Dublin peeps - do you know this dog?

EGAR

Do you know this dog? The pics are quite graphic, so think before you click on them. This dog was NOT used for fighting, his condition is due to pure and utter neglect. Any information re his owner will be treated with utmost discrection. If you know anything, please PM me here or email me webmasterATegarDOTorg .

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Sweet Jesus.

I wish I could help, but thankfully I don't know anyone who'd treat an animal like that.

I'll download the pix and put them up on my facebook page, have you any more info on the location - I'm in north county Dublin, but I've lots of dog lover's all over Dublin.

star-pants

Don't know the dog myself, is there any more information you're able to share with us EGAR? (I understand if you can't) just even where the poor thing was found or where in Dublin you think he think he might be from?

EGAR

I am working on a location at present and will update as soon as I know. So far, all I have is Dublin..

Edited to say: he has already put on 3 kg before the pics were taken yesterday so he was in alot worse state. Bloodworks came back clear, so it's down to utter starvation and neglect.

I am aware that there is precious little I can do as the legislation simply isn't there but I am worried that there may be more dogs.

adser53

Jesus Christ how could someone do that to their dog! I hope you find the owner EGAR

shakencat

scumbags.

stuff like that makes me cry:(

and i couldn help but click:(

joyce2009

it just makes me so angry to see this,,,the poor dog.:(

Noopti

I sent you a PM.....it's a VERY long shot, but might be worth something.

Morganna

Oh Sarah that is awful the poor dog

Eemia

OMG that is just awful the poor dog. Hope ye find who did this!

Please keep us updated on pics of the poor thing as he gets healthier

kalie

Ah the poor thing. At least its getting propper care now.

EGAR

Thank you for the PM, Noopti but it's not related. Jeff is at least five years old.

ghost_ie

That poor dog. I wish I could get my hands on whoever treated him like that :mad:

SarahMs

poor little hunny, my baby fanta started to lick the screen when I opened the pics....

Noopti

EGAR wrote: »

Thank you for the PM, Noopti but it's not related. Jeff is at least five years old.

No worries, hopefully you can sort it out soon!

Kya1976

Poor dog, so upsetting to see the pics......:(
Hope youll be able to prosecute the owner if you ever find him/her.....:mad:

EGAR

It's slow progress but we are getting there . He has put on weight, his collapsed muscles are slowly starting to work again and the ulcerated sores on his bum are healed, so is his face:










Not bad for only 8 weeks and him arriving in a near skeletal state. Owners were never found..

ghost_ie

Great to see him looking so much better. Well done

sionnaic

He's got a beautiful face the poor mite...awful to think of the monsters out there who could do this kind of thing to an animal...so glad he's doing well now and if there's such a thing as karma may your kindness be returned to you tenfold! (and may whoever let this happen burn in hell)

enda1

This may sound like a stupid insensitive question, but please don't take it that way...

But why is so much effort (time and money) put into saving a downtrodden dog like this when perfectly healthy dogs are terminated daily?

Maybe there's something I'm missing but would it not make more sense to try save the savable ones first? Would saving this dog cost the life of two healthy ones or something?

Noopti

enda1 wrote: »

Maybe there's something I'm missing but would it not make more sense to try save the savable ones first?

If he wasn't "saveable" then he wouldn't have survived surely?
I can sort of see where you are coming from, but that is like saying "Why bother sending aid to starving people in Africa, better off giving it to people who who have a better chance in life"

EGAR

I am sure you feel that your question is justified in some way which escapes me. I run a rescue and I do just that: I rescue.

I specialise in Bull Breeds, dogs most other rescues don't touch as they are hard to rehome due to media hysteria and misinformation. Most of the money which goes into my rescue comes out of my own pocket, the time spent with Jeff is my own for which I am not getting paid with money but with something way more rewarding: the satisfaction to know that I made a difference in a dog's life. I am sure Jeff does not share your sentiments.

I do not run a *conveyor belt* rescue, in and out. I do not cherry pick from the Pounds. I do not take the fluffy, ickle, easy to rehome ones. I take the dogs no one else wants, the sick ones, the abused ones, the old ones.

And the satisfaction I get when I see them waddle off to a new home, much loved and healthy - THAT is priceless to me.

Had I turned down Jeff due to worries about money or time than I am wrong in the world of rescue. I know alot of other rescues whould have turned him away, I didn't - and it's my prerogative (sp?).

That IMHO is the true sense of rescue: to help those who can't help themselves regardless of their condition or past.

dancingqueen

EGAR you do wonderful things - this fella will always remember the kind person who helped him better.

Pics made me cry.. shocking behaviour from people. I just can't understand how people do it - it doesn't register

morganafay

That dog deserved a second chance as much as any other dog in the pound or whatever. Maybe even moreso, because he had had a terrible life so far. If a dog has been that neglected, then surely they deserve a chance at happiness for once.

battycow

Great to see Jeff comming on so wel, I saw these shocking photos on some other website, may have been your own actually. But I had not see nthe more recent ones, he is really starting to fiil out well, and great to soo thoes nasty sores heal up.

Apanachi

Great work EGAR, so happy to see the wee fella getting on so well