Someone please save Reggie!
A tiny pug puppy with special needs is at risk of being put to sleep if a charity can’t raise enough money to cover the vet bills.
Reggie and his brother Ronnie were handed over to animal charity Breeds In Need within 24 hours of being born. Both have cleft palates and Reggie also has a misshapen head and a suspected hiatal hernia. The siblings, now 11 weeks old, need a raft of expensive veterinary procedures if they are to survive and thrive. Ruth Sanderson, 30, and Sally Turzanski 28, the co-founders of Breeds In Need, are now pleading for donations to help save their lives.‘Reggie especially wasn’t quite right and was regurgitating, something dangerous in cleft puppies,’ says Ruth.
X-rays showed that Reggie had a hiatal hernia, which is the abnormal movement of part of the stomach from its normal position in the abdomen into the chest.‘He was not and is not in any pain so we felt that to put him to sleep for the sake of money would be unethical and something we could never do,’ added Ruth.
‘He is going in to the vets on Wednesday 29 July for more blood tests including specialist ones to check the growth hormones and for hyperparathyroidism – which is an expensive one that has to go to a lab in Cambridge; just his last visit was over £800.The charity owners don’t want to put Reggie to sleep because he isn’t in any pain ‘We have two choices,’ reads the fundraising page.
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