"We teach the child not to hurt the butterfly as much for the child as for the butterfly." ~Ric O'Barry
Tuesday, November 4, 2008
A beautiful day for change...
Ella went to the vet today and had x-rays done on the right elbow that had the big surgery four weeks ago, and it looks good. But the big news is that she had the cast removed on her left arm! Her left elbow is out and rocking it for the first time since mid-May! What a feat... now if only Obama gets voted into office and then we'll really have reason to celebrate!
I am a pit bull terrier mix. I was found in East New York with two broken elbows and a broken tail in March 2008. I was brought to Brooklyn Animal Care & Control by someone who cared enough to help me. No one knows my real story and how I got this way because I can't speak human, but the doctors suspect it was abuse. The breaks in my elbows were identical and so severe that it led them to believe that only a human could have inflicted it. The folks at ACC called the Mayor’s Alliance for NYC’s Animals and told Siobhan Healy how I passed my behavior tests with flying colors, then she got one look at my cute face and that’s how I escaped being euthanized. I became a candidate for the Picasso Veterinary Fund which pays for lifesaving medical treatment for sick and injured animals. Around the same time, a woman in Brooklyn Heights was nagging her fiancé for a dog. He wasn’t entirely on board, but they did agree on a few things: it would be a girl, she couldn’t be too small, and she must be a rescue or at least come from a shelter. Luckily the Brooklyn woman dropped Siobhan a line around the same time that I came out of surgery… and that is how I came into Reedu and Jason’s lives.
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