Bonnie Blue

Bonnie has made it through treatment and is healthy and ready to find her forever home! This girl is just amazing and is the reason why we rescue. In the not too distant past, she never would have made it out of the shelter. Her condition would have made her an immediate candidate to be put down. But not any more! County shelters are now doing an amazing job of networking dogs like Bonnie with local rescues and work very hard to get them out and into medical care they need to survive. Every dog deserves to know comfort and love, and it is now Bonnie’s turn to have a forever home!

Bonnie is a fighter and living her best life! This poor baby was rescued from one of our local shelters, emaciated, missing most of her teeth, missing hair from malnutrition and fleas, and high heart worm positive. Basically with everything against her! But she wasn’t going to let that keep her down. She went into the most amazing foster home where she has been getting spoiled and pampered and the most amazing care. And our girl is coming out on top!

She was diagnosed with Caval Syndrome back in December. Caval syndrome (CS) is a life-threatening illness caused by a mass of heartworms located aberrantly in the right atrium, the ventricle, and often the vena cava. The worm mass interferes with closure of the tricuspid valve and impedes normal flow of blood through the right heart, leading to cardiovascular collapse. Her foster mom rushed her into the vet and we decided to try a new method of reversing CS. Standard practice was to surgically remove the mass of worms, which still only had a 60% survival rate. Instead, Bonnie was put on a series of cardiovascular medication with strict kennel rest to keep her heart rate down. And it has worked. She still got short of breath, and had an occasional cough, but she is surviving and happy. The vet has determined that she was finally ready to go through fast kill treatment.