* Gladys has been adopted by her foster family! Yay! *

Gladys came into Hamilton Animal Services as a stray. She was infested with fleas and her nails were overgrown. She’s missing all her teeth and her jaw is misaligned. She has a large lump on her abdomen, and muscle wasting on her back end. Gladys is a mess. It seems this poor senior girl was not properly cared for wherever she was living before she became a “stray.”
Thankfully, Gladys has a healthy appetite and she can eat canned food without too much trouble.
On her rescue day, we got Gladys into the vet. The abdominal lump is likely a hernia. Her jaw may have been broken at some point in her life, and then healed funny. Or it’s possible that her jaw bone disintegrated in some spots from having such rotten teeth. Either way, the vet didn’t think her jaw was causing her any pain.  The vet took a blood sample, got Gladys’ eyes and ears cleaned up and trimmed her nails. She was a trooper through it all. Sweet old girl.
The good news…her blood results came back normal. The bad news…Gladys has a pretty severe heart murmur. Severe enough that surgery was not an option to repair the hernia. She wears a custom fitted belly band to hold the hernia in now, and it works perfectly.
After a follow up appointment, our vets gave Gladys the thumbs up to find her forever home. She didn’t have to go very far to find it, because her foster family adopted her!

Yay Gladys!