1/31/20 Chance was adopted today. His story was so sad until his luck turned around. Chance's owner passed away, but no one knew. Chance was alone in the home and went an unknown number of days without food or water. When his owner's death was discovered, Chance was taken to the shelter. He arrived there with severe dehydration, hypothermia, and vascular collapse. He was unable to rise from lying on his side. He had bloody diarrhea and was vomiting dark material. He was breathing with great effort and wheezing. He was not interested in food and could only pick his head up for short periods of time. His blood was dark and thick. The shelter immediately started everything to get him stabilized, but were highly concerned about secondary problems related to his severe dehydration - damage to his organs, damage to the GI tract, a secondary bacterial infection due to intestinal tract damage, and swelling of the brain due to the abrupt change in the electrolyte content of the blood. The shelter could only do so much. Chance needed to be hospitalized at a veterinary clinic to be monitored for problems and given appropriate support care.

The shelter called an officer for immediate transport to the emergency clinic overnight. They notified the on-call vet to monitor him and give him supportive care. The vet was told to euthanize him if his systems start to shut down and he was in organ failure. The emergency vet did bloodwork and continued with medicine and fluids. Chance started to do better. When he returned to the shelter the next day, he was able to stand and he was eating and drinking. His chemistry was improving and everything was looking better. The shelter continued with fluids and medication. They knew Chance needed more then they could give him.

The call went out for a rescue to give Chance a chance. He needed to leave the shelter as soon as possible and be taken to a 24-hour veterinary care facility where he would continue to receive supportive care and appropriate treatment for extreme dehydration and any other medical issues that would arise because of that. And United Yorkie Rescue answered that call.

Chance was picked up from the shelter and taken to the 24-hour emergency care vet. All signs pointed to Chance improving steadily. That was just the beginning of Chance's story. Chance made it and thrived in his foster home. He received all the medical care he needed and so much more. Finally he was ready for is forever home. Today that happened, and it was the best day of Chance's life. Chance was adopted. Now he has a wonderful forever home all his own. He has mostly retired daddy all to himself. He will get to go everywhere with his daddy because Chance will be the only dog in his daddy's life. The minute Chance met his daddy he knew he was home forever, and could anything be better? Happy Tails, Chance.