Intoducing Tess

Tess

Tess is a Tri - coloured Kelpie x Collie bitch, born 13^th Feb 2017 in Wales. She was taken on by a family, but sadly the farm they were looking to rent fell through, leaving Tess without a job.

She came to us here on 23^rd Sept. 2018 from Herefordshire. I saw the above photo on the Kelpie Rescue page on Facebook and fell in love.

Her previous family were thrilled to find her a farm to live on. She loves going off with Colin on the tractor, one day she jumped out the tractor and had a high old time rounding up and playing with the cattle. She has met the pigs and chickens. She and Roo get on well and play fight together. Loves her toys and has a nose for food!! We had enough confidence to let her loose and wonder the farm as Roo does.

In those early days she broke a plate, chewed up the TV remote, and stole a loaf of bread.

Then her life took a terrible turn, on Sunday 8^th Oct she started bleeding, ah, she must be on heat, the amount of blood was very alarming, so took her to see Mark, the Vet, who said, yes she is on heat, some dogs do have a tough time, she was lethargic and so unlike the little dog of the day before. Monday was much the same, so much blood, and I was so concerned I went back to the vet on Tuesday first thing, knocking down a garden wall on the way!!

Helen, the vet took one look at the photos I had taken, did a full set of blood tests, which Tess did not like one bit and had to be muzzled and held firmly by the nurses!! I drove the bloods to Exeter University for urgent testing.  Helen rang at 3:30 pm to say she must have eaten rat poison and was bleeding to death. I went straight back and picked up three weeks supply of Vitamin K for her. Told to give her crate rest for the next three weeks to stop her bruising herself. Within 3 days she had stopped passing blood and was improving noticeably each day.

Looking back to the day we lost Rusty our pure Kelpie, aged 12 on 11^th Sept. We now think he died from eating Rat poison too, his jaw, eyes and tongue were bleached white, completely bloodless. Though never saw any bleeding.

What a roller coaster of feelings, so cross that we had let her owners down so badly, angry that the horrid stuff had taken Rusty from us and nearly took Tess too.