded with one in particular; Thelma Lou (a Corgi/mix). Ralphie loves her and follows her around.


This evening when he was put in his ex-pen he just couldn't settle down.......until Thelma Lou was put in there with him. Now they're both sleeping; Ralphie on his giant pillow and Thelma Lou on her blanket. All is well.

Ralphie is discharged

Ralphie was able to come home today. The vet and was amazed. Remember the first photos of Ralphie's leg with the open wound where you could see the bone and the horrible x-ray? That happened 3-4 weeks ago! It would appear someone else hit this boy and they too didn't stop to help him. Because he received no care when that injury happened, it started to heal incorrectly and by the time he received care it was just too late. The ends of the bone had already started to die.

So the woman who hit him the other day can take solace in that she didn't cause this horrible injury. However, she's not off the hook. She too wasn't willing to help him in any way. Morally, that's just wrong. Some would say morally bankrupt.

Because of the previous injury he's had a head start on learning to walk on 3 legs. At his foster home, he was carried out of the car and they had to coax him to move around. Then he got his bearings, laid down and rolled around in the grass. He walked/hopped around a bit, watched the cats and when he saw another dog he wagged his tail.

In the house an ex-pen was set up for him.



You'll see it's got a large dog cushion in it which should be comfortable for his stump. It was covered up with a super soft blanket. That too should feel good while he's healing. It was obvious he'd never been indoors before; he refused to go inside the house. So Ralphie was carried inside and put into his pen. It's happened before with rescue dogs who've never had a bed; they don't know what to do with it. Here's Ralphie, half on & half off his bed.



That's a chew bone which I don't think he ever saw before. He treasured it and laid his head down on the bone. An hour or so later his foster mom reported that he not only chewed it but ate the whole thing then got up on his new bed to lay down. First milestone: Ralphie figured out what a bed is!

Ralphie's story

A volunteer rescuer was driving one day and saw a dog beginning to cross the road in front of her. She stopped, but another car came from the other direction and hit him. The woman driving the other car wasn't going to stop, but our volunteer made her stop.

The woman said she was late for work, at a vet's office! What luck, our volunteer thought - she can take the dog to work. "Oh no, I can't do that," she said and drove off. Didn't even stay to help our volunteer get the 50 pound black lab into her SUV. Fortunately some men were working on a house nearby and they help lift the dog into the car.

Off she went to Indian Land Animal Hospital. The dog, now nicknamed "Ralphie", was given pain meds and made comfortable. His wound was dressed and the leg stabilized. Because it was shorter than the other leg, the vet said the bone had probably broken and slid past itself. Surgery would be required to put a plate in the leg, or it might have to be amputated.

Ralphie was stabilized and made comfortable for the night, while our volunteers made a plan to move him the next morning to The Pet Hospital in Bessemer City, NC for surgery.

Ralphie waited patiently for the results of his x-rays. It wasn't good news. Apparently he had been hit by a car a month earlier and the same leg was broken and not treated. The leg couldn't be saved.

Ralphie's leg was amputated on November 18th. He did well in surgery.

Renni, a pekinese, is free of allergies and skin problems

My girl Renni is a 10 yrs-old Pekingese. She has been the joy of my life for all these years. Not so pleasant has been her skin condition for the past 8. She was prescribed numerous different pills, topical, medicated shampoos, special foods and injections. Blood and skin tests have been done numerous times, trying to find-out what was wrong with her skin. Nothing ever helped for more than a week or two. She lived in a great discomfort, itching, scratching and biting herself. Along with that Renni developed an allergy 5 yrs ago which progressively turned into a severe condition. For which she was prescribed meds on the top of the meds that she was taking for the skin.

I went in search of the best Vet in Florida who specialized in Infectious Disease. I found one 600 miles away, who comes to that location once a month. We traveled to that particular office to see "THE DOC". He prescribed some different meds, a change in her diet and allergy shots to be given at home under strict regiment. That was 2 months before I started hearing amazing stories about other dogs taking PET RESTORE, and their health improvements. It took me a couple of days to figure-out how to give it to her, because she was refusing it.

Two weeks after taking PET RESTORE the improvement of her skin and fur was so drastic, that I stopped the injections first. Week later after increasing improvements I stopped the pills and that horse shampoo with bad smell. Renni's skin is so healthy now-2 months on PET RESTORE. I do not remember it like that ever. She grew hair on spots that were so abused from biting that I still can't believe it is possible. She is FREE of allergy. She has not been taking anything but Restore for 2 months. I'm so grateful that this product gave her and me normal life again after many years of suffering. No more meds and injections - I can tell she is happy!

Silva A.
Florida

Smokey's improved health

Dramatic turn around in health of puppies pulled from shelter

My husband and I foster puppies and work to find them loving adoptive homes. Usually they are in poor health when they come to us and we immediately start adding Nussentials’ MORE! to their food.

We recently pulled 2 puppies from a local shelter on their last day before being euthanized. We named them Smokey and Bandit. They had been at the shelter for over a month. They are the sweetest pups on earth, but were very malnourished and wormy. We started shaking 1/2 tsp of MORE onto their dry food, and got them to the vet to be wormed. Smokey’s coat was very dull and very thin around his neck, down his back, and in spots on his legs. A test for demodex, a non-contagious form of mange, was negative. The vet felt his sparse coat was the result of poor nourishment.

He visited the vet again a week later, and in one week he had gained 4.2 pounds, in spite of being treated for worms! Amazing! His coat was still poor but she expected it would improve in a month or two.

The next day, our first order of PET RESTORE! arrived and we started adding it to his food. That day we took a photo to document his thin coat. Eight days later, he has gained another 3 pounds, and his coat is now shiny and thick. The photos below show Smokey before and 8 days later after using Nussentials’ MORE! and PET RESTORE!

BEFORE: Dull, thin coat, fur missing around neck, on back and legs

AFTER: Soft, silky, shiny, thick coat