The story does not indicate why he needs adoption, but that is simply a disgrace!
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.
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.
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.
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.
~Unknown
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.
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.
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.