Cleopatra

Adoption Pending
Age: Adult
Breed: Dogue de Bordeaux
Sex: Female
Weight: 79 pounds
Kids: Not Tested
Cats: Not Tested
Dogs: Good
Fenced Yard:
Location: Anna, Texas
Special Needs:
About Cleopatra:

It’s a sad story and we just couldn’t help with all of them. The owner is a veteran who was evicted from his place and his dogs were taken from him. 5 Bordeaux’s in all and one mixed breed dog all needed up in the shelter. They are all littermates aged 4, there were histories with some of them not liking each other so we had to just take two that we felt would get along the best with how we keep dogs. Other rescues are working on the others and hopefully they all get the help they need. We are just absolutely inundated with Bordeauxs, it’s raining bears!! and we basically have no applications for any of them. This is such a tough time for rescues and I’m unsure when it will improve. These two will go to the sanctuary and stay in isolation waiting to see if they get sick with anything while they were in the shelter.

One male and one female.

Welcome to Dog Ranch Rescue Cleopatra and Teetsi

UPDATE 9/27/2022

So Cleo is home from the hospital and she is just the worst eating dog ever. Cassandra is trying to get her to eat food that is good for her and tries every meal but so far it’s a hard no. What does she like?

Peanut butter…

“On the menu tonight for Cleo a peanut butter sandwich and cool ranch Doritos

lunch was peanut butter crackers breakfast was a peanut butter sandwich a leftover warmed up steak patty and snacks throughout the day of peanut butter crackers this girl loves peanut butter. No to the Mac n cheese, no the the warmed peanut butter “gravy”, no to cheese stuffed meat lovers pizza, no to the bagel and she spit out the kibble that was snuck in her peanut butter sandwich. We shall see what midnight snack prevails. I’m thinking something with peanut butter

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UPDATE 9/24/2022

Cleo got busted out of the hospital! Last week at this time we were making decision about euthanasia and here she is. Cleo’s feeding tube has been removed she still won’t eat anything except human food but her foster mom Cassandra has picked her up and taken her home. I’m sure she will be offering her many things to see if we can help get her on the track for eating healthy again soon but right now we will take this step as a very positive one.

UPDATE 9/23/2022

I need to send an update about Cleo, she continues to remain in the hospital. Dr Rolfe called us yesterday and said she’s silly and playful with the water hose outside, her bloodwork continues to improve and her feeding tube has been in place for a few days now. He said the problem is she just refuses to eat. Early this morning Dr Murray called and said she was having a snack with her and Cleo wanted her ramen and Ritz crackers. She said alright girl let’s see what else we can do. She texted Laura and said can someone bring us various kinds of food to try. The sanctuary has lots and Ricky was headed that way this morning anyway so we asked if he would deliver, I then asked him if he would please stop and get a cheap cheeseburger because so many times warm food like that is what interests them. Ricky said of course and he rolled through the drive thru and delivered that and lots of choices for Cleo. We got word through the ER that Cleo crushed that burger and ate the whole damn thing.

Hallelujah that’s just what we needed to hear. She has been such a heartbreaking rescue, we felt we had lost her a few times but we didn’t give up and no matter how bad she felt and she felt really bad she didn’t give up either. Cleo will go down in history as one of our most expensive rescues who was at 20k a couple of days ago and by the time we are able to get her home from the hospital it will be more than that. This afternoon they told us they will be pulling her feeding tube now that they got her to eat and we hope and pray that she continues to improve. Cleo has a new family waiting for her and have been clinging to the reports that we get about her and we know they will be thrilled to hear this very good news.

UPDATE 9/21/2022

Cleo is holding steady, her feeding tube has been put in place to get her the nutrition she needs. Thank goodness everything else for her health is holding steady and she continues to improve. Thank you to everyone who has donated and prayed for her to get better. She’s not out of the woods but we are pretty dang happy with where she is now.

UPDATE 9/19/2022

We nearly lost Cleo yesterday afternoon, I cannot emphasize enough how perplexed the doctors are with what is happening with her body. They told us yesterday that she could not get up at all and she feels just terrible, all of her limbs had edema, her body was seeping fluid and blood out her incision, her vulva, her catheter, and her nose. She continued to blow veins with her catheter. She appeared to be dying, except her liver values and kidney values were normal. They gave her plasma which didn’t help and we were discussing if we should let her go. Emma drove down to the ER to see her and discuss every aspect of what they were seeing. We discussed all of it with Dr Reno and she wasn’t optimistic, she looked decent on paper but her clotting times were abnormal and she felt she was probably going to go into multi organ failure.

I asked Emma her opinion with looking at her if we needed to stop trying. Her concern was that she would crash and they wouldn’t be able to get a vein to euthanize quietly and gently but she also hated giving up on her. I mulled it over in my head and went with my guy that told me no, I’m not ready to stop trying, I’d rather face a hectic euthanasia process than euthanize her peacefully and never know if she could have rebounded so that was the decision. We will wait and as the evening came with no phone calls from the ER which is always a good thing, we waited to hear in the morning when Dr Rolfe would come on and he could get a look at her. The call from him came saying that she’s up and she’s not oozing fluid anymore from anywhere and he said she looks good, other than the fact that she won’t eat. They are putting in a feeding tube this morning because she has got to get food moving through her.

