We're very happy to report that Carter seems to be doing just fine, showing no ill effects from his attack. He has mostly stopped licking the wound, so we can leave the lampshade off sometimes.
But this morning, we got some sad news. The owners of Homie, the dog that attacked Carter, surrendered him to the city's Animal Control officer on Saturday (the day after the attack). This was actually before any of the paperwork about the attack went through (at that point, we didn't have the owner's information). The Animal Control officer believes the dog was involved in a prior attack on a person (though he did not elaborate). All this means that Homie was euthanized on Saturday after being surrendered. We feel very sad about this. It is not at all what we wanted. They've sent out for rabies tests on him, which we'll hear about once there are results. Hopefully that will come out clean.
That's the sad update on this sad case. Hug your dogs.
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In the end, the owners can only blame themselves. If you've got a dog with "bites" on record, you need to take that much more precaution that it doesn't get out unsupervised (both for it's own good and the public's).
That said, if the state ever came to euthanize Mackie, I'd go on the lam with him. We'd be across the Canadian border by sundown. (Do they have doggy extradition laws there?)
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