5/6/12 Update on Bardot 🙂 
I would like to Thank everyone at the shelter for allowing me the opportunity to foster “Bardot”, now Ziva and fall madly in love with her. I am now her proud owner and I am grateful everyday she chose me to be her furever home. Also a huge thanks and appreciation to the amazing women at the Northboro VCA for saving her life from PDA. Now the only PDA she has is Public Dispays of Affection from all she meets. Thank you!!!!!
4/4/12 – Update on Bardot… Bardot’s surgery had to be moved back 1 week due to scheduling conflicts so she is now booked for her surgery on 4/12/12 – we’ll be posting more updates after her surgery and when she’ll be going up for adoption! You can also follow her story on our Facebook site
Update: Thanks to the generous supporters and donors our shelter has been able to raise the money for Bardot’s heart?surgery! She is scheduled to have her heart surgery on Thursday April 5th and if all goes well be up for adoption about 2 weeks post op and after she gets re-checked and cleared by the surgeon. All paws crossed here for a speedy recovery! oxoxo Bardot
To all our pet loving supporters and friends, we are hoping that you will help us to SAVE BARDOT ? our itsy bitsy 10 week old mini Shepherd-y looking mix.
? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? Just this week little Bardot a female 10 week old mini shepherd mix (our best breed guess???) came to our shelter from the South on one of our transport rescue programs.
Our staff veterinarian examined her and found an abnormal heart murmur which required a visit with a specialist for an echocardiogram (ECHO) to determine the cause of this loud murmur?
Well someone obviously forgot to tell Bardot that she had any problems whatsoever?because she?s just a blur of furry love. She doesn?t even know she has a problem? but her results came back as having a PDA aka a Patent Ductus Arteriosus, the most common congenital heart defects in dogs.
Without treatment, 2/3 of affected puppies will die before reaching one year of age. Bardot is an amazing soul. Giant ears almost tip her over, and short stubby legs make her look almost like a stuffed animal!. She will cuddle on your lap and play with toys for hours. She deserves a LONG and happy, healthy life. 
Saving Bardot means a lot to us! Coming from rural shelters, where the gas chambers are still used, she has already beat the odds!
We have promised her that she isn?t in jeopardy, and we are on a life saving fundraising mission to save her. This fundraiser will pay for her surgery. Time is important and we want her to have the procedure done AS SOON AS POSSIBLE so she can have a better, well deserved quality life.
Our Shelter is very blessed and thankful to have a board certified surgeon at the Northboro VCA offer to do her surgery at a greatly discounted rate (estimated costs of $1500+ which will include all her medications, post op checks and follow up appointments). Dr. Melissa Dudley is an AMAZING surgeon and has treated many of our special needs cases. She is a caring, compassionate veterinarian. We are priviledged to know her and our pets are very lucky to be treated by her. The staff at the Northboro VCA have always been so wonderful to us. We KNOW Bardot will be in excellent hands.
We are currently raising money to pay for Bardot?s heart surgery and tentatively we hope to get her in for her surgery in the next couple of weeks?SO our fundraising campaign is up and running!. It will be on-going until we raise enough money to cover her surgery and anticipated follow up care.
Once Bardot recovers she will be looking for a home, so if you are interested in adopting this amazing blur of fur, please continue to watch our website or Facebook site where we will be posting updates and photos!
If you would like to help US save Bardot, just click here to make a donation. In the comments section please send us a note that you are helping BARDOT. We will keep everyone posted on her progress over the days/weeks.
We need to raise $1,500 for her surgery and there are several ways you can help us help HER…
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Donate through our secure online server by clicking here?- in the NOTES/DEDICATION section please indicate BARDOT HEART SURGERY FUND
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Mail a donation to the shelter at:
Animal Shelter Inc.
C/O Bardot Heart Surgery
17 Laurelwood Rd
Sterling MA 01564 -
Call the shelter and donate using a Visa/MC or Discover for BARDOT
From all of us at the shelter ? and especially from Bardot – THANK YOU TO EVERYONE for taking the time to learn about her and how you can help us save her life!
Oxoxox – Bardot?.
