Around 5AM Friday morning, we finally had all 50 signs hung and were hopeful we would get a call from Cody's owners sometime during the day. It was at that moment that the phone rang.
It was a woman who found one of our signs while she went out to hang her own. Cody had been given to her the night before by a local resident who had bought him from a breeder in the Midwest a few days earlier. He was shipped by plane to California and upon his arrival, they decided they did not want him and gave him away to her. Cody (then named "Ira"), anxious and afraid of his new environment, escaped from their yard and minutes later was hit by traffic.
I brought his new owner up to speed on what had happened, told her how I found him and gave her the phone number of the pet hospital to call and get more information on how he was doing.
After getting a few hours of sleep, I called the hospital again myself to check on Cody and his progress and they informed me that he had been released to his owner and taken to another facility for further care.
About 4 hours later the phone rang again. It was his current owner of roughly 12 hours. She explained her situation and her inability to provide Cody with the 24 hour care he needed as a result of his hit and run. Even though his vitals were now stable, Cody was in need of further veterinary care and was badly injured... 3 of his legs were torn from their sockets. In order for Cody to live with any quality of life, he would need multiple surgeries giving him movement in his legs again and extensive care and rehabilitation.
His new family asked and TLC Rescue agreed to take possession of Cody in order to give him the treatment he needed and restore his ability to walk.
In order to assess his stability and injuries further, he was then taken to one of the veterinary facilities that TLC uses regularly. We visited with the veterinary staff to further assess Cody's needs and his most immediate medical concerns as well as give him shots of antibiotics and pain medication to relieve his suffering.
It was at that point the medical staff determined that his most immediate medical concern was the increasing fluid building in his lungs that could not be accounted for with certainty. Any surgical procedures on his legs would have to wait until the condition of his lungs were resolved.
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