Adopt Xena

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Xena came to us paralyzed on her backside Xena was hit by a car in Tecuci and left on the road, paralysed on her back. She held on as best she could, behind all the slowing cars, eager for a pat and, frightened, perhaps a little protection. A friend of ours saw her, stopped, picked her up and brought her to us. From now on, Xena was safe in our hands. Not just ours, the shelter's, but all of ours, the Speranța community. Xena quickly convinced us that she wanted to live. We called her Xena because she's a fighter. Not fighting for her life necessarily, because a life without legs isn't exactly desirable. Xena, like any dog, fights mostly for love. Successful surgery in Speranța shelter We started with an MRI, crucial to Xena's fate. According to our veterinarians' estimates, there was a small chance that Xena could still recover. We were extremely happy when the MRI confirmed the vets' estimates! Xena really was brave and really deserved her name. So we mobilized too. Xena was successfully operated on in our shelter by Dr. Diana Chirilă. She couldn't walk yet, but by now we were sure it was up to her. To be more precise, she had no severed spinal cord and no displaced fractures pressing on her spine, so it all depended on her willingness to work in our physiotherapy clinic. Our community supported her both morally through good thoughts or prayers, but also physically through donations. Xena has made a promising start to her walking training. Because miracles happen, but never overnight, never without consistency, never without knowing what you're doing, and of course never without people to make it happen. As Aristotle rightly observed in the old days, whatever moves in the universe does not move by itself, but must have someone or something moving it. So we have continued to move the masterless animal world for the better, this time through long sessions of kinesiology and physiotherapy. Xena has benefited fr

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