What a Year of Love and Care Can Accomplish

Last March, I wrote a post introducing my mom’s newly rescued, blind Pekingese, ChuChu. He’d only been part of the family for a few days then and we’d just learned that his blood work indicated impending kidney failure. Seven weeks ago, we celebrated ChuChu’s first Gotcha Day. He’s still blind, but that’s about the only thing that hasn’t changed. He’s likely not even as old as we originally thought! Love, pampering, good nutrition, and supplements have changed this little dog’s life.

ChuChu is the happiest little dog you could imagine. He spent years neglected and malnourished. He was in such bad shape when he was dumped at the shelter, that they had almost no hope that anyone would want to adopt him. He is spoiled rotten now though! He’s so much healthier than he was a year ago too, but his blood work still isn’t where we would like it to be. Maybe by next year… 🙂