These puppies, born without bones in their front legs, traveled to Mass. for surgery
Laurie McCannon, director of Northeast Animal Shelter, a no-kill shelter in Salem, has taken in thousands of dogs over the years, but has never seen this.
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Three dogs who traveled here from a Georgia shelter were forced to walk on their elbows because they could not stand upright. The mixed-breed puppy brothers named Carbon, Krypton, and Cobalt were born without the carpal, or wrist, bones in their front legs, reports The Boston Globe.
“We’ve taken in over 50,000 dogs in over 40 years, and have never run into this,” McCannon told the Globe.
The shelter launched a GoFundMe page and raised the more than $20,000 needed for surgeries on the dogs’ legs in just 15 days. Two of the dogs were operated on at the Massachusetts Veterinary Referral Hospital in Woburn in late May and the third is scheduled to be operated on June 9. The surgery fused the bones at the joint using metal plates and screws.
The puppies could be ready for adoption within three or four months.
Read the full story in the Globe.
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