Yorkshire Terrier National Rescue
Raffle
for
Liver Shunt Fund
This adorable bed was donated a few years ago and has been lovingly dressed up with a white fleece mattress with white eyelet bed duster ruffle and a white satin pillow laced in white eyelet and a fleece and satin blanket with white eyelet trim and little pink bows sewn on. Your little Prince or Princess will lounge in luxury if you are the lucky winner of this fabulous prize.
We are offering this bed as a special raffle item to benefit our Liver Shunt Fund. www.LiverShunt.com it seems like lately there have been more and more yorkies coming in needing much needed support and our fund needs to raise more money to help those needing help.
This beautiful bed measures 18" wide and is 24" long
Tickets $5.00 each or 5 for $20.00. All donations are welcome.
Purchase raffle tickets via pay pal LiverShunt@yorkierescue.com or send a check to:
YTNR Liver Shunt Raffle
1065 Lewis Rd
Chapmansboro, TN 37035
Your name will be placed in the hopper and once $1000 is reached Adam Lindsey will draw the winning ticket. Please include your name address and phone number along with your email address so that we can locate you if you are the lucky winner.
Below are just a few of the little Yorkies YTNR Liver Shunt Fund has helped over the last almost 10 years....Without the support of so many of our generous donors this would not be possible. Right now we have seen so many new Liver Shunt cases come in, we get an average of 10 phone calls or emails a day asking for help.....We would like to help them all and with your support thru Raffles like this and sales from our Rescue Angels Store, and of course our annual Ball, which we are happy to report is in the works for next October!!!!
We will be getting the dates out soon!!!!
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Ellie
This is Ellie. My she was given up by her family that couldn't take care of her because she had a liver shunt and was very sick. We had to take her to the University of Tennessee and Dr Karen Tobias operated on her and put an ameroid constrictor on her liver shunt to make her better. Liver Shunt is a hereditary defect that lots of little puppy's in lots of breeds are getting now because people aren't being careful. Ellie's mom and dad shouldn't have any more babies cause they are carrying the gene for liver shunt. Most people don't know that they should have a bile acids test done on a puppy before they buy it just to make sure that there is not a liver shunt in their new puppy. Elllie is going to stay with one of our foster Mom's Barbara, she likes to take care of liver shunt baby's after they have their operation. Ellie might get to go home from the hospital tomorrow if she is doing good.
Ellie UPDATE:
Ellie's foster mom, Barbara, sent new pictures of Ellie and told us that she is doing really well after her liver shunt surgery. She doesn't throw up anymore and she has so much energy that it's hard to keep her quiet so that her stitches will heal. I miss playing with Ellie, she lived with me for a while and we became very good friends. I am happy that she is doing so well. Thank you to Dr Tobias at the University of Tennessee for making her better.
Kirby "Pal"
We just got another call about a little dog in Florida that may have a liver shunt. He is so sick that he couldn't pick his head up from the pillow. After he got into a foster home his foster mom hand fed him his food until he could sit up. Today he is having a Bile Acids test to see if he has a liver shunt. His name used to be Pal but his foster mom changed it to Kirby.
UPDATE:
Kirby had his bile acids test and they found out that yes he did have a liver shunt so his foster mom did some research and found a doctor in Florida that would give a discount to Yorkie Rescue to fix Kirby. He is doing better and his foster mom is going to send new pictures of him soon so we can show you how much better he is feeling now.
We were really excited to get a new report on Kirby this morning. His foster mom says he is wonderful and sweet and is feeling so much better. He is not having anymore seizures and the doctor did a really good job fixing his liver shunt.
It is so important to have people run a bile acids test before you buy a new puppy because it is such a big problem with lots of breeds right now.
Kirby's surgery was $1600.00 and you can go to our web page and donate money if you want to help us pay for Kirby's surgery. His foster mom works for a company that has matching funds so she donated money and her company matches her donation. That's really special of them.
Kirby before surgery
Kirby after surgery
Ellie before surgery
Ellie after surgery
Come join our Chat group! Write to us at: Liver Shunt Chat
This is a discussion group open to the public which is meant to share and educate people who have found themselves facing Liver Shunt Disease (PSS) or MVD. All are invited in the hopes of sharing information and spreading the word as too how best to manage the disease.
This page was last updated: April 4, 2009
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Mini
Her foster Mom, Barbara wrote this for her.
Mini was surrendered to YTNR in early July of 2008 as she was diagnosed with Liver Shunt. Mini’s family, who lived in Las Vegas at the time, was getting ready to move to Australia and didn’t think it would be a good idea to take her as she would have had to spend time in quarantine. They loved her a lot so it was very heartbreaking to have to leave her behind but they wanted to do what was best for her. They even drove her from Vegas to TN so she would be comfortable and they could spend more time with her.
Mini had surgery on August 22 and what the doctors at UT thought was a single shunt turned out to be multiple shunts. It was very disappointing and upsetting to get that news.
When Mini came to us she was extremely shy as she hadn’t been socialized much with other people and not at all with other dogs. She hid behind the recliner in our living room for two days before she finally started coming out and sitting with us. Within a couple of weeks she became part of the family and was running and playing with the other dogs and getting just as excited as the rest when someone came to the door. On October 6th I flew with Mini to Boston where she was adopted by two wonderful ladies who had fallen in love with her picture when they saw it on the website. In the updates I have received they tell me that she adjusted to her new home fairly quickly, was already playing with them, her old toys and the new ones they bought that first evening, and that she just loves going for car rides and meeting all of their friends. We miss her but know that she has gone to a wonderful home where she will get the care and attention she deserves.
Bed measures 18" wide and is 24" long
