Breed: Beagle
DOB: 2002
Sex: Neutered male
Weight: 26 pounds
Foster home: Christine
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I keep telling my foster mom that I really don't need to go on the ER page.  I feel happy and healthy as can be! No hospitals or operations for me!  But see, mom says that I have a yucky eye and it's not getting better like it is supposed to, and it's really important that we figure out how to fix my eye before I can get adopted.

When APB got me out of animal control on my very last day there, one of my eyes was all goopy and infected.  I found out that I have "dry eye", which makes my eye really irritated and prone to infection and scarring if it isn't treated.  Foster mom and the vet thought the infection would clear up real quick with some antibiotics and other drops, but it didn't get better at all.  After going back to the vet many times and trying so many different ointments and drops and pills, my eye is still yucky and the vets say that I am a "specialty case".  They didn’t have to tell me that. I already knew how special I was!

I just visited with the special eye doctor, and he thinks he knows a medicine that will make my eye better. For the next month I am on three different eye drops that get put in eight times a day altogether. Once my eye starts getting better, I will have to have eye drops maybe three times a day. I almost never complain about my eye, but every time I am at the vet's, everyone makes scrunchy faces and frowns and says how much it must hurt me. It does hurt, but I’m tough, I can handle it.

I can’t wait to get healthy! My foster mom says that getting healthy is expensive.  Just the visit to the special eye doctor cost more than my adoption fee, not to mention all my other appointments, neutering, vaccinations, and heartworm test.  So she is hoping that maybe someone who especially likes handsome beagle boys will sponsor me to help out with paying to fix my eye.  That would make me happy too!  Love, Raymond.

For more information about Raymond, please email hanaburgh@att.net.