Looks like I'll have more vet bills... A dog is outside my building hurt.

[moriah]

He's limping out there, not bleeding but obviously in pain and hurt. No tag on his collar, but he does have one and doesn't look like he's starving.

I'm going to take him to the emergency clinic and get him looked at, they said they can scan him for a microchip, if he's chipped he'll likely get back to his owner quickly.

If not.... we do have a fenced back yard, but our landlord might want us to pay another pet deposit. I hope she won't complain if we keep him until his owner is found or until he's well enough to go to a shelter -- the shelters here really don't want to take injured pets. (I don't get it. Aren't they the ones most in need of shelter???)

[zanne]

1. You just made my day.

The world and I say "thank you" for taking that poor dog to a vet. I'm so glad you care enough to do it.

[ldr65]

2. Hard to turn a blind eye to animals in need.

About a year ago someone let out a little dog at my house. The next day he was on my front porch. He has been my pet ever since.

[Wcross]

4. Thats how I get my pets too! n/t

[zanne]

5. Thank you to you, too!

Sometimes we're not looking for them, but they're looking for us.

[Wcross]

3. You might not have to take him to the vet right away.

Try to determine the source of his limp first. He might have just strained his leg, mine do that from time to time, they would be limping for a day or two after straining themselves running. There is a VERY good chance he ran off due to kids lighting off fireworks, plaster the area with found dog posters.

Thanks for looking after the poor fella, you are a very kind & compassionate person.

[moriah]

7. Well, I did take the pup straight away.... -- Update!

And actually, she's a girl. It was dark and I wasn't really paying attention to what was between her legs, I was more worried about the actual leg!

It was a good thing I took her... the vet thinks she'd been hit by a car, her back leg was broken very badly. He wasn't able to set it as both of the bones below her knee are broken, and the larger of the two was broken very close to the knee and was very out of place. She will need surgery or she'll be permanently lame and in a great deal of pain. No chip, unfortunately.

He wrapped it up in a big soft bandage, gave her a pain shot, gave me two bottles of meds (one for pain, other antibiotics for the scrapes she had from the road), I got the xrays and records, and came home. Put her in my backyard, set out water and some dry cat food (it wasn't the best food for her right then but at least if she was hungry it was there), she drank a little bit and then laid down, and I looked at the clock. It was a little over half an hour until Petco opened, so I decided to go drive around the neighborhood near my work and see if anyone was looking for a dog.

Sure enough, someone was. I asked him what the dog looked like, he described her, including the fact she was a Pit Bull mix (that's what the vet said, about 9 months old). He was pet-sitting for his sister and didn't know his fence had a hole in it. They still hadn't found Sadie's brother, a brindle (she was chocolate colored). He followed me over to the house and carried Sadie back to his car, I gave him the xrays, meds, and records, made sure my phone number was on the papers and asked him to let me know how she was doing later on.

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Thanks for all the Lounge Vibes, they are truly a powerful force!

I had called my sister, who calls herself the Humane Society of Grant County, to let her know about my morning. She now has twelve animals on her property -- her two cats, her two dogs, two stray adults that she fed, and six puppies from the female stray. The female was pretty heavily pregnant when she showed up. She was also praying that I'd find the pup's owner, and was glad that she didn't have to also become the Humane Society for Northwest Arkansas. :)

And I also was able to avoid telling my significant other that we had just acquired a new pet. (I wasn't quite sure what his reaction would be, he was asleep when I got home....)

[mikita]

8. thanks for the follow-up

and good on ya for taking care of the sweetie!!

[Wcross]

9. I'm so glad you found the owners- You are a sweet person for helping.

I hope they find her brother!

[MrsBrady]

6. good for you

let us know what happens