Puppy with kidney failure needs a home for his final days. Meet the ‘happy’ dog
A puppy has kidney failure, and he will need a place to spend his final days.
“We won’t let you sit in a kennel any longer,” a South Carolina animal shelter wrote June 13 in a Facebook post. “Fletcher, you deserve to live your life in a loving home, where you can run carefree and know a loving embrace outside of the confinements of a kennel.”
Fletcher is now out of the shelter and in foster care. The Greenville Humane Society hopes he will end up in a permanent home for however much time he last left.
“He really is SO full of love, he’d make a perfect companion,” Katie Wofford, marketing assistant for the shelter, told McClatchy News via email. “Even if his life may not be long, he’s ready to give all the love he has to his family.”
The 10-month-old pup arrived at the humane society sick after he traveled more than 2,000 miles by car. He had been living at a facility in Arizona but was transferred with the hope that the South Carolina shelter could provide treatment for “multiple birth defects” impacting his life, according to Wofford.
The shelter discovered he had only one kidney, which is failing. Surgery would risk his life, so a team reportedly decided to avoid performing any procedures.
Though the humane society isn’t sure about Fletcher’s future, he likely will need medications, veterinary appointments and special food.
“He was in an Arizona shelter since he was just a baby, so he’s never truly known what it feels like to live in a home,” Wofford wrote. “Despite this and his congenital defects, he’s a very happy boy. He loves to trot around with a stuffy in his mouth, always wagging and smiling to anyone who will greet him.”
As of June 17, the mixed-breed pup was waiting for a permanent home. Anyone interested in adoption is encouraged to send an email to adoptions@greenvillehumane.com.
“He will need a very special home who is willing to put in the extra love and work he needs, but there’s no dog in the world that deserves it more than Fletcher,” Wofford wrote.
