Pibbles & More Animal Rescue, Inc.

As November rolls around, we realized just how the past 10 months have flown by. With so much that has been going on this year, it feels like the year just started!

The one thing that hasn't changed is our mission to save animals, give them the best possible care, and find their forever families.

Unfortunately, we do not have a money tree, but what we do have is several pups with urgent medical needs.

Right now, our most pressing and urgent case is Hocus. Hocus came to us from Animal Care and Control. She was underweight, neglected, and suffering from mange. Now, at around 3 months old, she was doing great – until she wasn’t. Saturday morning she was fine, playing, walking, trotting around. A few hours later, she couldn’t walk, bear weight, and was crying. She was clearly in severe distress. She was rushed to the vet and given antibiotics and steroids. Without a specialist neurologist consult, we can’t really see what is going on. Nothing is broken, but the way her legs are bending and her condition, the vet said that is the next step. Neurologists for people are hard enough to get appointments with; for a little puppy, it is even harder. We have an appointment set up for 11/18, but we are sick with worry. We want her better, we do not want her to suffer, and we need to know if something can be done for her. What we are desperate and must do now is raise the funds to help her. Between the consultation ($300) and CT imaging study ($3,000 - $6,000).

Hocus is trying to move around; she doesn’t know she can’t, and she is a little fighter. We can’t turn our back on her when she needs us the most.

Please help us help her – every dollar counts – share it far and wide and get this little lady the testing she needs to make her walk easy and be healthy again.

If every follower on our page just donated $5, we would be able to care for Hocus and the other medical cases we have right now. Hocus is the most urgent; she’s just a baby, and we need to have a plan of action to get her better, and for that, she needs to see a specialist and have a CT scan.

**UPDATE - Hocus' MRI appointment has been moved up to MONDAY, Nov 18th!

Ghost is a gorgeous German Shepherd who has been with us a while as we search for his forever home. Recently, Ghost was running around fine, playing with the other dogs/foster dogs. The next day, he was holding his leg up; he must’ve twisted it during play. We thought it would get better with some rest, but when his normally active self was laying down, not wanting to play, and when he was not wanting to eat, we knew it must be bad.

He went to the vet, and they kept him due to needing sedation for x-rays. Today, they called to let us know the news – bad news =(

Ghost needs TPLO surgery on his rear left leg.

Google definition is “Tibial Plateau Leveling Osteotomy (TPLO) is a surgical treatment used to stabilize the stifle joint when the Cranial Cruciate Ligament (CrCL) has ruptured. The CrCL is similar to the ACL in a human knee, but unlike in humans, the CrCL rarely ruptures from sudden trauma in an otherwise healthy ligament.”

Ghost is scheduled for this surgery on September 18th. We need to help him and have this done as soon as possible. He is a young, healthy dog (not even 1 ½ years old yet), and we want him to be healed and pain-free.

Rescue is extremely difficult right now - just being able to exist with healthy dogs, not needing anything. Add in a few dogs who need surgery, a dozen puppies who need to be altered, and some older pups who were too thin to be altered, and we have a lot of medical bills headed our way. Ghost is priority #1 right now as he cannot go on in pain - we need him all better to get back to his normal wacky self. Please share and please donate - every dollar counts!!

Milo is a Norwegian Elkhound, just over 1 year old. He came to us when the breeder could not sell him and he was the runt of the litter and much smaller than his siblings. Recently he cried while outside and was limping. Thinking he slipped on ice, maybe pulled something. We took him to the vet the next day and he was in pain - they needed to do x-rays under sedation. It was there that it was discovered Milo has severe hip dysplasia requiring a double FHO surgery. The vet stated it is a birth defect, so as he grew up it started causing difficulties for him.

The estimate on this surgery is just over $3,100 PER LEG. Milo is just a baby at 1 yr old and deserves to be able to walk pain free! We are still hoping to find his forever home out there - we want him to be healthy and happy forever!

Please share and help us raise funds to cover this medically necessary surgery for him.

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Cooper was rushed to the emergency hospital this morning as he had three seizures, with a fourth in route to the hospital. What's going on and he will likely need testing, medication, monitoring to see what the cause is.

Foster mom has knowledge of canine seizures as her personal dog has them, and we thankful her quick action got him there before he could have another cluster.

Emergency visits are expensive enough, but this poor guy is sick and needs our help. You would have never known that this was underlying if you would have met him yesterday, so urgent action is needed to find the cause.

We are already struggling, who's the possible temporary freeze, so please donate to his care. He needs us.

More information about Pibbles & More Animal Rescue, Inc.: Pibbles and More Animal Rescue, Inc. is a foster based rescue located in Binghamton, NY. We are made up of fosters and volunteers who not only generously give their time but give of themselves. It is together through the collaboration of dedicated volunteers that we rescue dogs in NYC as well as from other states that use gas chambers for euthanasia. The majority of dogs we rescue are pit bulls but we do rescue all breeds.