Tortured Dog Shown Love, Kindness in His Final Days
Jim Turner wept in mourning at the loss of a friend last Thursday. “I say all the time it’s a wonder that these dogs have any affection,” Turner said, his voice quivering. “And Wonder will be remembered. He had value. He had worth.”
The Muncie, Indiana resident and animal behavioral consultant was emotionally exhausted from having opened his heart to a battered victim recovered from a local dog fighting bust, a dog injured so badly that ultimately, it could only be relieved by mercy. He was nameless, scarred, broken. And in his final days, he experienced love and human kindness for the first time.
The discovery of 25 pit bulls in a Muncie home that police believe were used for dog-fighting had prompted Turner to reach out to this unfortunate soul, and against his better judgement, he fell for the dog. In an interview with the Star Press, Turner says the memory of the dog and the suffering it experienced kept him up at night. At 2 a.m., he writes a brief note:
“He had no name. What he did have was 100 scars on his face, head and body, along with 30 scabs and open wounds on his face,” Turner recited. “Sick and suffering, I took him out for fresh air. He walked on grass cautiously, as if it were a foreign surface. It was; as all he had known in his few years of existence were illegal dog-fighting rings and filthy cages where he bled and suffered alone.”
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Much more: http://www.lifewithdogs.tv/2012/04/man-provides-comfort-friendship-to-doomed-pit-bull/
Bless Mr.Turner........
Bless Wonder over the Rainbow Bridge.......
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i try everday to work on facebook and the shelters to get dogs and cats out of shelters and into homes. How sad but wonderful he cared enough to help.
The guy who sits next to me asked me if I was OK. I blamed it on allergies.
There must be a special place in hell for those who abuse the defenseless: children, the elderly, the disabled and animals.
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I have no words...
gotta go now and kiss and cuddle with Shrimpy.
Am I right?
Not the dogs, but the people who committed these atrocities. Actually, it's an insult to animals. These people are monsters.
Poor, unloved dog. I'm so gald that his finals days were filled with tenderness.
Rest in peace, Wonder.
There is nothing that gets me more emotionally distraught than abuse of animals.
I cannot fathom how even the most bent arrows can be deliberately cruel to animals.
makes me want to hug my rescue girls even tighter