| HisNameIsHarley | 03-03-2007 04:19 AM |
I Saved a Fuzzys Life Today
On my way to work yesterday morning I noticed something laying right along the road beside a church. So I pulled over, grabbed one of my emergency slip leads (hehe I've done this A LOT), a handful of treats and off I went to investigate. It seemed that he was dead because he wasn't moving or reacting to my calls at all. But when I tried to tempt that slip lead over his little head he came to life! He jumped up and bit me 5 times! I have the bruises to prove it lol But I deserved it because his leg was very obviously broken and he was in a lot of pain. After a lot of attempted running he collapsed so then we proceeded up and down both streets knocking on doors but to no avail. Nobody had ever seen him or seemed willing to even look at him since he's not the prettiest little thing you ever seen. He smelled like high heaven, nails all grown out and under his feet, buggy bloodshot eyes, rotted teeth (half of them gone) his left ear had apparently been cut off with scissors like a makeshift ear clip but his right ear was left alone, his leg stuck out at an uncomfortably gross position and yet I couldn't seem to bring myself not to love this stinky abused little ball of fuzz. So I called the adoption center where I work and asked for the head of managment and luckily she was in a good mood and just said bring em on in. (amazingly we had 1 kennel available because another one of our dogs Bandit was going home the same day) And off we went. Or so I thought.. How am I going to pick this injured dog up off the ground and place him into my car without losing my face? Solution, big hoodie sweatshirt laid over dogs back, hoodie wrapped over grumpy toothless old fuzzys face and off we go! Well, my car wasn't even started and I was still on my cell phone with Till (manager) when I see Mr.Stinky throw himself over my back seat with a screech of pain right before he hurls himself onto my front console and then rolls onto my lap. Ooo Stinky dog OFF my lap and onto passenger side seat. So we're finally on our way, car smells like the dog so all windows and sun roof are very obviously open to the best of their abilities. Stinky is only content if my hand is on him where he can lick me and rub his smelly little head all over my arm. He is way too sweet btw if you can't tell. I'm falling more head over heals every second. So we finally get there and we get him into the vet room for a full prep examination, then xrays.. Not so good. He has a really clean distanced break that occured some time ago but was never treated. The bone tips are dead and therefore unable to grow back together once reset. So he'll have to have a plate and several screws inserted to keep his leg where it belongs. There were also a whole lot of white dots that kept showing up all over his xrays and the vet said "Oh those are common, that's called bird shot, you know BB's. Someone has pumped him full of bird shot".. Oh my God was all I could say, I don't know what kind of sick &#^$&*^ would do that to a dog and think it's funny. But then again this is the same person who saw their dogs leg was snapped and did nothing to help it. And very likely this is the same person who thought the dog would look better if you cut one of his ears back with a pair of scissors. His teeth are so bad that they are almost totally broken off and worn flat from what is normally expected from dogs who attempt to chew off their chains or to escape from metal fencing.. So in whole his ear has been cut, his teeth have broken and rotted out, he's is full of BB's from torture, he has an old obvious leg break that nobody cared about to fix, his nails curl up under into his pads, he is full of worms and fleas, he was not neutered, determined he was old but not dirt old (about 10 yrs old) smells like he's never had a bath in his life and bit me five times when I tried to rescue him.. hehe Shhh, don't tell anyone, they were love taps lol Well, he's all settled in a pillow stuffed kennel where he couldn't figure out that it was ok to choose the pillows over the concrete floor. We decided to call him Walter since to us that was the best old man name we could think up. (if anyones name is Walter or is married to a Walter hehe sorry!)
I <3 Walter | 