A very old stray {The Old Fella Story}
Went camping this weekend at a campground on the lake, had not been there for a few years. Once there I began to walk around looking at the different sites when I noticed a very old dog. He just lay t...
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This morning I picked up the Pit Bull and took him to Dr. Ford's. The diagnoses was starvation and low blood sugar. He was too weak to eat and so far gone that when he did try he couldn’t keep it down. They have him taking fluids to see if he can be brought back from near death. This morning when I went inside the garage where he had spent the night he was on the blanket that was put down for him and was too weak to do much of anything. But when the lady came in he picked up his head and weakly wagged his tale as she spoke to him.
When I loaded him into the back of the truck in the crate he stood so he could see her and watched as she walked back to the house and then dropped back down when he could no longer see her. When I got to Dr. Ford’s it was if he had completely given up and went limp as a dish rag as I lifted him up and took him inside. The lady refuses to allow him to be put down and wants to pay his vet bill for ten days and then try to find him a home. In our area that is going to be next to impossible because the reputation they have for fighting. What I see is a futile effort to save a dog that is going to be put down anyway because no one in Burke County will take him except those who will use him to fight.
We have such a serious problem with dog fighting here that it is almost impossible to stop. Last year we found a killing field where the body of dogs were thrown to rot. No charges were filed against anyone as those responsible moved on to another area of the County when this was disclosed to the public.
I don’t know the fate of this poor dog, only that it doesn’t look good. We have ten days to do something for him because that is when the money runs out, let’s hope something materializes.
When I loaded him into the back of the truck in the crate he stood so he could see her and watched as she walked back to the house and then dropped back down when he could no longer see her. When I got to Dr. Ford’s it was if he had completely given up and went limp as a dish rag as I lifted him up and took him inside. The lady refuses to allow him to be put down and wants to pay his vet bill for ten days and then try to find him a home. In our area that is going to be next to impossible because the reputation they have for fighting. What I see is a futile effort to save a dog that is going to be put down anyway because no one in Burke County will take him except those who will use him to fight.
We have such a serious problem with dog fighting here that it is almost impossible to stop. Last year we found a killing field where the body of dogs were thrown to rot. No charges were filed against anyone as those responsible moved on to another area of the County when this was disclosed to the public.
I don’t know the fate of this poor dog, only that it doesn’t look good. We have ten days to do something for him because that is when the money runs out, let’s hope something materializes.
