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Jassas, the (un)-fortunate Husky/Malamute
(excerpt from article in 7days on Monday February 1st)
A campaign has been launched to fund specialist surgery urgently needed by a husky who was left with a shattered pelvis and dumped by his owner.
The one-year-old dog was brought to Al Barsha Veterinary Clinic by his owner a week ago with a series of broken bones and a severe skin infection. The clinic believes that his injuries are so serious they could have only been caused by a car accident at least a month earlier. Since he was left, the clinic has made repeated attempts to contact the dog’s owner but said it has not had any response.Veterinary nurse Carly Jacobs says they had requested to put the dog to sleep but Dubai Municipality refused to give permission for euthanasia as they do not own the dog. The only other option now for the clinic is to raise dhs13,000 for reconstructive surgery in Abu Dhabi
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And then something wonderful happened. The people of Dubai donated over AED 38.500 for the treatment and care of Jassas.
We at Al Barsha Veterinary Clinic would like to thank the people of Dubai for their overwhelming generosity regarding Jassas the Husky. In the meantime “Jassas” underwent reconstructive surgery on his pelvis, at the British Veterinary Clinic in Abu Dhabi on the morning of February 3rd 2010.
Over AED 38,500 was raised to aid in the treatment of Jassas and we are thrilled to announce that the surgery was successful. Jassas is now recovering back in Al Barsha Veterinary Clinic and will hopefully soon be re-homed to one of you who have so generously and overwhelmingly offered support and offered a home for him.
The British Veterinary Clinic in Abu Dhabi, Dr. Jonathan Hale, have besides wonderful high quality specialistic orthopedic surgery, also contributed towards Jassas future by reducing their initial surgical cost of 13.000 AED to 6.000 AED. Thank you so much for this BVC, Dr. Jonathan!
Unfortunately there are many cases similar to Jassas’ and we would like to use the remainder of your generous donations in the post-operative care of Jassas as well as for future situations like this. We therefore have set aside the remainder of this money in our ‘ABVC - Rescue Fund’.
Al Barsha Veterinary Clinic would like to thank each and every individual who contributed to saving this beautiful dog. We will continue to keep you updated and hopefully in the near future, Jassas will be running, playing and enjoying life the way a dog should.
We will keep you updated on Jassas’s progress.