Boerboel Rushed to Hospital by Ambulance
ER24 Emergency Services received a call via the emergency line at about 07h15 of a man that collapsed in a street in Bosmont.
According to the call taker, there was a lot of screaming in the background. Paramedics were dispatched to the location given, only to find a completely different scenario.
Paramedics were shocked to find a tan-colored Boerbull hanging by its testicles from a palisade fence in the front yard of a house.
According to the home owners, they heard a dog howling at about midnight, but it soon stopped. The dog was in a very bad shape and in obvious pain. He lost a lot of blood and vomited. He was hanging with is head down.
Paramedics tried to remove the dog from the fence, but he was so stuck that they had to use a surgical blade to cut him loose from the fence. With a veterinarian on the phone line, the paramedics were guided into saving this dog's life. After the dog was cut loose from the fence, paramedics gave him oxygen, put up a drip and rushed him off to a waiting veterinarian at the Roodepoort SPCA.
The dog was treated in the back of the ambulance and rushed to the SPCA whilst the doctor guided through specialist care for the K9.
It is not clear why the dog got stuck on the almost one and a half meter fence. According to the home owner, the dog does not belong to them, but might be one of the neighbours'. It was also mentioned that this is not the first time dogs came into their yard, as they have a big hole in the fence and no one understands why the dog didn't use the hole to go out again. It never bothered them that dogs go in and out of the yard.
On arrival at the Roodepoort SPCA the veterinarian waited for the dog and gave him morphine. It is understood that the dog will undergo emergency surgery.
The ambulance booked unavailable after the call and was taken to a decontamination area at the base where it was cleaned and re-sterilized before a human patient will be transported.
According to the call taker, there was a lot of screaming in the background. Paramedics were dispatched to the location given, only to find a completely different scenario.
Paramedics were shocked to find a tan-colored Boerbull hanging by its testicles from a palisade fence in the front yard of a house.
According to the home owners, they heard a dog howling at about midnight, but it soon stopped. The dog was in a very bad shape and in obvious pain. He lost a lot of blood and vomited. He was hanging with is head down.
Paramedics tried to remove the dog from the fence, but he was so stuck that they had to use a surgical blade to cut him loose from the fence. With a veterinarian on the phone line, the paramedics were guided into saving this dog's life. After the dog was cut loose from the fence, paramedics gave him oxygen, put up a drip and rushed him off to a waiting veterinarian at the Roodepoort SPCA.
The dog was treated in the back of the ambulance and rushed to the SPCA whilst the doctor guided through specialist care for the K9.
It is not clear why the dog got stuck on the almost one and a half meter fence. According to the home owner, the dog does not belong to them, but might be one of the neighbours'. It was also mentioned that this is not the first time dogs came into their yard, as they have a big hole in the fence and no one understands why the dog didn't use the hole to go out again. It never bothered them that dogs go in and out of the yard.
On arrival at the Roodepoort SPCA the veterinarian waited for the dog and gave him morphine. It is understood that the dog will undergo emergency surgery.
The ambulance booked unavailable after the call and was taken to a decontamination area at the base where it was cleaned and re-sterilized before a human patient will be transported.
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