Saturday late afternoon - Timmy our 13 year old hound suddenly began choking while lazing at the ranch on the porch, with his 90 fellow ranch hounds awaiting forever families.

Quickly, we picked him up, observing pulmonary distress, he was immediately carried to a vehicle, and Carol drove him like a mad woman to the emergency vet hospital.  His tongue was blue and he could not breath. Situation grave.  We were faced with a poor outlook on recovery, and a huge vet bill on a senior hound.  If you sat on the board of directors and had to make a decision to get emergency vet care funds, or euthanize, what would you decide?

Here in So Cal an emergency room appointment is $500.00 no matter what, treatment goes up from there.  Our board decided we did not have enough information to make a life ending decision, and that we needed to stabilize him.  We authorized blood tests, oxygen, xrays and stabilization.  Timmy has been with us for some time and we all love his devil-dog ways!

Timmy is the hound who can grab anything from anywhere. 13 years old with the energy of a 6 month old pup, this senior will keep you on your toes and laughing all the while.  Timmy's exploits are famous - he stole his Aunt Tia's cookies, ate her chapstick and had her run screaming from babysitting the ranch shouting "they are wild bassets!!" Timmy plotted and executed stealing his Aunt Jeannie's hamburger by knocking her drink and french fries off the table FAIR SNAG! Timmy daily has us in stitches and is the poster child for an active senior.  Timmy is also the hound who tripped Cesar Milan in the video tape "Your New Dog: First Day and Beyond" upon the entry into our main hound yard - Cesar refers to him as "a bus".  Our Timmy -

The ER vet gave us every discount they could - and stabilized Timmy and after a weekend on fluids and treatment, Timmy came home this morning, tired and certainly not ready to knock over trash cans and steal hamburgers, but not ready for the rainbow bridge either. He is expected to make a full recovery!!!

The vet bill after discounts is: $1,455.00 which we have charged.

We face these problems every single day in rescue.  Can we save this basset, do we have enough money in the vet care fund to say yes?

By saying yes to saving Timmy's life - we now need to bring awareness to our donators that our emergency vet care budget is only $1,500.00, and we have just spent it. We need to replenish this fund immediately so that the next time an emergency happens, we can base our decision on quality of life and recovery, and not on whether there are funds in the account.

Please help us repay Timmy's emergency life-saving vet care.  And maybe add a little more to the fund as well - you never know when or where an emergency will happen.

Paypal donations can be made by sending donations to: BarniatDaphneyland@yahoo.com

or mail a check to:

BaRNI; 6221 Shannon Valley Rd, Acton, CA 93510

Your donations are tax deductible.

Thank you for helping us save lives!!

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