Feel good files - Casey Turner - lhasa with Lissencephaly
If you want to feel good today, read this story...
Little Casey Turner came to Lone Star Shih Tzu & Lhasa Apso Rescue as one of our typical "hard cases." (No pun intended) He was having what the owner described as horrible, long seizures at least once each week and during the seizure he would scream and cry as if he was in severe pain.
Of course, little Casey's folks couldn't afford to do any vetting to figure out what was wrong with him so wanted to turn him over to us to care for. Once we saw that adorable face, we couldn't say no.
We brought him to Houston and, with your financial help, took him to Gulf Coast Veterinary Specialists - Dr. Carley Giovanella, a neurologist, to see what was up with him.
Turns out Casey has a very rare disease found predominantly in Lhasa Apsos called Lissencephaly. In this disease, his brain is SMOOTH, there are no folds. This causes seizures and mental slowness. We worked for over a year to get his seizures under control with medication. We were able to slowly refine the dose of phenobarbitol to the point where he has seizures only about once a month and they are relatively mild.
We figured at that point, Casey would be a forever foster with Lone Star and we were happy to have him. But, just a few short months ago, we received an extremely good application to adopt Casey.
At first, we thought the applicant was just looking at his cute pictures and didn't understand the severity of his condition, but after numerous phone calls and emails, we found out that she is a wonderful nurturing person and WANTED Casey because of his disability.
Yesterday, we received this wonderful, happy picture of him with his new "brother!"
THIS is why we do rescue, people. It is so unbelievably rewarding to take a dog with no hope and put him in a situation like this.
Want to feel good? Come foster for us!!
