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Meet Meadow.
Meadow is a one year old lab/hound mix that was rescued by Lost Dog & Cat Rescue Foundation, in hopes of finding her a forever home. Meadow's story to a forever home is still a work in progress - please help us make it one with  a happy ending.

Chapter One - Meadow's Arrival
Meadow hasn't had it easy - she came to Lost Dog Rescue as a puppy from a rural shelter, where little black puppies have little chance of finding  a home. On arrival, Meadow suffered from a severe bout of pneumonia causing her to be hospitalized. She fully recovered from the pneumonia, and everyone was ready for this sweetheart to go out and find her forever home.

Chapter Two - Diagnosis
Meadow went into foster care, but had poor appetite and periods where she was completely lethargic, so back to the vet for Miss Meadow. Unfortunately, it was discovered that she had liver problems. She was placed into a different foster home, as it looked like it would be a while before she would be ready for a forever home. She won everyone's hearts by her loving personality, extremely loving to all her foster siblings as well as anyone she met. She quickly became housetrained and cratetrained, her desire to please making her an easy and lovely dog to work with.

After a $500 ultrasound, the vets determined that she had a liver shunt, meaning that her blood supply is rerouted around her liver instead of being pumped through it to be cleaned. The liver does not receive the oxygenated blood it needs to stay healthy and the blood suppy her body depends on is not filtered as it should be in the liver.

If her condition is not repaired surgically, her liver will fail and her life will be short.

The surgical repair involves placing a constricting ring on the blood vessel that diverts the blood from the liver. the blood supply is slowly re-routed into the liver which should over time function normally. The surgery will cost LDCRF $3000. The success rate is high- about 80% of dogs who are deemed good candidates for the surgery recover fully. (Meadow has been deemed a good candidate for the surgery) 

Chapter Three - Meadow Today
While she is currently doing okay on a daily regiman of special food and three medications that are administered several times throughout the day, Meadow desperately needs the surgery.

Chapter Four - Meadow's Future
You can help write this chapter for Meadow - please help us give Meadow's story a happy ending this Holiday season.

Ultra Sound - $500
Surgery - $3000 Surgery
Meadow leading a normal life like she deserves -Priceless

Please help Meadow, and donate today - we can't stress enough that every dollar helps, and please if you can't donate, foward the link to Meadow's page to your friends and family.