Physically Challenged includes disabled animals as well as those which may not be disabled but would be incapacitated as a result of chronic problems during old age like arthritis or spondylosis or not completely abled as a result of genetic defects.
UNABLE TO GET UP DUE TO SPINAL INJURY WAS RESCUED BY ME LAST EVENING
Last evening at 4.45p.m. as I was returning from the shelter after having attended to Kaalu, I get a call when I have reached Bandra, 45 minutes from the shelter. The caller is a little girl from a slum in Andheri whose cats I had got sterilized earlier and whose dog I treat when unwell. She frantically spoke the "dog is hit" the dog is hit" " can't get up" and "can't move"
I continued my journey and reached Andheri only to find a dog who rear side was filled with mud and slush and a very helpless look in her eyes ..She was shivering.. The locals told me she was hit by a biker in the morning ..and since then managed to drag herself a few feet away into a corner behind a parked tempo
After arranging for an ambulance to pick her up, I was with her for another 2 hours and tried feeding her a little .. She had some biscuits and kept trying real hard to get up and move. This lovely white dog can lift her front body but is unable to go any further .
The ambulance arrived at 7.30p.m. and placed her inside from where I instructed them to take her to animal hospital. After having done the needful formalities in terms of payment and some wee paper work...she was off to the hospital !!
The ambulance driver whom I know well, cleaned her completely and she got some fluids and medications given to her
Today morning little although not so little "WHITIE" as I would like to call her had x-rays taken and nerve tonics and antibiotics started.
This is a spinal injury and she is unable to walk...
The prognosis is too soon to tell but WHITIE is going to need some long term bed rest and will be quite restricted
WHITIE is now in hospital undergoing treatment and will be there for many months till she recovers..
She is being given injections to build her nerves and muscles and a regular massage to gain back strength in her limbs
Wish WHITIE recovers and can WALK AGAIN !!
WHITIE IS NO MORE WITH US, WE LOST HER ON OCTOBER 18, 2010
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