Marley’s Story
Last week, our volunteer photographer, Trish Suiter Dooling, arrived at the county shelter to take photos of the new animals. She found Marley, a shepherd/lab mix with a steel trap injury to his front paw. His paw was swollen, with bone and sinew exposed and worst of all, the Animal Control Officer said he had been there for days! No effort was made to treat Marley, who was in excruciating pain. The Humane Society immediately pulled him and got him to the vet. Poor Marley was scheduled to have his foot amputated most likely because of the lack of medical attention during the days he sat at the county shelter.
Update from our Facebook page on November 8th: The unexpected death of Marley has saddened us all. I want to clarrify a few things concerning what happened with him. He was pulled from the shelter and transported directly to the vets office. Marley was examined and the doctor found that this was an old injury (probably weeks to months old) and there were nerve paralysis in the leg which mean that he had no feeling in the leg and was in no pain. Due to some unexpected emergencies during the weekend Marley’s surgery was posponed until yesterday. While recovering from anesthesia Marley went into cardiac arrest and despite working on Marley for close to an hour to revive him, he died. There is always a risk with anesthesia and sometimes we don’t know why these things happen
The County Council meeting is tomorrow night. Please, if you are local, come and support the Humane Society’s efforts to give these animals a voice:
6:00 PM on Tuesday, November 8, 2011
William Kinney Meeting Room of the Marian Wright Edelman Public Library
203 Fayetteville Avenue
Bennettsville, SC
All meetings are open to the public with the exception of Executive Sessions.