Meet Penny

Exactly two weeks ago today, we received an urgent and heart wrenching plea from one of our rescue partners, Remember Me Rescue NY. There was a dog at the Brooklyn ACC given only til the end of that day to leave the shelter or she would be euthanized due to her poor medical prognosis and the shelters inability to provide the nursing care she required. Without hesitation, we said yes and began scrambling to make it happen.

Imagine being abandoned out in the cold, alone, unable to move, emaciated, barely alive- completely paralyzed, and stage IV dental disease. Our new arrival also suffers from phthisis bulbi of the eye, a clinical condition representing end-stage ocular response to severe eye injury or disease damage, related to a variety of causes leading to scarring causing her blindness in that eye.

This is Penny, our new arrival. We are not going to lie, when Penny arrives we took one look at her and were terrified; would there be any quality of life? Quality of life is very important to us here at PGMP and although we were not sure what could be done to help Penny, we wanted to give her a fighting chance.

The evidence of cruelty and neglect were written all over this poor girl’s body which showed signs of starvation. In response, she was put on a feeding schedule along with supplemental nutrition to try to help make her stronger and slowly gain some weight.

While her blood work looks a bit scary, her X-rays and scans showed nothing to explain her paralysis leaving us questioning if it was a cognitive issue. After much deliberation and multiple conversations with our Veterinary teams we decided on a medication protocol and cold laser treatment and hoped for a miracle.

Miracles happen every day here at PGMP and Penny is a fighter with a strong will to live and she herself is a miracle! (see images and videos of her progress below) We hope that she can pull through and enjoy this second chance at life to the fullest.