Brooklyn's Special Story

2/26/2011 - Brooklyn has been Adopted!!!

9/12/2010
Brooklyn went to the University of Tennessee, when they did the scintigraphy they saw two tiny veins which isn't typical of a congenital shunt. During the surgery they found that she had multiple acquired shunts, a very small liver and a small bladder. When they opened her bladder there was one gigantic stone the size of the end of your finger which they removed. Brooklyn will need to be medically managed with diet and lactulose for the rest of her life. She is expected to do fine.

Brooklyn she came into YTNR Rescue 4-6-09 at 1 year of age. She had already been in 2 homes, neither family wanted her because they could not potty break her. Brooklyn was in foster for a little over a month before she was adopted to another family. About 1 month after her adoption Avid called and said Brooklyn was in a shelter. We called the adopting family and were told they gave her to another family because it was not working out. I called the person who she was given to and she said she didn’t want her; so she came back to another YTNR foster home. Brooklyn was still not potty trained but was showing progress in her foster home.

In July of 2009 she was adopted to another family. They knew of the problem with potty training, and that she had been in several homes because of it, and they knew we wanted this placement to be permanent. We were told she had a home no matter what.

Aug of 2010 I got a call from the last family who adopted Brooklyn wanting to give her back to YTNR because they could not potty break her and were tried of cleaning up after her. While in this home Brooklyn was treated for UTI’s several times, in March of this year their vet suggested a bile acid test that was never given. The vet had found crystals in her urine, she was put on special food. YTNR took her back and this time we sent her blood test results to Dr Tobias at UT and she advised that we run a pre and post bile acids test on her. Both pre and post numbers were over 200 +. She is scheduled for surgery at UT September 7th.

Brooklyn is 2 years old now; we need your help so Brooklyn can have her surgery and finally get the forever home she deserves.

You may donate money here to help replenish funds for future Surgeries:

or mail a check to:

Yorkshire Terrier National Rescue, Inc.
c/o Mary Elizabeth Dugmore
1065 Lewis Road
Chapmansboro, TN 37035

We appreciate any help you can offer so that we can continue helping these little dogs!

Thank you so much for your donations!

For Brooklyn Natasha Machado Sandra Flolo Terry Martin Carlyn Clement Mary Schmidt Kathryn Schuller Karen Simone Helen Marlowe Rosemarie Cunningham Lisa Bridgewater Hector Lopez Kimela & Gregory Shealy

Brenda Jasper Carla York Mario Dominguez Betty Frenkiewicz MaryJane Hoisington Shelly Wonders Donald Scott, in loving memory of our Natalie Dawn Dickenson Sharon Hansen Jackie Wolfe Mark Walters