Cherry the dog was hours away from certain death when she arrived at the OHS. Her uterus was about to burst and kill her, so full of infection that the OHS vet who operated on the six-year-old Labrador retriever mix wasn’t sure Cherry would even make it through the surgery.
Cherry had pyometra, an infection that only un-spayed dogs get after a heat. Cherry’s former owner couldn’t afford to treat her so he brought her to the OHS to get the emergency care she desperately needed.
The OHS vet cancelled regularly scheduled surgeries that day to get Cherry on the operating table fast.
Cherry’s uterus was distended to the length of the vet’s arm, full of pus and about to rupture.
“She was dying,” said Dr. Shelley Hutchings, OHS chief veterinarian. “It was so bad that even when she was on the table I wasn’t sure I should keep going with the surgery.”
But Dr. Hutchings proceeded and Cherry made it out of the operating room and into the OHS’s critical care unit where she got the specialized care she needed to recover.
Cherry was adopted two weeks ago and will be spending Christmas warm and comfortable with her new forever family.
It’s only because you care about animals that Cherry got the emergency care to save her life. Please help other animals like Cherry.
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