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	SUPER SAVES! SOS DOGS has proudly been able to provide needed surgeries for dogs who would have otherwise been crippled or dead. It has been our honor and privilege to help them!   DUNCAN'S STORY Duncan was a tiny 4 lb. Yorkie who was only 13 months old when SOS DOGS took him. The first picture shows you that adorable face, and the second shows as much as he had EVER been able to stand.  He had a congenital deformity which has gone uncorrected due to the enormous expense. His kneecaps were on the inside of his legs, facing inward,  and the muscles had grown on the wrong side, so he could not straighten up any more than in this picture.  He had NEVER been able to sit or walk!!  He had to drag his back legs.   Duncan could never stand or walk before surgery and couldn't straighten up any more than this SOS DOGS agreed to take Duncan and get him his much needed surgery that his owners just could not afford. We used the wonderful orthopedic surgeon, Dr. Lindquist, at the Black Horse Pike Animal Hospital in Turnersville, NJ.  There was no guarantee that surgery would even work.   It took several surgeries, but look at the results two months after.  Duncan standing two months after surgery Duncan is now in his forever home, running around with his Yorkie brothers and sisters! ABBY'S STORY A little white female adorable dog, about a year old, was hit by a car and left for dead by the side of the road.  The Animal Control Officer came to pick up a dead dog and found she was still alive!! She was taken to a shelter. She had broken bones and the shelter couldn't afford to do the surgeries so they were going to amputate!!!! We couldn't let a one year old lose body parts, so SOS DOGS took her and took on the cost of surgery, along with the usual spaying and shots.  Her elbow was broken and shattered in THREE places, right thru on the ball, and the surgery required plates and pins and wires, a very extensive and expensive procedure. We named her Abby and she's sweet and adorable, good natured even with the pain she must have had, even wagged her tail during the whole time in the picture below. Her surgery was a great success (Dr. Griffin at the Black Horse Pike Animal Hospital in Turnersville, NJ) and even though the recovery was long and slow, she is doing great in her new home and has a long and happy life ahead of her, walking on all fours! ROCKY'S STORY An owner brought her 1 year old Yorkie to the emergency vet; he had a foreign body in his stomach and intestines and needed surgery.  She was told the cost and said she could not afford it and to to put him to sleep.  SOS DOGS was contacted immediately (late at night) and we agreed to pay for the surgery if he was signed over to us.  He had EXTENSIVE surgery for many hours with Dr. Griffin at the Black Horse Pike Animal Hospital in Turnersville, NJ. He had chewed up and swallowed what appeared to be a wire hair brush with hair.  His intestines were perforated  in several places, along with masses of hair, metal pieces and plastic wound around in his stomach and intestines.  Part of his intestine and colon had to be removed along with lots of work done on the inside of his stomach to get it all out. He was nearly dead and was in the hospital in intensive care for a week!! He was on IV and lost a lot of weight, but pulled thru and recuperated in an SOS foster home.  Picture on the right shows how skinny he got while on IV and you can see how sad he is, but he's on the mend.  The face picture on the left shows him after he was better and ready to be adopted. You can see a healthy strong dog there. He is now in his forever home where the cost of any future medical treatment will never endanger his life!   RILEY'S STORY Riley was a three month old puppy, born in a puppy mill.  The miller was going to shoot him as Riley had a serious heart problem.  Another rescuer took him and had a vet look at him.  The vet said Riley had PDA and required expensive and extensive surgery, and this rescuer couldn't afford the surgery or the after care. She contacted the director of SOS DOGS, who took Riley without a blink. How could we let a puppy die?  We took him to the University of Pennsylvania veterinary hospital for an echo cardiogram, prepared to do the complicated and expensive surgery that Riley would need to save his life.  Riley and SOS were both lucky!  He didn't have PDA but a pulmonic stenosis (narrowing of pulmonic valve) and mitral regurgitation. A normal vet, it appeared, would hear these sounds and think it was PDA, but it wasn't.  