Brotherly Love

It is always touching to see our children being kind to each other and that goes for our four legged children as well. Beefy loves his sister and is a great example of compassion. His dad noticed that it was a little too quiet so he went to check the back yard where the dogs were playing. He found that all the dogs had gotten out, frantically went out looking for them. He found 3 of them pretty quickly, but Beefy and Panda were missing. After searching his neighborhood, he found Beefy in the alley behind his house, instantly noticed blood on him, and that he was very shaky and not acting like himself. Dad quickly scooped him up, put him in his truck and headed to 1st Pet Veterinary Centers while still scanning everywhere he could to find Panda to no avail. Once at 1st Pet he sat Beefy on the counter to be quickly evaluated and was telling our team about how his dogs got out and how he found Beefy. Our team asked if he happened to have a black and white pit bull. He does.

In the same neighborhood, a good samaritan heard something scratching at his door. When he went to see what was going on, he found a beautiful black and white pit bull covered in blood pawing at his door as if to say, “help me”. The kind man called 1st Pet and asked what he should do and was instructed to bring her right in. Once here, she was treated immediately and scanned for a microchip, which she had, and a message was left on the phone since no one answered.

Dad was brought to the treatment room and confirmed that it was Panda they were treating and was told that she had been hit by a car. Once Beefy was examined, it was determined that, he too had been hit by a car, luckily without major injuries. As he was being walked back from the treatment area out to dad, Beefy walked over and put his nose up to Panda to check on her. 

Then he sat by her and didn’t want to move. He just wanted to sit with her. He wanted to protect her.

Panda escaped broken bones, but it is obvious she had been dragged by the car because her skin was terribly damaged. Skin wounds of this kind are very serious and take a lot of time to heal. She has had two surgeries to remove the dead skin and had a vacuum system placed  to help heal her wounds. The vacuum helps draw wound edges together and remove infectious materials etc.

Panda is such a sweet girl and we all love her!