I hope this is okay, I just wanted to spread the word so this pupper can get the care she needs. I'd take her myself, but Vito might eat her. 🙁 Still, if anyone wants to take her and wants help managing her EPI, I will GLADLY offer you any assistance I can. Please give Scarlett a chance!

(The following is a quote from enzymediane's site, for more information you can visit: EnzymeDiane )

Hi Diane,
I took some quick pictures of Scarlet. We have had her around 4 1/2 years. We acquired her when our daughter was living at home and someone at her work in Dallas found her at their apartment complex and was not able to find the owners. These people did not want to keep her and when my daughter sent me a picture of her, I agreed to take her. She was quite thin when we acquired her, but the vet felt she was fairly young at that time so I am assuming that she was about a year old or so because she was fully grown. She was not spayed which I had done right away. She has always been a high energy spunky little dog and very affectionate. She always wants to be with you constantly, ride in the car, sleep with you etc. We had 3 other dogs at the time we got her and she gets along well with all the other dogs both big and small. She does not like cats. We have a barn cat and if we take her to the barn, she will try to chase the cat. She does bark quite a lot as do most terriers. I have had 3 Yorkshire terriors in the past as well as a Westie and Carin terrior. At present, I only have one other dog. Our daughter and granddaughter are staying with us temporarily while her husband is deployed and she brought her 2 dogs as well and recently adopted another rescue. Scarlet is totally house broken, but we have a dog door that she uses as needed. It would be ideal for a prospective adoptive family to have a dog door because that is what she is used to. About a year ago, Scarlet weighted about 7.8 pounds which was a good weight for her. Now she is only about 6.1 pounds and is skin and bones. She demands being fed a minimum of 4 times a day now, but seems starved even after being fed. She never ate excessively until we started seeing a change in her around May of 2011 to the best of my recollection. I took her to one vet in June and he attributed her condition to being high energy as he thought she looked healthy and just dewormed her. Then in July, I took her to another vet and she ran standard blood work and did not find anything abnormal on that blood panel. She had us dewormed her again and had us start feeding her id which she has eaten since July. At that time in July we did a short term round of metronidazole and administered one packet of the probiotic Provera. I took her back to the vet last week because her symptoms (weight loss, ravenous appitite, and cowpie stools) had not improved. My vet had recently gone to a conference and recommended that we run these 2 costly blood tests and she called me back the day before yesterday with the results. Her cTlI value was either a 1.4 or 1.5 and her folate # was high I believe, but her B-12 level was in the normal range. She has not started the enzymes or the Tylan which seem indicated by her values according to the vet. The vet did not have any of the enzymes on hand as she had only treated one dog with this condition 12 years ago. I told the vet that I may not elect to treat this condition since I had experience treating a dog with mega esophagus for 12 years and do not wish to undergo this kind of regiment again. Naturally, I would welcome adopting her to an individual that is familiar with this condition and is knowlingly willing to take on the responsibity of treating it in preference of putting her to sleep. It goes without saying that she needs to be an inside dog.

I have been beside myself since she was diagnosed. My husband is disabled and I just moved my mother with Alzheimers from Nebraska to Texas where I live. Although I do not want to put her down, I just can't put anything else on my plate. I would like to travel a little now that I am at long last retired, be able to visit my granddaughter, and this task for the remainder of her life is not something that I feel I can deal with emotionally. I just am not willing at this stage of my life to undertake this time-consuming task and the emotional roller coaster that might be involved. I will be more than glad to provide additional pictures of Scarlet if you desire. I truly appreciated all the information that you were able to provide-you are such a patient and understanding individual. I think somebody knowledgeable about the disease that knows what they would be getting into would be far more preferable owner for Scarlet than surrendering her to a Yorkie rescue group where prospective owners have no idea what they would be getting into. Thank you for sending me some of the enzymes that I can start treating her with until we can make a decision about what is best for us.

If you are interested in Scarlett please contact me for further information.