Miniature Schnauzer Rescue of Houston

MSRH Team & Friends - - we are in desperate need of forever and foster homes for lost and abandoned Schnauzers.  The economy has slowed the pace of adoptions yet abandoned dogs are coming to us in record numbers!  There are currently more than 120 Schnauzers in MSRH’s care!  39 dogs came into MSRH in the month of May 2009 alone compared to only 12 adoptions during the month!  Please - if you can help us, visit our Looking for Homes section or visit our “Volunteer!” page from the left hand menu to see how you can become a foster.  For the first time in MSRH history, we’re turning away dogs.  Contact us….please!!

Warning:  Finish your breakfast before you look at these pictures!  Sorry….just thought I should say that up front.  And I thought the ol’ phrase “don’t let the bed bugs bite” was a bunch of hoopla.  Yea, it’s all fun and games when the little devils aren’t biting on your back!  Doesn’t quite seem fair that this would happen to a guy just two to three months old!  I’m Cody and I’m just a pup.  I’m a white male, with natural ears and a natural tail.  I only weigh about three pounds!  I’ve lost all my hair due to sarcoptic mange.  I’ve cost MSRH a bundle…..at a time when they don’t have a bundle to spare…..and I still have a ways to go.  Can I beg a buck to bag the bed bugs?  Click donate below!

You know how it is sometimes….you look pretty good on the outside but inside you’re not doing real well.  That’s me.  I’m Derek and I’m about six years old.  When MSRH saved me, my dreams began coming true. I was fed, bathed, given a place to sleep and had people I could love….and they would love me back.  I tried to hide how sick I was because I don’t like to be any trouble.  But you know those Angels at MSRH….they pay close attention and they found out.  And I’m going to cost them a pretty penny.  The doctors said I’ll be fine but I have to take 5 pills, several times every day.  Those pills are going to take care of the blood parasites and the environmental allergies that are causing fluid to build in my lungs.  I hate pills…..but I can do it!  In about three weeks I should feel good enough to get the bigger problem fixed - my right eye.  Right now, it really hurts.  I can’t cry and get moisture to that eye, even though my other eye works fine.  My foster mom, another MSRH angel, cleans and moistens it every 2 hours and it helps - just a little.  I’ve got a difficult road to travel for the next few weeks but the doctor says everything is fixable and I will live a normal, long and wonderful life.  I could use your help in making a donation to MSRH (Dr. D is great but he accepts dog licks as only partial payment!).  One of MSRH’s biggest angels has already donated half my treatment cost!  Can you help with the rest?  And then I’m going to need someone to step forward and bring me to their forever home.  This is all more than any dog could hope for and I want to say Thank You to MSRH and MSRH friends for loving and taking care of me.  Once I’m better I promise to do my best never to be sick again!

I’m Bobby Joe and this is a picture of me in my intensive care kennel.  All this metal - it’s a little cold in here!  Though I’ve got a ways to go, things are looking brighter thanks to MSRH and the great “Dr. D” at Parker Road Animal Hospital.  I was once thought to have distemper but I don’t !  Dr. Dayton did exploratory surgery and found a piece of stick in my abdomen (lots of things look good to eat when you’re on the street). It had passed part way through my intestine and then the intestines sealed over and the stick (the size of a fingernail) was encapsulated.  My spleen was enlarged so it had to be removed.  The also took a biopsy of my liver.  It’s a lot to go through - and it’s expensive - but Dr. D feels very positive about the outcome and I will make a full recovery!  I may be ready for a forever home very soon!  Will you help MSRH with the medical bills and keep me in your prayers?

My name is Crissy and I need your help with my medical bills.  Sit back and take a sip of wine….’cause this is a bit of a tear-jerker.

On December 19, just before Christmas, I was taken to a Houston shelter along with my five newborn puppies.  On Christmas Eve, MSRH rescued my babies and me and brought us to a clean and warm home.  What a Christmas present!  Then, on the day after Christmas, they learned I had heartworms.  Sad of course, but that’s not the tear-jerker part of the story.

While at the shelter, my puppies and I were exposed to distemper, a multi-systemic viral disease that is fatal in more than 50% of cases.  We were put on antibiotics and other medications and my puppies had to be bottle fed by my foster mom (an angel on earth).  One by one the disease claimed the lives of my puppies.  I lost the last one on January 24.  They were reunited across the Rainbow Bridge.  I’m still on antibiotics but with many prayers and a great group of doctors and my MSRH angels, I’m going to be one of the survivors of this disease.

Between the six of us, the vet bills really escalated.  And it’s not over yet.  When my lungs are clear I will be spayed.  A month after that I will begin the harsh and expensive heartworm treatment which will take two more months to complete.  I have to carry on.  Everyone comments on what a loving, sweet and gentle soul I am.   I know when I am finally well there will be a special family waiting to take me home. 

Hi!  My name is Freddie and I was born on May 6, 2007.  I am a real love.  I know my basic commands and love everyone I meet.  I love to play with toys and my foster Mom says that I am one happy boy who could be in the circus as I toss and catch my toys!!  I first came to MSRH because my first human Mom had a change in her work life and had to be gone too much — I needed a specialized surgery for an open portal shunt (born with this).  My Mommy loved me so much that she paid for the surgery and asked MSRH to take care of me and then find me a great new home.  It seems though I still have some issues that need resolved before I can be adopted.  Man, I was SO close too!  I need to have a Nuclear Portagram as either my original shunt surgery was not a complete success or I have another problem that wasn’t detected at the time.  Not to worry….MSRH is right on top of it.  But we could use your donations.  Won’t you help me?? 

At MSRH, we want to get our Schnauzers into a loving forever home as soon as possible.  When they are healthy and ready to go, we don’t hold them back simply because we haven’t yet received donations to cover their veterinary care.  While the adoption fee covers some of the basic veterinary expenses, it does not cover the critical care expenses.  The table below, and the corresponding pictures, are a running tab of outstanding medical bills that are on top of the bills that are accumulating from Schnauzers in our Doggie ICU.  Please consider using our “donate” button below!

    Greta Marie        Lila      Wylie      Jesse

Kimmie Sue came to MSRH thru the SPCA and a puppymill bust — Sherry Eitel, Kimmie’s Schnauzer Angel, picked her up and took her to PRAH — the other 4 went to another vet — Kimmie had hematomas in both ears due to severe ear infections and ear mites — This had to be surgically corrected. She also got spay. Kimmie was so thin, you could count her ribs from across the room. Five days after coming home for foster care to recouperate, she got sick — One week to the day, from her first trip to PRAH, she went again. They could not hear anything in her chest so started the barium series of xrays. The very first xray showed an infection in her lungs. It appeared to be fungal. She was on IV’s for about 10 days — and was nebulized starting with day 3. She came home still be neubulized and thinner than the first time. She started taking an antifungal medicine by mouth. Six weeks later, another xray — the medicine had not gotten rid of the fungal infection — so Dr Dayton did some investigation and found another med - given by IV that was supposed to be very successful in treating this type of fungus. Kimmie was a trooper and had this for 3 weeks — 3 x a week — by now she feels like a pin cushion!! She will get xrayed on May 2 and again in 3 weeks — we hope and pray that she will be rid of this awful infection, but if not, we may have to go to a specialist.

The other 4 minis also had to be treated for lung infections, but thankfully theirs were bacterial — also one was heartworm positive.

Kimmie’s care alone is $4,000.  MSRH needs to raise approx $8000 to help cover the cost of all this critical care. If you can help Kimmie and the others, they will forever be grateful.