UPDATE 8/5/22

It has been a week since Rowdy was bitten. It's hard to believe how close she was to death such a short time ago.

She is very close to back to 100%, and I know that because she has begun bossing the other dogs around again! LOL!

The final bill was $2500 and we are so close to recouping the cost now - THANKS TO ALL OF YOU! I am so grateful to all who have donated so far. Anything we get over will be donated to the Espanola Valley Humane Society, which is where we met our River dog and Deffy cat. They also took in a lot of the pets who were displaced by the NM fires earlier this year.

Thank you all, so much, for helping us to save our baby! Rowdy would thank you too, if she knew about money.

LOL! Love you all!

Cherri & Rowdy

We Need Funds to Pay the Vet Bill to Save Rowdy's Life!

Our poor little dog Rowdy was bitten by a rattlesnake yesterday afternoon.

We rushed her to the vet, she was in a lot of pain and struggling to breathe.

It was after hours on a Friday so out of desperation, we ended up going directly to the local vet's home. He was kind enough to come out and give her some pain medication, but we were disheartened to learn that there was not any antivenin within 150 miles of where we live in rural New Mexico.

After making the drive, we learned that Rowdy is hemorrhaging internally and she needed immediate emergency care.

The cost the vet bill is going to be around $2,500. I am a single mother with limited funds. If you can donate anything toward the vet bill, it would be incredibly helpful.

The vet said that even with this care she may not pull through, but without this care she will definitely not make it.

Please help her, if you are able..

Our Rowdy's Story

She’s a sweet and spirited girl, anyone at LELV or on the mountain knows that... A little pistol, I found with her sister and pit puppy on the backroads of south Louisiana.

Somebody probably just dropped them and I planned to get them to safety off of the road. As I did, the four of us encountered a large, and extremely ornery crawfish.

Lol! Rowdy ran right over to sniff it, and it immediately grabbed ahold of her nose! She went to howling, and crying, and her sister ran over to help her. That ended in the crawfish hanging from the sister’s ear. She yelps, shakes her head, and flings the crawfish near a roadside ditch full of water.

Before I can stop it, the pit puppy tried to grab it but it got him by the lip! He ran in circles around the three of us for a while, braying like a hound dog, shaking his head violently. After about six quick passes, he is able to flip the cranky mudbug off of his lip.

In between my roaring laughter at the ridiculousness of it all, I kicked the crawfish into the ditch. Then I loaded my new friends up and took em to camp. I figured any creatures that entertaining had a home with us.

We found good homes for the other two, but Rowdy has been with us ever since… Our only consolation is that she is a tough little thing, a real prairie dog hunter.

That’s what we are all holding on to right now. She can do it, we just need to give her a chance.

Photo below: Rowdy and her sister, Gumbo.

Help Cover Vet Bill for Our "Rowdy" Pup Bitten by a Rattlesnake!

By Movement Training Network

Help Cover Vet Bill for Our "Rowdy" Pup Bitten by a Rattlesnake!

Please help our little girl to recover...