eskiemommy
11-14-2005, 04:08 PM
I once had a malamute two years ago and I still mourn his passing. When I lived in st louis, I went with my mom and sister to the ACK and look around, I went back to the adult dogs to see what was there. I was looking for a husky or malamute(love those dogs) and there he was 1year old surge. he was beautiful, and looked like a wolf. I put my hand to the cage and got a lick, he was a sweety. I got my mmom and she took a look but he was nervouse about her. we went home that night and convinced my dad to get him. we got him that night. We were told that if we hadnt gotten him they were going to put him to sleep. he was lucky. we were also told he had been taken away by the state due to abuse. thye never told my family the extent andI didnt care I got a new doggy. I had already had a dog given to me by my sister for being retarded but she wasnt in my eyes. now I had both Surge and simba. I was the only one who could touch surge the only who could walk him or let him out. he stayed in my room and slept by my bed everynight and winter nights he would take up half of the covers and the bed with it. but he flinched when ever someone would touch him. I knew that had to change. I started taking him on walks around the nieghborhood and my dad would go with me . things were looking up for him. then one night I came home from grandmas and he and simba were missing, someone stole them! Surge escaped and was found in Illinois. Simba is still gone. He was brought home again. we moved to fl and he had a great time he would get out of the yard and come home when I called for him. he always new when it was me. then one night he busted the door down broke down the fence and chased a robber for three blocks. the police found poisoned meat by the gate. surge saved the family. things quited down and he was still the hero of the street. that was when the neighbors behind us got a pitbull. it climbed the fence and was wandering out in our yard when my dad got outside and called it puppy it charged him right before it bit my dad surge interviened. I have never seen him show his teeth and it was scarey. he got the pit to run and go home.he saved my dad. two weeks later I was in my room when I hear an ear peircing scream. it was surge. I calledto himand he collapsed at my feet. and could not get up. no matter how hard he tried. we called my dad and we tried to take him to the vet. it took two big men to put him in the truck and he snaped at my dad something he has never done. we got him to the vet and waited and waited he got x-rays and everything you could think of three hours later the vet came to us and asked us in a low voice if we owne guns. my dad said yes but they are locked up and never used. she put up the x-rays. what I saw was horrifying. there were shotgun pellets all over his body, from his skull to his hind legs. but that was only half of the horrors of his abuse from earlier in his life. his hind legs were so badly beaten as a puppy that one had been broken and fused back together wrong. the other was gone. there was nothing holdong the bone in place. he had been in pain the whole time we had him. my dad had to make a decision and the best course was to out him down a seven year old dog to sleep. the vet did that and allowed me to say goodbye. I said good bye to him and he still wagged his tail. a few days later when my brother had taken his puppy to the vet he saw surges xrays the vet said she could nt take them down, yet.my family is still coping with his passing and each day I ask how can people be so cruel. nothing ever makes sense I guess it never will.