Star, the sweet & innocent, unfortunate girl who was severely beaten at a temple where her mum died last week after being shot 3 times, joined me today in the cab of the truck on the vet run.

In the back were Perry, Muli, Wawee, Jenny, Kai Dao & Maggie.

The journey was fairly uneventful except to learn that Star, despite having her left front leg in a sling, was very eager to watch where we were going and balanced very well on the one leg.

Star was first to be seen by the vet and after the sling and bandaging was removed, the vet suggested we allow Star to continue her rest & recuperation in a confined area for another week and also to continue with her healing meds but without a sling, hoping now that she would start to use the mending scapular that had been fractured by some raging (a subjective term) maniac.

Jenny, a long term resident at the shelter was next to be seen and the vet immediately wanted to tell me about the condition Jenny was suffering. Autoimmune disease.

Well, indeed that was a correct diagnosis, we knew that already but the reason for Jenny’s trip today was to discuss the usage of a medication that another vet had recommended to us.

Pamotadine or sometimes called Famotadine was recommended to help her combat the skin condition.

Dr Beer explained that this acid inhibitor is used when using Prednisilone for long periods in order to reduce the complications of ulcers, some times caused by Prednisilone. We have been using Prednisilone for some time now and the effect on Jenny has been very little. She has had the problem a long time & it would seem that apart from her skin looking bad, her overall health is not suffering right now. She is obvioulsy not high on the adoption chance list so we shall continue to give her what she needs at the shelter, food, accommodation and socialisation.

So that’s clear then.

Wawee was the next skin case, she was here last week for a scrape and the vet found no traces of fungus, bacteria or mange on her skin.

We have been showering her with medicated shampoo and yet she still has a patchy coat.

Today the tests were the same.

So perhaps the vets initial diagnosis last week was correct, in that the patchy coat is residue from earlier problems of bacteria which have since disappeared.

Her siblings are the same, so we shall continue to monitor all of them.

Maggie was the next to be seen by the vet. Now the frightened, shaking & table hugging dog in my opinion needed a new name. Soraya who had ‘just popped in’ to see what was happening at the clinic today (Thanks for your patience Ames) also felt the name Maggie didn’t suit a male dog. Soraya named him Henry.

The story behind this case is a little disturbing.

A month ago this dog was brought to the vet by the owner, suffering with ulcers around his anus. Yesterday the owner came to the vet and asked for the dog to be put to sleep. The vet refused, despite the offer of money as besides the ulcers around his anus, Henry was otherwise healthy.

Today we ran some blood tests and also a biopsy of the cells around the anus. The results of these tests were proof to the initial superficial examinations by eye, done yesterday & a month ago. Henry was indeed healthy, simply experiencing the after effects of blocked or impacted anal glands which when left without ‘expression’ become infected and break out to the surface of the skin around the anus and this then gets very messy and irritated with complications because of the dog chewing & rubbing it.

So with the correct medication, this guy will overcome his ulcers, he will get his old bum back and he will live !

Muli a pretty faced brown dog has been at the shelter for a few months now, undergoing treatment for her TvT (Transmissible Venereal Tumor).

She has responded well to the chemotherapy treatment and we would like to return her to her home but recently she has started coughing a lot.

Dr Beer listened to her lungs and heard the rattling sound of moisture and diagnosed pneumonia.

Muli will need to be kept warm and receive medication and we will hope she pulls through, after all, she has made it through the battle with TvT, we hope she can benefit from all that trouble we put her through.

Kai Dao (meaning fried egg in Thai) was hit by a car a few weeks ago and had a pin inserted to bind the femur together. The vet removed the bandages last week and during this last week, we see she is not wanting to use the leg.

After an xray, it was decided to put a new cast on her leg as despite the pin still being in position, the vet felt that there was possibly too much movement / slipping of the pin and this would cause inflammation and pain.

Last to be seen by the vet today was a poor little wretch of a dog called Perry.

This little dog, resembling a long haired Chihuahua, was found laying on the street with no home to go to & no one to look after him.

Moreover, Perry could not move his back legs and there were sores, ‘bed sores’ on one side of his hip & leg.

After initial xray examination it was believed Perry had been in an accident some time ago and his legs and hips badly broken. On further scrutiny of the xray it was obvious the rear legs had healed in their rested position. One leg straight out and the other leg tucked up.

Today Dr Beer looked at the xray again and suggested the spinal cord was possibly severed and therefore the dog was paralysed. Tests using fluids & xray would be possible to confirm this but the vet said with the size of the dog and the cost, it would be better to observe his movements over a period of 1 month and then make a decision as to whether to amputate the legs if they were not getting used and give him less baggage to drag about.

We will watch his movements at the shelter, seeing also if he has any control over is poo & pee too. Poor guy, no wonder he looks so scared in the photo.

But here is a slightly nicer image to end with.

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