Zefir
Available for Adoption Soon
Age: Adult
Breed: French Bulldog
Sex: Male
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Location: Oklahoma City, OK
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About Zefir:
Age: Adult
Breed: French Bulldog
Sex: Male
Weight:
Kids:
Cats:
Dogs:
Fenced Yard:
Location: Oklahoma City, OK
Special Needs:
About Zefir:
This is an interesting case and we felt he was most likely doomed. Let me tell his story, he came into the shelter in Arkansas, Debbie and Polly contacted us to see if we could help. He is completely lame on this back leg, they sent us x-rays and my heart sunk because it looks like cancer. We needed a place for him to be so we could figure out some things so we moved him to Oklahoma for Dr. Roach to take a look, on initial views of his x-rays he thought it was cancer too. I said let’s get some more x-rays and send it off to radiology and get their opinion. I would like to add, and I have said it many times, I euthanize a dog upon diagnosis of bone cancer, it is my opinion and most vets agree with me it is too painful, and I won’t put a dog through that.
So the radiology report came back this morning and Dr. Roach and I discussed it on the phone. It is a strange one, and not conclusive, but it seems that they are leaning toward trauma, or bone infection or fungus. Dr. Roach said this dog has no function of this leg, it is fixed and the best part is he doesn’t have pain. With this information knowing how painful bone cancer is we just think the odds of cancer are lower than trauma/infection/fungus
So we decided to go ahead and take off the leg and send in the whole leg for biopsy. For long time followers you might remember Liam a Doberman we pulled out of the Dallas shelter with a pretty darn similar issue. His leg had suffered extreme trauma but his x-rays and radiology report are very much the same as this little guy. For Liam when his biopsy came back after removing his leg it was all trauma, no cancer, no fungus and no infection.
We are so hoping this will be the same result for this little man. We cannot know for sure and remember if it comes back as cancer we will help him over the bridge but fingers crossed its not and its something we can treat and he cane easily live with 3 legs.
I will share a video of him a little later so you can see how he manages with this leg of his.
Welcome to Dog Ranch Rescue Zefir
Adoption fee $800
