Please read Trudy's story below! This is one of the reason's The Merlin Fund was set up!
Thank you all for your help. What I have found with most organizations, and rightfully so, it the red tape and time it takes to get help. Filling out application, providing evidence, disclosing all of your personal finances. Often people are turned down. The Merlin Fund is set up to cut through the red tape. Love of Leos has held many fund raiser and have helped a lot of folks in the past. We would like to do it on an ongoing basis now.
Thank you!!
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THE MERLIN FUND
TO MAKE THIS SUSTAINABLE.PLEASE DONATE $2.00 TO $5.00 MONTHLY
Over the past two weeks I have had read many emails from pet owners who are drowning in medical bills for their pets. I know the feeling well! This will not be just for Leo's.I would like to start a MERLIN FUND to help people whenever we can. We may not be able to pay the entire bill but sometimes all you need is a little help and encouragement. I think Merlin would be very pleased with this. The only thing I will require when a request comes in, is that the funds will be sent directly to the Vet. We will need the following information:
Name of vet or hospital
Full address
Phone number
On behalf of (you or your pets name)
At this time, payment will be to the maximum of $500.00 and will depend on the amount of funds in the account.
But first things first! We need donations. If we can get 1000 people to donate $5.00 what a great start we would have! Please spread this information far and wide and let's see what we can do to help some pets and their owner's who are desperately in need!
Thank you!
Brenda and Merlin
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Trudy's Story
For those
of you that know me, I have missed being an active group member. Just
so you know I have not missed reading one single messageJ For those of you that are new, welcome. This is a great group of people with a ton of knowledge.
So
much personal things have gone on in my life, so I took a step back and
became a silent member. I am still owned by 9 furry babes, 6 Rotts and
3 Labs.
Now
I won’t make this long but will get right to the point. I need your
help and with Bridgets permission I am able to post this.
On Nov 6, 2009 Gertrude
one of my Rotts was attacked and mauled by 4 other dogs. Within 4
minutes she had over 165 puncture and slash wounds. Needless to say I
did not think she would survive. The Mobile Vet Dr. Olson came out from
Huntley, assessed
the situation and took Trudy back to her office to learn and assess
more in depth. Labs and assessment did not look good at this point, but
Dr Olson didn’t feel we should give up just yet. Trudy was fighting
hard so therefore I would fight right along with her until she told me
enough.
I will skip a lot of the details, but if you are interested please e mail me privately. Trudy ended up at the Critical Care Hospital in Crystal Lake for almost 3 weeks. After
walking out of there paying a bill of over $7000.00 I brought her home
only to find out she had the doggy form of Mersa and now needed
treatment for this. She now ended up at Pet Vet in Huntley under the
care of Dr, Olson for 4 weeks in their hospital. I brought her home to
continue wound and supportive care with trips to Huntley 3 times a week. The staff at Pet Vet our above compassionate, caring and patient.
After
Trudy being at the Critical Care Hosp. I exhausted all of my funds.
This is very hard but I am asking for donations for Trudy’s remaining
bill at the Pet Vet Hospital. All donations would be sent by you right
to them. Her outstanding balance is a bit over $1700.00
If
at any time Trudy would have looked and said Mommy no more I would have
honored her wishes and let her go. As of today we are still fighting
and continue to recover. I Thank all of you in advance for any help you
can give.
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Merlin Wizzard V. Rotelbach 3/21/2001-1/13/2010
On Wednesday January 13, 2010 at 12:10 we let go of our dearest Merlin. He was not feeling well for a couple weeks and we were back and forth to the vet, trying to figure everything out. We found two perineal hernia's and the vet told me they really need to be fixed. That was sort of the beginning of the end. Not that I blame anyone at all. It was just more then his poor body could handle, along with the fact that we were totally unaware that he had stomach cancer.
When he had the surgery on 1/8/10, it seemed to go well and I was thrilled I got to bring him home on Saturday. Sunday was ok but Monday I knew something was really wrong. Merlin would not eat or drink and was very dehydrated. Nathan and I went to the vet and learned how to start an IV and also how to give shots. Thank you Nathan for always being there to help! We gave him multiple bags of fluids, we would sit for hours and spoon water into his mouth. We tried everything but it just was not working.
Tuesday night, as I lay next to Merlin he would reach over every few minutes a kiss me. He wanted me touching him at all times and I wanted him touching me.We agreed that nothing else would be done to him.No more surgery, no more shots, no more pain. Jagr, Dreigon and Falkor each came in to talk to their Dad.
When I called Bo on Wednesday, he said you have to bring him in. Much easier said then done. Brian, Nathan and I rolled Merlin into a blanket and carried him to the car. Bless his heart, he had no idea what we were doing to him at that point. Merlin always loved going to the vet, as all of the people would talk to him, pet him and he loved being the center of attention. Two strong men were there to help us bring him in and we were immediately surrounded by lots of caring people. Bo gave me every option in the world that we could do. Once Bo took the sample of fluid from his abdomen, we all knew it was not good. We did not have any idea as to what was causing it, we just knew it was bad. He also had a fever of almost 104, which is always a bad sign.
Brian, Nathan and I took turns talking to Merlin and kissing him. I told Bo no more we need to let him go. There were so many people in the room....
It was only after, when Bo found out it was stomach cancer. Such a rare form of cancer.
I strongly believe that Merlin really died of rabies shots. When he came from Switzerland as an 11 week old pup, he was given a rabies shot in Switzerland. When he arrived in the US, they did not recognize the vaccine and required a second rabies shots.
In July of 2005, we sent sperm to Australia. Merlin had a 3 year rabies shot in November 2004. The vet that did the collection, gave him another rabies shot, as required by the Australian government. I think these two event played a huge role in Merlin's life, causing the polyneuropathy and the cancer.I do not believe it was inherited PN.
Please visit the Rabies Challenge site. On the right side click on "About RCF" . If you can, please donate to help all of our animals. http://www.rabieschallengefund.org/
  
Background
Research has demonstrated that overvaccination can cause harmful
adverse effects in dogs. Immunologically, the rabies vaccine is the
most potent of the veterinary vaccines and associated with significant
adverse reactions such as polyneuropathy resulting in muscular atrophy,
inhibition or interruption of neuronal control of tissue and organ
function, incoordination, and weakness, auto-immune hemolytic anemia,
autoimmune diseases affecting the thyroid, joints, blood, eyes, skin,
kidney, liver, bowel and central nervous system; anaphylactic shock;
aggression; seizures; epilepsy; and fibrosarcomas at injection sites
are all linked to the rabies vaccine. It is medically unsound for this
vaccine to be given more often than is necessary to maintain immunity,
yet scientific research strongly indicates that the 3 year booster
interval required by state laws may be unnecessary. French challenge
study results published in 1992 showed that dogs were immune to rabies
5 years after vaccination and Dr. Ronald Schultz's serological studies
proved that dogs have antibody titer counts at levels known to confer
immunity to rabies 7 years after vaccination.
I want to thank each and everyone of you for your kindness and support, but especially my son Nathan. Few people know this but Merlin loved Nathan as much as me and the feeling was mutual. Without Nathan's help the past week, I am not sure I could have survived. At 4 in the morning he would come lay with Merlin so I could get on the couch for a couple hours of sleep. Thank you Nathan for always being there.....
Patti and Karen THANK YOU!!!
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