Thursday, January 21, 2016

Michigan: Metro Detroit vet shaves 2-1/2 pounds of matted fur from rescued Shih Tzu

MICHIGAN -- The Grosse Pointe Animal Adoption Society is helping rescue a severely matted dog that was brought to their facility. Workers say that when the dog was first brought in, they had a hard time figuring out what kind of animal it even was.

GPAAS says the dog is a stray - found running at large near the Detroit City Airport - and was dropped off at their Animal Protection Facility on Tuesday. His fur was so severely matted, GPAAS says it was hard to tell he was even a dog.

 

"We were unable to see his eyes or his face," said Corrine Martin of the Grosse Pointe Animal Adoption Society. "Difficult to tell back end from the front."

"Dakota was covered in hair and feces," Martin said. "It was difficult for him to eat not able to defecate, if he did urinate it was on himself."

 

"The mats were so heavy over his eyes he could not open them and he could barely walk because of the filth weighing him down," the group's wrote on social media said.

He was taken to a veterinarian in Harper Woods where they sedated him and shaved him down. The vet could tell, too, that the dog hadn't received care for some time by the length of his nails.


GPAAS says the vet removed 2 and a half pounds of matted filth. The shih tzu now weighs 15 pounds and they think he's about 5 years old. Workers say he is a sweetheart and named him Dakota.

Many are asking about adopting the little guy, but GPAAS hasn't posted any information on that yet as they are waiting for him to make a full recovery.

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