This is our beloved Newfie-girl, Uma

Here is Uma at about 2 1/2 years old.

Here are her other baby pictures.

Uma LOVES to swim! She is here with Brocka and Bitzy.

Uma in the koi pond!

Brocka is crazy about her!

On Sunday, July 23, 2000, we headed for Kokomo, Indiana, to meet up with (Saint) Gidget from South Central Indiana Rescue. She had offered to be the transporter of a very neglected landseer Newfie girl who we have now named "Nashau Auke's Princess Uma." She was born on March 14, 1998. Her rear legs turn in a bit, and according to Dr. Lee, it is because of her bad hip joints.

 

 


Uma's breeder, from Rhode Island, was trying to buy her back from her owner, who had severely neglected the little thing. Her breeder wanted to spare her the transport back to RI, and find her a good forever home close to her location. Uma had been put inside a small fenced area on dirt and straw--kept for the intention of breeding, and that is all. When we picked her up, she stunk. Her white hair was badly yellowed, and she smelled like rotting straw. She was scared and would not meet our eyes. We also found that one of her foot pads had been slashed long and deep. She was unable to take a treat from your hand. It turned out that there was damage to her lower lip. We found that her lower lip had a lot of scaring that ran from her lip several inches toward her head under her chin. There was a latticework of scars. She has no feeling in some of her lower lip, and it hangs down on one side. We could never get an explanation from the woman who had her for this damage.

She was in pain, from an eye infection, and two ear infections. She was in great emotional pain as well. She had been x-rayed, a condition of the original purchase, and she was diagnosed as being dysplastic. This news made the owner decide to sell her--intact--through a newspaper ad. She had been fed really awful cheap food, and she was not house trained. We put her in our car and headed home. Gnats filled the back of the SUV as we drove.

Introduced on neutral ground, Uma met Brocka. Brocka the beautiful. We were stunned at the comparison. This poor little thing, pathetic with her hanging infected eye and her hacked-off coat (rather than taking the time to groom her), who smelled so bad we could hardly be near her. Walking low to the ground, tail between her legs, the first thing she did when we got her near the house was to jump into the Koi pond! We laughed and laughed! She was a joy from the first day home!

She was spayed two weeks later (we were told that she was in heat when we picked her up.) and after surgery the vet told us that she was so sick she would have died had we not had her spayed. She has cysts in her ovaries and her uteris, and she lost a lot of blood. The condition had made it look like she was in heat. They had to make a large incision to even remove the enlarged organs. She had been in a great deal of pain, just like a human woman would have been, and had been bleeding constantly since we got her.

She had eye surgery to correct entropian in her right eye that was causing the constant eye infection. She went around the house pathetically with an Elizabethan collar and a t-shirt because she kept licking her stitches. We couldn't wait til it was all over!

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