The Grey Muzzle Organization is supporting senior dogs through our Sweet Pea Fund, and together we aided Layla, a nine-year-old pit bull that has lived with her human Tameka since she was just a six-week-old puppy.  Tameka describes Layla as a positive girl, who thrives when she receives other people’s good energy, and for this dog-mom, Layla is “her heart.”  After a vet diagnosed a lump on Layla as benign, Tameka thought all was well… until one day“she just went down. She hid herself because she didn’t want to be bothered.”  Tameka rushed Layla, now suffering from dehydration, back to the vet and received a different diagnosis: pyometra. 

PFA’s cost for pyometra surgery on a senior dog averages to $700; this has been found to be one-tenth of the price at a private practice, which can sadly be prohibitively-expensive for many working-class families.  Tameka urgently looked for an affordable solution as Layla lost twenty pounds in five days; PFA brought relief in their eleventh hour:“I literally carried her into your office. I was in tears. I was expecting them to tell me there was nothing they could do for her.”  Tameka says Layla is “a pretty old girl” and as the infection worsened, she feared the worst: “She was really bad-off before I got her to you… I didn’t want her to suffer, I was ready to put her down.”

Our vets were able to assuage Tameka’s worries and successfully perform surgery on Layla!  This lucky gal received lots of TLC from her mom who went above and beyond with a special diet, and got her back to a healthy weight within a week. This pittie can enjoy even more of her golden years in the only home she’s even known, and her mother feels the same way: “I’m so grateful. I appreciate you all so much.”