Disabled vet left distraught by fate of her corgi and Siamese cat after she was hospitalized

A disabled Navy seasoned was near devastated aft her affectional enactment animals were adopted portion she was unconscious successful infirmary for astir 2 weeks. 

Mandy Shannon-Vazeery, 38, a erstwhile Navy corpsman who is battling a superior neurological information called hydrocephalus, suffered a traumatic occurrence linked to her PTSD which near her hospitalized successful October. 

While she was successful the hospital, her beloved corgi Max and Siamese feline Charlie were seized by San Diego Humane Society aft a neighbour recovered them, Shannon-Vazeery told ABC7. 

Despite being microchipped, the pets were adopted to antithetic families wrong days aft the structure failed to marque interaction with Shannon-Vazeery.

The pets were handed to caller owners connected October 8 and 12 respectively - and erstwhile the structure approached the caller families astir returning the animals, they declined.

The heartbroken veteran, who served 7 and a fractional years successful the US Navy earlier medically retiring astatine 26-years-old, described Max and Charlie arsenic 'literally my full world' and said she present feels 'awful.'

'I consciousness truthful awful. I can't adjacent statesman to picture the feelings down this,' she told ABC7. 'I'm conscionable begging these radical to conscionable instrumentality into relationship that I was successful the hospital, I didn't mean for this to happen.'

'I truly emotion my boys. They're truly bully pets and they are work animals and they bash service a intent and I conscionable privation I could beryllium reunited with them,' Shannon-Vazeery added. 'At slightest 1 of them. It conscionable hurts truthful badly.'

They beloved pets were registered affectional enactment animals important to managing her intelligence health.

'I person these -- they're benignant of episodes of disassociation and I wouldn't accidental nonaccomplishment of consciousness, conscionable nonaccomplishment of consciousness and intelligence acuity and conscionable being contiguous benignant of conscionable goes retired the door,' said Shannon-Vazeery.

'My program was to articulation the caregiver corps and get my RN and instrumentality it arsenic acold arsenic I could go. That was my plan, so. I benignant of had a relation reversal with becoming the diligent and not the caretaker,' Shannon-Vazeery told the outlet. 'I person a information called hydrocephalus, which is an accumulation of cerebral spinal fluid connected the brain,' she added.

'Although it was retired of my power and I surely didn't mean for immoderate of this to happen, there's a batch of guilt. I wonderment however they're doing, if they're okay,' said Shannon-Vazeery.

The structure claimed they made aggregate attempts to interaction Shannon-Vazeery earlier adopting retired the animals, including mailing notices, calling interaction numbers, and emailing.

The pets seemingly escaped erstwhile she near to the infirmary and the doorway was near open.

'Max was brought successful by a assemblage subordinate who recovered him arsenic a stray and had him for 24 hours. Charlie was brought successful by a assemblage subordinate aft the doorway to the erstwhile owner's flat was near unfastened and respective radical had to unafraid the home; it was uninhabitable, and Charlie had been near behind,' Nina Thompson, the Director of Public Relations with SDHS told the outlet.

'The spot manager attempted to marque aggregate attempts to interaction Charlie's proprietor to nary avail, truthful the determination was made to bring Charlie to the shelter.'

The shelter's argumentation is to clasp the animals for 72 hours earlier putting them up for adoption.

'As a courtesy to the erstwhile owner, we reached retired to the pets' caller adopters to spot if they would beryllium consenting to instrumentality Max and Charlie. However, the adopters person chosen to support them arsenic cherished members of their families, which we admit is their right, arsenic they present person ineligible ownership of the pets,' Thompson said.

'This is why, it is imperative for anyone who has mislaid their favored to link with shelters and microchip companies to fto them cognize erstwhile they are missing.'

Shannon-Vazeery is present near decastated without her affectional enactment animals.

'They're a immense portion of my life. They're virtually my full world,' she said.