Penny was missing at dinner time on Friday night and after a couple of calls we went out looking for her. This is nothing unusual as Penny, the smartest and most adventurous of our dogs, has this habit of sneaking out of the house to explore the neighborhood and because our house is not fully-fenced in the conventional sense (we live right next to a river) Penny has a knack of finding a new way out of the house each time we find a way to thwart her escape(s).
The house across the road from us had been empty since we moved in and had recently being sold (to a sucker) termites infestations and all; and as such warrants major cleaning up and renovation works which has been going on for the past few months. We have noticed that the workers were fishing from the river and setting up crab traps. But we didn’t realize that they have also been setting up traps to catch the monitor lizards as well until Friday night when to my horror, I found Penny caught in one.
Penny in pain and her owner equally anguished
After hosing off the mud all over her; I carried her to the van to bring her over to see the vet who after sedating Penny managed to remove the hooks through her mouth and embedded in her front left paw. We are relieved that Penny survived the ordeal and now more worried about how to keep her safe and well within our compounds. It’s a cruel, cruel world out there - especially for animals. *sigh*
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poor penny
so teruk la the workers.. complain complain complain them
Oh, man…that must have been as agonizing to you as it was to poor Penny! Hopefully she won’t get infected.
That’s really sad.
Hope Penny get well soon…
Cheers!
Poor Penny and what sort of blithering moron sets a trap like that? I hope you trashed all the traps.