In Loving Memory of Hope

With help from many sources our organization rescued Hope from a pound in Dixon Kentucky. Hope was starved, abused, someone had cut off her beautiful English Pointer tail, and she had heartworms. Hope barely survived the heartworm cure, but somehow she made it. Hope continued to sleep for approximately 23 hours a day and eventually stared having brain seizures, not body tremors. After further evaluation, it was determined that Hope had brain lesions, both ears drums had been ruptured and Hope was completely deaf, plus she was almost blind in both eyes. Her brain waves were most likely flat, but her body still functioned. This would not have lasted long, Hope was unable to hold any weight on her body, and eventually would have starved to death. For Hope there was no quality of life. Hope had most likely been the subject severe abuse in her short life to have caused this sort of damage to her little brain.

On 01/22/01 we made one of the hardest decisions in rescue, to send Hope on her way over the bridge. Hope brought us joy in the short time she was with us, it was so heart warming to think that she was making progress. To the many who helped save Hope and bring her to us, we are sincerely grateful. And, we know that Hope was thankful to be released from the hell at that pound. It is our wish that we will be with Hope and the many others like her again one day, and that God has her in his protective care now, that she is whole again, running, playing and probably hunting birds like she was born to do. Our love goes with you Hope, wait for us, OK? We'll play like we never got to. You have been adopted by the BEST, our creator. He will take care of you until we can be together again.

Special Thanks to Cindy , Shauna, and Lisa, who were responsible for saving Hope and giving her a good life in the brief time she had left.