The story does not indicate why he needs adoption, but that is simply a disgrace!
Posted on 03/14/2010 5:05:39 AM PDT by Red in Blue PA
LOS ANGELES-- "Champ" the four year old German Shepherd mix was shot and badly hurt while protecting his family's home, and was scheduled to be euthanized after weeks of being kept as evidence. Now he needs help.
On February 27th, Champ was shot 5 times by an intruder as he was tried to protect his owner's home in South Los Angeles, says Tiffany Norton of Coastal German Shepherd Rescue.
The shooter lodged several bullets in the dog's body, leaving Champ with a broken jaw bone, nerve problems, a bullet entry under his eye, and wounds covering his neck, shoulder, and abdomen.
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The story does not indicate why he needs adoption, but that is simply a disgrace!
Woof
Owner’s won’t pay medical bills. He saved their home? Remarkable.
Owners, duh
“Owner’s won’t pay medical bills. He saved their home? Remarkable.”
The good news is that Champ won’t be there next time to save their sorry butts. Ypu know—karma and all.
I never read a story like this. Thankfully, he will now go to a deserving home.
This sickens me! Champ will go to a loving home now where his people will cherish him. His previous people most assuredly didn’t deserve his selflessness. Wonder if they’ll need protection again and no Champ will be there to pull their butts from the fire?
***Owner’s won’t pay medical bills. He saved their home? Remarkable.***
Home Owners’ Insurance?
The dog’s medical bills should be a legitimate covered charge by HOI. He prevented theft and damage to the house and property. He, himself is damaged property.
I’d file!!!!
I know of a dog who saved her owners from a house fire. She was deathly afraid of stairs. She absolutely refused to go upstairs in all the years they had her. One night they had a bad chimney fire and the dog overcame her fear of the stairs and went upstairs and woke them up. She saved their lives! Less than 6 monthes later, they had her put down because she shed a lot and she was a white long hair Spitz Husky mix and they got tired of bathing and brushing her. Disgusting!
Some dog quotes:
“There is no faith which has never yet been broken, except that of a truly faithful dog.” ~Konrad Lorenz;
“You think dogs will not be in heaven? I tell you, they will be there long before any of us.” ~Robert Louis Stevenson;
“The more one gets to know of men, the more one values dogs.” ~Alphonse Toussenel;
“The more I see of man, the more I like dogs.” ~Mme. de Staël;
“If there are no dogs in heaven, then when I die I want to go where they went.” Will Rogers
Just sent Champ a donation
Our rescued German Shepherd is a wonderful guy, too
If we were closer we’d offer to adopt Champ
“A righteous man regardeth the life of his beast”
Proverbs 12:10
This noble dog definitely deserves our help. I donated.
You know, people, it’s quite possible Champ’s owners simply cannot afford thousands of dollars in vet care bills. It’s not exactly like the press is above reporting this as their “refusal” to pay.
Jeez.
Stupid people and they don’t deserve him.
Only if the diamond is still lodged in his intestines.
I hate to sound cold, here, but while this is a good dog, it is still just a dog. And I say this as someone who has owned several dogs, each of which I dearly loved as pets.
There comes a time in all dogs lives when we need to let go, to stop clinging, not to expensively insist on keeping them alive for our own vanity. And for every dog that we know and love, for however long, there are thousands who were put down, that would have been our friends, and we would have also loved, but never had the chance.
This article says the dog was shot five times. Yet, almost nonsensically, if you know bullet wounds, they continue to say “...he will likely not suffer any long term medical problems from the shooting.” I do not believe this for a minute.
Dogs will generally tough it out without complaint. I had one dog that got Valley Fever, and though I gave him the only medicine at the time for it, his agony was so great that he found a tree branch and chewed out one of his molars with it. Yet you would not know of his pain from his behavior.
As a last favor, I asked the veterinarian to give him a shot of morphine, so that he would have some time of painlessness prior to his being put down. But that was the extent of my vanity, wanting for his suffering to end, so he could die not in pain.
Dogs are not human children. People anthropomorphize them as being near human, and pretend that their short lives will never end. But if you have a family, a human family, you must accept that while you love your dog, they are expendable. Your family is not.
The dog might be noble and heroic as all get out, but if you want to impoverish your family to honor your dog, your priorities are wrong. I will not criticize this family for accepting that they cannot pay for their dog, and I question the motives of those who would go to such lengths to preserve him.
Say that all his surgeries cost $10,000. Imagine how much better this money could have been used for other dogs. Perhaps to offset the cost of spaying and neutering, or even buying food for animals in “no kill” shelters.
I have a few problems with this.
Everyone here is picking on the owners, but all the article says is that they “declined” the medical bills - when an animal is that damaged, most people do so and put the dog down. Heck, many outsiders accuse them of cruelty if they try to “save” the dog that obviously is going to suffer a lot anyway. It didn’t read “refused” or any other really hostile implication.
2nd, what’s with the Rescue (whose methods I always question anyway) taking the dog? Did the owners ask them to take it? Or did they just barge in and self-righteously commandeer him?
3rd, why not just let the owners keep the dog and set up a relief fund for them to pay for his medical? Even the Rescue could help with that as a liason, rather than taking the dog.
I know not all the facts are in here; maybe the owners simply didn’t want to go through all that, but these are things I still wonder about since they’re not answered. I don’t want to make assumptions as others are doing.
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