Adopt a Pointer / Mixed (medium coat)
Rudy the Dog needs a home
If you follow SARG’s animals on our website or Petfinder and/or Facebook, you’ve met Rudy. He’s an approximately one-year-old, 38-pound pointer mix who is being treated for heartworms. His foster mom is so pleased with this boy’s desire to learn, and he’s thoroughly enjoying his new life as an indoor pup. We want to give an update on Rudy's heartworm treatment. He was on doxycycline for a month to kill immature heartworms and weaken wolbachia, a parasite that adult heartworms carry. On Christmas day he started taking prednisone and will be taking it for a month. He just received his first immiticide injection on 1-8-18 -- an arsenic compound. Now he is on strict cage rest, which he seems to know is required. The hope is to kill 50% of the adult heartworms with this injection. So far, so good -- the adult worms will start dying and his little body will start breaking them down and removing from his bloodstream. Rudy is due for the next set of two immiticide injections at the beginning of February, to kill the remaining adult heartworms. We will update you again after Rudy has received the final injections. Send prayers and good thoughts ... he still has a serious part of his treatment ahead of him. Applications will be considered after Rudy's final treatment in February is completed successfully. Please keep watching, and we hope to post good news; if you’re looking for a wonderful dog friend in your life, Rudy is the one!
- Animal: Dog
- Breed:
Pointer / Mixed (medium coat)
- Size: Medium
- Gender: Male
- State: Tennessee
- Zip/Postal Code: 37830
