Posted on 03/14/2010 5:05:39 AM PDT by Red in Blue PA
Even the rescue group that’s holding him is concerned about the cost of his medical bills and is soliciting help to pay them.
The family may adore this hero dog but simply be unable to afford to pay for his care. We shouldn’t be so quick to assume the worst and damn people.
LOL I love FR but one of my nightmares is ending up in a news story on here through some strange twist of fate and being damned to hell by millions of members eager to pile on to whatever misfortune struck.
that is a nice proverb and I think this is a noble dog but I don’t think folks back then had any idea how stupid some folks today would get over pets
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Yes it does “because his owners declined to get him the costly medical care he needed”.
Having just spent $$$ in an effort to save my 6 year old cocker who had a rare heart condition, I know how expensive vet care can be. I figure the owners did not have the money necessary to save Champ. As someone involved with Cocker Rescue I am glad a rescue could step in to save him. He really is a champ and I hope he finds a good home.
I expect it was very costly to save him, maybe they did not have that kind of money.
I am sure if the media had put out the story they could have gotten help and been able to keep him.
You know what? If that were my dog, I’d find a way to pay the bills, and that mutt would eat better than I did for the rest of his life, however long that is.
I now declare Champ the first non-human member of the Mongo Club. Don’t shoot him. You’ll only make him mad.
That may be true, but have they never heard of asking for donations? If I were in their shoes, I’d definately do everything I could before putting down that dog.
Agreed. I had to put down a good dog when she just got too sick. The vet couldn’t say she had a decent chance even if I had all the treatment I could given to her. If my dog got shot up protecting my family and house though, I’d think he deserved a bit more effort on my part to keep him alive.
If the dog didn’t have a good chance at a healthy life I’d agree the best plan would be to put him down.
I think that everyone in my family, children included, would have scraped up every cent we could to have been able to have even a few more months with our sweet Emma; whom we had to put down 7 days ago. Knowing there was little we could do to ease the pain she was suffering from liver failure - each of us is in tears several times throughout the day.
It sickens me that humans can easily throw away these selfless, sinless animals due to costs adding up.
Don’t freaking adopt them in the first place.
I truly believe that how people regard their animals is very indicative of how they value their fellow humans.
Why don’t the VETS just donate their care. I do so every day with people. I take care of people I know I will never see a cent from. I mean good grief this dog saved lives. The Vets should just not expect payment and give the dog back. Or better yet let the STATE pay since the dog was evidence.
Disgusting is too kind a word for it.
If it was just about money, they would not be moving him to a new home.
Gentlemen of the jury: The best friend a man has in this world may turn against him and become his enemy. His son or daughter that he has reared with loving care may prove ungrateful. Those who are nearest and dearest to us, those whom we trust with our happiness and our good name, may become traitors to their faith. The money that a man has, he may lose. It flies away from him, perhaps when he needs it the most. A man’s reputation may be sacrificed in a moment of ill-considered action. The people who are prone to fall on their knees to do us honor when success is with us may be the first to throw the stone of malice when failure settles its cloud upon our heads. The one absolutely unselfish friend that a man can have in this selfish world, the one that never deserts him and the one that never proves ungrateful or treacherous is his dog.
Gentlemen of the jury: A man’s dog stands by him in prosperity and in poverty, in health and in sickness. He will sleep on the cold ground, where the wintry winds blow and the snow drives fiercely, if only he may be near his master’s side. He will kiss the hand that has no food to offer, he will lick the wounds and sores that come in encounters with the roughness of the world. He guards the sleep of his pauper master as if he were a prince. When all other friends desert, he remains. When riches take wings and reputation falls to pieces, he is as constant in his love as the sun in its journey through the heavens.
If fortune drives the master forth an outcast in the world, friendless and homeless, the faithful dog asks no higher privilege than that of accompanying him to guard against danger, to fight against his enemies, and when the last scene of all comes, and death takes the master in its embrace and his body is laid away in the cold ground, no matter if all other friends pursue their way, there by his graveside will the noble dog be found, his head between his paws, his eyes sad but open in alert watchfulness, faithful and true even to death.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/George_Graham_Vest
Cold doesn’t begin to describe you.....I honestly don’t know what does.
(but please never adopt any animal)
Yes they would be re-homing him, if the owners surrendered him and Shepherd Rescue took him in.
You are correct
Why would any owners surrender a dog which just saved their families life?
This looks more like a Malinois than a GSD to me...
maybe some of you connected to the Malinois Rescue Group could alert them to donate to Champ’s care?
“The one absolutely unselfish friend that a man can have in this selfish world, the one that never deserts him and the one that never proves ungrateful or treacherous is his dog.”
Nice thoughts, but untrue.
Even in every-day dogs in every-day families. Dogs run off despite begging them to come, etc.
Never mind the dogs who attack.
And it’s not all because “the owner deserved it”.
That’s not “grateful and felicitous”.
When we TRULY respect dogs (never mind other animals), by realizing what they’re capable of (including ripping you to shreds), THEN we’ll truly have great pets who tend NOT to do these things.
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