Dog Gets Trapped in Gettysburg, Leg Must be Amputated

Summary:

Gettysburg, PA – In the heart of Gettysburg, Pennsylvania, the Adams County animal shelter is on a quest to locate the owner of a Great Pyrenees dog recently found ensnared in foothold traps. The dog, discovered by a man who had laid the traps for coyotes, was immediately rushed to the shelter for urgent medical attention.

As the shelter caregivers began administering first aid to the dog, they discovered an old injury indicating that the dog’s right front leg had been shot and brutally damaged by a bullet and was infected. The wound was so severe that the Adams County Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals (SPCA) had no choice but to amputate the leg.

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