You may recall a story I told about a week ago about a good little boy we found on the streets that had apparently been hit by a car and had a significant amount of the skin on his head ripped off. Had he not been pointed out to us he almost certainly would have had this wound get terrible infected and filled with parasites and he would have died a slow an painful death. This is a terrible thing to have happen to any animal, but when the animal in question is as young and helpless as he is, it is even more tragic.
It has been about a week and we are happy to show that his recovery is coming along very nicely and he is just as friendly as ever. It didn't take a great deal to make this happen: Just a little bit of compassion.
When we discovered "Tarzan" he wasn't even whimpering or feeling sorry for himself although he was clearly in pain. He was running around like you would expect, almost completely unaware of the fact that he had a massive wound on his head. Dogs are extremely resilient creatures in this regard.
This sort of treatment isn't even expensive, should you ever encounter something like it. Provided you catch it in the early stages (which we did) the only thing that needs to be done is that the wound needs to be cleaned, bandaged, and then cleaned and bandaged over and over again. It is also pretty important to keep the hurt puppy in question away from other dogs lest they remove the bandage from their head. Also, and this is obvious to anyone that has ever owned a dog, they feel compelled to remove the bandage themselves even though they really need to keep it on there. They don't know any better, they just know they are itchy.
The wound has almost completely closed and we are delighted about how quickly the hair growth recovered as well. In another few days we are hopefull that anyone looking at Tarzan wont be able to tell that he ever even had a great deal of the skin on his head removed, presumably by being hit by a car (we don't actually know what happened.)
We did also discover that Tarzan has a brother and sister and they have been reunited at least for the time being. We have asked the community that he was found in if anyone knows or has seen a mother, and unfortunately no one has said they are aware of anything of the sort. In these cases it could be a case of abandonment, or even worse, that the mother has died.
This is uncharted territory for us because we don't really have the capacity to look after all 3 of them (or even really 1 of them) in the long term, but we can't simply put them back out to pasture, so to speak, so we have come up with a strategy to try to reunite them with their mother.
In the following weeks, we are going to take a trip out to where we found Tarzan and hang around for a while and see if any of them travel to a potential den where their mother hopefully will be waiting for them, worried, and wondering where they have gone.
If we do not find the mother, we will take them on hopefully for the short-term only.
Because of his unusual fur markings that make him look like a Tiger, Tarzan will almost certainly be a prime candidate for adoption. Unfortunately for his much more common looking siblings, the outlook for them is not as optimistic. We don't know what we will do at that point but simply abandoning them is not an option. We could find temporary foster care and if we are lucky perhaps we will be able to find a forever home for them.
They all have lovely temperaments and would make for great pets to a loving home.
I want to remind everyone once again to never buy pets, but rather to look to your local animal-shelter or animal-rescue for a pet, should you want one. At any given point in time there are millions of dogs, some of which are those special pure-breeds that everyone wants, that are looking for a home.
If you would like to see how you can help out or simply spread the word, please visit our website at
http://krabianimalwelfare.org
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