A four-hour emergency operation has helped a dog survive from multiple gunshots.
The dog shot 11 times and left for dead took first steps to recovery after a four-hour emergency operation in Abu Dhabi.
Volunteer vets at the Animalia clinic took Buddy into care in mid-December. This came after a woman found the injured animal unable to walk in the Ras Al Khaimah desert.
Dr Susan Aylott, director of Animalia, a veterinary clinic that aims to educate about animal welfare issues and treat sick animals in Al Bateen, said the dog was lucky to be alive and ” If he had not have been found, he would have died as he needed surgery urgently,” said the doctor in an interview with The National.
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“An examination of the wounds suggested he had been shot at close range. He was paralysed from the waist down and was dragging himself along the ground when he was found. Now he has had the bullets removed in surgery, he is able to stand and that is a good sign but it is a long, uncertain road to recovery,” she added.
“As there is no CCTV footage or other evidence as to what happened, the police are unable to do anything.”
Buddy was taken into an animal shelter in Ras Al Khaimah, before being driven to Abu Dhabi for surgery and the woman who found him paid some of the fees for preliminary scans and Animalia covered the cost of his surgery, estimated at more than AED 20,000 ($5,445).
