Friends For Life Animal Rescue: Emergency Medical Grant Report
How did this grant help your organization and the pets in your care?
All funds that were received from this grant have gone directly to Bishop’s veterinary bills. Like many other rescue groups, we are struggling financially right now and have a few dogs in our care who currently, and in the recent past, have required expensive veterinary care along with prolonged stays at foster homes.
This grant has been applied to Bishop’s vet bills, but it has also allowed us to continue helping other dogs by providing a necessary financial boost for which we are very grateful.
How many pets did this grant help?
This grant help only one dog - Bishop.
Please provide a story of one or more specific pets this grant helped.
This grant went to assist with the veterinary care for Bishop, one of our dogs, who was found with a gunshot wound to his leg.
Bishop had been roaming around Texas looking for food for a few weeks. A woman witnessed him being shot and brought him back to her house.
She initially tried taking care of the wound by herself, and the wound appeared from the outside to have healed, but unfortunately, it didn’t heal on the inside, and he couldn’t put any weight on his leg. It was dangling and useless to him.
At this point, she reached out to us for help, and we took him to our rescue. He is currently with one of our rescue partners/fosters in Texas.
We had him seen by a veterinarian who determined that the bullet had shattered his bone; however, she felt he had a good chance of the bone healing, so she opted to put him in a splint. Since then, he’s been back and forth to the vet for X-rays and follow-up.
His current status is that the bones have fused on one side of his leg, but not the other. He’s also experienced a few setbacks, including an unexplained fever, for which he is still on antibiotics. The vet recommended he essentially be put on bed rest to limit his activity, and he is currently not cleared for adoption until she determines that his leg has sufficiently healed.
We are committed to doing all we can for Bishop. We are trying to save his leg, but understand that if the bones don’t completely fuse, we will need to decide to amputate. We just had another tripod adopted from our rescue, so we know that, whatever the outcome is for Bishop’s leg, we will find him the forever home he deserves.
