RIP KIARA

Kiara enjoys autumn walks in the park with her foster parent, but soon they will be separated. The foster parent will be able to take care of her for another month. As of now, we are starting to look for another foster home or, God willing, a permanent home.
We can’t do it without you. Please share and support Kiara. She still needs financial support for the rehabilitation procedures and most importantly – she needs a HOME. Until then, he relies entirely on all of us.

Help/Adopt/Adopt Kiara: https://strayangels.org/pomogni-na-kiara/

🏠 Kiara is in a foster home. A lovely young lady temporarily took over her care. A person who is very excited to make Kiara feel good and does everything possible to provide her with the best conditions and comforts. It’s rare to find people who would open their heart and home to a disabled dog that requires so much attention, time and care, and here they are. The foster parent takes the dog to rehabilitation every day, regularly for check-ups, walks her with a gaiter or textile walker/to attach the back of the body/, makes sure she is calm and happy.

📈 Regarding health and condition:
Kara has deep sensitivity, but no knee and withdrawal reflex. The right leg is worse than the left so far. Not enough muscle yet, both hind and front legs are weak.
A little later in time, the operation of the disc herniation will have to be done. It’s still early for her, the surgeon is watching her — she has check-ups every 10 days.
The dog is fed a stronger, protein food. He still can’t control his pee. He has a bowel problem and is taking probiotics. She can’t stand up on her hind legs. If someone stands her up, she stays for about 10 seconds, but she is not stable.
Kiara loves to cuddle, pet and is calm. He eats with great appetite. The eyes are now fine, but they are washed every day.

⏰ The foster parent will be able to take care of her until December. We are still looking for a Person to adopt Kiara forever!

❤️ With love, desire, care, the efforts of many people and your tremendous support, Kira is moving forward. We are grateful to everyone who supports Kiara! Link to Kiara’s Facebook video

Our girl is making a little progress which is due to the electrostimulation.
She has a very serious inflammation of the anal gland and she is being washed.
One eye is also inflamed, a consultation with an ophthalmologist was scheduled.
He has ear fungus.
She continues to receive massages and kinesitherapy.

After the operation, Kiara does not move her hind legs. The good news is that there is good deep sensitivity and rehabilitators give good predictions. Kiara tries to raise her pelvis and when she stands up she tries to hold her hind legs.

Kiara needs intense physical therapy – electrostimulation, acupuncture, massages, kinesitherapy, movement. Within 2 to 3 months, if it is well affected, a pretty good result can be seen. Kiara is very weak right now. Needs more quality food. Starting tomorrow, electrostimulation can be started, and the order of the procedures will be determined during the work process.

There is a very long and difficult road ahead for Kiara, and she will only be able to walk it with your support.

🩸The necessary approximate amount for 60 days of hospitalization + procedures and therapies for rehabilitation will be approximately BGN 4,800. (~80 BGN per day + food)

Today, Kiara left the MVK in Gorna Banya, where she was operated on, and has already been admitted to the “Ita Vet” clinic in “Lozenets” quarter, where she will be cared for. The treating rehabilitator will be Dr. Nora Dimitrova, who put many of our injured angels back on their feet. Remember Dolly, Charlotte, Kaya, Mia, Goshko, Justy, Ivy and many more:) Fingers crossed that Kiara is among them.

Kiara is ready to leave the clinic. A foster home is being sought to help her with recovery and until adoptive parents are found.

She is doing well after the surgery, there is tenderness in her hind legs, but she does not move them. Recovery will take about a month, and during this period it will be known if there is an effect from the operation and what it is exactly.

The specifics of her care are several:
– must be peeed manually (simply by pressure;
– to wear a diaper for walking when necessary;
– to make something like a walker for her – the simplest can be a pantyhose with a handle, with which she can be walked;
– to be taken to rehabilitation by a specialist (we are looking for one).

Kiara’s neurosurgery lasted 5 hours and was a success. Before the surgery itself, two 3D models of the spine were made in order to more accurately plan the surgery itself and the place and method of stabilizing the spine. According to the initial plan, full decompression was performed in the area where there was compression of the spinal cord. Previously, this area was stabilized with screws. Luckily for Kiara, a special ultrasound device was used for the operation, which works close to the spinal cord without the possibility of damaging it. This apparatus is usually used only by human neurosurgeons, and to a large extent the success of the intervention is also due to it. During the operation, a very large length of the spinal canal is opened and
the recovery will be quite difficult.

The next two weeks will show the results of the surgery.

We thank Dr. Kaloyan Voichev from the Multi-Profile Veterinary Clinic in Gorna Banya and his team.

As you all know, Kiara had an MRI.
The results showed that there was no evidence of pathology at the site of the spinal curvature. The problem with the spinal cord in the area is that it is highly compressed and atrophied due to chronic compression. There is a second finding, however. It turned out that the dog had a second chronic disc herniation in the back of the lower back /in the back of the body, between the last lumbar vertebra and the beginning of the sacrum/. This hernia will also need surgery because it is causing problems. That is, we will have two neurosurgical operations. They will be carried out at a time interval that is still being discussed.

Kiara’s general condition worsened . In the few days after we found her, Kiara was willing to move, but now she’s back to her previous state, which is quite heavy.

He lies on his side, does not want to get up, cannot move his hind legs, barely manages to stand up on his front legs. He tries to get up, but falls. He constantly trembles, refuses to eat and drink water.

There is a disorder probably due to taking the steroid drugs.

Dehydrated and very wasted. After consultation with the doctors, it was decided that Kiara would be immediately admitted to the clinic, where she would be put on systems to stabilize her. Her condition requires her to not move until the surgery. He will be under 24-hour medical supervision.