Pumpkin the dog was seconds away from being put to sleep... then a vet checked her phone
27.05.2024 - 21:59
/ manchestereveningnews.co.uk
A dog who was seconds away from being put to sleep was saved at the eleventh hour after a vet checked her phone. The pocket bully, named Pumpkin, was heartlessly abandoned by his owner and tied to the gates of a council-run dog pound.
He was about to be put to sleep after vets suspected he had cancer. But luckily for him, Vet Dr Sharon Williams decided to drive five hours to rescue him.
Under the care of the kennels, Pumpkin was unexplainably and rapidly losing weight he'd come in at 30 kilos and dropped to just 15 within a few months, reports the ECHO.
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Vet Dr Sharon Williams, the founder of Celandine Wood Animal Rescue (CWAR), said the kennel staff 'suspected he had cancer' and due to the cost of care he was due to be euthanized. Sharon had in the past agreed to save another dog who was due to be put to sleep, from the same kennels.
She got a message from staff to ask if she could also take in Pumpkin. She said: "I phoned the woman and said yes, we can take Pumpkin. But she said, 'oh, you're too late'. They've just sedated him and they're now putting him to sleep.
"I'd been out cleaning my yard when I was text about saving Pumpkin. My heart sank, knowing that if I'd have just seen the text a few minutes before he would still be alive."
But then Sharon's phone rang again, and the vet told her "we can't find a vein" and asked "can you still take him?" Sharon and a CWAR volunteer Paul jumped into her car and drove five hours to pick Pumpkin up.
Sharon said: "He had a little pumpkin-coloured jumper on him, which is where we got the name from, because he was actually called George. Although he was totally emaciated and