Goodbye, sweet Luna

Luna was supposed to be our next foster, however a medical emergency prolonged her stay in the Dallas area. Sadly she had an abscess under her front leg that went unnoticed when the shelter spayed her. The surgery lowered her immune system, allowing the infection to run rampant. She was rushed to the emergency vet clinic but much of the area around the abscess was already dead, falling off and exposing the muscle beneath. They worked tirelessly to stop the necrosis from spreading, but to no avail. She was in extreme pain, and had a severe seizure and it was decided by the vet and her temporary foster mom, Jodi, that the best thing would be to spare her the extreme suffering that she was enduring. She was put to sleep this morning.

It is a sad fact in rescue that we cannot save them all. Sometimes there is no open foster home to take the dogs, and sometimes, like in Luna's case, we are too late to save them. At least in Luna's case she experienced a week of love and care before she passed.