Day 1: I wake up and I'm still on a hard cold floor, I wonder why they don't give me a blanket? My chest hurts, my stomach hurts and I am so hungry ... I'm just too tired to get up and eat. I can't stop shivering. I'm always so cold. I heard someone say I was going to be "put to sleep" because it costs too much money to make me better. I'm barely a year old and I really don't want to die.Luckily for Hoover help arrived later that day. Through the kindness and compassion of a shelter worker a volunteer from The American Bullmastiff Association was contacted and immediately went to the shelter and removed Hoover from certain death.
Hoover was transported to Mount Vernon, OH where he will be a guest of Dr. Barry Reppart and several bullmastiff rescue volunteers. After a thorough physical exam, Hoover was diagnosed with heartworm disease, hook worms, whip worms, kennel cough and severe malnutrition. Hoover is a very tall boy and topped off the scales at a very meager 59lbs, a good sixty pounds underweight for a boy his size.
First night in hospital: This place is much nicer! I have piles of blankets and that nice doctor heated up rice bags and placed them all around me. Since I'm too weak to stand up, he sat beside me and hand-fed me this really yummy canned dog food, he said it's a special prescription diet to help ease my digestive system back into normal food. He said it had been so long since I'd eaten regular meals, that to have one would make me sick. I was given medicine to help get rid of those nasty intestinal parasites and I have all the clean fresh water I want. I can't remember the last time I had fresh water. Dr. Reppart also put these funny looking things in my kennel with me, he called them toys ... I'm really not sure what to do with them. I'm too tired to wonder about what to do with the toys ... But for the first time since I can remember, I'm not hungry or cold. I don't know when I last went to sleep with a full belly. I am going to go to sleep and look forward to tomorrow.
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My husband and I share our home with 3 bullys. (2 of them rescue dogs). I cry everytime I visit this site. How anyone can mistreat an animal, none the less to this point, and still call themselves human beings is beyond my comprehension.
I just today adopted a baby bully and found this site when looking for more info on this gorgeous breed. Seeing the pics of Hoover infuriate me.
Thank God for people like these rescuers and this good doctor. I am going to pray for Hoover and follow his story.
I am giving my new "baby" big hugs and kisses so he knows how much he is loved.
Glad to see Hoover is recovering. So sad to see these dogs, so abused. I have Abby my one year plus old Bull Mastiff. I got her from a friend that had puppies available. I could never imagine such a sweet lovable dog. They give so much, and ask for so little in return.
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