Eliza was dropped over the 6 foot privacy fence at The Eden Daycare facility with another puppy and abandoned. They were found Monday morning by an appalled staff member, filthy, hungry, and covered in fleas. They caught the jerk who had done it, abandoned them, threw them away. They were his and his girlfriend’s puppies. There was some lame excuse about a fight they had. He did it to hurt his girlfriend. Idiot.
Eliza had a flea allergy. The day that I picked her up from the Veterinary Hospital that had been caring for her, she was looking rough, scrawny-underweight, missing a lot of hair, her ears were pink and nearly hairless. She smelled bad, from the flea dip, and she had a big scab on her bottom. They said that her anal glands had been infected. She is a mess, I said, poor thing. She looks much better, they said.
Wow.
Click her to see Eliza’s arrival at The Cecchine Hotel for Dogs
A few weeks later, I took her to the vet and there was another yellow lab puppy just her age, all plump and healthy and fluffy. The difference in them made me sad. This girl had a rough start. She didn’t deserve that.
We were at the vet a few times with Eliza. She had a seroma, a fluid build-up, on her little bum. We had it drained twice. It may have happened because of the drop over the fence. I hate to think about her falling like that.
Eliza has long legs, and big, webbed, labrador feet. She is going to grow up to be a big girl, and beautiful, and loved. It amazes me, dogs that are treated so badly, and yet they trust me. They crawl into my lap. They want to be held. I guess it takes a lot of abuse to make them lose faith in humans. Puppies, in particular, just want to be held. (It’s a tough job, but somebody has got to do it.)
I don’t know what happened to the other puppy, a german shepherd, it went to another rescue. The rest of the Cecchine Hotel dogs trained Eliza, as much or more so than we did. They let her know that this is a safe place, a happy place. That is really a good feeling, to see that and know that this is a healing place. The pictures that I took say more about that than any words I can write. We loved her and help her and played with her, and then we sent her to her forever family to live the happily-ever-after that she deserved all along.
Eliza - fostered 31 March 2017 - 22 April 2017 Adopted in Virginia