BaldRider
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A week ago Friday, the wife and I were coming home from breakfast. We had taken Friday and Monday off to work on our deck that needed sanded down and repainted. Those plans changed when we saw a loose dog on the side of the road and dangerously close to getting hit by numerous cars. It took about an hour to grab his collar.
No tags.
A passing woman offered some old Christmas lights as a makeshift leash while I drove off to grab one we use for our cats. When I returned, we got him into the car and took him home. My wife contact our local humane society contact and were warned that a homeless guy is going to claim that it is his dog but it isn't. We took the dog down to an emergency vet in Redlands to get him scanned for a chip and get his head wound checked out.
No chip.
The vet said the wound wasn't an emergency, though there was a hole in his skull open to one of his sinuses and he may or many not have one of his eyes. She sent us home with antibiotics and said to look for a GP. We (the wife...I refuse to cold call anyone) called a bunch of vets and managed to get an appointment in Big Bear on Tuesday. That vet was very unhappy with the previous vet and we had him scheduled for surgery yesterday.
So now we have a dog. His name is Jimothy. He is 4-6 years old and has an estimated 6-week old suspected machete wound to the face. He lost one eye completely and major skull damage but he is the happiest dog I have ever met. He is recovering from surgery to close up the hole in his head and enucleation of what remained in his eye socket.
The homeless guy is not particularly stable with fraud, drug and other crimes on his record. He is now claiming the dog is his. According to him. he brought him up the mountain from Victorville 6 weeks ago after finding him tied up somewhere with the fresh wound. At least up to July 27th, he was saying the dog was just a stray he was hanging out with. Now he is saying we are keeping him hostage. Since we're into the dog for about $4k in the last 9 days to help get him on the path to recovery, I don't think hostage is the right term. He has no legal claim to the dog and we're happy to go to court, if necessary.
Anyway, here is the goodest boy...
No tags.
A passing woman offered some old Christmas lights as a makeshift leash while I drove off to grab one we use for our cats. When I returned, we got him into the car and took him home. My wife contact our local humane society contact and were warned that a homeless guy is going to claim that it is his dog but it isn't. We took the dog down to an emergency vet in Redlands to get him scanned for a chip and get his head wound checked out.
No chip.
The vet said the wound wasn't an emergency, though there was a hole in his skull open to one of his sinuses and he may or many not have one of his eyes. She sent us home with antibiotics and said to look for a GP. We (the wife...I refuse to cold call anyone) called a bunch of vets and managed to get an appointment in Big Bear on Tuesday. That vet was very unhappy with the previous vet and we had him scheduled for surgery yesterday.
So now we have a dog. His name is Jimothy. He is 4-6 years old and has an estimated 6-week old suspected machete wound to the face. He lost one eye completely and major skull damage but he is the happiest dog I have ever met. He is recovering from surgery to close up the hole in his head and enucleation of what remained in his eye socket.
The homeless guy is not particularly stable with fraud, drug and other crimes on his record. He is now claiming the dog is his. According to him. he brought him up the mountain from Victorville 6 weeks ago after finding him tied up somewhere with the fresh wound. At least up to July 27th, he was saying the dog was just a stray he was hanging out with. Now he is saying we are keeping him hostage. Since we're into the dog for about $4k in the last 9 days to help get him on the path to recovery, I don't think hostage is the right term. He has no legal claim to the dog and we're happy to go to court, if necessary.
Anyway, here is the goodest boy...
