Last week I told you about Poochie the dog, who was in his sixties and came in to be stabilized. Today, I’m going to share Bearie’s story. Bearie is a 70 year old panda bear, and he was getting ready to go live with his original person’s daughter. Here are Bearie’s original diagnosis photos which were sent to the stuffed animal hospital earlier this year:
Like Poochie’s family, Bearie’s family wanted to keep some of his original self visible, but since he was eventually going to be loved by a new person, he needed more stabilization, and a bath and new stuffing as well!
There aren’t photos of Bearie in the bath… spas for black and white patients of his age are major surgery, because their colors need to be separated for safe cleaning. But I did clean him, and restuff him. Then, he was recovered in new fur on his head, torso, and limbs. This left his original ears and pawpads visible. He kept his original eye, and hand a new nose and mouth embroidered. Rather than replacing his missing eye, he got a removable eye patch. Here he is before we added his new mouth:
And here he is just before he headed home:
