[Kate]

What a doll!

Kate

Originally Posted by Connie

Little Scruffy is better...still a long ways to go, but he is definitely better...thanks to many of you for your prayers and well wishes!

He spent, until this evening, his time with the vet...not the one that burned him, but the new vet. She is giving him special baths 3X per day which softens the burns and makes it less painful. That vet has kept him day and night until this evening when Lorna got to bring him home for the night. She will bring him back to the clinic in the morning again for his treatments...and will probably get to have him home again tomorrow night! The baths are a type of gel like stuff and then he is wrapped in gauze and the vet put him in a onesie to help protect the area. The vet told Lorna their is a small chance that Scruffy won't have to have several surgeries as thought before...that these baths may work and cause the scabs to come off on their own.

Lorna and the other person whose dog was burned, are sending everything to the medical examiner in Bismarck. Here in ND, the law says a pet is considered property and therefore it is harder to get any action when it is something with a pet. I think though, that even with that law (stupid as it is) may be, that this goes beyond that to being malpractice by this vet. Pics have been sent to the newspaper and tv news and they will be having meetings to see if they should cover this story. I have a feeling it will be slow going, but believe me...Lorna will not let this pass without doing everything in her power to stop that vet from any further injury to innocent animals.

Lorna thanks you all for your prayers and concern! I am so happy because today she sounds more like her old self...like the shock wore off. She said to tell you, if you would, to pray also for Daisy. That is the other dog that was burned...the 3rd dog we haven't found out who he/she is yet. I think I remembered most of what's happening and if I've forgotten something, I'll include it in the next update! Thanks all...you are gems! Here's a picture of Lorna with Scruffy.