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Our newest adventure and rescue (there's never a dull moment, which is great!!!) is this time about a dog!!

A lady contacted another group about a dog chained up on a farm in a terrible condition. She was chained there for two years, but recently people moved out of there and the farmer comes twice a week to throw stale bread to the poor dog.

The dog has lumps all over her body and hair missing, with skin so inflamed, she has red sores everywhere. The lady gave the dog proper dog food (the first picture), but she has asked for help.

I messaged her to say that if the dog could somehow get herself off from her chain (lol), I would get some transport to take her to my vets hospital. Since my car is in the garage for repairs, I was not able to go myself, but I posted an appeal for help on my friends page, and a lovely lady called Siren and her husband, Joe, that have been supporting my charity for a long time now, offered to go and meet this lady and the dog half way. On the way back they collected me and, together with the dog - Bella, we went to the hospital.

The vet took a blood sample for testing, as it is possible that Bella has leishmania. If not this, she might have scabies and a general skin infection. She needs to have all her lumps removed, to be sterilized and her skin healed and washed. Bella is around 5 years old, has missing front teeth - probably from being malnourished.
She got antibiotic and anti inflammatory injections and a worming tablet.

Since I have nowhere to keep her, she will stay in the hospital until her results and necessary treatment is done. Then Siren and her husband have kindly offered to foster her until a home is found.

Bella was so happy and so grateful for her rescue. She was giving hugs to everyone there. It's possible she might have had puppies and that the farmer killed them, leaving her with mastitis, or because she was not sterilized, she had a phantom pregnancy, which could also result in mastitis.

Neutering is so important for the health of an animal, not only for reducing the population. I know that the farmer might bring another dog there, but this lady will feed that dog from the beginning with proper dog food and will keep an eye on him/ her.

It's such a sad life for farm dogs here. Many of them living chained up in the mountains, lonely, starving, ill with just stagnant green water to drink, rarely fed on good food and having to lie in their own mess. No interaction with people ...suffering, being eaten alive by insects and exposed to extreme weather conditions.

Thank you to the lady, who rescued her - I won't give her name for obvious reasons. Thank you for caring <3
Thank you also to Siren and Joe for your quick response and for driving there. <3

If anyone would like to help me with the bills for Bella, please send a donation (no matter how big or small as it all helps) to:
Paypal: kittensindistress@hotmail.com
ES11 2100 7765 0521 0001 6031 / CAIXESBBXXX (Spain)

One more innocent victim at the hands of human ignorance has been saved.

This is Sissi, she was found starving and very ill on the pier in Guardamar during very high temperatures this summer. She was unable to eat and had severe diarrhoea. This little girl has now been in hospital for over 2 months. Our vet did all the tests but she wasn’t initially responding to treatment. At first they suspected it to be lymphoma but further extensive blood tests revealed that Sissi had a bad bowel infection. She has since started to make progress and, although she still has some diarrhoea, she is much more comfortable and is looking so much better now. She cannot go back to the pier as she will need a special diet for her problem but once she is strong enough to leave the hospital we hope to find her a loving home...

Please all Team members, share the link to get more people. There are many cats and kittens that always need veterinary care and hospitalisation. Thank you.

Maisy the little white kitten is in hospital now with breathing difficulties.

The ginger female kitten was found in Guardamar port area is now in hospital, because it could not see anything. it is possible it will have to have one eye completely removed due to the extensive infection underneath. Hopefully the vets can heal the other eye.

The cat from the pier was operated today and now will need to recuperate for a long time in a confined place to avoid movement. It will be a very long time before she will be able to be released.

Little Ninja has been found alive crying next to the body of her poisoned mother and three tiny bodies of her dead siblings.
She is now with me, I am bottle feeding her, but yesterday in the night she was rushed to hospital because she refused to eat and her heavy breathing made me worrying. She had x-rays and it turned out she had milk in her lungs, from inhaling it while drinking. it is a very dangerous thing in such a small baby. She received a strong antibiotic and a cortisone injection to open her trachea to enable easier breathing.
She was kept in the hospital overnight and the vet said the chances of survival are 50/50..

This is Alex and Rex -2 years ago. Now both of them are very sick. Alex does not have a valid SIP card and all his medication I am buying with full price. Now Rex - his only companion ( a son, as he calls Rex ) will need to be on the heart medication for the rest of his life. He also has a blood infection caused by the tick bite. He will need a medicine for about a month and a half. On Tuedsay I am taking Rex for the heart scan.
Thank you for helping in this group with all expenses and please invite your friends and family - only 1 euro a month. <3

Here's little Nutmeg being comforted by his sister Snowflake after his operation. Nutmeg had to have his eye removed due to a terrible infection caused by the cat flu virus... Sadly he is just one of many. Keep updated on his progress and many others via our facebook page: http://on.fb.me/1N03az5 Thank you!

At the moment we have a little kitten Nutmeg in the hospital. His eye has been removed.
To see his picture please look our page Kittens in distress on facebook.
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