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[03 Oct 2004|01:50pm] |
So I've been searching for a chihuahua to adopt this past week and the girls at work and my roomate gave me the money as early birthday presents to pay for the adoption. I got a little boy names Valentino(Tino for short). I picked him up and he was just so happy and loveable and just the cutest thing you ever did see. The foster mom said he had had a cold and they had treated him for it so he was just hacking here and there. I immediately got attached and he was doing so good, playing, running, eating, and such. Then early this morning around 3-4am he started puking. I thought maybe he got into something, or was overly excited playing around and stuff. But when I woke up around 9-10 he wouldn't really move, or eat, or drink. He looked so depressed and sick so I called the foster mom to ask if he acted like that when he was sick with the cold and she said no but with the vomiting I need to go to the vet hospital because one of their dogs died the other day from parvo and they didn't think Tino had gotten it but now it was possibility. So I take him to the hospital today at 12pm and they do the tests and give him some stuff that ends up costing me 195.00 and then tell me his parvo test came out positive and that just destroyed me. They think he has a pretty good chance of living but with parvo you never know so they are keeping him for a few days and keeping him on IV and antibiotics to see how he does. This is going to cost me out of my ass and I don't even know if I can ever afford it but putting him to sleep without that chance of survival is not something I can do. My mom says with parvo she isn't very hopeful of him being able to survive and the parvo treatment is going to be WAY more expensive than even what I'm having to cough up just to bring him there and I should just let him be put to sleep but I just can't. I don't know. I told her I would go check on him after work tomorrow and if he has not improvement then I will discuss that option with them. I'm just so heartbroken. I hope he comes out of this alive. I'm going to ask that fostering shelter to pay for all or at least help with the cost because they didn't even let me know about the exposure to parvo, otherwise I would have held off on taking him or not taken him at all just to be sure I didn't get attached to a dog who will just die. So yeah... I guess this could be a great birthday coming up.
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