When our wonderful, long-time volunteer Laura W. brought Timmy back from the vet hospital for us last weekend and let him out of the car, I watched in amazement as he zoomed off to check things out. I turned to Laura and said, "Wow — what a difference!" I could immediately see how much easier it was for him to get around without that useless front leg hanging in the air. He had a smoother, more fluid gait, and he seemed to move effortlessly. It was like a dead weight had been lifted off of him. No more lurching.
It's an odd thing, but sometimes the surgeries that make us wince the most just thinking about them — like removing a chronically painful, blind eye, or amputating a limb — can make an enormous difference in an animal's quality of life. For Widget, for Ella, and now for Timmy, their recent surgeries have done wonders for them.
Here's Timmy in the Widget's House yard, before being put back up for "quiet time":
We still have to keep his activity level reduced because of his heartworm treatment a few weeks ago. So for now, he won't be allowed to be as mobile as he would like … but pretty soon, he'll be turned loose to run as much as he wants.
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Only two weeks left — voting ends on April 18th!
Please
keep voting
for the ranch in the Shelter Challenge — and you can
vote every day! We're currently in fourth place and still on
track to
win $3,000 for the animals, but every vote counts! We just slipped from
third place to fourth, so please help round up as many votes as you can
so we can stay in the running for the $3,000. Ask your family and
friends to vote for the ranch, too!
Enter "Rolling Dog Ranch" and
our state
postal code,
MT, for Montana, and it will bring up our listing.
Vote
in the Shelter Challenge here.
Last
year we won $3,000 in the first round and then won the $20,000 Grand
Prize in the second round, so your votes really do add up and
make for
a wonderful gift for the animals here.
Thank you!
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