Her name is Sweety and she was abused to the point of needing $3000 worth of care.
When Wanda Price of the Humboldt and District SPCA put this four month old puppy’s story out to the Humboldt area, donations started “pouring in”, she says.
Through a GoFundMe.com page, approximately $1200 was raised for the surgery, along with another $600 from an online auction that SPCA has twice a year. In a last effort to raise the remaining amount, Wanda and her volunteers held a BBQ on the corner by the museum on Oct. 31.
Price was shocked by the $857 that raised, over $600 from burgers, the rest by donation.
This meant that enough money was raised to cover surgery and Sweety’s care.
The quote from Central Animal Hospital was between $2500-$2700 and then $200 in additional costs, like X-rays and pain meds from the Humboldt clinic.
In the end, the bill for the surgery came to $2003 but the vet at the hospital wrote a cheque for $400 to put against the surgery.
Price says she was surprised how the money just poured in for Sweety but she is also please that people chose to support Sweety.
“I don’t know why she was so special.” says Price.
Sweety was found on the highway between Humboldt and Muenster and was limping badly. Initially, the staff at the SPCA thought she was hit by a car but Price put a call out on Facebook and learned what had happened to her.
“She was tied up outside and managed to chew through her leash and it took 2 and a half days for her to hobble on 3 legs to the HWY before a very nice caring gentleman saw her and brought her to the Humboldt & District SPCA.” Price wrote on Facebook.
X-rays at the Animal Health Clinic Of Humboldt would show a large chunk of bone broken off her left hip and another break around the hip area.
Price had the pieces of bone, about as wide as a quarter, on her desk. She cannot imagine the pain Sweety was in.
“This little piece was off and everytime it moved, wouldn’t it just jag into her?”
Sweety is now recovering at Price’s house and even though she has a little swelling, she is healing nicely, says Price. She is off her antibiotics and Price says she does not appear to be in much pain so she is keeping her off the pain meds.
“It’s hard to keep her calm. When I get home, she’s running around.”
Price says the way the community helped with Sweety has restored her faith in humanity.
In her line of work, she says that there are many times she loses that a little.
Sweety is in the process of being adopted. An interested party has already filled out an application online and is waiting to meet Sweety.
The Humboldt and District SPCA are always looking for homes for stray cats and dogs, as well as volunteers to help care for the animals they do have. At the time of writing the article, the Humboldt SPCA is full to capacity and cannot take anymore stray animals.
