Shih Tzu Rescue
| BETH |
| LAST UPDATED: 10-16-2004 |
BETH - WAHOO!!!!
UPDATE 10-10-2004
A little note from Beth:
"Remember me? I've been in seclusion getting to feeling
better ever since a bunch of soft-hearted people helped me
overcome some big problems.
Now I'm back and want you to see how I'm doing.
In the first photo, I was sooooo hungry, I forgot that I
couldn't stand on all four legs!
In the other 2 pictures... look at me! I'm cancer-free and
soakin' up the sun, baby!
Today, I walked in through the door from the backyard for
the first time in a month. Now maybe Marilyn will stop putting
me in that darn kiddie pool for water therapy!
Thank you to everybody who helped me stop hurting.
Love, Beth
UPDATE 10-10-2004
A little note from Beth:
"Remember me? I've been in seclusion getting to feeling
better ever since a bunch of soft-hearted people helped me
overcome some big problems.
Now I'm back and want you to see how I'm doing.
In the first photo, I was sooooo hungry, I forgot that I
couldn't stand on all four legs!
In the other 2 pictures... look at me! I'm cancer-free and
soakin' up the sun, baby!
Today, I walked in through the door from the backyard for
the first time in a month. Now maybe Marilyn will stop putting
me in that darn kiddie pool for water therapy!
Thank you to everybody who helped me stop hurting.
Love, Beth
| We have all we need right now for little Beth, but there are many of her friends that still need medical care. CLICK HERE |
UPDATE: 9-14-2004
YOU DID IT!!! THANKS TO YOU ABSOLUTELY WONDERFUL, CARING, WONDERFUL, WONDERFUL
(did I say wonderful) PEOPLE, BETH HAS HAD HER SURGERY AND IS NOW RECUPERATING AT
HOME. SHE IS EVEN WALKING NOW.
By noon today, we had enough to make the deposit on Beth's surgery so we DID IT. By the time I got
home from work, we had all we needed (baring complications) so THANK YOU!!!
Beth is an adorable little classic black and white shih tzu girl. We picked her up about six months ago from Harris County Animal
Control. They had found her as a stray in a north Houston neighborhood - matted and full of feces and urine. She also had SEVERE
allergies - her entire underside was thickened, rough and inflamed.
After a few months on good food and lots of baths, Beth started being a dog - happy, sweet and loved to sit in laps. The picture at
the right was taken after about three months.
Two weekends ago, Beth had a minor episode in which she fell to the floor and couldn't get up. We rushed her to the vet and they
found she had an old injury to her back - she was put on steroids, glucosomine, pain medicine and crate rest for a few weeks. She
seemed to get slightly better but still could not walk well.
YOU DID IT!!! THANKS TO YOU ABSOLUTELY WONDERFUL, CARING, WONDERFUL, WONDERFUL
(did I say wonderful) PEOPLE, BETH HAS HAD HER SURGERY AND IS NOW RECUPERATING AT
HOME. SHE IS EVEN WALKING NOW.
By noon today, we had enough to make the deposit on Beth's surgery so we DID IT. By the time I got
home from work, we had all we needed (baring complications) so THANK YOU!!!
Beth is an adorable little classic black and white shih tzu girl. We picked her up about six months ago from Harris County Animal
Control. They had found her as a stray in a north Houston neighborhood - matted and full of feces and urine. She also had SEVERE
allergies - her entire underside was thickened, rough and inflamed.
After a few months on good food and lots of baths, Beth started being a dog - happy, sweet and loved to sit in laps. The picture at
the right was taken after about three months.
Two weekends ago, Beth had a minor episode in which she fell to the floor and couldn't get up. We rushed her to the vet and they
found she had an old injury to her back - she was put on steroids, glucosomine, pain medicine and crate rest for a few weeks. She
seemed to get slightly better but still could not walk well.
