Friday, August 10, 2007
CPR on South Florida Today
Earlier this week, Compassionate Pug Rescue took to the airwaves of South Florida to help raise awareness of pug rescue and to raise some much needed funds for their latest rescue Angel.
Animal Services contacted Compassionate Pug Rescue to let them know that they had just received a pug that had been hit by a car. Because of the severity of the young pug’s injuries, Animal Services would be forced to put down the pug. CPR swooped in and took the young pug from Animal Control and set off to get her the care that she needed for her injuries.
X-Rays revealed that Angel had an upper hip fracture, a fractured pelvic bone, and a left femur fractured in three different areas. It was determined that precious Angel would need two surgeries because the surgeon thought trying to fix everything at once was more than the sweet little girl could probably endure.
Angel’s first surgery was on August 3, 2007 and her second surgery was on August 6, 2007. Angel has a lot of physical therapy to undergo in the upcoming months, but the Dr.‘s prognosis for the future is very bright for sweet Angel.
As you can only imagine, the cost of Angel’s surgeries is much more than a small rescue organization can support. Now more than ever, CPR needs the support of Pug Lovers everywhere! A donation of any size goes a long way in helping to pay for Angel’s medical costs.
Thanks to CPR, Angel now has a whole life of pug living to do.
You can make a donation to the Compassionate Pug Rescue Angel Fund from Compassionate Pug Rescue’s Website. Donations can be made via PayPal or checks may be mailed directly to Compassionate Pug Rescue.
Sarah
08/12/2007
Wouldn’t it be awesome if puggies and their families in distress didn’t have to be seperated in order to get support from the pug community? If one of my beloved pug kids were hurt to this extent, I would have a hard time coming up with the cash to get the best medical care for them. I wouldn’t be able to for my children, either, so thank goodness for health insurance! I just think that it’s sad that in so many cases, a pug parent has to be willing to surrender ownership of their hairy-kids to a rescue group in the event of a devestating medical issue because getting the puggie the care it needs would cause great financial hardship on the family. I don’t know if that is the case here, but you hear about it all the time. Why can’t a pug rescue group, or forum such as yours, put out an s.o.s. on behalf of a family hurting over the fact their pug is hurt or sick, find themselves short of the funds needed to pay for the care, and forward the donations on to the vet caring for little pugglet? Just an idea. And by the way, I have a slide show of my puggies on my blog. You have to scroll down a little bit to see it. I love your website, because I love to hear from people that love pugs as much as I do!