Animal Lovers

Dog fighting is a terrible practice that can leave animals physically and emotionally scarred. No one knows why people would be involved in such a horrible activity, but there’s been some small progress in trying to curtail them. With the lengthy sentences that are also being faced as a result, more and more people are considering stopping them altogether. But the animals are still the ones that suffer in the progress. All they know is a world of fear and pain, as well as the risk of death if they don’t succeed. Sienna Rose was rescued from a dog fighting ring covered in scars and also missing part of her nose. It’s a horrible sight to see, and it’s likely she may never get to do some of the normal parts of a dog’s life ever again, but that doesn’t mean she should be given up on. When she was taken in by Second Chance Rescue, they also discovered that she was completely blind in one eye and partially blind in the other. But despite her condition, she can still eat and...

Nasty: Sox the staff-cross almost died A puppy almost bled to death after eating a knuckle bone from Home Bargains. Sox, an 18-month-old staffy-cross, ate the bone over the weekend but then started to vomit blood. His concerned owner Kirsty Mills, 27, his didn’t realise the product, called Lola’s Knuckle Bone, had caused the damage and rushed him to the vets from her home in Beechwood, Wirral. Having been vomiting since 3am, Sox had an emergency operation on Tuesday, the Liverpool Echo reports . His stomach was opened and vets found 75 sharp splinters of the bone cutting into the lining. Recovery: The dog had to be rushed to surgery Kirsty, who lives with her partner Barry, 27, and their two children, Arnie, six, and Alissia, four, had prepared for the worst. She said: “He’s usually hyper, so I knew something was wrong, but it didn’t even come to my mind that it was the bone. “I prepared the kids for the worst, we didn’t think he was going to make it. “All of us have gone t...

A "football-sized" tumour has been removed from the abdomen of an abandoned dog. The female Jack Russell, discovered alone in Dagenham on 7 January, is being looked after by the South West Essex RSPCA. Insp Mitchell Smith said the dog was in "a terrible state", but after surgery to remove the 2lb 10oz (1.2kg) mass was feeling "a lot better". The charity is appealing for a foster home for the dog. The 12-year-old, which staff called Beautiful Brilliant Betty, was also covered in fleas, has cataracts, poor hearing and needed dental work. The RSPCA is appealing for information on how the dog came to be abandoned.

Vincent is a cat of the United States who was born without hind legs and was abandoned by the same, but fortunately was rescued by an animal shelter in Iowa. By his condition was impossible for anyone to take. Fortunately, one of the volunteers in the shelter he talked to his daughter's situation Vincent and the daughter, who is studying veterinary medicine, got in touch with Dr. Mary Sarah Bergh, who teaches at the University of Iowa and surgeon orthopedic vet, who became interested in the case of Vincent. The Bergh doctor implanted a titanium pair of legs cat, one of the most advanced procedures in veterinary and today it is estimated that only two dozen animals have been faced with a similar intervention. The complexity of this surgery is that each implant is screwed to the femur, exposing part of the bone to the environment, this requires special care and antibiotic treatment twice daily. The advantage of this surgery is that over time the legs of titanium can be adapt...