I'm sorry for your loss. And thanks for sharing her story.
On Oct 20, 2010 8:56 AM, "Shirley McGreal" <
smcgreal@sc.rr.com> wrote:
> Yesterday morning 20 October we said a sad farewell to Zoe, our
> rescue Pyr who had lived with us since May 2005. She was 10 years and
> five months old. For several weeks her health had been failing: her
> rear legs because weak and she lost weight rapidly, a few pounds a
> week. Then she slowed down on her eating, and finally stopped for the
> past four days. Nothing tempted her. She also developed a cough. This
> morning we (me, Betty and her special caregiver Tina) took her to our
> vet's and he agreed with us that it was time to let Zoe leave. He
> suspected cancer.
>
> Here's the story of her life at IPPL: at 8.15 a.m. on Friday 27 May
> 2005 I received a call from a former employee named Ginny who works
> for the Charleston SPCA. She has the sad job of performing euthanasia
> among her duties. When working for me she helped with the care of our
> first Great Pyrenees Sebastien. On that Friday morning, she checked
> the work list for the day and found a Great Pyrenees was slated for
> euthanasia with no chance of adoption. Because the animal had
> heartworm, there would be no reprieve. Ginny was frantic and asked us
> please to get her out, so within half an hour my husband was on the
> way to the SPCA and came back with a very sweet, very scrawny, and
> very dirty girl named Zoe. Definitely a Pyr, supposedly originating
> in New Mexico. There was no breeder's name on file. We contacted
> Martha at Rescue, but Zoe proceeded to ingratiate herself with
> everyone and never left!
>
> Originally Zoe's main health problem was the heartworms, which was
> why the SPCA did not plan to put her up for adoption. She was also
> not spayed. She was an outdoor dog, which means certain heartworm
> here in South Carolina for an unprotected dog. The owners signed her
> over as they were moving to Arkansas.
>
> Our vet suggested giving her a monthly Heartguard pill as it would
> prevent new worms forming and would kill off existing ones within a
> couple of years. She was too scrawny to risk a full treatment.
> Amazingly, this treatment worked and Zoe was soon microfilariae and
> adult worm free.
>
> She enjoyed being a house dog and going outdoors to visit the
> gibbons. She was very friendly and was thrilled to meet Christine
> Palmer-Persen who visited IPPL and gave Tina grooming lessons.
>
> Tonight I went out shopping and came home and found myself calling
> out, "Hello Zoezey," but no tail-wagging Zoe came to the door.
>
> Zoe followed Sebastien, Patou, and Ivy as IPPL's house Pyrs. All were
> wonderful animals. Good-bye, Zoe, and thanks for your gifts of love
> to all of us. Shirley
>
> Photos at
>
http://www.facebook.com/photo.php?fbid=490579361322&set=a.102197756322.121776.595651322 > and
>
http://www.facebook.com/photo.php?fbid=462775733887&set=a.124535583887.102181.99981083887
>
>
> Shirley McGreal, OBE, Chairwoman
> International Primate Protection League
> PO Box 766, Summerville, SC 29484, USA
> Phone - 843-871-2280, Fax- 843-871-7988
> E-mail -
smcgreal@ippl.org, Web:
www.ippl.org
>
> Would you like to help support IPPL's own ape sanctuary? Now you can
> sponsor one of IPPL's own gibbons and receive quarterly updates on "your"
> gibbon (Courtney, Igor, Tong, Arun Rangsi--or a gibbon of your
> choice). Just visit
>
www.ippl.org and click on "Adopt an IPPL Gibbon."
>
>
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