A Head’s Up for Nashville Dog Owners

I just got an email from a friend of mine reporting that her friend’s Husky had its tail cut off by some jackass with something probably like hedge trimmers and left to bleed to death in its own fenced in back yard.

Luckily the dog did not die, but it is now sitting in the hospital where the vet is monitoring it for infection.

I’m finding it very hard to write coherently about this, so here’s the meat of the email:

Last Saturday around 7, S. received a frantic call from C.  Something had happened to Blue, C.’s rescued Siberian husky.  He said she was bleeding all over and her tail was gone.  We jumped in the car, picked up Blue and C and rushed them to the emergency vet on 12^th avenue.  C wasn’t exaggerating: Blue’s tail was gone.  It was completely severed and nowhere to be found.  We all wracked our brains on how this could have possibly happened.  C has a fenced in yard, so it seemed unlikely that another dog would have been able to get into the yard and attack Blue.  We asked the vet what he thought happened, and he said that when they sedated her they’d be able to get a better look at the wound.  Blue went into surgery to get stitched up and we waited.  When Blue was finally out of surgery and ready to come home, C learned the devastating news: Blue’s wound was a clean cut.  In other words someone had cut off her tail, probably with hedge trimmers. Someone walked up to this beautiful sweet dog, taking advantage of her kind and trusting nature, cut off her tail and left her there to bleed to death.

Please keep an eye on your dogs, folks.  Clearly there are some sick fucks out there.