He says this whole case is just weird and when you have a case like this that doesn’t make any sense it scares me more because just as quickly as she miraculously rebounds I know it can swing the other way too.

She will continue to stay in the hospital but if she remains stable she will be released with a feeding tube that Emma of course knows how to take care of.

UPDATE 9/18/2022

Laura sent me this update about Cleo, she’s so far from being out of the woods. She just feels terrible and no she wouldn’t even look at the biscuit Laura brought her, they will most likely putting in a feeding tube today to help her along. This has just been such a tough time for her of course she’s not going to feel good. The doctors asked us to pray for her so that is what we will do.

I’m on my way to the ER to take Cleo egg & cheese biscuit, Turkey canned etc. she won’t eat so they want me to bring some things to try.

She had an up and down night. Fluid building up in her abdomen and seeping through her surgery site. Backing down on IV fluid rate to help with that. Clotting factors not normal – Lepto PCR is negative but still treating for Lepto anyway. Kidney and Liver values are almost normal. She’s certainly not out of the woods but Dr. Murray says considering all she went through yesterday she’s just happy she’s hanging tough. She’s getting a bag of plasma now and hoping that gives her a boost.

Regardless of what Larry thinks you all know who he is and sadly this is one of those cases that he would say you need to cut your losses and not pay these enormous vet bills. Cleo is close to 10,000 right now with the ER with emergency surgery and now she’s in the ICU and getting plasma which runs about a thousand dollars a bag.

Cleo is one these cases that require me to ask you to help us. We need donations to help us pay her expenses to save her life. Any amount is greatly appreciated and sent straight to her care. If you can help we thank you if you can’t then we ask for you to help with positive thoughts and prayers.

UPDATE 9/17/2022

So it’s been quite a morning with Cleo and I’ll try and explain it all to you. The ER called Laura early this morning pretty concerned about her. Her kidney values had slightly improved and her liver values remained the same. They took her outside to potty and she collapsed. The PCR test for Lepto came back negative so that was the only obvious thing we thought we were looking at and now that was out the window.

The ER doctor explained that she had lots of fluid around her kidneys and they didn’t know why. Dr Murray opted to give her Lasix to remove that fluid and then her kidney values improved. We discussed that they felt that they needed to take her to surgery because something is wrong in there and we don’t know what and we are getting nowhere with waiting. Laura made the call to proceed with surgery which had her so worried because we usually are these decisions together and with being in California it was very early in the morning and she didn’t want to wake me. I told her to never do that again because I never want her to feel like she’s in her own.

They took Cleo to surgery and once they were in there the doctor called Laura and explained what he saw. Cleo had a hole in her omentum and her colon had pushed through that hole and was constricting her colon and would have killed her, in addition there is a peritoneum that holds the kidney that had ruptured and that’s why the fluid had built up around her kidneys and when Dr Murry opted for Lasix it relieved that pressure the kidney values improved. Her spleen had green plaque on it and he wasn’t as worried about that and felt like it might be due to infection so we opted to remove it to lessen any other problems. Cleo did well through surgery and we all feel optimistic that we have solved the problem and she is on the road to recovery but of course only time will tell. How she got that hole? We just don’t know and we probably never will know.

Laura was very emotional worried that she made the right call and was so happy that it turned out that she did. Rescue is hard, it’s stressful and we care a great deal about them in our care and we are hoping and praying that this time it will all work out.

UPDATE 9/16/2022

I needed to update you with what we are dealing with for Cleo. She had flat out refused food for several days with no other sign of illness, no vomiting, no diarrhea, no fever and no lethargy. Dr Reno asked us to bring her in and her bloodwork revealed that she was a very sick dog with elevated liver and kidney values. She was transferred to ADC where she’s been in the hospital for several days now with an unknown diagnosis.

She was tested for Lepto and it was negative and the concern is something toxic but we cannot come up with anything that she could have been exposed to. Her kidney values have improved over a couple of days but they are still very high and the concern is even if she recovers if there could be irreparable damage.

There is nothing more we can do but keep supporting her and hope that she makes a turn for the better but we are pretty concerned.

UPDATE 9/9/2022

This is Cleo, she’s the sibling to the 4 Bordeaux’s that lost their home when their dad who is a veteran was evicted. They spent a month in the shelter and have been with us just as long. She’s weary she’s depressed she’s lost her dad and she’s lost her home. She gave up eating several days ago and we haven’t been able to generate interest in any kind of food. I asked Cassandra today if she could foster her and when she said yes I drove her over to Cassandra’s house myself.

Cleo is perfect, she is absolutely perfect, she is sweet and gentle with everyone and everything. The volunteers all love her, she’s a perfect first time bear owner and I am here to plead with you to share her far and wide to help find her a home again. It’s just sad to see her like this and what she needs is a place to call her own again.

UPDATE 8/13/2022

A nice medicated bath and the sleep of the rescued. Cleopatra a very nice girl, thankfully she’s not heartworm positive so we had some good news there. She came to us spayed already so she will be ready for adoption soon. Her and her brother Teetsi both came down with URI after being in the shelter but as soon as they recover they will be ready for a family of her own.

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