I’ve been involved in a lot of hard dog rescues in my time. But none quite like tonight.
We’ve been trying to catch this boy for a week after being sent this photo. He’s a wild street dog.
It looks like we’ve saved his life… (1/7) 🧵
We’ve failed on 6 previous attempts. Sedation, traps, nets and many of us in the fields. He has been too scared.
We’ve probably used 50 man hours trying to catch him.
We even darted him once but he got away into the jungle (2/7)
We got him tonight after an epic chase.
It was life or death. The wound on his face was full of maggots and flies. I’ve shared the pic from a distance to not shock but his face was being eaten alive (3/7)
On the 23rd of October Stormzy came into us with a massive brain injury.
He couldn’t walk or even support his head.
Today 11 weeks later, Stormzy was adopted and went home with his forever family… (1/8) 🧵
He’d been hit by a car. His owner had frantically been looking for a vet.
He was told in this pic that he needed to pay to put him to sleep. He didn’t have the money so he had to take him home for 4 full days and just watch him hopelessly (2/8)
Our vet said just give him time. It was incredibly painful to watch him suffer so much. But the medicines and rest really did work.
He couldn’t walk or eat himself for weeks. But the swelling stated to go down (3/8)