REWLATCH – On the morning of Monday November 11, Mr Leon Digovich saw a dog and her pup running in a busy road near the Denver hostels.
Fearing for their lives, he stopped and picked the pup up, whereupon the mother immediately came over to him and allowed herself to be picked up too. He then noticed an open wound around the mother’s neck and immediately brought them through to the AACL.
The mother was anaesthetised and her wounds treated by the hospital team. It is suspected that the mother had been tied up with wire and that with the thunder storm on Sunday night; she had managed to break free, resulting in her and her pup wandering in the street the following day. Mother and pup are doing very well and while she is recovering in hospital, her puppy is sharing the kennel with her and appears to be unfazed by all the fuss.
AACL wish to thank the public for their empathy and support and for assisting them in cases such as these. Without the quick thinking of Mr Digovich, the outcome of this particular case may not have had such a happy ending. It is also a lesson for pet owners: that tethering a dog with a piece of wire can, over a period of time, result in penetration of the skin around the neck due to inflexibility, with subsequent chronic infection occurring. This would obviously cause the animal extreme pain and distress, and would be tantamount to being slowly strangled.
Contact AACL Inspector Rulof Jackson 011 435 0672, 082 892 2776 or Inspect.r@aacl-jhbnb.co.za
