Pawsitive Update: Horrific Act Of Violence Done To Max Is So Severe It’s Bringing Tears To Those Trying To Save His Life

[Sugar Cookie]

The horrific act of violence done to an elderly beagle named “Max” is so severe it’s bringing tears to the volunteers tasked with saving his life.

The beagle was found wandering on Dec. 11 near a home . A good Samaritan cleaned Max’s wounds and then called Hardee Animal Rescue Team (HART), a non-profit based in Wauchula, to save his life.

“Knife wounds on top of his neck and the big laceration across his back and a bullet on his head and a bullet on his ear,” Leigh Sockalosky, the President of HART told ABC Action News reporter Michael Paluska. “He got a blood transfusion yesterday, he was doing well, but we did the blood transfusion to boost him up because the tissue, a lot of it dies and you have a lot of infection you are battling.”

Max also has a six-inch gash near the back of his neck that looks as though someone took a machete or a butcher knife and slashed it open. The wound is so severe the skin peels down Max’s back.

The good Samaritan that called the non-profit for help said she would adopt Max. Doctors say the beagle isn’t out of the woods, but he is a fighter.

“We see the life in them,” Sockalosky said. “If they are humanely able to be saved that’s what we believe in doing, no matter what the cost is. We assessed him and believed he has a chance to live, we are going to give it to him.”

A $500 reward for information id being offered to locate the person or persons who hurt Max.

https://whnt.com/2018/12/15/florida...abbed-reward-offered-to-find-the-dogs-abuser/

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[lithiumgirl]

Ouch ... poor thing.

 

[Sejanus]

If an animal can recover humanely as the article states, then yes by all means save them. I think that's good. I do however take exception to heroic measures that are taken to save animals lives that are so badly injured that they can never make a full one hundred percent recovery. In those instances I kind of lean heavily towards ending the suffering as humanely as possible. Ultimately it is a very tough choice to make because we never really know what an animal is thinking or what it wants to do

 

[lithiumgirl]

Ultimately it is a very tough choice to make because we never really know what an animal is thinking or what it wants to do

My brothers dogs tail was injured ... half of it looked normal .. .the other half just hung there. He took her to the vet ... the vet said she would get better on her own, gave him some pain meds for her ... he was satisfied that the vet was right about it ... but she (Dallas) had her own thoughts and ideas about it ... because while he was at work the next day ... she chewed her tail off. He ended up taking her to a different vet to have her tail properly bobbed. But there you ... an example of how dogs see things sometimes.

 

[Sejanus]

@lithiumgirl yeah the resilience of animals always astonishes me. When I was a little kid I wanted to be a vet, but as I got older I knew I'd never be able to make the life-and-death decisions for animals.

 

[Keepalowprofile]

@lithiumgirl yeah the resilience of animals always astonishes me. When I was a little kid I wanted to be a vet, but as I got older I knew I'd never be able to make the life-and-death decisions for animals.

I wanted to be a vet.
I settled for animal control officer.
I never regreted my choice.

 

[Sugar Cookie]

Max found his furever family after recovering.

I posted the images of his wounds in the original post to make sure people have the choice not to view the images which I put under a spoiler.

Max with his human.

 

[agm8478]

HOORAY for Max and his dog Dad!!!