Diva 2

Meet Diva, a/k/a Little D! Diva is a 4-5 month old little Sheltie mix of some type. At least that is our best guess. She it a petite little girl (all of 9lbs). Diva was picked up as a stray off the streets by BARC as a scared little girl. Once at BARC she began to take a turn for the worse and was in jeopardy of being euthanized. Thankfully a BARC employee took her and put her in her office to try and buy her time so that they could email out a plea for her. Well Scout's Honor heard her story and decided that we needed to help her. So a Scout's Honor volunteer went to BARC and transported her to VERGI, our emergency vet. While BARC thought that she had pneumonia due to the breathing issues she had, it was much more serious than that. Little Diva actually had a diaphragmatic hernia, which was caused by trauma, most likely someone kicking her. For those of you that don't know, a diaphragmatic hernia is where the diaphragm, that holds all your organs in place, rips or ruptures and all of the internal organs get vacuumed into the chest cavity. When we x-rayed Diva, she had absolutely nothing in her abdomen except for her colon - it was horrifying. Our emergency vet immediately called in a very experience surgeon. He had went in and had to rearrange all her organs, including her heart, and then stitch her diaphragm back up. It was a very complicated surgery that does not have a high survival rate and has a tough recovery as well. The next day the doctors noticed that she had some fluid build up in her chest so they had to go in again and do a chest tap to drain out the air and fluid. We were all on pins and needles for almost 5 days. Well, Miss Diva pulled through everything and is doing great - better than expected so quickly. She is in a temporary foster right now and is recovering. Lucky for her she was in good hands at VERGI and received excellent care.

Now that has recovered you can really see that she feels 100% better. She is full of energy and is just the cutest little thing. She is also very smart. Within 1 week at her temporary foster's house she seems totally crate trained. After the second day she has had no accidents in her crate. She will cry or bark if she has to go potty, and then goes right outside. She also seems to have learned sit within a couple days as well. She is now eating like a piggy, filling out her skinny little body and turning into a beautiful girl. The vet thinks that she will be a small girl, less than 20-25lbs when she is full grown.

If you are interested in fostering or adopting this precious little angel, please complete our online application found at

www.scoutshonor.org

or contact us at info@scoutshonor.org