When we found Billy, he was
hardly able to walk. He dragged himself around a bit with his fore
legs,
because both his hind legs were fractured. It was most likely that
Billy had
been in an accident with a car or motorcycle. People will just drive
away after
they were hitting a dog and will leave the dog helplessly behind.
Indeed a
neighbour later confirmed Billy had been crushed by a motor cycle near
her
home. With Taiwan’s
many street dogs, most people will not bother helping an injured stray
dog and
so Billy was helpless and in pain at the roadside until our member came
by.
The vet examined the
fractured legs and found one leg had a complicated fracture with the
bone being
in three parts. But the doctor could fix the bone during many month of
treatment. Finally Billy has totally recovered and can run and jump
again just
like any other dog. Only if people examine him very, very closely, they
probably can see he is sometimes not using one leg as much as the
others. Just
like many humans having had fractures he occasionally experiences some
discomfort where the bone had been broken many times; people often say
their
leg or arm is weather-sensitive and that is just what Billy has. Just
as a
person with a formally fractured leg can play football and climb over
fences
again, Billy can run very fast and jump happily chasing a ball.
For one year Billy is
already waiting for a new adopter and has been at many places where
former street
dogs are shown by their foster “parents”. However, being a mixed dog,
Billy has
experienced again and again nobody wants him and so recently he was not
as
happily playing around on the expositions as he did before, but rather
sitting
sadly in a corner.
Please help to give Billy a
loving and caring home, where he can feel being a part of a family, a
comfort
he was missing for a long time.
