Birthday

With the support of our incredible village, Dog Ranch Rescue has celebrated many success stories—and now we can add Birthday to that list. She arrived with a double prolapse, something we’ve treated before, but she also tested positive for Parvo, which complicated things. Because we couldn’t bring her to the Sanctuary or place her with Millie, who was already taking care of other dogs, Dr. Roach stepped in and took her to his Oklahoma facility, where he had the isolation space and expertise to manage both issues.

Thankfully, her Parvo remained asymptomatic, but the prolapses proved stubborn. She was spayed, which typically resolves one, and pursestrings were placed for the other, but they continued to recur. Ultimately, she underwent a double plexy surgery—and that finally did the trick.

While all of this began back in October, applications poured in for her because she’s stunning and full of personality. Still, we had to wait for her medical outcome before moving forward. Once she arrived at the Sanctuary, we quickly learned she was done with kennel life and needed a home environment. That led us to the Maddocks family in San Antonio—both work from home, they have a lively Frenchie named Little Man to match her energy, and Buster, an older English Bulldog who’s happy to relax alongside her.

Their introductions went beautifully, and Birthday is now settling into her new home. Her family understands she needs a gentle recovery period and is fully committed to giving her that. They’re still choosing her new name, but one thing is certain—her life from here on out will be filled with love and comfort.

I spoke to Dr Letcher early this morning and so far Birthday is holding her own. She’s been given pain meds, broad spectrum antibiotics and Monoclonal antibodies. Right now she is eating and is feeling pretty good, they have killed all of her fleas and treated her for internal parasites. She remains on fluids of course and so far has only had a small amount of diarrhea.

We cannot be sure of course what will happen in the coming days, will she take a turn and dive down with the illness or will maybe the fact that she’s not a little puppy work in her favor and her symptoms remain mild. We just don’t know, I’ve asked for her to stay in the hospital even though the bill will climb, she has the best chance there for them to respond to her needs immediately and try and save her life.

We do need donations and this might be a long haul hospitalization and if she makes it long enough she can then have surgery for both a spay and a Colopexy but for now we have to take this 24 hours at a time while she remains in the hospital.

For this moment I’m going to celebrate the win for the past few hours and hope and pray she has more wins and more birthdays to come.