Bugsy
Curly Pugs of Spring / Summer 2011 - Bugsy
Inearly March Curly Tail was contacted by NYC's Animal Care and Control about asenior female Pug named Bugsy. Bugsy was someone's pet, as her recordsfrom ACC indicate that she was trained to use wee wee pads. It's hard toimagine that Bugsy was in the care of a human considering just how ill she wasupon entering Curly Care.
WhenBugsy arrived at her foster mom's home, she noticed that Bugsy had a very largetumor in her groin. But this didn't seem to phase Bugsy all that much andshe moved past her initial "settling in" jitters quickly and took toher foster family and pug siblings immediately. This little lady didn'tdo any complaining about the large mass interfering with her ability to walk orany of the other issues we would soon discovered.
Bugsy'sfoster mom took her in to be evaluated by the doctors at Center for VeterinaryCare and their observations were staggering: Bugsy has such seriousdental disease that she would require major dental surgery of at least 4-5hours, in which she would have nearly all of her teeth removed. Impossible to believe. This was complicated further as Bugsy needed to bespayed but was riddled with Tumors in the spay area. For a senior and possiblycancerous dog, Bugsy seemed to have everything going against her. Bugsyneeded to undergo a mastectomy even before her dental. Her mammary glandwas riddled with tumors. On top of this all, Bugsy could not see orhear. 
Obviouslywe were concerned with Bugsy's well being and talked in depth with the Dr's atCVC as to whether or not a Pug of Bugsy's age could handle such extensive surgeries- both physically and psychologically. We were surprised and hopeful when CVCadamantly supported moving forward w Bugsy's arduous course of medical action,telling us that her tail wagged furiously whenever she was with a staff memberand that Bugsy had a few more good years to offer. Bugsy’s preliminaryblood work came back clear and we were relieved to hear that Bugsy had afighting chance. After so many years of being of service to her family wethought that getting her into good health was the least we could do.
Bugsy’sbills totaled over $4k but after CVCs generous discount, we had a much moremanageable bill of $2300. Despite treating other serious medicalcases in foster care, we wanted to say "yes" to Bugsy and give herchance.
We can't continue to do so without the donations of our loyalsupporters.
Donations go immediately toward Pugs like Bugsy and continueto allow us to say "yes" when no one else will.
WhenBugsy arrived at her foster mom's home, she noticed that Bugsy had a very largetumor in her groin. But this didn't seem to phase Bugsy all that much andshe moved past her initial "settling in" jitters quickly and took toher foster family and pug siblings immediately. This little lady didn'tdo any complaining about the large mass interfering with her ability to walk orany of the other issues we would soon discovered.
We can't continue to do so without the donations of our loyalsupporters.
Donations go immediately toward Pugs like Bugsy and continueto allow us to say "yes" when no one else will.
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