Geneva

Adopted 1/9/09 and now lives with Ranier now Shane adopted 1/1/11!

Geneva regularly comes to visit us at Modesto Adoption Days, and you can't tell there was ever anything wrong.

** Update 12/17/08** Geneva is now available for adoption!**

Geneva passed her last post-surgical checkup on 12/11/08 and is now ready to go to her new home! Her pelvis is mending very well, and her hip joint appears to be fine and doesn't look like she'll need FHO surgery after all. She's still growing hair back on her hind leg, and she's still favoring it some but she gets better all the time. She just needs  some exercise restriction, which consists of slowly increasing exercise on a leash so she will continue to use her leg and not get into a bad habit of hopping on only 3 legs. She can get up quite a head of steam on her leash when she's excited, so it doesn't slow her down much!

Geneva's super-sweet personality is starting to shine. She's very sweet and friendly to everyone she meets, wagging her tail continually while getting attention. She's been very good with other dogs so far with the exception of a rude young male, and she just wanted him to leave her alone. She's on the quiet side at this point, seems to be a very gentle girl, and is happy to hang out in her spot most of the day. She's completely housebroken and almost trustworthy loose in the house. She's still a youngster and needs an eye kept on her upon occasion. While she's fine riding inside a vehicle, understandably she wants nothing to do with them when she's outside one. Smart girl!

Sponsored by Matt Davis, Brent T, Pete & Karin O.

Added December 2008

**Update 12/2/08**

Geneva went in for her surgery around the first of November, and just had her 3-week checkup right before Thanksgiving. Our fabulous vet, Dr Dave Petrunich, opted for two screws instead of a plate, since it would involve less cutting into the muscle and less chance of affecting the sciatic nerve. When Geneva was x-rayed at her 3-week check, one of the wires holding the screws in place had broken. We're waiting to see if she'll need a follow up surgery to fix that. Meanwhile, she continues to improve slowly, and gradually uses her leg a little more each week. She will go back in for another 3-week checkup, and see how she's doing at that time. Once the pelvis was pulled back into place, her hip joint looked pretty decent. We won't know if she'll need the FHO surgery for a while yet.

Geneva's super-sweet personality is starting to shine. She's very sweet and friendly to everyone she meets, wagging her tail continually while getting attention. She's been very good with other dogs so far with the exception of a rude young male, and she just wanted him to leave her alone. She's on the quiet side at this point, seems to be a very gentle girl, and is happy to hang out in her spot most of the day. She's completely housebroken and almost trustworthy loose in the house. She's still a youngster and needs an eye kept on her upon occasion. While she's fine riding inside a vehicle, understandably she wants nothing to do with them when she's outside one. Smart girl!

This scared, very sweet little girl is Geneva. She's about 18 months old and has a severely broken pelvis from being hit by a car. She was found lying alongside the road and taken to Merced Co, where she was unclaimed as a stray. Through the generous help of the Merced volunteers, she was taken to Valley Vet Hospital in Merced and given pain meds and had an x-ray taken. We then took her to our vet for more x-rays, antibiotics and more pain meds, and discovered the break is right at the hip joint, and she needs a plate put in her pelvis to hold the two pieces of bone together. Amazingly enough, this brave little girl could actually stand on her rear legs and felt like moving around a little when we got her home to take pictures. Her poor legs and chin were also horribly scraped up from the encounter, yet she never made a sound.

The surgery to put the plate in will cost around $1000, even at a very generous discount from Bradshaw Vet Clinic in Elk Grove. Once her pelvis heals, she'll then need FHO surgery for around another $1000 to prevent the top of the femur from grinding painfully against the healed bone since the socket will no longer be smooth. We need donations to our Rainbow Fund to help pay for it!

Please help us help Geneva and sign up to Sponsor her or donate to our Rainbow Fund!  Thank you!

Pictures taken on 10/27/08 when we first got her: