One brave and stoic Pit BullDispatch from the Santa Fe Humane Society shelter, August 18, 2009
She is recovering well and will go on to thrive, but I can't imagine what the animal control officer must have thought when he picked up the frightened Pit Bull from the side of the road. The whole of her chest was furless--and totally infested with maggots. No one knows for sure, but the shelter staff's best guess is that she fell (or was thrown) from a moving vehicle, and the skin from her neck to her belly was left completely shredded. Gorgeous from the neck up -- no one could argue with that
The dog wears a t-shirt now to protect the huge, raw area, and green wiry stitches zigzag three-quarters of the way around her neck. She doesn't seem to be in pain and nuzzles closer as I scratch her ears and stroke her back. A glimpse into her injuries
I catch a faint whiff of something medicinal as pus from her wounds creeps up over the shirt collar. But as I lean in to sniff her head, the scent is unmistakeably, deliciously dog. I lean in for a kiss, she accepts
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One brave and stoic Pit Bull
