Posted on 02/14/2014 3:25:10 PM PST by nickcarraway
A Cupertino woman considers it a miracle that her 3-year-old pit bull, Hammy, is still right by her side.
Last month, Hammy was rushed to a 24-hour emergency animal clinic in Campbell after she ate what turned out to be tainted food.
Emily Aldrich, Hammy's owner, said the incident occurred when she let the dog outside to go to the bathroom. She later found Hammy munching on something from a bag of food.
The food was strips of beef laced with Strychnine pellets in a Ziplock bag. Strychnine is a common type of gopher poison.
Minutes after Hammy ate the poisoned food she started going into seizures. Aldrich believes someone came into her backyard and deliberately tried to kill her dog.
"Oh my God! Why would someone do that?" she said. "You know. It was just questioning like why, how and just no understanding."
Aldrich rushed Hammy to an animal clinic where doctors pumped the dog's stomach and flushed out the poison. But minutes later, Hammy had another seizure that forced her heart to stop.
"I literally watched her die right in front of me and I felt so powerless," Aldrich said.
Aldrich said Hammy was dead for 12 agonizing minutes. But doctors wouldn't give up and managed to revive her.
"I couldn't believe it," Aldrich said. "I think my own heart stopped at that point because I was just in such shock."
Now three weeks later, Hammy is walking around and slowly getting back to her old self.
"The fact that she's still here with me is the biggest blessing that I could ever have," Aldrich said. "I never thought I would be so attached to a dog. She's my best friend."
Aldrich's family and friends have come together to raise money to help pay for Hammy's medical bills. To contribute, click here.
Yeah, that’s what I thought.
Punk.
either someone in her neighborhood with a deal with her dog, or a muslim there doing jihad against dogs.
how exactly was it “dealt with”? seriously it might be good to know.
Bullsnot.
My neighbor tried to poison my *Ibizan Hounds*, who are so habitually nice they’re sickeningly sweet because HE is a freaking drunken psycho who is *still* pissed that I refused his advances 23 years ago.
I can’t even believe you typed that.
SMH.
I’m gonna bet *somebody* is projecting like mad.
Have you not heard?
Dey *all* gots De Ebils.
/good Lord
And stupid as ever.
Muzzies moving in?
Google it.
Nobody will help you.
They’re a sacred class.
Hey, now, guys!
I think you got some posts crossed, there.
Nick would never say such a thing to you.
or a muslim there doing jihad against dogs.
^^^^
This.
Rampant.
People should research it.
Yes he would.
I’d give ya a link to the thread from which this originated, it was about a cop shooting a dog that was outside off leash and a neighbor had phoned police, and then the cop shot the dog, but I hate to send you there it wasn’t pretty.
But it is my position that the dog owner is responsible for what happened to the dog by allowing that situation to occur, leaving it outside, off leash and unattended.
As a dog owner and dog lover, I believe that we are responsible for them completely. They are dependent on us, and if we are lax or irresponsible, it can most certainly end in their death in any number of ways.
This dog owner was not responsible, and it cost the dog his life.
And now Nickcarraway says this putrid garbage to me.
I would very much like Mr. Nick to explain to me-
1) how dog owners are are not responsible for the safety of their dogs, which seems to be his position, and-
2) where exactly I said or implied-
“any dog not within a foot of it’s owner should be executed.” as he has asserted that I apparently think.
That is unless of course he simply isn’t man enough to back what he said to me.
And I don’t believe nickcarraway is man enough. Plain and simple.
But a mere mundsne’s dog? Shoot it. John and Jane Doe will thank us for keeping them safe. </sarcasm>
Not just Da Ebils.
Worse than firearms, living, breathing four-legged terminators, they are.
Ironic, how the same people who have no tolerance for sn irrational fear of firearms duffer from cynophobia.
I couldn’t find anything where he’d said that to you.
I thought he was talking to the dumbass who thought this was a wonderful thing.
You know I don’t know. From the way nick worded his post I’m not sure, I’m also not sure why he addressed it to me.
Nick was also the person who posted the other story about the man’s dog being shot by the cop, and we got into it over about my view that the dog’s owner is ultimately responsible for what happened to that dog in that situation, so I suspect that is why he made that comment to me.
As far as the person in this thread posting in support of what happened to that pitbull who was poisoned, I have a real problem with that.
I’m not a fan of pitbulls, I do think they are a dangerous breed, however I realize that there are friendly pitbulls.
As far as poisoning goes, that is just evil and sick. Not the way to handle it at all. First of all it subjects the dog to a painful death, the owner to grief and it also endangers any other animal or even a child that may come across the tainted food.
I believe the person who did that should spend a good amount of time in prison, like 10 years min. I am not for cruelty to animals in any way, and for a person to post in favor of what happened is an outrage.
However, I am still not happy with what was said to me based upon previous exchanges in a similar thread, but seeing as how he doesn’t want to answer, I’m just going to let it go.
Thanks, Salamnder, it’s very good to see you, and let’s all <3 our dogs very much!
Thanks for the backstory and I think ~I~ will try to avoid tap dancing on any more internecine land minds, tonight.
;D
When I was a very little kid, my family came home from a night at the local drive-in to find a poisoned cat in our carport.
“Horrible” doesn’t cover it.
I don’t even think I know a word that would.
My dad finally killed it to end its suffering.
Somebody in the area was poisoning the cat lady’s herd frequently but that was the first, and thankfully only one we ever saw, in the flesh.
Poisoning has to be the most gutless, spineless, -soulless- thing a person can do.
I would imagine that poor cat had a lot to do with how I feel about animals, now.
The local LE cites them> Big deal. It doesn’t stop them.
Great example!
All you have to do is read the responses from these "animal lovers" to understand why someone might think the only solution available is to poison the dangerous dog. I've seen posts here that misrepresent what was written. I've seen other posts where the "animal lover" claims they would kill anyone who harmed their pet and let the police sort it out. Of course we've had a fair number of posts about how most of this dangerous breed are not a threat. All this does is illustrate that "animal lovers" are not capable of looking at a breed and accepting that the dangers that breed presents far exceed the benefits.
The final fallback for these "animal lovers" is to say "let the authorities handle it". As you so correctly point out the authorities do nothing.
If these were real "animal lovers" they would recognize the danger of a breed and push for it's elimination. They aren't animal lovers though, really they are people who believe their pets are human in nature and of course all other pets are the same.
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