After many many months, our sweet girl, Adele, got adopted!!!
Adele is the sweetest little 3 year old bulldog, but my goodness, she was a hot mess! She arrived at the shelter with horrible open and necrotizing wounds on her back. (It looked like something tried to eat her.) She spent 5 days in the hospital where they repeatedly cleaned, treated, and worked to close the wounds. After she was discharged from the hospital, she had to return many times over the following weeks for follow up treatments. Thankfully, her wounds healed *wonderfully* and she looked so much better!
But Adele had other issues. A large cyst needed to be removed. Thankfully the cyst was benign. After that was another big challenge. Bulldogs have flat faces. That makes it difficult for many of them to breathe normally. In Adele’s case, it was so severe she was essentially breathing through a straw her whole life. Unpleasant to say the least, and it put a tremendous strain on her lungs and heart. She had another surgery to have her nostrils widened and her soft palate reformed, and for the first time in her life, Adele was able to breathe normally.
Once she fully recovered, she just needed a broken tooth pulled, and she was finally ready for adoption. But being a bulldog, well, she’s apt to have more breed-specific medical issues down the road. Adele needed a special adopter who understood and was ready to take on these potential future health challenges. Happily, a long time bulldog owner was looking for a companion for their senior bulldog, Bleu.
Bleu and family came to meet Adele at the shelter and it was love at first sight. Adele was off to her new home!
Adele has been settling into her new home over the past four weeks. She and Bleu get along great, and she’s even learned to understand the two cats that Bleu rescued three years ago
All the pups and kitties get along, and at her first family holiday 10 people came to visit and Dellie was a sweetite to everyone she met.
Thank you to Adele’s new family for adopting her and giving her her best life possible. 🙂
The VBAS would also like to say a big thank you to Animal Specialty Group and Montrose Pet Hospital for helping Adele with her many maladies while she was in our care. We also want to say a *huge* thank you to our donors who made Adele’s recovery possible. Thank you for saving Adele and giving her a second chance!
