Posted 7th October 2023
The group has been up and running for 3 months now. Happy Anniversary to us as a group, and thank you all from the bottom of my heart for joining, helping and being a part of the legacy of our beautiful lost Buddy, gone before his time, but whose name will live forever by helping others.
I want everybody to remember, this group only exists because Buddy didn't survive. In his name I would like shares, invites, and for this group to grow and help as many as possible. We have 248 members, and so far we have helped:
Gil and Pansy from the poor German family, who had their own dogs, and their daughter died so they took on hers also, it was too much for them and the situation became out of control, so these 2 needed urgent help with their medical conditions which hadn't been attended to. They are both feeling much better and happier.
We raised help for Betty, who needed hotel bills paid, and has now found a new happy home. Apollo the cat snuck into our doggie group with his injured ear, and I think another cat may have been helped between members of the group privately, which is fine, Buddy loved cats as you can see in the GIF below meeting a cat on his morning walk.
Sapphire needed a foster home for a year, which she found, and needs operations on all her legs one at a time and we shared this and the money is available for her operations and she is happy in her 2nd foster, the 1st didn't work out, but she is safe and happy and will have her treatment. In fact she has already had the first operation, and the funds for this were raised mainly by the shelter she had lived in until she found her foster.
Kira was sterilised and Gorda had tumours removed from her abdomen area.
Then we have Jessy who sadly has Addison's and will need medication for life. We are helping monthly, having to raise €80 a month for medication and blood tests, until the family can take over the costs again.
And we also have the poor Pretinha, out on a lovely evening walk on a nice Sunday, when she was attacked by a large dog, had her paw torn off, hanging by a thread of skin, and needed urgent hospital treatment, and will need the leg amputated soon. We paid the bill to have her sent back home to her family from the hospital to recover, and we will need to help or pay for the amputation, as the GNR are not helping although the costs should be recovered from the person who owned the big dog. This doesn't seem to be happening.
Leio another cat popped in to ask for help, which we did give a little, as much as we could manage.
Then we had the elderly little Lili who had the terribly painful prolapse, which we paid to be urgently corrected, then the next day we paid for her operation so this never happens to her again, and she can, hopefully, be pain free in her old age.
