Miracle Mimi

We’ll be volunteering at the No More Homeless Animals in Utah Pet Super Adoption Event April 29th - May 1st. Training for the event is tomorrow and Monday. Click on the link and sign up or donate to this great oragnization. Any money we raise in excess of the $2000 for Mimi will be donated to NMHP and we are volunteering an hour of our time for every $50 raised towards Mimi’s vet bills!

The amazing people at Basecamp X - makers of the finest handcrafted axes and blades - donated $100 for Mimi’s care. Her Mom Porter cried when she found out. We are so thankful! So check them out, follow them on twitter @basecampx and pass the word about their tools. An axe from them would make a fabulous father’s day gift!

Our good buddy the Desert Dawg wrote a post on his blawg about Mimi. One of his pals donated $100 for her care. We were so surprised there were tears shed over here at Mimi watch central. Thanks to the Desert Dawg and his two-legged pal Ace Kvale!

You guys are amazing! The wonderful friends over at Cause for Paws Utah sent out a message about Mimi on their Facebook page last night. We’ve already received some donations for her care thanks to their post! We really appreciate your help.

We’ll be donating volunteer time to thank everyone for helping out with Mimi. No More Homeless Pets in Utah is a great organization. We’ll either be working with them, their affiliate organizations or other local rescues in Mimi’s name. I’m personally going to donate 1 hour per $50 raised for Mimi’s Vet Bills. Your donation will help Mimi and many other pets like her. Thank you.

“Parvovirus is a viral disease of dogs. It affects puppies much more frequently than it affects adult dogs. The virus likes to grow in rapidly dividing cells. The intestinal lining has the biggest concentration of rapidly dividing cells in a puppy’s body. The virus attacks and kills these cells, causing diarrhea (often bloody), depression and suppression of white blood cells — which come from another group of rapidly dividing cells. In very young puppies it can infect the heart muscle and lead to “sudden” death.

This is a very serious disease. Some puppies infected with parvovirus will die despite prompt and adequate treatment. While no extremely accurate statistics are available, a good guess is probably that 80% of puppies treated for parvovirus will live. Without treatment, probably 80% or more of the infected puppies would die.

Due to the high death rate, parvovirus gets a lot of free publicity. Many people just assume that any case of diarrhea in a dog is from parvovirus. This is not true. There are a lot of other diseases and disorders that lead to diarrhea. If you have a puppy, don’t take any chances. Have your puppy examined by your vet if diarrhea is a factor in any disease. It is better to be safe than to be sorry.

If your dog becomes infected with parvovirus, he has about a 50-50 chance of survival. If he makes it through the first three to four days, he will usually make a rapid recovery, and be back on his feet within a week. It is vital, however, that he receives supportive therapy immediately. It must be stressed that this is not a bad case of doggy flu; without medical treatment, most puppies die.”

- excerpted from www.workingdogs.com