Boykin Spaniel Rescue, Inc.

Our thanks to everyone who donated yesterday! We have just over $34,000 towards our goal of $100,000! Thank you!

Meet Forrest- Forrest was a stray of indeterminant age that landed in a southern shelter and was subsequently pulled by another rescue who then transferred him to BSR when the enormity of his needs began to be known. Having been a stray, his skin and coat were in incredibly poor condition and he was scrawny and neglected. Immediately we found that he was heartworm positive but observers that helped transport him to his Foster reported that he seemed to have trouble with his vision. That prompted a visit to an eye specialist in Charleston, who found that he had had a traumatic rupture of the retina in one eye and was completely blind there. Her concern was that the other eye could also suffer the same fate, if not monitored closely, and he was already suffering from lack of tear production, which in end of itself is painful for him. He has been on medications for his eyes since intake and will likely remain on them for life with consistent follow up with the eye specialist. In the end, the treatment of the heartworms was fairly straightforward, and as he reached the milestone of terminating the infection it was then found that his kidneys were not functioning as they should, and he would need to be monitored for that condition for many months while we determined what his new baseline of blood chemistry and internal organ function would be.
Despite everything he’s been through Forrest remains a happy go lucky sweet boy who finally feels great and has a loving family of his own!

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