Chip Chick
Lucy is a retired service dog and the one that had led Tye on his path to becoming a certified trainer and CGC instructor. Eventually, Tye was able to bring Lucy into programs to start helping other humans and animals as well.
With a bubbly and loving demeanor, Lucy has just as big of a heart as her partner Tye. “Lucy’s been there for every rescue dog brought into RR,” Tye said.
“She’s been their mother dog when they’ve been abused and abandoned by humans. She’s sat aside recovering addicts and helped calm them through compression.”
However, unfortunately, now Lucy is also in need of others to fight for her life.
Lucy has been sick for a couple of weeks and has been in the ER since May. The initial checkups (X-rays, ultrasounds, etc.) done by her regular vet showed Lucy had a mass on her spleen.
Although a splenectomy was scheduled on May 6, Lucy started uncontrollably shivering before then. Knowing deep down in his gut that something was wrong, Tye drove Lucy down to VCA LA, where Tye had taken many rescue dogs before from his organization.
After even more X-rays, ultrasounds, fluids, and pain meds, the doctors had quickly discovered Lucy had issues in her Liver, Bladder, and Intestines.
“Her intestine is perforated with a mass and has started to release fluid into the abdomen. In addition, there’s a mass showing in her bladder and liver,” Tye wrote on a GoFundMe page.
Lucy was put into surgery on May 2 to resect the masses, suture the intestine, and a possible blood transfusion.
On the other hand, while Tye was getting Lucy all the treatments she needed, he faced a significant barrier: the high cost of those medical expenses.
It was worse that the Attorney General wouldn’t allow Tye’s rescue to provide financial aid for him as they saw it as self-benefiting.
