12 JAN 2015: We rescued this sweetie in
February last year (2014) and he was slightly injured then. But the
good news was that we found his family a week later. We returned him to
his family who seemed very happy to have him back and we thought that
that was the end of the story.
Last week, my helper Charis
Stanton saw him at our house with the rest of our strays. She fed him
and didn't think much of it as she actually did not recognize him
immediately as he has lost so much weight and looked really poorly.
He came again this weekend and it was
only then that I realized it was Oreo. He had a huge maggot wound in his
neck and several other wounds, he was covered with fleas and he was
limping badly.
We managed to catch him the next day, gave him a
good bath and treated him with Bayticol as there was just so many fleas
it was unbelievable.
And then with advice from Mun Mun IMonday
we flushed his maggot wound with hydrogen peroxide. Hundreds of maggots
came out and it was just absolutely disgusting. As we couldn't stomache
taking the maggots out ourselves, so we took him to the vet, and she
removed alot more.
Our vet told us that the wound was at
least 10 days to 2 weeks old, which means that he has been left
untreated all this time. The fact that this time he has no collar makes
us suspect that he has now been thrown out.
He is currently
boarding at the vet as we think that he has alot of underlying issues as
well. We will be treating him and we hope that he will have a speedy
recovery.
Once he is all better, we would like to
put him up for adoption to a good home where he will be love and cared
for. In hindsight, It is quite clear that his family does not care about
him. Because when we sent him back to them last year, and told him that
he was injured etc they weren't too keen about listening to what we had
to say. And we also told them that we had boarded him for a week and
taken him to the vet several times, and they didn't offer to pay us back
for anything. But at the time, we just left it as we were just happy
that we found his family. Mind you they lived in a big corner house and
had about 5 big cars in their porch!
He is a very sweet natured dog and did
not show any aggression to us or the vet when we were cleaning his
wounds. He just lay down very quietly. He seemed like a broken dog with
no spirit left. We hope that we can change this and show him there are
people who will care about him and show him lots of love and affection.
If you think you can give Oreo a good
home, please SMS or WhatsApp 016 322 8816. If you cannot, please share
this with your friends. Someone you know may be able to give him the
home that he deserves.
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