By Greg Higgins

Remington’s road to recovery continues

Mar 7, 2016 | 1:21 PM

Remington, the dog who was found shot last week, is out of surgery but not out of the woods yet.

According to Michelle Spark, director of the Battleford’s Humane Society, everyone is playing the waiting game. “As long as no more tissue dies and no infection sets in, he won’t have to have another surgery.”

Remington has had two surgeries so far.

“The first surgery was more about him being sedated,” Dr. Leo Perlinger of the Lakeland Veterinary Service said. “We flushed out some of his wounds and debrided some of the dead material away.”

Dr. Perlinger estimates the wounds were three to five days old before Remington was brought in, which caused so much dead material.

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In the second surgery they actually opened up Remington’s wounds to remove the shotgun pellets. Not all the pellets were removed but Dr. Perlinger assured the ones left will not affect him. Both surgeries took about an hour-and-a-half, which is a lot longer than normal for animal surgeries.

“He’s a pretty lucky boy,” Dr. Perlinger said of the wounds. “It missed his eyes and he hasn’t had any lameness so it’s not looking like he’ll have any long term side effects.”

If no more surgeries are needed for the shepherd cross the total vet bill will be a minimum of $2,000.

“All that depends on how many times we have to open him back up,” Spark explained. Right now the Humane Society has received $2,090, $590 of which has been donated from the public.

“We’ve had quite a few people interested in adopting him,” Spark said. It will still be two to three months before he can be adopted.

“He’s pretty smart. He seems to walk on a leash ok. He doesn’t know any commands but he’s very social,” Dr. Perlinger said.

No new information has been discovered as to how Remington was injured. Spark still believes Remington was in the wrong place at the wrong time and most likely ventured onto a farm where he was shot by a farmer.

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