Dixie is about 18  months old now and she is the sweetest Rottie ever. She is friendly and calm and deserves a second chance. She was brought into a vet hospital in Lodi the people said that she had been hit by a car, which turned out not to be true.

They thought that she had a broken leg and they called us to rescue her. I went and got her and took her to our vet where she was seen by an orthopedic surgeon and he determined that she had not been hit by a car because both of her leg bones were disintegrated at the hip socket.

Her front leg is also twisted outward. She was determined to have a disease called perthes. Where the blood supply to the bones are cut off and the bones disintegrate.
We have already had  her first hip done and she is walking and running a whole lot better than before. She will need two additional surgeries to correct her problems.

She will require a surgery on her other hip and one on her front leg. We expect to spend about $8000 on her and are looking for donations to help with her expenses. Once her surgeries are complete and she has recovered, she will then be put up for adoption. She is currently in a foster home.