Category: Awareness

Today Oscar saw our Veterinarian and while he was not thrilled about it, he has begun to receive the expert medical care he always has needed and deserves. 

To say the Veterinarian was in shock when he heard Oscar’s story would be an understatement. 

For those not familiar with Oscar’s background, he was rescued from ACCT Philly. According to his paperwork, he was surrendered by his family who said they loved him; this same family put in a request to euthanize due to being “too old, sick, and not wanting to play anymore”.

Oscar had just turned 18 years old in June and just one month later he was no longer wanted. He arrived at the shelter matted, with feces on his feet, long nails and out of breath. 

Our Veterinarian concurs with the shelter vets’ diagnosis and Oscar does suffer from a collapsing trachea. This is causing a horrible honking type coughing and occasional gagging more during the night than the day time. We are going to treat the cough with some medication so Oscar can sleep more peacefully. 

Oscar also has a systolic heart murmur, but he does not require medication; we are going to begin a regime of senior supplements including fish oil for his heart. Complete blood work was performed and we will have those results back in about 24 hours. 

Oscar’s physical exam also revealed severe dental disease, nuclear sclerosis of the eyes and scaring of one of his eyes due to an ulceration that was never treated medically. Unfortunately, due to Oscar’s age and heart murmur, a full dental surgery is not an option; we will be treating him with short courses of antibiotic treatments to keep his mouth as healthy and comfortable as possible in his remaining years. 

Contrary to what his owner put on the surrender form, Oscar is very playful and loves other dogs. He is extremely loving, sweet, and enjoys attention.

We will never really know everything about Oscar’s past life, but we do know that we will make sure his remaining years are filled with nothing but love and happiness. 

If anyone is interested in sponsoring Oscar’s lifetime care, please reach out to us directly.

We have some heartbreaking news to share – late last night, Kermit gained his angel wings. He passed on his own terms, in his sleep around 2:30am.

To say we are devastated is an understatement; when Kermit came to us it was clear he had been horribly neglected. He was a fighter and we fought along right beside him. We did everything we possibly could to help him, but clearly his body could not keep up with his will to live.

In the few days that he was here in Sanctuary, this beautiful soul knew love and learned that not all humans are unkind. Kermit loved to give little kisses when you least expected it; and was a real little charmer.

You will always live on in our hearts Kermit – you were taken too soon. We were blessed to have known you!

Thank you to each and every one you for caring and for being a support to us during this time.

Yesterday our hearts broke as we met Juda in person for the first time. We have decided to rename him Kermit, as he begins his new life here in Sanctuary.

A little over 2 weeks ago, we stepped in to rescue a dog whose world was turned upside down. After spending years with the same family, he found himself alone and afraid dumped in a shelter for the second time in his life.

This sweet, loving boy was so badly neglected twice in his lifetime and this time he was going to die without even knowing humans can be kind – we could not allow that to happen. It honestly looks as if he has never received any form of care.

Our hearts are shattered after reading through his medical paperwork – things do not look good. To summarize and provide you all with full transparency about the situation, Kermit was severely matted with overgrown nails, and nuclear sclerosis in both eyes. He is in congestive heart failure, suffers from cushings disease, reflux, low blood platelets, rounded/enlarged liver, displaced intestines, Cholecystitis – inflammation of the gall bladder, and a lesion on his right kidney.

While his shelter medical charts look awful, he is a happy, go-lucky boy showing no symptoms. He is 12 years old, but you’d never know it. You’d never even know he isn’t 100% healthy either as nothing seems to bother him.

Kermit is now safe here at Paws Give Me Purpose Inc. and he deserves our commitment and expert medical care. We need to fight and give him the opportunity to live the best life possible in his remaining years. But, we cannot do this without YOU!

We will be having our own Veterinarian re-examine and run further tests on Kermit in order to help us determine what the best decisions for him will be and what is needed to give him the most comfortable life here in Sanctuary. It will be costly, but this precious soul is worth it and so deserving.

Please we ask that you open your hearts and make an urgent life-saving donation; Kermit’s life matters!

PayPal: https://www.paypal.me/pawsgivemepurposeinc

Venmo: @PAWSGIVEMEPURPOSE-INC

Kermit also needs many prayers and positive thoughts throughout the next few days. He is a strong boy and we are hopeful; he hasn’t come this far to give up and we will not give up on him!