Monday, May 4, 2009

A Wonderful Adoption for a Cruelly Treated Puppy


A Wonderful Adoption for a Cruelly Treated Puppy

"Jazz’s" Story (m.schaffer)

I got an email from my nephew, who had just adopted an almost 1 year old Collie/ German Sheppard puppy mix. It wasn’t an ordinary adoption; he drove from Omaha, Nebraska to Kansas City, Missouri after reading of her story on the internet. She was a rescued puppy from an abusive owner. Thankfully she shows no signs of neglect and is very playful. Her current name is “Jazz”, but he is looking for something that is special for her new life.

Here is "Jazz’s" Story as seen on the internet:
http://www.petfinder.com/petnote/displaypet.cgi?petid=13189748

Quoted from the site: "Her prior owners got her as a puppy and put a collar on her neck when she was small then never removed that collar....as she grew the collar became tighter and tighter until it became embedded in her neck cutting her and strangling her more and more every day. The collar acted like a saw and sawed away at her neck tissue cutting her deeper and deeper every day. Her neck became infected from the open wounds caused by the collar sawing into her neck and I'm sure you can imagine the excruciating pain she endured for weeks and weeks. Luckily someone saw her and called animal control and she was saved in time!

Jazz had to endure having that horrible collar removed surgically and the weeks of recovery as the infection and the wounds slowly went away."

My nephew found out when visiting the kennel that Animal Control prosecuted the previous owners. However, Jazz had remained in the pound and was slated to be euthanized. The vet called the PAWS Kennel stating that she couldn’t bring herself to kill such a wonderful dog after all she had been through in her young life.

Even then, Jazz was taken to “A Dog’s Funhouse” Kennel where she stayed for a couple months before being adopted by my nephew. While staying at that kennel, she was attacked by another dog. Enduring more pain and suffering! She now has scars on the top of her head and on her ear.

I was so happy to have received that email. What a heartbreaking story and such a great ending. I know he will be a good dad to his new found love, Jazz. He has already signed her up for obedience training and is puppy proofing his house.

With everyone’s help, maybe there will be more puppies getting to live the life they were meant to have and not ending up with the ugliness of animal cruelty. Amen to the one that saw the need to call the authorities. We all need to be aware and take the initiative to care for those that can’t help themselves.