Maggie update

Update on Maggie - We are putting her on another course of antibiotic ear drops/cleaning for 14 days. Her ear canals are open despite the large amount of scarring but they will need daily monitoring for the rest of her life and weekly ear drops/cleaning to make sure they stay clean and infection free. She's going to get surgery after christmas to remove two small masses and one large skin tag and several small skin tags that are troublesome. Since one is attached to a nipple - she may loose a nipple in the process but she won't mind.

Help Steel Magnolia

She's spent her life as a breeding machine, it's our turn to make her retirement pain free and happy.  She was found running at large with Steele. She is most likely his breeding partner - or his mother, possibly both.  She has had lots of puppies.  Recurrent untreated ear infections have built up scar tissue in her ears.  She needs to have surgery to have the scars removed so she can be pain free and no longer hyper prone to painful infections.  She does not seem to have suffered permanent hearing loss.

She has now been spayed, Hw tested, on prevention, fully vaccinated and microchipped. She has a long way to go though, we need to raise money for a TECA procedure  (total ear canal ablation to remove the scar tissue).  The surgery is about 1200.00

I Am Steele

Newest addition to the ASC program. Steele is a 2-3 year old American Bully (an over done American Staffordshire Terrier...think sumo wrestler). I like to think of American Bully as the Sumo Wrestler, the American Staffordshire Terrier as the Competitive Weight lifter and the American Pit Bull Terrier as the Olympic Wrestler.

He's easy going, pretty quiet. Settles down easy and is animal friendly. He seems to do well with dogs of both sexes and is tolerant of friendly cats.  Seems a bit too curious for his own good and might get a smack from an unfriendly cat  - and then he's not so friendly.  He would chase a cat that ran but in the house he is very easy to re-direct and is living just fine with his foster cats. Live and let live is his philosophy.  He's a good eater.  Still has a lot of silly puppy in him, likes to play bow and tear off around the yard.  He does not like his crate but he is getting used to it.  Will curl up and sleep when you finally get him to go inside.  Appears to be housebroken.  He's got a small overbite otherwise he is very healthy.  Neutered, vaccinated and microchipped.