Scruffy 10-312 [1]

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Give a huge welcome to Scruffers!  Scruffy came to us today from a "ranch" where he has been kept in a kennel for most of his life, only let out for an hour a day, if at all.  We think he is around 12 years old.  Scruffy was set to be euthanized last week because the owner no longer wanted him but the vet sprang into action and got RAGOM involved and look who's here!! 

Prior to getting him into the vet today, he got to hang out in a fenced backyard (Thanks Auntie Jen!).  He was introduced to another dog with no problems.  He was very scared and flinches when you go to touch his head.  He warmed up quite quickly however and came up to me for pets before too long (especially when he learned I had some nummy nummy treats).

Scruffers, however, is in pretty rough shape.  He went to the vet today (cross your fingers for good blood work!!) and weighed in at 51 pounds, the vet thinks he should be closer to 75 if that gives you any idea of how thin he is right now.  Prior to getting to the vets he was given a can of wet food and he ate with gusto so I'm hoping with some regular feedings of some good quality food he'll put some weight on in no time.

Scruffy has 2 broken canines and several incisors that will need to be removed.  He also seems to have some soreness in his back legs.  The vet said that the muscles back there are severely atrophied, likely from spending so much time in a kennel.  Since Scruffers is so scared right now, we made the decision to keep him at the vet with his buddy Goldie (10-311) so he could have his teeth pulled on Monday morning and then I'd bring him to my home. 

We don't know what Scruffers needs in his forever home at this point, but his vet bills are going to be quite large so I wanted to get his story out there, you know, just in case you wanted to help him out ;-)