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\"\"<\/a>In June, 2011, Kira Davidson\u2019s boyfriend took her to Disneyland for her birthday.\u00a0 It was a great day \u2013 until they returned home and Kira found her dog, Gypsie, shaking and acting \u201creally strange.\u201d<\/p>\n

Gypsie, a 4-year-old Manchester terrier Kira had rescued \u201cstraight off the street\u201d a year earlier, was \u201cshaky and she\u2019d never been shaky before. I figured that maybe it was because it was colder that night. The next morning, I woke up and I went out to get her some dog food. When I came home, she was excited and jumping like she normally does and we went upstairs. The next thing you know, I turned around and she was falling and tipping over and then she really fell down and I freaked out.<\/p>\n

\u201cMy first instinct was to feel her heart and I noticed it was very, very, very slow. So I took her to my local veterinarian in Pasadena.\u00a0 He said there was a heart murmur and it was beyond what he could do because he\u2019s not a heart specialist.\u201d<\/p>\n

The veterinarian referred Kira, who lives in Temple City, to the Advanced Veterinary Care Center in Pasadena. Fearing an expensive treatment, Kira \u2013 who had been laid off from her job with an insurance company days before \u2013 went to a couple of other veterinarians first. She was told the same thing that the first practitioner had said.\u00a0 So she took Gypsie to Advanced Veterinary Care.<\/p>\n

\u201cThey were very accommodating and we found out that her heart wasn\u2019t working right and the only way to save her was to put in a pacemaker.\u201d\u00a0 The hospital filled out forms for an Angel Fund grant to help Kira and AVCC matched the grant.\u00a0 \u201cSo basically they saved us $1,000 on the pacemaker. And within about a week I had found out what was wrong with Gypsie and she was on the surgery table. She has always been a very fit dog. She\u2019s got a lot of muscle, more than fat. So she was the first patient of theirs where they actually had to implant the pacemaker under her muscle, instead of just under her skin. The pacemaker is the exact same thing they put in a person. And it turned out really good. Dr. [Sarah] Zimmerman said she loved the result. She said she wanted to do it that way on more dogs.\u201d<\/p>\n

Today, Gypsie is a healthy, normal terrier.\u00a0 She can keep up with other dogs.\u00a0 She jumps and runs and plays.\u00a0 \u201cShe\u2019s fit!\u201d Kira says happily.<\/p>\n

But her dog would be gone by now, if she had not gotten the pacemaker, Kira believes. And she is delighted to have Gypsie back \u2013 just as she was before last June.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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