On Tuesday, September 7, we took Beth in for a recheck - and got a horrible shock. The vet felt a mass in her abdomen - one that
had not been there the week before. On September 8, we took her in for an ultrasound that confirmed she had a fast-growing tumor
- but it is most likely operable - and doesn't seem to have spread through her organs.
But, with her back injury, we need to evaluate whether we can also fix the back, before we put her through the significant and
invasive surgery for the tumor. We urgently need to have a myleogram done ASAP, so that we can determine whether it will be
worth putting her through the surgery.
Update Monday, Sept 13 - We got a report from the vet today that Beth's back is recovering so that we can now feel comfortable
putting her through the surgery to remove the cancerous mass. This is not an optional procedure - without this surgery, she will
not survive. We do not want to make that decsion.
PLEASE help - these are the types of situations in which we strive to do the right thing - make it up to these little dogs for the
horrible manner in which they were treated in the past
had not been there the week before. On September 8, we took her in for an ultrasound that confirmed she had a fast-growing tumor
- but it is most likely operable - and doesn't seem to have spread through her organs.
But, with her back injury, we need to evaluate whether we can also fix the back, before we put her through the significant and
invasive surgery for the tumor. We urgently need to have a myleogram done ASAP, so that we can determine whether it will be
worth putting her through the surgery.
Update Monday, Sept 13 - We got a report from the vet today that Beth's back is recovering so that we can now feel comfortable
putting her through the surgery to remove the cancerous mass. This is not an optional procedure - without this surgery, she will
not survive. We do not want to make that decsion.
PLEASE help - these are the types of situations in which we strive to do the right thing - make it up to these little dogs for the
horrible manner in which they were treated in the past
| THANK YOU!!!!! |
| Christine Apple in memory of my dear sweet Sarah Christine Apple & the remaining Apple Dumpling gang Sheryl Goerke Andrew Burton Duyen Tran Novelyn Secrest In Memory of My Beloved Maltese, Max Tresa Lowe Elizabeth Bartman Diane Anderson Good luck! Teresa Hansen Donna Wilt Joseph W Zender Barbara Grabell Mary Bradshaw |
| Beth's Saviors Wendy Piatek With love and healing prayers to Little Beth Kim Love Ann Ervin Deborah Alexander Susan Burstad Lisa Agnew Beth Kupka from angel Josephine and Gracie Sharon and Douglas Buchanan in honor of Nikki and Dylan Susan Block Traci Tran Good luck today! Love, Traci & Lulu Janee DuVal-Trasler Lori Ugolik |
| Bekki Jones In memory of my beloved Queenie Patricia Dadamo Carrie Carroll Simpson Mary Lou Radler Our love to Beth Stella Lin In memory of Puf Susan Gregory Kelli Davison for Beth Laura Ritchie Good Luck!! Patty Fulenwider |
| Patty Suplee My prayers are with dear little Beth. Thank you for helping this wonderful little girl Donna Glickman Denise Duplinski Katherine Hayward Valerie Pettay Lynne Berkstresser Leslie and Bob Nichols Annemarie Rizzi Ja Schleimer Susan Newquest Laverne Broussard |
| FOREVER FOSTERS Lady Jane's Legacy |
| The Forever Foster program is dedicated to several of our foster dogs who have now gone to the rainbow bridge. |
| Lady Jane Boogie Tiffany Princess Fifi Phoebe Paige |
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| Forever Fosters are dogs that no one wants to adopt. They might be seniors and considered too old by most adoptive families. Some have terminal medical conditions and consequently, no one wants to adopt them for that reason. But we feel that they deserve a loving home despite their problems. So these special ones become "Forever Fosters." This means that they live the remainder of their lives with their foster family but in the Lone Star Shih Tzu and Lhasa Apso Rescue "Forever Foster" program. The foster family provides a loving home for the little dogs to live out the remainder of their lives. But the little dogs need YOUR help with their medical bills. Each of the "Forever Fosters" needs a sponsor for their veterinary bills. CLICK HERE to find one YOU can help. |
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