Cookie - Our shelter rescue has issues

[Al Today]

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About 5 years ago Cookie chose us at the shelter. Out the back door of the shelter, unseen from the road, there is a fenced in area where people can drop off critters in the middle of the night. I hesitate using the word critter, for I figure she was no pet. She is more human than many I know.

Someone dropped Cookie in the middle of the night on a cold snowy night in January. Nice...
We figure Cookie was a breeder. Cookie is a terrier with poodle hair. About a foot tall at the shoulders. If eyes are indeed a window to the soul, methinks Cookie has a soul. A tender, loving soul. Perhaps Cookie came back to us from a previous pet/family member, Billie the Wonder Dog. Billie had her head run over by a car at 8 months old and we cared for her 16 years, but I digress...

We guess Cookie was then around 4 years old. We wonder about being a breeder because a truck could be driven through her tweeter. I know, I know, crude and crass but this is what is... Best guess... She has been with us 4 years now. She is family.

My mother-in-law was one of those heartless breeder kinda folks so we have a feel for what we see.
Oh... the stories I myself can tell :(

Anyway...

Within the past year or so, she has had some mass, cyst types, in her belly. She has had 3 surgeries and lost 2 teats in the process. First time the vet admitted they didn't "get" it all and the mass/ cyst like things came back. They say benign which is very cool, but...

Now I have noticed her pain on evacuation. Stools getting stuck. She has pain in her face and in her eyes she looks at me thinking she is a bad dog

What to do.?.?.? I know with we humans, we have supplements and can enhance our immune systems. What about dogs? What about Cookie? Is there anything I can do to strengthen her immune system against these cysts/masses?

Thank you all, I am researching all I can...

edit: Lost 2 teats, not 3...

 

[Drea]

Hi Al, I'm sorry to hear about Cookie and know that watching your pet suffer is heartbreaking. Just like for us humans I'd look at the diet first.
Some pet owners have switched to feeding their animals a raw diet and it seems a lot of dogs are gluten intolerant as well.
It's more work and money but when my mother's cat was sick she fed him raw and it helped. There are a good many human supplements that can be given to dogs too.
Vitamin C would be a great one to start with and it looks like colloidal silver would be worth a go too. I'd think getting some good nutrition into her would be important also. Maybe skimmed bone broth?
Best of luck to you Al. I hope Cookie comes through this for the better.

 

[MusicMan]

Hello AL, Gotta feel sorry for poor Cookie, so I'll pass this on for what it's worth.
Dr. Hulda Clark the microbiologist, wrote several books, one of which is "The Cure For all Diseases". It's mainly about the micro-organisms which can affect humans, and guess where they come from - mainly our pets, and the food we eat.

Anyway the protocols she gives are for humans, but she included a section which would be a protocol for treatment of pets. There are various herbs you can give them which will 'detox' the kidneys and liver (flush out the pathogens) of cysts, parasites, bacteria, viruses, etc, and a 'zapper' routine which will kill the remainders. This has to be repeated to take care of egg hatchings and so on. Pets can be 'zapped' as well.
Of course pets are routinely re- infected, so the protocols have to be regularly repeated.

You may still be able to download a free copy of this book, if not you can get it on the web, just use your favourite search engine.
And good luck with Cookie.

 

[Al Today]

Just an update. Little Cookie had another surgery and is fine. She had to wear a collar to stop her from licking the stitches on her belly. We call that "The Cone of Shame". She would allow us to put it on her and she would look up at us with those big brown eyes... Seeming to say: "Really? I gotta wear this thing?".
I am not vet. but I have heard when an older dog is spayed/neutered, they may have problems with cyst type growths within the belly regions. These sacks keep coming back, and they keep being removed. BUT our little rescue dog came through again, happy and loving with her tail a wagging.

I just would like to say a rescue animal (dog/cat/bird) appears to know what we know not... They pick us, we do not pick them. 'Tis hard to explain what I am trying to say. Every dog/cat we have rescued appears to offer a type of love we humans have difficulty with understanding. They can teach us unconditional love.
:) :) :)