Abandoned Pit Bull Overcomes Leg Injuries and Needs a Forever Home!

[Omaha Steve]

http://www.aspca.org/blog/abandoned-not-forgotten-story-chuck?ms=em_new_blogpost-chuckblog-20140710&initialms=em_new_blogpost-chuckblog-20140710&utm_source=newsalertemail_20140710&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=newsalert

Abandoned but Not Forgotten: The Story of Chuck

Tuesday, July 8, 2014 - 2:00pm

From factory farming to kitten season, we focus a lot on the big issues facing animal welfare in this country. But behind each “big issue” is the individual face of every single animal touched by our work. One such animal is a 40-lb., 2-year-old pit bull named Chuck.

When Chuck first came to the ASPCA in 2013, he couldn’t walk. Abandoned and left for dead, he had lost the use of his hind legs from joint disease and hip fractures—both of which had gone untreated. He was taken to our premier Animal Hospital in New York City, where he received surgery to relieve his pain. Once healed, Chuck was enrolled in an intensive physical therapy regimen in conjunction with Animal Medical Center in Manhattan.

“Chuck is a happy dog whose personality was very friendly, energetic—let’s go, let’s go—all the time, despite his disability,” says Dr. J’mai Gayle, Director of Surgery at the ASPCA Animal Hospital. He was a perfect candidate for rehabilitation.

Over the next six months, Chuck underwent an astonishing transformation. Through physical therapy, which included hydrotherapy, treadmill work and other vigorous exercises, he slowly regained strength in his legs and learned how to walk again. The once-crippled dog was mobile once more.

FULL story at link Enjoy.

Published on Jul 8, 2014

When Chuck first came to the ASPCA in 2013, he couldn't walk. Abandoned and left for dead, he had lost the use of his hind legs from joint disease and hip fractures—both of which had gone untreated. He was taken to our premier Animal Hospital in New York City, where he received surgery to relieve his pain. Once healed, Chuck was enrolled in an intensive physical therapy regimen in conjunction with Animal Medical Center in Manhattan.

[shenmue]

1. What a sweet boy!

[Dustlawyer]

2. +1,000,000,000,000!!!!!!!

[DeSwiss]

3. What a sweetie pie!

- K&R!

[easychoice]

4. Big Smile

I love some dog's never give up attitude.
It is wonderful that they helped him.

[littlemissmartypants]

5. I love dogs.

And the people that love them.

[DeSwiss]

6. +1000

- Dogs and cats (even) were put here to teach us how to become human......

[BrotherIvan]

7. That face!

I lurve it when he's chewing on something during his PT. Oh, what a sweet dog. Someone is going to be very lucky to have such a bright light in their lives.

[PatrynXX]

8. yet another youtube video that doesn't play in FF 31

have to go to Chrome for it I bet thats getting annoying. forcing people to go to chrome for their youtube videos wish there was a daily motion mirror

[ljm2002]

9. From what I can tell...

...FF 31 appears to be a beta version. You should inform Mozilla.org of the problems you are having with Youtube videos.

The video plays fine in my FF 30, which is the latest version on Windows.