Posted on 12/18/2013 1:29:26 AM PST by garandgal
From the Animal Lifeline Facebook Page:
Please Help Save Sadie?
Meet Sadie, our newest shelter resident. She was dumped out in the country and spent the last several months running the fields and getting food from the families in the area.
It appears that Sadie had been caught in a trap. Scared and stranded in the cold, Iowa winter weather with no food or water and in an enormous amount of pain, she found the strength to save herself and used her mouth and teeth to remove the trap from her paw. With bones and tissue exposed, her tongue full of ulcers from the cold metal of the trap, and unable to walk on her leg she found her way to help and thankfully they contacted us.
We are glad Sadie is now safe and is receiving the care and love she needs, but she needs YOUR help! She has a long road ahead of her and is currently receiving extensive vet care to manage the pain, antibiotics for infection, laser treatments, blood work, debridement of her wound and wet to dry bandages …all in preparation for amputation surgery next week when her injured paw will be removed.
Once she recovers from that surgery, we will be working with our vet to get Sadie fitted for a prosthetic foot (paw) and she will receive all the necessary rehab to ensure that the surgery and custom made prosthetic is successful. Sadie has a long road ahead of her, and we need YOUR HELP to give Sadie the second chance she deserves.
I’m glad she got saved but to turn this into an anti trapping thing is sad. The dog should have never been running loose from the start.
Around here many people set traps on public ground and in ditches. They use illegal traps; with no identification.
When I mentioned in my post that my husband watched a cat killed by a trap...it was a trap that is completely, 100% illegal in the state of Iowa...it was located in a ditch off of a public roadway. A kid picking daisies could have had his hand snapped off.
It is a serious concern for guys out hunting with dogs...so we could just as easily discuss keeping traps off of public ground rather than “keeping our dogs on our property.”
Oh! Forgot to mention...I grew up on a large sheep farm. My Father would have NEVER trapped an animal in this fashion...he would have been horrified, frankly. We had farm dogs & goats to keep predators at bay...goats are mean...LOL!
Wrong.
“A kid picking daisies could have had his hand snapped off.”
Oh good grief! Leg hold traps don’t snap things off nor do they break things, they clamp and hold. If what you said was true I wouldn’t have any fingers left on my right hand, I’ve had them caught many time while setting traps, I want them set light! I use #3 and #4 dual coil Victor leg holds and I’ll stick my hand into either one and won’t come back with no more than a slight bruise if that much. They are specifically designed to hold not maim, I trap for the whole animal not just a foot, fur buyers don’t buy feet. Farm dogs and goats are considered a fine cuisine by the local predators around here, they’ll take them right off you back porch. They don’t make a dog big enough or bad enough to fend of a pack of coyotes, that dog or goat will be coyotes feces the next day. We have a total of 42 square miles of ranch with coyotes and the occasional mountain lion, there’s only one way to protect it and it’s an ongoing battle.
As far as fitting the dog with a prosthesis good luck with that, most likely she’ll chew it off. I’ve had two three legged dogs over the years and if it’s a front leg they get around surprisingly well. My German Shorthair Judge was hit by a rattle and lost part of his right front leg, My Jack Russell Waylon had his right front leg chewed up by a badger and had to have the foot removed. Both lived long happy lives. The plus side is they don’t dig anymore! My Jack Russell Maggie thinks she’s a Chu Chi tunnel rat. Some of the old Vets here will figure that one out.
Poor girl.
When, oh WHEN will people not allow their house pets to run unattended, with no leash???? There is so much senseless injury and death to animals who run loose.
Disclaimer: Opinions posted on Free Republic are those of the individual posters and do not necessarily represent the opinion of Free Republic or its management. All materials posted herein are protected by copyright law and the exemption for fair use of copyrighted works.