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Hello, my name is Molly! 

Molly, renamed by foster Laurel Hendricks, came to us several months ago from the Montgomery County shelter. She had been picked up by their truck with part of her face bashed in, and one eye sitting lower than the other. The shelter workers fell in love with her. She was young, a sable with the makings of very soft fur, HW negative, and sweet and friendly with everyone, 2 or 4 legged, including cats. They started begging us to take her into our program and save her. We knew she couldn't go into a kennel situation, and there was no one to foster her. Meanwhile they kept her alive by taking her home weekends, keeping her in their offices, and moving her around the shelter.

Then Laurel called me and offered to foster her.  With her own elderly dog, Tasha, we needed to put Molly in quarantine for 10 days, so one of the shelter volunteers took her home for two weeks. Then Laurel took her home (with Ryder) and began bringing her back to health.  Laurel wanted to take her to a specialist, and she found an excellent one who would work with us on fees. Dr. Read in Baytown met Molly, and to make a long story shorter, discovered that their were multiple problems. He  thinks she was bashed in the head several times with something like a golf club. He upper molar was turned around so that the strong long roots were growing into her eye socket with severe maxillofacial deformity. The bone around her eye socket was crushed as was her entire cheek bone. He knew "the time and cost involved in repairing this tramatically induced defect would be prohibitive for 'our' organization to invest in order to make her adoptable."  He estimated the cost conservatively at 3500.00 at a rescue rate, and the time to complete the multiple surgeries a year.

He had recently lost his German Shepherd and his Belgian Terv through disease at very old ages, and was looking for another dog. He fell for Molly. He decided he wanted to adopt her, and do  the multiple surgeries necessary to restore her to normal appearance. He also wants to write up her story as a case study for publication, and knew he would be way too attached to her to ever let her go. He filled out our adoption paperwork, references were the best possible, and Laurel took Molly and did the home visit herself.

Dr. Read and his wife have a beautiful home,  Princess. a 2yr old female Cavalier King Charles spaniel, 2 cats and 2 horses. His dogs are always inside dogs although Dr. Read and his wife are outside a lot and the dogs go with them. This was meant to be.  Molly fell in love with both of them immediately, and when Dr. Read walked away to take a phone call, she followed him and sat at his feet looking up at him. It was like she had lived with them for years. and she got along beautifully with the other dogs and the cats. Laurel said it was overwhelmingly obvious Molly was home.

So Molly has been adopted by Dr. Read, the specialist veterinary surgeon, and is now in her new home. He plans to take her about everywhere with him, and keep us in the loop with emails and photos of her surgeries and progress. This will take at least a year. We feel so fortunate and blessed that Laurel decided to take Molly to this one specialist, and that he is adopting Molly and will make her into her true beautiful physical self.

Adopt Molly

Greater Houston German Shepherd Dog Rescue

PO Box 6168 m  Kingwood, TX   m  77325-6168

281-506-0400

Female

1 year

Probably

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Greater Houston German Shepherd Dog Rescue