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Volume 16 • Issue 8 • AUGUST 2021
Rescuing Dogs with Disabilities & Special Needs By Susan Spisak
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or shelters, nonprofits, and individual rescuers, taking on relinquishments and strays is their mission. Many respond to pleas to assist canines who would likely be euthanized - those with special needs and serious medical issues who require expensive veterinarian care and rehabilitation. Meet a few of these dogs and those who’ve gone above and beyond for them… Winne’s Georgia owner took the 4-month-old pup to a vet for euthanization - she was born with angular front limb deformities. The vet refused to put her down, declaring that she was terrific. He turned to Makeda Stewart, an individual rescuer there, who reached out to her Maine pal, Britt Bolnick, co-founder of Pittie Posse
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Winnie from Pittie Posse
Rescue (PP), to see if she would accept her. Bolnick said absolutely. She arrived in-state in April and had leg x-rays, a CT/MRI, and surgical plans were outlined. Winnie had the orthopedic surgery to straighten her legs, and PP’s social media team began fundraising for her all-
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Eat, Stay, Play!
important rehabilitation sessions. “We do really know that when we have special cases, our community helps us.” Routine bloodwork then proved that Winnie was anemic, requiring
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Dogs for Adoption
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