Today I recieved an email from Jane, and had to share right away. Jane is part of a great non-profit that helps save shelter animals.

“I work with a 501c3 non-profit rescue group called Saving Shelter Pets. We are a small, Internet-based group, with members and supporters all over the country (and a few international supporters too!). Our work addresses a number of domestic companion animal welfare issues. We are not a licensed rescue ourselves, but we facilitate rescues of dogs and cats in high-kill shelters, get them vetted and into boarding for quarantine, then send them to pre-screened no-kill rescues where they can be adopted into a loving, forever home. We also have an active Spay/Neuter program.We are working with one county in a rural area of Georgia to provide certificates for low-cost spay/neuter surgeries for pets belonging to low-income families. Also, we just recently helped sponsor a mobile spay/neuter unit at a humane society in a rural area of Ohio, where over 80 animals were fixed in a single weekend! We have a program called Puppy Promises that keeps unwanted puppies from being turned into a shelter and offers them a rescue instead - PLUS it spays the mother dog (which we pay for) so she can’t have any other litters.”

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The dog may reveal the signs related to the affections in the respiratory system. As a dog owner, you should know dog first aid therapy. For example, when the dog bleeds, immediately take a sterilized cloth or cotton and make some pressure at the point of bleeding injury. This simple dog first aid will arrest the bleeding in no time.

The ice cubes may be kept in the area to cause the constriction of the local blood vessels and finally this may help to arrest the bleeding from the injury. Then you can take your dog to the nearby veterinarian for the intensified therapy.

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