[Dailydrool] Embedded Harness

[Marilyn Briggs]

Reading the story of the rescue Annie, who recently passed away. When she was rescued she had an embedded harness. Utah Friends of Basset Hounds recently took in an NAB (not a basset) with horrible scars from an embedded harness. It is so bad, it limits his range of motion and changed his stance. UFBH found a female basset named Twinkie at a local shelter. I called on her and they said they were working with the owner to return her to him, and she was a "repeat offender". I called again, they still had her. I asked when could she be released to rescue, and they gave me a date. Every time I called on the date they gave me, they said they were giving the owner "more time"-- a couple days. Finally on one of the calls they said she was in the shelter with her buddy (same owner) a bull mastiff. They wanted to return both of them to the owner. I kept calling. FINALLY, they said we could have Twinkie. When our volunteer went to get her, she said Odin, the
 mastiff was not only really, really upset Twinkie left, but he had an embedded harness. We were not sure if the harness was still on and embedded or what. So one of our foster moms who is a vet tech offered to help Odin. So, we have a mastiff NAB. I am attaching a link for pictures. And also wanting to vent (which I can't do locally or on Facebook about the stupid shelter who was trying so hard to return this guy and Twinkie to the stupid owner). He had open infected sores where they had cracked open. His skin had healed together in places over the open scars. Just a serious mess. His surgery is Weds., and I know he is not a basset, but any little amount of help would be appreciated, even if it is just good thoughts for this guy. This is our second NAB this year. I drove 400 miles to pick up Axel from the Rock Springs Wyoming shelter. They said he was a basset-lab mix. Well, he was a long legged hound-lab mix but absolutely no basset. He was a doll and
 everyone in our group was very kind to accept my NAB, and now we are on our second one. Pictures of Odin and his scars https://picasaweb.google.com/114847654456174386373/Odin?authkey=Gv1sRgCKiStMTr8ZXmuwE&feat=emailand if you can donate anything toward his surgery, I would be grateful, as he is not a basset and we are short enough on basset funds... www.ufbh.org. Amazing that things like this happen. Sorry this is long.Marilyn Briggs
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