“She started coming out with me when I would walk,” said Kelley. “What she started doing was running out ahead and bringing back bottles and cans to me she had found alongside the roads.”
Veterinarians are faced daily with the difficult choice of euthanasia. It’s our role to guide owners to a decision that’s in the best interest of their pets while helping them come to terms with the passing of their beloved family member.
“The canine influenza hasn’t been introduced to this region before, so it’s just a very high likelihood of dogs catching it and carrying it if they are exposed, and we’re trying to get ahead of that,” said Doug Wynne of Paws 4 Play.
Maddison is a Doberman mix who was rescued off of the streets in Texas. When she was being transported to Wisconsin, she slipped her harness near Midway Airport in early January and was lost for five days.
“My assumption is that that harness had to be cut off from her, it didn’t just come off because it had grown into her neck so far,” Mark Plyter of the Humane Society of Wayne County said.
After Major was sure someone would be on their way to help, he then made his way out to the front of the house to wait. He was out at the curb when police and medics arrived, and lead them into the house and right to McGlade, still in distress.
Young patients and their families are having dog visits included along with their regular cancer treatments, and early feedback shows some positive evidence that the interactions are quite beneficial.
