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Bergy
Update: 10/1/05
ADOPTED TO HER FOREVER HOME!
Bergy’s foster family has decided to adopt her - she has become such a loving part of their family, they cannot bear for her to leave! Her Ehrlichia will continue to be monitored and treated as long as necessary.
Bergy, aka HD Bergy, is a beautiful champagne fawn 4-year-old female born July 18, 2001. Bergy’s sire is System Carl and her dam is System Air Bergy. Bergy was found as a stray in Amarillo, TX, and was turned into the pound there. She is positive for Ehrlichia at a very high titer, and also to Babesia. Bergy’s racing career shows her starting January 18, 2003 at the Hollywood track located in Hallandale, Florida and ending at the Flager track in Miami, Florida on August 12, 2003. Her whereabouts since then, like so many of GALT’s strays, are not known. With her Ehrlichia titer being as elevated as it is, she certainly has been infected for a while. Bergy has started her treatment, which will be lengthy, and is in the care of a very loving foster home.
From Bergy's foster home:
Bergy is a very social girl. She runs like a streak of lightning outside, and she has done wonders for our shy girl, Sweet T (Twilight). They play together, run together, eat together, and sleep side by side in separate crates. When she is tired she is curled up like a basketball on a pad or conked out in a crate.
During the day, Bergy is her own girl. Sweet T does not mingle in the living room, so Bergy plays by herself. She discovered toys... oh my, has she discovered toys. First she just carried them and piled them on her pad. Now, she discovered how to squeak them. Her favorite toy is a parrot that says, "Polly wants a cracker". At first, the human voice just confused her, she would squeak it, a voice would come out, and she would look like the RCA hound, trying to figure out where that voice came from . . . no one? But now its, "Polly wants a cracker, Polly wants a cracker, Polly wants a cracker..." just a continuous stream until she falls asleep.
Despite her Ehrlichia and Babesia, she still acts like an athlete and in addition to running she also likes to "ski". She runs in the house, jumps on the pad with her two front feet, then slides across the wooden floor. She does this very regularly, so we know its purposeful behavior, and she has it down to a science, sliding across the entire length now of the living room, about 20 feet. She is very very smart...way smarter than any other grey or sight hound that we have ever had. You really have to stay on your toes to stay one step ahead of her.
Her "old" hair continues to fall out and the new hair is coming in wonderfully. It appears it will be quite short, almost a palomino color. She has put on weight and is looking really good. A friend of mine, who visits with regular frequency, came over last Saturday and said Bergy looks "spectacular". She could still stand to gain some more weight, and we are working on that. You can see some rib on the crest of the backbone, but there is a slight pad to the rib cage, and the pelvis is filling out like it should.
If we can just get her healthy, and overcome her tickborne diseases, she will be ready for adoption and her forever home. We know Bergy will become a wonderful companion for the very fortunate family who decides to adopt her.
See Greyhound-Data.com for Pedigree.
Update:
10/1/05
Bergy
completed her first treatment of antibiotics and was retested for her
Ehrlichia; while her titers were not elevated any more, they were not
reduced as much as hoped for. Her platelet count is on the lower end also,
so her spay and dental will be delayed until later. She has just started
another six weeks of medication. You would never know there is a problem
to see Bergy play and run around - she is just full of herself, and provides
constant entertainment for her foster family.
