VIDEO: Skye had emergency surgery at Colorado State University on Wednesday. By Friday, Skye was already feeling better. "You see them start to come back to life, that’s when it’s all worth it,” said Dr. Valerie Johnson.
"The other place that I’ve recently become involved with is 'Colorado State University of Veterinary Medicine' in Fort Collins. I happened to be there visiting friends on the way to California and my dog Kona, my Golden Retriever, would have died, because he had cancer in his heart. But they took him in and saved his life." -Tanya Tucker
Colorado State University Veterinary Teaching Hospital staff found Skye had a hernia in her diaphragm, which allowed her intestines to enter her chest cavity. Left untreated, the condition is fatal.
The James L. Voss Veterinary Teaching Hospital asks that the public take healthy stray animals to the Larimer Humane Society, not the hospital.