Donations still needed for Sweetpea, please

Our dear little Sweetpea was going to come home today, but she is still too weak and distant and not eating yet. We’re praying she will come home tomorrow, but will not rush her healing.  She needs time.
 
At the animal hospital, they have put in her little room, some fresh cooked chicken pieces and small pellets, but she just turns her head if you bring them near her. She is drinking her water though.
 
I can't wait to hold her in my arms and feel of her unconditional love again.  When she was well, she made me belly laugh every single day. My son and I are missing her very much. I've cried a whole lot this week. Unbearable pain over the threat of losing her, and because I just couldn’t bear to see her in such a state.  When well, she’s the most vibrant, happy and mischievous little dog, full of life and pure joy!  So, to see her down like this is just so WRONG!
 
We call her Sweetpea Rascal, because on one hand, she’s the gentlest, sweetest, most passionately loveable, adorable, carefree little Sweetpea, and then there’s the very spirited little Rascal that comes out whenever we play or take her for a walk, where she just goes wild and shows another side of her personality altogether.  She has a lot to learn about good behaviour on the lead, but I felt we needed to help her gain her confidence first, because the little dog we got from the shelter for abused animals in Pretoria was a very frightened and timid one.  Seeing her so ill in the animal hospital reminds me of the shelter dog she was, because she was the only one hiding away in a corner looking so afraid when all the other dogs came to greet us, barking as loudly as they could, “Tame me!” Take me!”
 
Trixie, our little mini-Doberman, has also been missing Sweetpea.  She has been searching for her a lot and whimpering, which she never did before.  Also sleeping a lot more.  For the first two days that Sweetpea was in the hospital, we never saw Trixie eat anything other than a small crust of freshly home baked bread that Andrew offered her.  She wouldn’t even chew on a bone I put down for her, but at least she’s back to eating now.  I think she will be delighted when Sweetpea comes home.  I don’t know why she’s missing Sweetpea because they are totally the ODD COUPLE.  Sweetpea is too boisterous, wild and active for much older Trixie, but I think that in some way, Sweetpea has been teaching Trixie how to feel young again.  The only way to describe this odd couple of sisters is that Sweetpea is the bull in a China shop and Trixie is the China doll!
 
I was disappointed when we were told Sweetpea couldn’t come home, but when we saw her, we understood that her doctor… Vet Dirk Gouws, knows best and Sweetpea definitely wasn’t ready to come home yet.
 
When she saw us, she did make good eye contact and wagged her tail, then moved, still weakly, out of her corner to get closer to us… but not too close.  She’s still feeling too terrible and I think that overstimulating her would only serve to make her feel worse.  She seemed to love our gentle touches and rested her head in our hands a few times… a kind of doggy hug… but when we stopped touching her, she seemed to go back into her feeling-sick-trance as her head sunk down to the blanket and she just stayed there until we called her back to raising her head and eye contact again.  She’s still a very sick little doggy.
 
We did take another video which can be seen under this post on the Patty’s Keys Facebook page.
 
There has been no donations to assist us with her veterinary bills today, unless something has been paid into the Vets account which we have not heard about yet, so, our fund raising efforts remain the same as yesterday.
 
Fund raising for Sweetpea
Please, if anyone else can help us to raise funds for Sweetpea’s lifesaving hospital treatments and stay, we would be most grateful.  We would also ask for enough over to have her spayed, her extra tooth removed and any vaccinations she now needs, when she's healed from this disease of course.
 
The shelter we got her from should have had her spayed and vaccinated before handing her over to us, and we have been unable to get any information from them about Sweetpea.  I’m not even sure they were aware that they had her as they have not answered any of my questions about her… I have written to them three times to no avail!  Last time they asked for a photo of her which I sent, and still nothing from them!  So, I have to presume that Sweetpea was not spayed or vaccinated by them before she was gifted to us from the Sanctuary by a dear faraway friend.
 
Donations update... Thank you so much!

R450.00
R1172.50
R250.00
R500.00
R300.00
R200.00
R250.00

Expenses paid on the first two vet visits of three:

R750.00
R175.30

Remaining donation funds available to go towards the R3000-R8000 for Sweetpea's lifesaving hospital stay and treatments:

R2197.20

If anyone is in a position to help us with Sweetpea's veterinary bills, please donate to:​

Or, you can donate directly into the Vets account to help with her bills. 

ABSA: 409 475 1639 (CHEQ)
Branch code: 630 395
Reference: Donation for Sweetpea Ryall

Vet: Dirk Gouws
Monument Animal Clinic
59 Second Street
Krugersdorp North
Gauteng
1739

Telephone: 011 660 2813

email: dirkvet@monumentvet.co.za
 
Gratefully,
 
~ Panayiota