okay, sad story time.
I have a chocolate lab, female, who is 6 years old.
She has hip dysplasia in one hip and major arthritis in the other.
She has to take 4 pills a day, 2 for pain, 2 for inflammation.
If she goes with out them, she will be unable to walk and it's hard carrying a 90 pound dog up the stairs.
Here's the even sadder part. Last month, she was being taken to the vets office to refill the pills and a checkup. While my parents went around the car to let her out, someone held them up with a gun and stole the car with the dog still inside. My parents called the cops, but they did very little to help.
We got the local news to do a story and ask for help on t.v. She had to go without her pills for over a week before she was found, collapsed in a driveway. She couldn't walk and was literally crawling with her front two paws and yelping.
Her stomach was tore up and she had lost almost 20 pounds. She had to have surgery to fix her broken hips.
The criminals were caught and only served 7 days prison. That's it. No money from them, no apology or community service, just 7 days of prison. Oh, and the car had 3000 dollars of damage to it, but they didn't have to pay for that either.
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