Tails for Life

10/02/2026

Max update 🙌🏻

10/01/2026

Welcome Tucker to Tails for Life Academy!

09/30/2026

Max update: I got a message from Jenny last night that made me giggle- it depicts Max's fun loving personality to a T - He found this branch on his way out to Jenny's vehicle yesterday when they were heading home and he was so proud of it, he had to go back inside & show all the ladies 🤭 He officially accepted his new position as "branch manager" 🤣

On a more serious note, he has continued to heal really well and is enjoying his first time being bandage free today 🙌🏻
Jenny has done an amazing job caring for Max! Words will never be enough to describe how grateful we are to Dr. Kim, Jenny & the rest of the ladies at St. Bernard's for helping Max heal. Some very incredible ladies! Thank you!!! 🥹

Will post the last 2 days of picture updates in the comments so you all can see where he is at.
Thank you to every single one of you who has continued to pray for Max & who have donated to his vet care expenses! Truly greatful!!

09/24/2026

Max update:
Sorry it's been a few days. Max has been hard at work healing and taking long naps 😊
Things continue to look really well and with each bandage change and laser treatment there is improvement 🙌🏻
I'll post his picture in the comments for those with sensitive stomachs.
Thank you for all your continued prayers and donations.

We are a 501.c3 Non-profit organization & donations towards Max's vet care can be made directly on our website @ www.tailsforlife.org -click the yellow "donate" button
All donations are tax deductible.

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09/21/2026

Max update:
He's doing extremely well and continuing to heal nicely thanks to the tremendous efforts of Dr. Kim, Jenny, and the rest of the staff at St. Bernard's!! We are so grateful 🙌🏻
His sedation and pain meds have been working well to keep him comfortable. He continues to be the absolute best boy ever 🫶🏻
Thank you for all your prayers! Keep them coming 🙏🏻

I will post today's picture in the comments (pic was taken before it was cleaned up and lasered this morning)

09/18/2026

Max update:
Your prayers are working 🙌🏻 He is healing incredibly well. Much better then I honestly expected in only a few days time, but only because of the valiant effort put forth by our vet & her staff!!
I will post a picture collage in the comments so you can see what an incredible job they've done so far helping Max heal - if you would like to see it
(WARNING the 1st few pictures are gruesome and hard to look at - so don't look if you have a weak stomach!)

Let me be very clear about something - there is no place here for negativity - we will NOT tolerate it!
Max has been under care of our vet since the get go, so we did not "let" this happen to him. Some times freak things happen and no we don't know exactly what caused this, but we had to help him! I do know that Max likely wouldn't still be with us if it wasn't for every single thing that Dr. Kim and her staff have done to help him. It's been a tremendous effort for everyone involved & we could not be more grateful to Dr. Kim, her entire staff & especially vet tech Jenny who has taken Max home with her so he is being monitored 24-7 should any needs arrise for him!
The proof of the miracle these incredible women are working for Max is in the pictures - God bless them!! 🥹
So no, we will not be taking Max to a different vet. He will remain right where he is, getting the absolute best care that he deserves 🥰

A huge, heartfelt thank you to each and every single one of you who have donated to help Max & for every prayer for him! They are working! 🙌🏻
We are so incredibly greatful!!

Go spread kindness 😊

09/17/2026

Update on our sweet Max

If you would like to donate towards Max's on-going medical expenses, donations can be made directly on our website @ www.tailsforlife.org - click the yellow "donate" button.
We are a 501.c3 Non-profit Organization, so all donations can be tax deductible.

A tremendous thank you to those of you who have donated towards Max's care! We are so incredibly grateful!! Thank you!

09/16/2026

Max update- a lot of you have been asking. Sorry for the tears, but this has been extremely difficult.

We are so incredibly grateful for Dr. Kim & the rest of the staff at St. Bernard's Animal Medical Center!! There are not words to describe these incredible women!

We are also incredibly grateful to those of you who have generously donated towards Max's medical care and for all your prayers!

If you would like to donate towards Max's on-going Medical care - donations can be made directly on our website - www.tailsforlife.org
- click the yellow "donate" button
We greatly appreciate all your support!

I will post pictures in the comments for those who want to know what exactly we are dealing with - but be WARNED - it is STOMACH WRENCHING!!!!

09/16/2026

Congratulations to River for passing his Canine Good Citizen test!

09/14/2026

We aren't normally ones to ask for help, but we could really use some extra prayers and some help right now!

Trigger warning!!(I will post pictures below - but BE WARNED - some of them are very hard to look at 😭💔
We did not post the gruesome one from after the vet removed the dead tissue - its stomach churning 😭)

One of our service dogs in training developed a swelling on the side of his face 2 weeks ago - it's fall & bees are out - we were assuming it was a sting.
We started him on benadryl and it went down and then would swell back up over night - fast forward to last week we took him to the vet because the swelling just kept getting worse and the whole left side of his poor face was completely swollen. He was started on steroids to help bring the inflammation down in conjuction with the antihistamines.
He went back to the vet Friday as he developed a hot spot from starting to scratch at his face. His face was lasered to help increase healing and antibiotics, trazadone, and gabapentin were added to his med regime to help with pain control and trying to keep him calm and as comfortable as we could.
Saturday morning our employee came in to a gorey mess - the swelling on his face had ruptured and was draining all over.

Fast forward to today, we were gently cleaning up his face and wound area with chlorhedixine scrub and upon further inspection decided to take him back into our vet 1st thing to have him sedated so more of his fur could be shaved back without putting him through any more unnecessary stress & to allow us the best opportunity to keep him clean and allow this to heal.
Once he was at our vet and sedated, they were able to get him shaved & clean up his wound and get a better look at things and the extent of this is quite substantial!
They could see his skull 😭
The vet figures it's very likely that of all of the skin that had originally swelled up on the side of his face will die off and need to be cut away.
Absolutely heart wrenching!

His face was lasered again, dead tissue was removed and some special medi-heal healing aid was applied to his wound to hopefully help us keep infection at bay. They bandaged up his face and he will be going back to the vet every 2 days for treatment, wound flushing, laser treatment and rebandiging.
Please pray for him!!

The costs of vet care are overwhelming and this will be a long road towards recovery for him.
He is the absolute sweetest boy and he deserves everything we can do to help get him healed!

We are a 501.c3 Non-profit organization and could really use the help of donations towards his medical care.

All donations are tax deductible and can be made on our website www.tailsforlife.org click the yellow "donate" tab

From all of us here at Tails for Life, thank you from the bottom of our hearts!!