Paralyzed for three years (after apparently being struck by a car), Pepper would drag herself around on dirt and rocks in the hot sun. Chronic uncontrolled infection damaged and scarred Sweet Pepper’s renal system. Still on antibiotics and only out of the hospital for nine days, the kidney infection worsened. She stopped eating and started vomiting. Blood work showed that her already abnormal kidney values had increased. After all the years of improper care and then finally being saved, Sweet Pepper’s poor little body just couldn’t get well.
On September 23, 2003, one month after the Ohio SPCA rescued her, Sweet Pepper was held and helped across the Rainbow Bridge. For one month she was loved and spoiled, given nutritional food (and occasionally her favorite – Tim Horton’s plain Timbits) and provided soft clean bedding and stuffed toys. She will no longer suffer and once again she is running through the green meadows with those fur babies who have gone before her.
Sweet Sweet Pepper, you are still loved and missed.