This past Friday we were on a job in Meriden. Responding to screams and barking, I ran out into the street over to a neighbors house where a beagle had been hit by a car. Badly. The entire driveway was covered in blood. The dog was scared and tried to run away. I was able to chase her down, and corral her into the back yard where she lay down on a pile of leaves that soon turned into a pool of blood. I gently rolled her on her side to see that her front legs had been almost ripped off, and were bleeding out. I took my knife and cut a piece of rope off the above ground pool next to me and as tight as i could tied tourniquets around her arms. Picked her up, wrapped her in a towel, put her in the home owners car, and sent a neighbor on the way to an animal hospital. I walked back to the job site covered in blood. The dog died at least once in my arms, but would open its eyes and roll its head, but there was no way it could have possibly survived that much blood loss. Yesterday, we returned to the job site to complete the fencer installation. I had obviously been thinking about what happened. I thought to myself, if I see the people outside, Ill say something like im so sorry, i did everything I could. But it would be just minutes after we pulled up, that dogs owner raced out of his house, across his yard, and came right up to me and said You saved my dogs life man!!!! The ER vet said that the tourniquets slowed the bleeding enough to keep her alive. She got to the hospital just in time. She had lost 40% of her blood. The dogs owner showed me this picture before I went back to finish the fence.
Posted on: Wed, 31 Dec 2014 00:44:46 +0000
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