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Loading...Life After Abuse For Patrick and Dexter (Video)
Some of the best qualities about pets are their ability to live in the present and not feel sorry for themselves. Two animals covered in past stories, Patrick the pitbull who was nearly starved to death by his owner and Dexter the tiny kitten beaten with a baseball bat are not looking back at the atrocities inflicted on them. In fact both animals are doing very well.
Patrick was discovered in Newark, NJ by a maintenance worker after the dog had been thrown down an apartment garbage chute. He had been nearly starved to death by his owner.
The dog went through weeks of intensive care, blood transfusions and a surgery to remove a foreign object.
Thanks to the skillful hands of veterinarians at Garden State Veterinary Specialists, Patrick has made a miraculous recovery and has proved to be a loving animal that holds no grudges for his abuse. He continues to be in the custody of GSVS and the veterinarian who saved his life.
Below is the latest video of him playing, just like any other pup.
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+ add your ownHeartbreaking, Rest in Peace over the rainbow precious Dexter.
Heartbreaking, Rest in Peace over the rainbow precious Dexter.
This story is so very sad and I do hope something is being done about this awful mother and her 2 children. The children's issues have to be addressed immediately so they don't continue a pattern of beating animals and eventually people. The mother needs to be punished and I'm sure Florida's laws are not what they should be, but she can do 1,000+ hours of community service and never own animals again. If we all care, and I know we do, we can push and push so the laws against animal cruelty become stronger and hopefully they'll be a deterrent someday.
So sad, bless his little heart.
Poor Dexter.. RIP Baby.... All of us here at Care2 love you...
I'm disgusted in this woman and her kids.. Also those kids should be taken away from her... First animals, then children...
Click the link below to see the petition page on Change.org.
http://www.change.org/petitions/we-need-protecting-laws-for-animals-in-dominican-republic?te=seia
This is the link; please help us, help them!!!!!!!!!!!!
How sad, , what a pain!!! cant ever understand why people do this to little angels send from heaven to love us and give us so much happiness!!
Thats why we are trying also in Dominican Republic to make congressmen understand the need for a law to protect animals, dear friends, please help us signing!!
Rest in Peace Sweet Little Dexter! You did not deserve what that evil bitch did to you! I could tell by the time you pranced across that beautiful bridge you knew not all humans are like her! For that I am grateful because you know you were loved!!! Until we meet again little dude, have fun in the hereafter!!!
so this is what i am thinking.
dexter is dead, and i am so angry i want to make the woman who did this hurt.
that is bad, but what makes it worse is knowing that this crime will see no real justice. we all know that the system lets them all but walk away with a smile.
someone mentioned that these cases bring out the best and the worst in us - but really, they bring out the passion. we are the passionate people, who are trying to make things better.
to me, that is far better than the apathetic who watch and do nothing.
those people help the cruelty to continue, they feed it with their carelessness.
but my anger is not helpful. it can be used against me, to make my stance seem weak and hysterical.
which means i need to use it to make me an effective agent of change.
i am trying to learn to use my anger to do something - anything - that can help make the situation better, and then to let it go.
i don't really want to hurt this woman; i want what she did to never have happened. all i can hope is that my prayers and efforts will make that a truth - some day in the future some pathetic coward will reach for a bat and stop, because they know it isn't right. they will know they need help, or that they will pay a huge price. they will pause and then walk away.
i am going to hope that all of us together, and with God's grace, will make that a reality.
our anger is not wrong. we just need to use it in the right way.
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