Hope Is On The Mend

Shared by the Dan Cosgrove Animal Shelter on their Facebook page:

For background: Hope was found about 10 days ago in Branford and officials called it one of the worst cases of animal cruelty they have ever seen. Hope was determined to be a day or two away from death as she was starved for a long period of time. Shelter staff having been caring for her around the clock.

Here's the update for Wednesday and there is some good news the shelter staff shares.

Hi Everyone,

Here is the Hope update for today. Hope's endoscopy was a success! They were able to remove the foreign object which turned out to be a small stuffed animal. And they are completing some biopsies as well which we should have those results back within a week or so. Hope did really well through the procedure.

The vets now are Hopeful that Hope will be able to hold down food and water more easily. She was unfortunately sick again this morning and we still will need to watch Hope very carefully over the coming weeks so that her body is not overwhelmed with food and water, but we are feeling more positive now. We also need to focus on her blood levels going into normal range over the next few weeks so we will keep praying that happens too.

Once again a big shout out to the vets that worked tirelessly and extremely carefully to remove this stuffed animal by doing this endoscopy. It was no easy task and they eliminated us having to put Hope through a surgery.

All in all today was a good day! We are happy with the outcome and we will follow up with more news tomorrow as we learn more.

We would like to ask everyone who posts about Hope a favor: Would you mind posting what Town, State or even Country your from? We have had so many amazing people email, call and post and people have been asking where all the messages are coming from...so we would like to be able to tell people. We do know that people from Australia, the UK, Hawaii, California, Georgia, Massachusetts and Chicago have been following Hope ( and of course Connecticut) .

All of us at the shelter are so touched by all of you who have kept in contact and reached out about Hope. All of you have really been the shining light in such a sad story and we are so grateful for all of your support and your continuing care for Hope's recovery. It really is amazing- Thank all of you for having such amazing hearts!

We know people are still asking how they can donate : Donations can be made at branfordanimalshelter.org and then click on donate. Or you can mail payments to DCAS 749 East Main St Branford,CT 06405.