Badly Injured Florida Racing Greyhound Needs Your Help
Rambler is a 3.5 year old, very handsome blue fawn male who made his way from Florida last week to Long Island. He broke his rear leg in a race on 2/21/09.
The doctors in Florida did not surgically repair his leg, they simply put some surgical tape on it and sent him on his way. After three weeks they told the trainer that the tape can be removed and he will be just fine.
(Blogger’s note: Why do these vets have jobs? Don’t they take some kind of oath to help animals?)
On Saturday Rambler was taken to A&A because his leg looked nasty, very nasty. The vet x-rayed his leg which had been broken in several places, healed, then broke again, then healed again. (Blogger’s note: &%$#)
Unfortunately his leg healed so oddly that Rambler is in tremendous pain. GG had a couple of choices: 1-Do nothing and allow him to remain in pain - not an option 2-Euthanize him as the repair to this leg will cost thousands of dollars - not an option or 3-Surgically break his leg and put it back together the correct way so Rambler can walk normally without pain – YES, this is the option Grateful Greyhounds will take. Dog bless them!
Let’s all send positive thoughts to Rambler! He has his surgery on Wednesday. Please check back for updates.
He will spend some time at the vet (probably a couple of weeks) but will need a foster or adoptive home upon his discharge. Rambler is a gorgeous and very silly boy who deserves a second chance.
Once again Grateful Greyhounds was put in a position of spending a good deal of money on behalf of an injured hound. Once again they decided to move forward with the surgery. Rambler is quite deserving of having legs that work and he also deserves to be pain free. The goal is to give him that gift. Can you help? Grateful Greyhounds accepts Paypal donations.
(Blogger’s note: Rambler is just one more reason why greyhound racing sucks and the “sport” of dog racing should be banned everywhere.)
Blogger’s note is the opinions of this blogger only.