As many of our followers and long time supporters know, Sophia was born with Spina Bifida and many doctors did not think she could even survive a few weeks or months, let alone have a good quality of life.
Despite all the naysayers, Sophia is celebrating her 4th birthday this month!
To celebrate this milestone we are going to be Celebrating Sophia for the whole month of June, in many special ways.
In her 4 short years, Sophia has not only had an amazing quality of life and thrived with her devoted forever mom Drea, Sophia was also the inspiration for founding our 501(c)3 non profit organization, Curly Tail Pug Rescue, whose mission is to help save homeless, sick, abandoned pugs from across the country.
As a result of her inspirational story and courageous, spunky, feisty, larger-than-life pug personality in an adorably compact pug frame - Hundreds of pugs have been saved to date because of Sophia from across the country.
Saving Sophia has had a ripple effect, and has resulted in saving countless other lives.
Like her theme song "Upside down" says, Sophia has truly shared her love with everyone. and continues to share herself everyday.
Happy Birthday special girl!
Enjoy this special video montage we have put together to honor Sophia and all the good work she has done.
On behalf of the Curly Tail team and all the Curly Tail pugs, please join us in wishing
Sophia a Happy Birthday and many more happy years!
If you would like to donate to Sophia, or any of our rescue pugs you may do so here:
http://curlytailpugrescue.chipin.com/sophias-regular-supplies
Curly Tail PUGGY Bank
Curly Tail’s Rescue Remix CD
Songs That Save
This is a super fun way to donate to our pugs in need and receive our limited edition Curly Tail music CD containing 20 all dog / rescue themed songs!
Featuring:
Track # 1 "I Will Survive" - "extended version as sung by Frank the Pug" from the Men In Black film!!
Track # 18 "Upside Down" by Jack Johnson - Sophia's Theme Song
and much, much more!!
For a Limited Time Only - Purchase your Curly Remix CD for just $9.99 + s/h
Click here to go to iTunes and preview all of the songs! http://c.itunes.apple.com/us/imix/curly-tails-rescue-remix/id440373643
Click the Buy Now button below to enter today!!
The Giving Tree
Choose a picture below and purchase a gift for one of the Curly Pugs in our care.Thank you for helping us, help them!Gifts for our rescue pugs can be mailed to:Curly Tail Pug Rescue
PO Box 324
Bearsville, NY. 12409
*Pictures on the tree are of the dogs currently in our foster care as well as those who may have recently been adopted
Make a Difference in the Life of an Adoptable Dog!
Thundershirts are helping
shelters and rescue groups across the country to manage the dogs they
receive with anxiety, fear and excitement issues.
Your Thundershirt Donation will be put to excellent use helping to transition one of our wonderful dogs back to a forever home.
Poor Cosmo came into Curly Care terrified of even the smallest stimuli on routine walks with his foster mom. After trying everything else we tried the THUNDERSHIRT and Cosmo is now like a new dog!!
Donate a Thundershirt today to help other needy anxious pugs like Cosmo get back on the road to a healthy, happy, normal life.
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As the healing continues, the vets at CVC are thrilled at the progress and healing as a result of the graft. Rosie goes into CVC approx once every 7-10days to trim back excess skin on the flap. This is done to reduce as much scar tissue as possible and help her eye close as fully as possible.
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Update: Early April 2012
The flap is still in place and doing its job, however it has gotten more swollen and inflamed than we would normally like to see post op. As a result, Rosie needs another procedure to have the eye surgeon trim the skin flap back a bit more so that her eye can close.
We hope from here on out that it will be an uneventful recovery.
As always we will keep you posted, and we thank you all so much for your thoughts and prayers and donations to help save Rosie's eye!
Rosie's hospital stay on IV treatment to stabilize her, conjunctival graft instead of enucleation, IV treatment for several days to secure & stabilize, pain meds, and return trip for flap adjustment surgery costs have totaled $1239.26.
If you would like to contribute to the Race to Save Rosie's eye campaign, please click on the following link or widget.
Here are some more photos of Rosie's Eye
depicts the amount of residue produced by mess & body purging infection
removing debris from surgical site to keep clean etc
closer look at the conjunctival graftskin pulled over & sutured to eye over the
melting ulcer to hopefully prevent ulcer from progressing
clean & happy now that we aren't messing with surgical site, ready for a nap
The typical rescue / vet treatment plan would be removal of Rosie's eye (enucleation) however, in the best interest of Rosie and giving her the best possible chance for a normal life, we opted to move forward with the more expensive and riskier procedure of a conjunctival graft which extends a piece of skin across the eye, and covers the ulcer or plugs a rupture.
We are very happy to report Rosie had a successful graft done at CVC.
Rosie stayed in the hospital for over a week and when it was safe we moved her into Curly foster care where she receives round the clock eye medications until the healing the process is done.
Overall the outlook for Rosie looks promising and we think we saved her eye.
