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Italian Greyhounds

🐾 PawDoc Featured in Local News After Assisting Rescue of 22 Italian Greyhounds PawDoc was recently featured on KLTV after stepping in to support the rescue of 22 Italian Greyhounds found living in unsafe conditions in Smith County. The story quickly gained media attention, highlighting both the scale of the rescue and the vital veterinary […]

Vigo

Meet Vigo, our first Care Beyond Limits patient! Town and Country Animal Hospital recently helped the very first pet through Lakefield’s new Care Beyond Limits fund: a shoulder-riding, upside-down-snuggling cat named Vigo. Vigo has battled painful stomatitis for years. When his pain and infection returned again, his family was facing financial hardship, including underemployment and […]

Little Bit

In December, our Portland teams rallied around a one-year-old pup named Little Bit, and the outcome still gives us chills.

Little Bit’s pet parent reached out to The Street Dog Coalition team after he’d been vomiting and refusing food for days. She knew something was wrong. Imaging confirmed it – a chunk of a rubber ball was blocking his small intestine.

Pip’s Story:

A Reminder That Curiosity Can Come at a Cost. Pip, a very sweet 19-month-old American Pit Bull, came to see us on the morning of February 9 after his owner, Jordan, grew concerned. For two days Pip had not been eating, seemed constipated, and was vomiting whenever he drank water.

When Pip arrived, Jordan shared that Pip has a history of getting into things outdoors and in the trash—and had recently gotten into garbage that contained napkins soaked in oil and grease. Pip was straining to defecate, lethargic, uninterested in food or water, and intermittently vomiting bile.

Our team performed a thorough exam, ran bloodwork, and started anti-nausea medication and subcutaneous fluids. Pip went home with additional medication and instructions to return if he did not improve.