[at-l] Injured dogs - rescue options?

[icw39@ncfreedom.net (Clark Wright)]

I could not resist:  Weary's story has an obvious, tried and true moral
- Never bite the hand [or head] that feeds you! :)

thru-barking back to my lair! :)

"Bob C." wrote:
> 
> Once while hiking the Mahoosuc range between Gorham NH and Grafton Notch I found
> a dog tied to a tree. Other hikers said it had been following them for days and
> that someone must have tied it up to get rid of a nuisance.
> 
>   It struck me as an amazingly friendly dog. Very gentle and very loving. I
>   checked it's tags and found the name of the owner. When I reached town I
>   called the owner. He said he didn't want the dog, and abruptly hung up. I just
>   couldn't leave him tied in the woods so I hiked back up the mountain, untied
>   the dog and brought it home with me. I was tempted to keep it. But I already
>   had a dog, so after a few days I gave it to a friend.
> 
>   He couldn't have been
>   more pleased. Every day at work he praised that dog. Then, about a month later
>   the friend announced the dog had been "put away," killed (euthanized) because
>   "for no reason at all it bit my wife in the face and she had to have 20
>   stitches."
> 
>    This story has no moral, other than, perhaps, to be careful of even friendly
>    stray animals.
> 
>    Weary
> 
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