Stray Mother Dog With Broken Leg Leads Vet To Help Her Puppies – Priceless
Dog leads vet to help ten puppies (Video)
The Spanish greyhound was spotted wandering around a market with a broken front leg in the town of Vera in southern Spain. Psychologist Lianne Powell, 49, caught the stray dog and took her to a local vet for treatment. But after noticing the dog was producing milk and must have given birth a few days before, vet Ellen Sobry and Lianne began searching for any living puppies. Ellen, 39, said: “She had a broken leg, was bleeding from the back end and I saw she had milk, so I thought ‘well where are the puppies?’ We put a collar and long lead on her and took her back to the market. Then we just followed her for about 3km – she knew where she was going.”
In this amazing video the dog, which has now been named Vera after the town where she was found, can be seen leading Ellen and Lianne to an abandoned car before leaping onto the passenger seat through an open door. Lianne said: “Clearly, we had a decision to make. If there were pups they would slowly starve to death unless we found them. We would need the greyhound’s help but we didn’t know if she would trust us enough to take us there. At one point we worried she just trying to find her home but after 3km she turned up a tiny muddy track and led us under a thick hedge and into an abandoned house before crossing the yard and making her way into a car. Needless to say there were tears all round. In the state she was in the fact she managed to fend for herself and care for 10 pups is nothing short of astonishing!“
An incredible lesson in life!
Vera is recovering at Ellen’s surgery Clinivet Turre and the vet is working with Ibizan Hound Rescue to find homes for the dogs when they are fit to leave the clinic. Ellen said: “Vera and her puppies are doing fantastic and they are all healthy. Her broken leg was fresh but we don’t really know what happened, she could have been hit by a car but she had no other wounds, maybe someone kicked her but we just don’t know – it was a clean break. Now she is recovering great, the only thing she has to worry about now is eating, feeding her puppies and sleeping. She’s a little bit timid, but she’s not too scared. We see more strays every day, this is the end of the hunting season, it’s bad at the moment. They have no use for them anymore, they’re used for hunting and when they slow down they just throw them out.” Watch this touching video, animals can give us incredible lessons in life!
