Doogie - the dog that Tammy Grimes, the founder of Dogs Deserve Better - removed from a backyard because he was on the edge of death, and the owners charged her with theft when she refused to return him - died March 1st 2007 - 5 1/2 months after he was removed from the chain that he'd been tethered to for his entire previous existence.
I have talked here on this blog in several places about the story of Doogie and Tammy and it's ramifications - so I'm not going to talk about it again here, but it just seems to me that 5 1/2 months isn't quite long enough to make up for a whole lifetime of being ignored. I really hope that Doogie has better luck in his next life. I guess at least in the final analysis he didn't die in pain in muck in his own shit where no one even noticed. Like 100's and maybe 1000's of other animals are doing at this very moment. Life is so rotten at some moments, isn't it?
Did you hear about Tammy? She was sent to hospital after being "attacked" by one of her fosters. The dog was immediately destroyed, apparently. I haven't heard anything since. Any word on the circumstances, Tammy's experience with rehabilitating aggressive dogs, or Tammy's feelings about the dog's destruction?
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