Jillian & Kelly

Histories are more full of examples of the fidelity of Dogs than of friends. -Alexander Pope

Jillian is from a city shelter in the Dallas area. She is sweet, sweet but poor Jill has been abused. She has been beaten, starved and abandoned. When I would go to touch her, she would cowl down in fear. The picture of her above is her shelter picture and you can see how broken down she looks. When she was saved from the shelter she was approximately 6 months of age, she wasn't even an adult. She had a nasty cough and was feeling bad, within 2 days she developed a severe case of pneumonia that almost took her life. Thanks to all the care her foster mom gave her, she pulled through it. Come to find out, after all she had been through, she gave birth about 2 weeks later. As a result of her giving birth, she had 11 not so healthy babies. Sadly to say, 6 of her beautiful babies had to be euthanized at birth. They were born with cleft plates and their tummies were severely deformed. Jillian had been given numerous drugs for the pneumonia and that is probably the cause of her babies being born with deformities. Also, she was a very stressed out little girl from being in the shelter. Four of the babies seemed to be healthy and one baby had a partial cleft palate and was given a chance to live.

The four healthiest babes did survive and have all been adopted by very good homes. Other than a couple of them having umbilical hernias, they were fine healthy puppies. The one partial cleft palate babe was unable to nurse do to the hole in the roof of his mouth that went into his nose. He could form a suction around Jill's milk buckets to be able to nurse. Poor baby tried and tried, but never could manage. We ended up tube feeding him until he was approximately 3 1/2 weeks and then started him on a bottle. Taking a bottle still wasn't an easy task for him even though he was older. It took some time but he was finally able to master the bottle and never looked back at that awful tube. We ended up calling him Journey and today he is 6 1/2 months old. My friends and family call him a walking miracle. At the age of 5 months, he had surgery to repair his mouth, umbilical hernia and was neutered, all in one day. His mouth surgery didn't hold and he still has a very small hole but he is doing quite well and eats everything he possibly can. Finally at the age of 6+ months, he gets to be a puppy. Journey had to be taken away from Jill and his siblings because of his size and because he wasn't able to nurse. So he grew up with teddy bears as litter-mates and a human for his mother, so he didn't get to learn dog things that their mothers normally teach them.



This is Kelly, Jillian's Sister. She was also starved, beaten and abandoned. They entered the shelter together and was rescued together. Kelly was fortunate not to end up as sick as Jill but had another encounter to endure. She was wearing a chain collar that someone had put on with a padlock! Well the collar was so close to her skin and tight, we had to cut it off to remove it, we thought we would never get it off without hurting her severely! Her neck was torn up a bit, but healed up nicely. Kelly's emotional state was that of Jillian's. She was scared to be touched, scared to be talked too and coward when approached.

UPDATE ON JILL & KELLY...
As for both of these sweet gals, they are doing well now and learning that people are not bad. They have come along way and are now available for adoption! They are both excellent dogs and will make a great family dogs. As both have wonderful temperaments, a sweet personalities and have learned that my touches are comforting and not of a harmful nature.

If you would like to adopt Jill or Kelly, please don't hesitate to ask for more information on them.
They both have been housebroken, crate trained, walk decent on the leash and like to ride in the car. They are approximately 1 1/2 years of age and Jillian is about 40 lbs and Kelly 45-50 lbs. Contact Lynn at Bulloxers@hotmail.com