4/7/2023 0 Comments You remind me of my dog callieThey have started harness fittings to get her acclimated to harness walking, as they believe it is best to never have her wear anything around her neck again to limit trauma. “Ceilia is a doll!” and “She loves people and loves toys!” Slusher also said, “We are working on her manners as she is an excitable jumper but very smart she has already learned sit, stay and lie down”. Brumm said, “this ultimately resulted from the inability to properly secure the dog and keep her safe”.Ĭeilia is on the mend and Valley Animal Center is thinking about her future now. No person shall tether, fasten, chain, tie,or restrain a dog, or cause a dog to be tethered fastened, chained, tied, or restrained to a doghouse, tree, fence or other stationary object.īrumm pleaded, “Put yourself in that rope for a moment. Magnuson believed the dog had been tied up with a rope too tightly and Ceilia had been struggling against the rope to escape for at least 6 weeks to have created this type of wound”.Īngyla Brumm, Animal Services Supervisor for Fresno County, stated, “it’s against Fresno County ordinance code: 9.04.055”.Ĭode 9.04.055 states, 4. Magnuson took over 2 hours to complete Ceilia’s first surgery,” Slusher said, Ceilia will need a second surgery in a few weeks to completely sew up the wound once it has finished draining and to spay her. “The wound was over 2 inches wide and in some spots the lacerations were very deep. Magnuson has been in veterinary medicine over 30 years and not much can shock her, but Ceilia’s wounds did. Magnuson sprung to action and began the surgery to sew up her neck wound leaving only a small space at the base of the throat for drainage. Our friends at Valley Animal Center answered her plea for help and came to meet Ceilia and take her into their care.Īshley Slusher, Animal Care Manager for Valley Animal Center said they took her immediately to their shelter veterinarian, Dr. Mitchell knew Ceilia would need ongoing medical care and a safe sterile environment to heal from her severe lacerations to her neck. She posted Ceilia in our rescue group on Facebook and pleaded for help. It is her job to find a happy ending for Ceilia. Mitchell wears many hats, one of the hats that keeps her busiest is rescue coordinator for Fresno Humane. The emergency hospital cleaned the wound removed the rope and sent her off with antibiotics. “Our doctors and techs said this was one of the worst cases they had ever seen” said Brenda Mitchell, Fresno Humane Animal Services Board President, who received the call to pick Ceilia up to figure out what to do next. She was turned in by a “Good Sam” who found her with a rope embedded in her neck. The true terror was that we once didn't exist and then, through no fault of our own, we had to.Ceilia (A37308095) came into our emergency hospital, Fresno Veterinary Specialty and Emergency Center, (South of Blackstone & Herndon) on December 3, 2017. The true terror, Jonah thought, the true mystery of life was not that we are all going to die, but that we were all born, that we were all once little babies like this, unknowing and slowly reeling in the world, gathering it loop by loop like a ball of string. It made him sad to think of the baby gathering information - a mind, a soul, slowly solidifying around these impressions, coming to understand cause and effect, coming out of a blank or fog into reality. It was information that struck him as terribly sad, terribly lonely - to imagine the infants of the world scoping the blurry atmosphere above them for faces the way primitive people scrutinized the stars for patterns, the way castaways stare at the moon, the blinking of a satellite. He had read somewhere that babies are instinctively drawn to faces, that they will fixate even on drawings or abstract, facelike shapes, and round objects with markings that might resemble eye-mouth-nose. “The baby's large eyes settled on him, and though this has been one of his happiest nights in his whole life, it made him melancholy.
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