And even better, the stenosis was very mild and no treatment was needed!!! Riley was adopted and is living a normal life, and would have been dead!  What a joy it was to help Riley live!!   THE PUPPY MILL DOGS' STORY Puppy mills are concentration camps for dogs.  They live crammed in wire cages with only inches for each dog.  The cages are always outside, exposed to freezing winds and boiling heat and many dying from the exposure. One little dog gave birth during a horrible snow storm and lay on her puppies, trying to keep them from freezing to death, inadvertently smothering them.  The atrocities they suffer are beyond imagination.  They never ever leave the cage, never know human contact, never walk let alone run or play, are never even bathed or groomed, are barely fed and often the more assertive dog gets all the food and the weaker ones eat that dogs' poop.  As a result, they are filthy and matted with feces and urine, half starved, reeking beyond anything you've ever smelled, and totally terrified. They know pain and suffering like we can only imagine. Many come with their entire jaws abscessed and oozing pus due to rotten teeth, huge mammary tumors, chains around their necks imbedded into the flesh as the chain was put on when they were puppies and never enlarged, on and on. Imagine any horrible excruciating pain and these dogs have endured it. The final insult is that when they can no longer produce puppies because they are just worn out at maybe age 3 or 4, they are killed!  That's where rescue comes in. Sometimes we can get the dogs they are going to kill and save them, and what wonderful dogs they turn out to be!  Once they understand that you won't hurt them even more, they are grateful beyond their ability to show.  Once they have their painful abscesses and tumors removed, horrible ear and other infections cured, have food in their bellies and a soft bed (soft? what's soft??), gratitude abounds.  SOS DOGS has been fortunate enough to be able to help some of these dogs. The first row  is generally how they look when we get them (but you can't SMELL them or feel the dirt, mats and tics in the picture and that's the worst part!), and a few "after" pictures of our wonderful mill rescues who have all gone to loving homes and are adored!     BOGIE'S STORY Bogie was a young male Yorkie who had a rare penis problem.  The foreskin kept going back and was choking all the blood out of his penis, and if it wasn't fixed his penis would have to be amputated!!!  SOS DOGS took him to attempt to fix the problem.  Dr. Bell, at Evesham Vet in Marlton, NJ operated 4 times on Bogie. Each time was a gentle easing of the foreskin. If it got too loose, Bogie's penis would hang out and freeze in the winter; left too tight and the blood would be choked out of it and amputation would be needed.  The fourth surgery created just the right balance, and Bogie was able to be adopted to his forever home. LUCY'S STORY Lucy, who was only 2 years old, was taken to the vet to be put to sleep. SOS DOGS was called by the vet and we took her instead. Lucy had been beaten every time she had an accident in the house. In fact, she was beaten so badly that she required back surgery and dragged one leg around for life.  She was so terrified of a human hand that she urinated every time someone tried to pet her. If we picked her up she would urinate all over our clothing. She was a difficult case.  The director of SOS DOGS personally spent over two years working with Lucy to built up her self-esteem by constantly telling her how good she was, and showing her hands were sources of good rubs and pets. VERY Slowly Lucy lost her fear of hands and people and started to trust.  At the same time, we housebroke her, but very gently. Finally, once she was housebroken and trusted people, we felt she was ready to be adopted.  We adopted her to a home that already had three bichons, one from SOS, and we knew they would give Lucy a great home.   When they took Lucy home, they said her self confidence was obvious.  In fact, she was SO self confident that she took over the household and they dubbed her the "pit bull"!  Guess that was a job too well done! :-))         Would you like to make a TAX DEDUCTIBLE donation to help us save dogs like this?? As a 501(c)3 non profit organization,  all donations are fully tax deductible.  100% of your donation goes to the rescue to help little dogs. There are NO SALARIES paid to anyone working for SOS DOGS. Mail donations to: SOS DOGS 18 Downing Street Cherry Hill, NJ  08003-1519 and we will mail you a donation receipt or donate instantly through PAYPAL to "donate@sosdogs.org": and print your receipt instantly!
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