Sable

In loving memory of Sable, a 4 year old Rottweiler, who was dumped in the shelter on 8/20/15 bleeding from her mouth. I pulled her out of the shelter on 8/27/15. She weighed only 70 pounds. (very thin for her size). We originally thought that it was from trying to eat her way out of an enclosure, but Sable was bleeding from nose and mouth this morning. We rushed her to the vet and discovered she had an extremely heavy heartworm load and the coughing up blood was related to her heartworms. Her heart is enlarged and after seeing another similar case, the vet thinks it may be a worm that died and had a pulmonary embolism or possible Caval Syndrome. Sable was scheduled for her first heartworm treatment on October 8th. Because of her size it was considered dangerous for her. This has already caused one almost fatal thrombotic embolism. Normally we would do slow kill but she also had breast cancer which needed to be removed ASAP before it metastasized. We couldn’t address the cancer until she was finished with heartworm treatments which took 3 months including recovery. She was also be spayed at that time. We were trying to “beat the clock” with this very special dog who is only 3 years old but was severely neglected and over bred. When we pulled her from Columbus County shelter we had no idea of her needs both medically and financial. Sable recovered fully from her heartworm treatments and breast cancer, only to fall gravely ill unexpectedly a little over a year after we thought she was healthy. She developed kidney failure due to the malnutrition and neglect for so many years prior to being dumped in the shelter. Sable passed away April 4, 2017. Sable was very special to Roseys Rescue and we miss her tremendously.