Karina

Karina was rescued on 12th October (though this posting is a bit late, we still wish to tell her story)

Few of us volunteers were on our way to the shelter, we saw this dog, almost furless (scabies condition), standing at the edge of a bridge , staring down for a long time into a river, we reckon she must be thirsty and could not figure out how to drink the river water.

We got down from the car and brought her water and rice. She ate hungrily and drank thirstily. She was a pitiful sight, she has a bloated stomach, her body was infested with fleas and ticks, her eyes were also covered with thick discharge. We decided to bring her to vet for treatment.

She was diagnosed to have no distemper and no heartworm but she has tick fever which requires medication of 28 days of Doxyclyllin. A blood test indicated low protein which could cause the bloated stomach . We have to boost up her protein level by giving her very nutritious food. After the vet visit, she is placed for foster care with one of the volunteers. After we have sprayed her with Frontline that kills hundred of ticks and fleas, she slept with some peace at last. 

We will bring her for further x ray or ultra sound test  to further ascertain her internal problems.

We know she will recover in a few weeks time, after that, we will put her at the shelter, she will never need to roam around in vain for food and water again!

Drank non-stop when some clean water. She must have been So Thirsty!

The ears were full of ticks !

                                             She was famished and gobbled down the food in no time

The vet checking her torn uterus.

Positive for Tick Fever. Negative for Heartworm 

Shy and timid at the clinic. Squeezed herself into a corner.

She approached us for help, she is very friendly and trusting to us. We pulled out many ticks, big and small ones, from many parts of her body.

These were some of the hundreds of ticks and fleas that were removed from Karina's face, ears and body.We had removed much more earlier.

A bloated stomach, such a pitiful sight