Doreen is deeply invested in NCBR’s mission of providing personal, attentive care to its dogs. In addition to being an active Strut Your Mutt teammate for each of the past 5 years, Doreen browses the boxers in our care and sponsors many dogs whose stories warm her heart. When Hana passed away, Doreen began giving to NCBR because she was grateful for the time she had spent with Hana and because she knew Hana could easily have lost her life years sooner without NCBR’s intervention.ĭoreen continues to be moved – sometimes to tears – by each dog’s story.
Benjamin and Hana were best friends, and Benjamin was always on the lookout for Hana and ready to protect her from any yappy Chihuahua who tried to intimidate her. Hana belonged to friends of Doreen, but Doreen and her boxer, Benjamin, fell in love with her. That was the case for Doreen Murotsune, whose life was touched by a beautiful NCBR alumna named Hana. As we all know, foster homes are the single most important part of NCBR and having these volunteers take over finding, processing and supporting foster homes will be instrumental to NCBR’s continued success.įor many of us who give our hearts, time, or dollars to rescue, we are first inspired by the love of a single special dog. Thank you so much to all of these folks for volunteering for such critical positions.
Foster Recruitment Coordinator – Alice L.Assistant Foster Coordinator – Launa A.Please join NCBR in welcoming Nicole, Launa, Alice, Larry and Brent as volunteers for ALL things foster – related at NCBR! They are covering the following roles: THANK YOU, Deb, for all that you have given. She has sacrificed so much of her time, love and energy to save this wonderful breed. Deb has worked tirelessly for over seven years as the Foster Home Coordinator for our rescue, and in that time has been directly responsible for saving almost 1000 boxer dogs! We are sad to announce that Debbie Wood has resigned her position as NCBR Foster Home Coordinator. An additional consideration for these cases is the possibility of a breed-specific autoimmune myocarditis or potential predisposition for cardiopathogenic agents in young Boxers.īorrelia burgdorferi Boxer dogs Lyme disease borreliosis myocarditis sudden death.NorCal Boxer Rescue Changes and Announcements burgdorferi is likely the agent involved. Positive IHC and morphologic similarities to human Lyme carditis indicate that B. The similarities in the seasonality, signalment of the affected dogs, and the gross and microscopic lesions suggest a common etiology. Subsequently, 2 additional cases were found in a French Bulldog and a French Bulldog-Beagle mix that had identical morphology, test results, age, and seasonality to these 10 Boxer dogs. burgdorferi as well as Anaplasma phagocytophilum in another dog. Polymerase chain reaction testing for vector-borne pathogens on heart tissue from 9 of the dogs (1 frozen and 8 FFPE samples) yielded positive results for 1 dog with B. IHC for Chlamydia sp., Toxoplasma gondii, Neospora caninum, West Nile virus, and canine parvovirus also yielded a negative result in all dogs. There was no evidence of infectious agents in formalin-fixed, paraffin-embedded (FFPE) heart tissue sections stained with hematoxylin and eosin, Ziehl-Neelsen, Gram, Grocott methenamine silver, Warthin-Starry, Von Kossa, and Steiner-Chapman stains. All dogs were positive for Borrelia burgdorferi on immunohistochemistry (IHC). In our retrospective study, original case records and archived materials were examined.
The myocarditis was characterized by a mixed infiltrate composed predominantly of neutrophils and macrophages.
Over a period of 5 years, 10 pure-bred Boxer puppies, 9-16 weeks old, were presented with a history of sudden death and were diagnosed with pyogranulomatous myocarditis. Paul, MN (Hayden, Schefers, Armien, Wünschmann). Paul, MN (Hayden, Schefers, Armien, Wünschmann) 2 Department of Veterinary Pathology, Western College of Veterinary Medicine, University of Saskatchewan, Saskatoon, Saskatchewan, Canada (Detmer)Division of Comparative Pathology, Tulane National Primate Research Center, Tulane University School of Medicine, Covington, LA (Bouljihad)Department of Veterinary Population Medicine/Veterinary Diagnostic Laboratory, College of Veterinary Medicine, University of Minnesota, St. 1 Department of Veterinary Pathology, Western College of Veterinary Medicine, University of Saskatchewan, Saskatoon, Saskatchewan, Canada (Detmer)Division of Comparative Pathology, Tulane National Primate Research Center, Tulane University School of Medicine, Covington, LA (Bouljihad)Department of Veterinary Population Medicine/Veterinary Diagnostic Laboratory, College of Veterinary Medicine, University of Minnesota, St.
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