{"id":1903,"date":"2013-02-28T00:09:59","date_gmt":"2013-02-28T08:09:59","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.animalhealthfoundation.net\/blog\/?p=1903"},"modified":"2023-04-19T16:47:44","modified_gmt":"2023-04-19T23:47:44","slug":"david-and-kiki-running-the-cove","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.animalhealthfoundation.org\/blog\/2013\/02\/david-and-kiki-running-the-cove\/","title":{"rendered":"David and Kiki running the cove"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.animalhealthfoundation.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/02\/Kiki.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-thumbnail wp-image-1905\" title=\"Kiki\" src=\"https:\/\/www.animalhealthfoundation.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/02\/Kiki-150x150.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" \/><\/a>David Alvarez has a real love for his minpins.\u00a0 He got his first dog Coco about four years ago and loved her personality so much that he didn\u2019t hesitate when his cousin called offering to give him another one.\u00a0 She had two little, active girls and having an active minpin in the house just wasn\u2019t a good fit for her.\u00a0 So, last summer David brought home his second minpin and promptly named her Kiki.<\/p>\n<p>Sure enough, Kiki has a spectacular personality of her own.\u00a0 Quiet during the day when she and Coco are home alone, Kiki becomes energetic and up for anything when David arrives home.\u00a0 As soon as Kiki sees the leash, she goes bonkers with anticipation for the walk to come.\u00a0 Usually David takes his two dogs for a long walk down to a cove near where he lives and lets them run around.\u00a0 The favorite part of his day is seeing Coco and Kiki tearing off after each other.<\/p>\n<p>About a week after David brought Kiki home, Kiki began vomiting and stopped eating and drinking.\u00a0 Concerned, David brought her to his vet at Santa Margarita Animal Care to see if they could discover what was wrong with her.\u00a0 Dr. Amy Parker was the attending veterinarian on this case and remembers it well.<\/p>\n<p>When I felt her belly, I could feel a little mass effect in her abdomen associated with her GI track,\u201d recalls Dr. Parker. \u201cDavid had told me that she had torn apart a peepee pad and we worried that perhaps she had eaten some of that.\u00a0 We wanted to do x-rays, at which point David informed us that he was financially constrained and probably wouldn\u2019t be able to afford much.\u00a0 Since Kiki was just a four month old puppy, we wanted to find a way to work with her and David, so we went ahead and ordered the x-rays which ended up indicating that she had a foreign contaminant in her body.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The cost of the surgery was far beyond anything David could afford on his own. Although he just started working at the time he first got Coco, David\u2019s finances were still in a bind.\u00a0 David didn\u2019t know what to do and couldn\u2019t bear the thought of letting Kiki go.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI told Dr. Parker I didn\u2019t have any money, says David.\u00a0 \u201cWhen they told me that they would help me and that there were some foundations that might be able to help, too, I just couldn\u2019t believe it.\u00a0 They asked me to fill out paperwork, which I did right away, and I worked out a plan with them to get Kiki the help she needed\u201d.<\/p>\n<p>Between Santa Margarita Animal Care, the Angel Fund, and David, enough funds were collected to enable the surgery that Kiki so desperately needed.\u00a0 Thankfully, the operation was a success and Kiki is back to running around the cove with David and Coco.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe were very grateful to be able to help David,\u201d says Dr. Parker.\u00a0 \u201cWe just couldn\u2019t euthanize this four month old baby, 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