Phoebe At Shelter...

Here are some pictures of Phoebe after we cleaned her up at the shelter. She came to us as a stray. One morning when I came into work, she was outside in the pen playing and I noticed that she had what looked like dirt around her eye. I asked one of the volunteers to wash her when she came in. The volunteer came to me with some concerns. She told me that it wasn't mud that was around her eye but blood. Luckily we had a vet who was supposed to show up that day and she could take a look at Phoebe for us.

The vet said that under Phoebe's fur there were what looked like burns. She wanted to take Phoebe to her office and have her shaved down and have the burns cleaned. Later when we got a call from the vet they told us that it looked like some form of chemical burns. The way the injuries were on Phoebe looked like someone had poured something on her head (notice in the side pictures how the injuries looked and imagine some form of liquid dripping down her neck).

I told Mark about this poor little puppy and one night as we were driving home he said he wanted to go an meet her. At that point I knew that she would be a part of our lives. Below are the pictures. These were taken only a few days after the vet shaved her down. We needed to give her a bath daily and scrub (yes scrub) the burned areas to remove any dead skin. Amazingly she was wonderful.