Lily was born in a cage to a mom who has spent her life bankrolling her owner. Lily is a mill baby. Even worse, she was an unwanted mill baby who, by the Grace of God, made her way to Pawsitive Restorations Animal Rescue at only 11 weeks old. That transport was supposed to be Lily's "Freedom Ride," her escape from life in a cage. When the doors opened on that truck, it was supposed to be a warm, bright welcome to a whole new life of being loved and cherished for the gift that she is. Instead, Lily came off that van and went directly to the hospital. Our 11 week old baby was critically ill with severe pneumonia. Lily found herself back in a cage - fighting for her life. But this time, she has an army of rescuers fighting with her.

Lily's illness is the product of an upper respiratory infection that went untreated for far too long. She is what happens when a living, breathing, soul, is treated as nothing more than merchandise. Lilly spent a combined 9 days in two different hospitals receiving round-the-clock intensive care to help her breathe and to clear her lungs of the cement that was slowly suffocating her.

Pawsitive Restorations Animal Rescue did not back down from Lily's poor prognosis. Nor did they stop treatment when the bills started adding up to the point of being exhorbitant. The money didn't matter - the precious baby fighting for her life mattered. And as long as Lily was fighting, we were going to fight with her. 

Lily's hospital bills cost the rescue $10,267.90

Numbers have always been a big part of Lily's short life. She was born in a cage to a mom who was a number. When she was born, her life wasn't celebrated. She wasn't adored and cooed over, and she wasn't given a name... an identity. Lily was given a number. For 11 weeks she lived her life as a number in a cage with other numbers just like her, all waiting for a store to purchase them, give them a new number and put them in another cage. Pawsitive Restorations Animal Rescue wanted desperately to change this cycle for Lily. Sadly, in order to save her life, we had to put Lily back into a cage - an oxygen cage.  It worked. After spending 9 days in intensive care, Lily was released from the hospital and moved to our treatment area where she has spent the past 16 days (so far) receiving care, day and night as she continues to heal. As much as we can, we have removed numbers from Lily's life. She has an identity. She has a name. She has toys, and treats, and gets to run and play when she wants to. But there are still BIG numbers attached to Lily.  $10,267.90. 

The rescue made a meager attempt to fundraise for Lily as she was going through her hell, but we just didn't have TIME.  As Lily was receiving treatment, the rescue had FOUR other dogs hospitalized for this same pnuemonia, and even more in the treatment area receiving round-the-clock care here. In total 57 animals required medical care to help them heal and to get healthy enough to find their forever homes. The medical bills continued to grow, exponentially. Days turned into nights, and then into weeks, and now into a month. As badly as we needed to fundraise, treating and healing our sick babies had to take priority.

Total Medical Costs from 2/20/23 to 3/20/23 $22,177.88

Now we are facing the repercussions. Our emergency medical fund has been decimated (and then some!) and we were unsuccessful at raising the money needed to cover or replenish it. ALL of our sick dogs are recovering. They are alive and we are CELEBRATING every breath that they take! But we are left in a sad situation where we can not help any other animals who may desperately need medical care from our program. Until the medical funds are replenished, we will have to say, "NO" to animals who need medical help.