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Yesterday morning Mummy decided to let me have the run of the house for the day while she was at work (long story involving faulty wiring in the house next door and Mummy wanted to give me a fighting chance if anything untoward happened during the day before the electrician arrived to fix it - that house is really close to ours, and my laundry "day room" faces it). She was a bit concerned cos I have in the past done things I coughcoughshouldn'tcoughcough when she goes out, even though I've been outside to do them before she goes.
However, yesterday when she got home I presented her with a house in the same condition as when she left it! (Ok, so I'd been cuddling with one of her flip flops, but I didn't chew on it either!) She was soooo proud of me! I was such a good girl :D :D :D
Last Friday evening when Mummy came home we were out in the garden and enjoying the evening for a while. We went around near the clothes line, and then, later, we pottered and played on the other side of the house near the kitchen and at the back (we have a huge lawn and garden).
ANYways, when we came inside Mummy happened to look out through the laundry window and her heart nearly stopped. The gate near the clothes line was WIDE OPEN! It turned out that the owner of our house had been working on all the lawns and gardens and not only forgot to lock the gate again when he left, he forgot to even LATCH it securely, so it came open some time after we moved to the other areas of the garden to play and potter.
Well, Mummy was livid, cos, ya see, I'm a bolter. If I'd seen that gate was open, I would have been out and off (and probably firstly heading to visit my beloved Aunty Pam who lives next door, before heading off to who knows where!) Mummy was just shaking because quite often she leaves the back door open for me to potter in the garden while she's getting dinner ready, so if that had happened and if I'd seen the gate open, it could have been up to 20 minutes where I'd have been gone before Mummy realised.
Needless to say she called the owner and gave him an earful this morning!
Please dear pals, read the following story from today's Sydney Morning Herald about Oreo, a pit bull cross girl who survived being thrown off a 6th floor balcony only to now face death tomorrow US time at the hands of the ASPCA because of aggression (of course she's aggressive - she's the victim of cruelty!)
"Oreo the pit bull cross was New York's miracle dog.
She was thrown off the roof of a six-storey building in Brooklyn onto concrete below and survived the fall.
But 15 months later, despite recovering from two shattered legs, bruised lungs and internal bleeding, her carers say the dark chocolate-brown pup is beyond rehabilitation, too aggressive and distrustful to live.
The American Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals has decided she will be put down today, according to The New York Times.
ASPCA President Ed Sayres said Oreo was impossible to control once her injuries had healed, despite months of daily behavioural therapy sessions.
Other ASPCA workers said she'd grown extremely aggressive during a number of examinations and would growl, lunge and try to bit people who got too close.
The decision was "difficult and heartbreaking" but necessary, Mr Sayres said.
She was not able to "do any of the companion things" a normal dog did, he said, and had once attacked her handler, whom she saw daily.
Other experts questioned the ASPCA's call, saying the dog could not yet have fully recovered from her ordeal and was a victim of crime.
"It's incredibly traumatised," a San Francisco SPCA official said.
"It's going to be fearful and distrustful and perhaps even in pain.
"Under those circumstances, even evaluating the dog right now is setting the dog up for failure."
But the ASPCA called in outside experts, who Mr Sayres said supported their difficult decision.
E'Lise Christensen, an outside veterinary behaviour expert, said Oreo was intensely aggressive and had tried to bit a fake hand she had placed in front of her.
"Oreo should not have any access to the public or uncontrolled areas outdoors," Ms Christensen said.
"Oreo shouldn't be around children.”
Oreo's owner, 19-year-old Fabian Henderson, was arrested a month later and will be sentenced on December 1, The New York Times said. "
I've tried to email/contact BFAS without any success (it's out of hours over there now). Is there ANYone reading this who might be able to organise something reallyreally fast because this poor, poor pup is going to be euthanised tomorrow if something can't be done right away. :(
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