Razzberry’s Rescue

My sister was driving home from work along the California/Mexico border when she saw a fluffy animal on the side of the road. She thought that it was a pet that had been hit by a car, but when she got out to investigate, she found that it was tiny female puppy, only a few weeks old, collapsed from dehydration and hunger. At the time, she was living a studio appartment with her boyfriend, with no yard and no room for a puppy, and the animal shelter was closed for the weekend. So she brought the puppy to me, promising that she would find another place to keep it in a few days, or else bring it to the shelter. At first, all the puppy did was sleep on the cool linoleum floor and drink water. She refused to eat, even though I could cleary feel every bone in her body through her fur. When I took her to the vet the following day, he told me that she was less than half of the body weight she should be for her size, and he feared that she had parvo, and that may have been why she was abandoned. Luckily, all of her tests came back normal, and he gave her some medicine to settle her stomach and some prescription food to try to tempt her to eat. I gave her some when we got home….and she hasn’t stopped eating since then!! Needless to say, I ended up keeping her, and I truly believe she is the dog that I’ve wanted since I was a kid. We called her Razzberry because she is such a clown, and she always finds a way to put a little “razzle dazzle” into everything she does. In four months, she has gone from a scruffy, starved furball to a healthy, happy 40 pound girl (and still growing!). She is a whiz at obedience and we are starting to learn how to play flyball. And she even gets along with the cats. Thanks for letting me share Razzberry’s story, Aja H El Centro, California