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Animus ("Ani") FEB 6 Update: Animus is up to date with vaccinations, spayed, microchipped, heartworm negative and on flea and heartworm preventative. She is not food aggressive. She is rapidly gaining weight. Animus can see just fine and her eye treatments have been completed. She is on her way. Now all she needs is a home.
A young man called BTTR on January 5th, to say that he and his girlfriend had picked up a stray dog that they noticed out in a field off of Independence Blvd in Virginia Beach in the wee hours of the morning. It was bitter cold, and they saw this dog walking very slowly, then standing still, then walking. When they approached the dog, they saw that she was emaciated. They took her into their car, and she was very gentle and friendly, despite the fact that she could not apparently see them. When they got a closer look at her in the light, they saw that her eyes were tightly shut, with a heavy discharge coming from them. The young man who took her home with him cannot have a dog where he lives, and so he called BTTR later in the same morning, and we agreed to take her. We asked her young savior to name her.... he thought about it for awhile and said to name her "Animus," which is Latin for "courage." Animus was in pretty bad shape on arrival. We took a good look at her eyes, and we were trying to schedule her to go to the vet the following morning when Dr. Stephanie Reitz of the Virginia Beach Animal Hospital on Pleasure House Rd in Va Beach came by to have one of her dogs practice dog agility at the Family Dog Club. Dr. Reitz was kind enough to come in and take an initial look at Animus. She had a large ulcer on one eye and a smaller one on the second eye. We were able to follow up at the vet office, and our little girl's eyes are looking MUCH better, and she can SEE (yaaaay). Ani's being fattened up so she can receive the rest of her shots and be spayed. She is heartworm negative, which was actually surprising to both us and her vet. That was one bit of good news. She is gaining weight rapidly. She is not at all food aggressive, which we also found a little surprising considering her condition on arrival. Her belly was really big while her bones were sticking out... we were afraid she was pregnant, but that was a false alarm... her belly's distension was due to her malnutrition, and is now shrinking down. CLICK HERE to sponsor me
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