Long time
SaRenna Lee fans know what an animal lover the lady is, with a seemingly constant menagerie of dogs, cats, birds, guinea pigs, gerbils, fish and goodness knows what else in her life. In the predecessor thread to this one (
Goddess in distress) started a year or more ago by
TheStrigoii, he announced the distressing news of what had happened to her cat (
Sugar Booger, I think), which in turn seemed to result in an outpouring of concern from BEA forum members. Well now I have to sadly report of another incident that occurred to another of Miss Lee's pets quite recently, which is perhaps even more distressful for her.
Currently there are 4 dogs that reside with SaRenna;
Oliver,
Anna Lee,
Bud Bean and
Gorgi Porgi. Well a little over a week ago (the 19th of Aug) Gorgi Porgi, a small black and white Jack Russell terrier, had a run-in with a larger dog (a pit bull, I think, but I'm not 100% certain about it) belonging to one of her neighbors, and came out quite badly injured. In fact, let me say this vicious attack almost took the little terrier's life. But rather than me trying to explain this, perhaps I should let SaRenna tell in her own words what happened to her dog. The following is an extract from her postings about the incident.
... Last Friday my dog GorgiPorgi was viscously(sic) attacked by another dog and almost died. He had surgery immediately to put his neck back together as his jugular was exposed and he had to have four teeth extracted from his muzzle including his canine at which point the surgeon realized his upper jaw was completely broke and forward an inch. This injury was from being in the other dog's mouth and shaken. They sutured him the best they could and we are healing and in need of another operation in 2 weeks to wire his jaw. It is a miracle he survived ...
Now to understand how SaRenna feels about this little pup, you should know Gorgi was a Hurricane Katrina survivor, and went though several foster homes, before landing in SaRenna's home, when she adopted him. So one can see Gorgi has been though a lot in his life, and not all of it very pleasant, before this even happened.
And since the incident SaRenna has been nursing her injured dog, between each visit she has to make with him to the vet. And this is on top of all the normal stuff she has on her plate, like being the mother to two young girls.
As for the owners of the other dog, initially they were most conciliatory, offering to see that SaRenna's dog received all the care he needed. But since then the neighbor has balked, perhaps after it was discovered Gorgi is facing multiple surgeries and treatments in his recovery. This in turn is **77** SaRenna to seek legal redress against them, which she had hoped to avoid. And as of yesterday, before taking Gorgi in to the vet for further treatment, she announced in a tweet she sent, "
I'm filing a dangerous dog report today on neighbor". My guess is that this is the first legal step SaRenna has to take, before she can bring her neighbor in to court over this matter.
So much of everything regarding this whole incident, both from a medical and legal standpoint, is still in flux, and it is unclear yet how well Gorgi will respond to treatment, and if the people who own the other dog will be held accountable. One can understand then that having to deal with this whole nasty incident has to have left SaRenna quite distressed by it.
Now for anybody who might be interested to find out more, I would like to be able to point you to
SaRenna's Sweetsamples website, but it has been down for the last couple of weeks for a long overdue revamp, so if you go there all you get is an "Under Construction" graphic. And while SaRenna had hoped to possibly have the new version of SS back on line this week, or possibly next, with all this going on the possibility of that happening is looking quite remote.
So as of right now the only way to get in touch with SaRenna on-line is though twitter at:
http://twitter.com/SaRennaLeeIn fact, much of what I reported about this incident comes from my reading of her twitter timeline, which I believe is open and viewable to the public, even if one isn't a twitter account holder.
Of course, SaRenna still has her FB page, and recently she set up a page at the blog site, tumblr.
That blog can be found at:
http://sarennalee.tumblr.com----
Here's a picture of Gorgi a few days after the attack.