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Honoured to be supported by @englandsbarmyarmy again during their two-test tour in Sri Lanka! The airport has been closed to inbound commercial flights since March 2020 (!) so none of the Barmy Army could fly in to watch the magic...except for one... ✨🏏 Rob Lewis had flown to Sri Lanka last March to watch the original tour, which got cancelled due to Covid. He refused to leave the island without watching his beloved team play and we're bloody grateful because he's been making a nuisance of himself and spreading the word about WECare in the process - check out that huge banner!! 🙏 Google 'Rob Lewis cricket' and you'll find some fun news stories 🤣 But more importantly, type 👉bit.ly/puppint👈 into your browser and you'll find the Barmy Army's WECare fundraiser 🍺 ~ ~ ~ ~ #barmyarmy #srilanka #englandcricket #srilankacricket #gallefort #galle #fundraiser #fundraising #fundraise #fundraisers #fundraisingideas #lankalivin #BecauseWECare #streetdogs #travelsrilanka #adoptdontshop #lankalife #bethechange #volunteer #puppiesinparadise #vet #vetmed #veterinary #wecare #srilanka #streetvet #srilankanstreetdogs #vetschool #charity #charitysrilanka
⚠️GRAPHIC PICS on slides 2+3⚠️ Remember Janet who we posted about back in November? She's this week's #TransformationTuesday! Janet arrived on the 12th November with a huge, suspected knife wound, from nearby Dondra. After weeks of dressings, we did have to take the surgical closure route in the end, which went really well! Janey was expecting a bit of breakdown as it was such a big wound but it closed nicely! 👌🏼 (Though Janet did need booties as she kept scratching at it, bless her.) The poor girl also had a horrible UTI and was peeing blood but we got that all sorted for her too 💦 This little sweetheart was a total menace, always wanting out of her kennel and into our hearts 😂 She has such a big character and we all fell had over heels for her and her lil toothy peg 🦷 Janet was going to go back to the street but she ended up getting adopted as they couldn’t resist her cuteness! 💕 Her guardians really loved her quirky tooth, which is actually dead and will fall out eventually – but until then, it’s harmless and is all part of her charm 🥰 Janet, we’ll bloody miss you!! ~ ~ ~ ~ #WECareTransformationTuesday #lankalivin #BecauseWECare #streetdogs #travelsrilanka #adoptdontshop #lankalife #bethechange #volunteer #puppiesinparadise #vet #vetmed #veterinary #vetlife #surfsrilanka #wecare #srilanka #streetvet #srilankanstreetdogs #vetschool #charity #vetnurse #charitysrilanka #animalwelfare #animalrescue #animals #dogs #dogsofinstagram
⚠️GRAPHIC CONTENT⚠️ Heads up, slides 5, 8 and 9 are pretty graphic but they're videos so you can easily skip without spewing 😅 Gem came in a couple of days ago after a lovely local spotted her skulking about with the mother of all maggot wounds between her shoulders 😮 Gem’s about six years old and she arrived covered in lice, fleas and ticks, with extensive alopecia down her spine. Aside from the hefty maggot wound, we also found a maggot lurking in her vagina, but luckily that turned out to be a lone ranger who’d got lost 🥴 The poor girl was wet from the rain with a low temperature, so we sorted her out with a rabies shot, wormer and tick/flea treatment, cleaned and dressed her wound, then set to work warming her up 🌞 For those interested, we popped an antibacterial wound powder on the wound to kill the maggots, ready for picking them out in a couple of days. The wound was pretty contaminated which we’d normally use a wet to dry dressing on (this essentially 'sucks' all the dirt out as it dries) but Janey was hesitant to sedate Gem due to her fragility, so this wasn’t an option (it hurts when you pull it off🤕). Instead, we removed the dead maggots this morning while she was awake. Gem also had a bit of vaginal discharge and was drinking loooooooots of water, potentially indicating open pyo (a pretty nasty uterine infection which typically affects older female dogs that haven’t been spayed). We’ve got her on fluids and are giving her the best possible care, so keep all your fingers crossed for this cutie! ~ ~ ~ ~ #dog #dogsofinstagram #doglife #doglovers #dogstagram #dogoftheday #dogs #doglover #instadog #dogsofinstaworld #dogs_of_instagram #animalrescue #animalwelfare #vet #vetmed #veterinary #veterinarian #vetlyfe #vetlife #veterinarymedicine #surfsrilanka #wecare #srilanka #streetvet #vetschool #charity #vetnurse #charitysrilanka
Things got even more hectic at WECare towers this week when seven dumped puppies appeared down the road from the clinic 🧐 Our team went to collect them, carried them back to the hospital (via the back entrance where we take all unknown dogs, to minimise risk of infection) and admitted them. This involved weighing them and administering tick and flea treatment. We have six girls (!) and one boy - girl power! They're called Clover, Ladybug (Bug), Jade, Bamboo, Acorn, Rabbit and Dragon. It's very rare that we pick up a litter of this size and that they all survive buuuuuuuuut we are trying our best to help them all through. Janey checked them over and gave them their first dose of vaccines - we're slightly concerned by a couple of them but we'll keep you posted. We've said it before but taking in dumped puppies is a huge burden on our resources - we don't know what contagious diseases they could be hiding (like distemper/parvo/rabies) so they require barrier nursing. This means they need their own staff member to feed/clean/administer meds, which means that person then can't touch other pups. Which is a biiiiiiiiit annoying in a busy hospital already running on skeleton staff 😅 And do you know how much mess seven pups make? We'll tell you - there's shit everywhere 😂 We'll rehome these fluffballs once fully vaccinated and big and strong enough. Keep your fingers crossed for them, and if you fancy donating towards their care you can do so at bit.ly/wecareappeal (all donations on this post will be MATCHED by our anonymous donor) or via wecareworldwide.org.uk/donate 🤩 The moral of this story is - neuter your doooooooooooooooogs! Please 😬 ~ ~ ~ ~ #puppybutt #puppy #puppylove #puppylife #puppydog #puppylover #puppyrescue #puppygram #puppyoftheday #puppyofinstagram #puppystagram #animalrescue #animalwelfare #vet #vetmed #veterinary #veterinarian #vetlyfe #vetlife #veterinarymedicine #surfsrilanka #wecare #srilanka #streetvet #vetschool #charity #vetnurse #charitysrilanka

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