Evie Foundation Baby Love Fund
In honor of Louie's sister, whose life was tragically cut short by hydrocephalus.
Baby Love is the inspiration for The Evie Foundation's Baby Love Fund. She was born on July 7, 2007. Her mom "Amber" was a pregnant stray picked up by animal control and brought into their facilities just a few days before giving birth. Amber was underweight and not showing. She had 9 puppies, 3 were premature and died within a week. Baby Love was the smallest of the litter left. During her first weeks of life she was not in the "puppy huddle", was rarely seen nursing, her head was facing down when standing and was by herself most of the time - away from the group. She was given bottles daily to supplement the feedings she was missing. At 4 weeks old she contracted kennel cough & ringworm. That's when she came to live with Suzanne, of the Evie Foundation Baby Love Fund.
She recovered from both and started to blossom. She felt attention and affection for the first time and loved it. She buzzed around the house, running into everything but never stopping. We soon realized she was blind. Her behavior was odd also, and her balance and walking was not normal. I started looking for answers. Hydrocephalus was my hypothesis based on the limited pieces of information I put together. A fund raising campaign began and generated the funds for an MRI which confirmed that was was hydrocephalus. Her condition was severe and only shunt surgery would improve her symptoms and quality of life.
People generously donated and she became a little celebrity. She had her surgery, recovered well and soon there was a noticeable difference in her symptoms. What an amazing time! Her mind was clearer, she was able to do more physical things and her love of life was amazing!
Her shunt quit working in May 2008. The symptoms went back to being the way they were. Again, donations helped to fund a second surgery. A few days after returning home she starting having a very violent, abnormal seizure. After doing all that could be done she was euthanized June 26, 2008.
Her legacy is this foundation, this cause!
Read more here:
http://www.pethydro.org/home.html
Our friends Louie (Baby Love's brother) and the other two Happy Heelers, Gus and Callie.
5 comments:
Sorry I can't find your email address anywhere - but this message is what I got from another blogger about Pink Baby:
Pink Baby got started from Kylie (http://misskyliem.wordpress.com/) and then gets sent to someone new each week. You can follow Pink Baby to its new location and then request that Pink Baby come visit you. When PB is done with us, she will be going to the Giant Speckled Chihuhua so if you wanted to have PB come visit you, you will need to contact GSC at http://giantspeckledchihuahua.blogspot.com/ and have them send PB onto you when she is done there.
So far Pink Baby has made it to about 5-6 blogger homes and we suspect in the coming months she will be traveling all over.
What a great choice!
Mom and I followed her story - we even sent some green papers fur her expenses -
Tank woo fur remembering Louie's sisfur in such a great way!
Hugz&Khysses,
Khyra
Stumpy
I knew a little about Louie's sibling Baby Love but I think your post was enlightening and share the generosity of the community. Just like you do with your donations.
Hmmm.. about the sitting still for ear shots... good things come to those who wait. I'll be waiting.
Norwood
Perfect rescue to choose for the donation! it's amazing how resilient dogs can be & how the generosity of others can change a life:)
thank you for sharing this story AND your kind generosity to help another.
slobbery kisses,
tula
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