LeahR
Super Boxer
Last week we had the worst snow storm in Dayton history ( over 20" overnight) and below freezing temperatures. We had just finished breakfast and my husband opened the front door to feed the birds our left over bread, I then heard him yell "sweety, there is a boxer at our door" Obviously I was a bit confused as our two boxers were right in front of me. Anyhow, this poor beautiful boxer boy was hunched on our front porch, covered with ice, barely able to move. We immediately brought him into our attached garage, provided him with tons of blankets , a space heater, and began the process of finding his owners. We are reletively new to our neighborhood, so my husband went across the street to fellow boxer owners to see if they might know who he belonged to. They did not. I began calling shelters, police stations. ( Note that this was Xmas, which makes this story even sadder) I left our name, address and phone number with all. This poor baby did not move for over 20 hours, he just layed there saying thank you for bing kind with his big brown eyes. Finally at about 2:30 in the morning he ate the food we had given him. On Sunday I took "found" notices to all of the area pet stores and posted them. Still no word. By Monday we started to realize that it was probable that someone had either dumped or abandoned him. We made an appointment and took him to our vet. He got all of his vaccines, and was being a normal boxer. He is very lovable and sweet. Here is the sad part.... Our vet called with the results of his heartworm tests and he has BAD heartworms. So it appears that some irresponsible idiot had enough money to buy a purebred boxer but not enough money to do something as simple as get him heartworm prevention.( the vet judges his age between one and two years) The vet said we have three choices, a very expensive and intensive arsenic type treatment that may kill him ( and we would have to keep him "quiet" for a month and a half, impossible with two other boxers) , a continual treatment by pill which may or may not work, and of course option numbe three, putting him down. Option number three not being acceptable, today we took him back to the vet for some tests that will better judge the degree of severity so we will know whether option # 2 may work ( this option ranging from $200-$300.) This is not about money, if I had a ton of money I would stop at nothing, unfortunately we are not rich, the budget is tight being right after Xmas and his vaccines and physical cost $130 which we already paid for. This poor baby is so sweet and thankful for our kindness, how could someone do this to him,let alone at Xmas and during the worst snow storm in history???? Anyhow, I guess I just wanted to vent and maybe see if anyone out there has had experience with a pup having heartworm and could maybe share their experience with me. Thank you for listening ( or reading)
Leah
Leah
Does he have a name yet?
