Meet Pearl, the overweight Beagle. You won’t believe her transformation!
Pearl’s Remarkable Transformation
The morbidly obese beagle’s 2019 New Year’s Resolution was to drop the excess pounds and start enjoying life.
By Penny Eims
A Beagle named Pearl has undergone a remarkable transformation over the past year. In fact, you might say that she is a shadow of her former self...in the best possible way. You see, Pearl was a morbidly obese Beagle in 2019. The pudgy pooch was surrendered to the Humane Society of Western Montana on December 26, 2018 and she weighed a whopping 50 pounds.
Pearl had a slew of health issues, which accompanied her weight problem, including a painful, dislocated hip and Cushing’s disease. But Jessie Maclay, with the animal shelter, wanted to do something to help. Having worked through extensive medical issues with her own dog, Gus, Maclay felt like she had the experience to help Pearl embark on a life-saving weight loss mission. Maclay tells FIDO Friendly, “I called Montana Water Dogs and asked if she would be willing to help a shelter pet and she said, absolutely! Bring her over so I can meet her. So, I brought Pearl home that night and we went swimming the next day. I thought she would be a shelter pet, stay at the shelter, and I would just take her swimming a couple times a week until she found a permanent home that could do that for her.”
