People Band Together To Give Sick Puppy Hundreds Of Hugs

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All he wants is love — so they gave him a lot of it 💕

BY CAITLIN JILL ANDERS

Logan was taken in by a rescue in Washington when he was just a tiny puppy. After some routine checkups, the rescue realized that something wasn’t quite right with Logan’s heart — and soon discovered that he had a very serious heart defect.

The German shepherd puppy’s heart condition was incredibly severe and the rescue felt unequipped to deal with it, so they transferred him into the care of Rescued Hearts Northwest, a rescue in Ferndale, Washington, that has a lot of experience dealing with puppies with special medical needs. They took Logan back to the vet for some more exams and tests, which unfortunately confirmed his initial diagnosis.

Due to the severity of his condition, little Logan was only expected to live one month to a year, and there didn’t seem to be anything anyone could do about it.



“After his echocardiogram we had no hope to fix his two faulty cables,” Lindie Saenz, Logan’s foster mom, told The Dodo.

Despite his grim diagnosis, Logan’s new friends were all determined to stay positive. They got him settled into his foster home and marveled at what a spunky, playful little puppy he was. It weighed on their hearts that he had so much less time than he deserved — and then his foster family came up with the best idea.

“My kids, they wanted to take Logan places before he passed away,” Saenz said. “Going to the beach, ice cream, cheeseburger, swimming, play in the snow, etc.”





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They decided to embark on a mission to get Logan at least 100 hugs.

With the help of everyone at the rescue, Logan’s friends and family planned an event called Hugs for Logan and began advertising it all around the community. They hoped that their goal of getting Logan 100 hugs was reasonable — and were absolutely over the moon when well over 200 people showed up to the event.



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The event was a huge success, and inspired Logan’s foster family to keep adding items to his bucket list. They were determined to keep going until Logan’s final day — until a doctor reached out and said he may be able to save Logan’s life.

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On January 31, Logan underwent surgery in Colorado — and while it didn’t go exactly as planned, everyone at CSU is still incredibly hopeful that Logan will be able to beat this.

“Dr. Scansen found yet another abnormality in Logan's heart and after four hours of trying he was not able to get the catheter/balloon in place to fix the defective valve,” Rescued Hearts Northwest wrote on its Facebook page. “While this is disappointing for all of us including the wonderful staff at CSU there is still hope for Logan. This surgery to repair the pulmonary valve was just going to buy Logan some time until he can have the second surgery which is the open heart surgery. So now our job is to help Logan grow!”



Logan needs to be at least 6 months old to undergo the second surgery, and since he’s currently only around 12 weeks old, all of his countless friends and supporters are determined to do everything they can to get him there. In the meantime, his foster family is still taking him on plenty of adventures and giving him lots of love, and at this point, people all over the country are cheering from Logan’s corner.

“We are not giving up on Logan,” the rescue wrote.



https://www.thedodo.com/close-to-home/puppy-with-heart-defect-gets-hundreds-of-hugs

[awesomerwb1]

1. He is so beautiful

I wanna kiss that wet nose.

Sniff. I knew I shouldn't have clicked on this story.

Pulling for you little guy!!!

[Donkees]

2. ❤️

[Karadeniz]

3. Bringing out the good in people

[Blue_Tires]

4. nose!

[mitch96]

5. I had a buddy that raised a litter of Rhodesian Ridgebacks..

The runt of the litter had a cleft pallet.. A hole in the roof of his mouth that communicated with his sinus.. The vet told him to put the pup down.. Tony could not. Tony worked in a hospital and mentioned it to an Ear Nose and Throat doc about the problem..Turns out the doctor was a dog lover.. He looked at the problem and said it was fixable and he would do the surgery for free. He did a little televised production of the surgery for teaching purposes and of course the local news programs got a hold of it and it went viral...
Long story short was the pup totally recovered and the doctor got a bunch of referrals...
Win/win.. if you ask me...
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BTW I got one of the puppies....big floppy ears, too cute!!!

[smirkymonkey]

6. Oh, sweet little Logan!

I hope he makes it with all my heart. He is such a darling little angel!

[littlemissmartypants]

7. Good boy, Logan! Such a handsome guy! ♡

Now get big and strong so you can run and play with all your new friends! I am not going to give up on you!