I have identified a “medical foster” who lives far away but has agreed to help her through recovery.

Her future is bright and our thanks are not able to be expressed in mere words.

You don’t know what an encouragement this has been for me personally as Director of a small rescue who is tired all the timeJ.

We will wait these next few weeks for an answer as to if she will need another surgery. In the meantime, more than enough has come in for her care and if another surgery is needed we will pursue dollars then to cover it.

Thanks again from the bottom of this humble heart.

If anyone knows of an suitable adopter, no matter where they are, please get in touch with me. Sylvia will be almost normal in her potty habits, but not completely.

Sincerely,

Karen Stein Ragusa

Caring4Creatures

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While this procedure will certainly help this girl it may not completely rectify her situation. But we felt like doing a total restructure would have compromised her little bit of muscle in that area and it wasn’t worth the risk if this procedure can make her sound enough to eliminate fairly normally and not have the terrible pain she was enduring.

We will know in about 3 weeks if a more complicated procedure is needed but Dr. Watson is very satisfied that it went better than he thought it might.

I wish to thank all of you for your kindness to this sweet bubble of energy.

She’s amazingly healthy from her tail up! She has you all to thank for the smiles she will exhibit in the future….now does anyone know of a stay at home person for the next three weeks that can give this girl her meds and love on her til we determine the next step????

Love you for loving her.

Karen

My grandmother was almost 100 when she passed several years ago, so I know that she would be completely mystified by the things in the news today.

Not angry.  Not condemning.  Not judgemental.  That’s what made her truly unique and why I adored her so.

Seems to me it’s those things that sets current generations apart from past generations.

She had a simple way of accepting people and things for what they were.  She always tried to help where she could but never got in the way or into other people’s business.

There is a saying in Louisiana; “live and let live”.  “Let the good times roll”, too, but that’s a blog for another day… Our society has become so into worrying about what everyone else is doing that few are doing really well with what is inside their four walls.

Judgement and criticism dominate instead of grace and mercy.

I am thankful to have had her in my life.  I often think (especially since moving out into Gainesville to this barn that sometimes resembles a residence) how much alike our lives are.  She constantly swept her house for all the dust that would come in from the plantation and the sugar cane farmng that went with that life.  No washer or dryer.  No air conditioning…not even hot water.  Bugs and critters!  I have experienced all of these things since moving here with my foster babies.  It has been quite an experience.  This simpler life.

I am thankful for experiencing it.  I don’t know what I’m being prepared for but without any real formal training, I am becoming a survivalist.  And it’s nice in ways I would have never imagined.

The really amazing thing about Mamie is that she always kept her loving demeanor no matter how much dust was blowing into that house that was so warm in the summertime….something i haven’t mastered yet, but i am being refined  Thanks be to God.  The only true sufficient One.

If you judge people, you have no time to love them.

(Mother Teresa, 1979 Nobel Peace Prize, 1910-1997)

This video is shared courtesy of our friends at Mercola and Dr. Karen Becker

The whole article is worth the read as well.

Enjoy the info!

Since arriving in Milledgeville in June, we have caught 10 dogs in previous extreme distress.

Six of them to be exact. Professor, Pinnocio, Pistachio – the boys. Essie, Cokie and Tortie – the girls. All were breeder dogs that took some extremely dedicated volunteers and I weeks to catch. Their coats were matted horribly and totally flea ridden. All were very scared and unsocialized. Two others were running at large, both had terrible skin infections and one is heartworm positive, Tess. Raz has a damaged trachea.

We were able to catch the ninth one, Dice, when he turned up at Baldwin County animal control. He was starving, thirsty and (like the rest) covered in fleas. He’s just a Georgia black dog who is as sweet as any you’ve ever met. He had been living at a property (not part of anyone’s family, just hanging out) on a main road and I had been feeding him as I was trying to catch the other breeder dogs.

When he went missing, I had to find him. That’s when we discovered that animal control had picked him up. There were some challenges in getting him back (did I mention Baldwin County Animal Control doesn’t like me very much!)

The tenth pup was by far the most challenging to capture. Hardwick is about 1.5 years old and had someone that cared enough to put a collar on his neck when he was a just a baby. The problem was that they didn’t care enough to remove it as he got older and much… much bigger.

Hardwick had been running free for at least 6 months with the collar cutting deeper and deeper into his flesh. It began bleeding at first and then became gangrenous. It took me three weeks of daily dedication in trying to catch him before I was able to contain him until he finally succumbed. We were able to pull him out from under a house and get him to Village Vets in Atlanta and have the collar surgically removed.

He was near death when we got him. We are also having to treat him for heartworms, of course. But all in all, Hardwick is now doing wonderfully well as are the other 9!!!

Please contribute to this worthy endeavor as we have vet bills outstanding and don’t have the money to cover.

C4C strives never to turn our backs on a situation that is so desperate. Neither could we let Hardwick be shot and killed by the local animal control officer. That was not an acceptable solution.

Please, Please help us.

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PICTURES COMING SOON OF THESE 10 BALDWIN BABIES!

Please note, this video is not owned by Caring 4 Creatures.

We just loved it and had to share!

ENJOY!