‼️‼️‼️TRIGGER WARNING‼️‼️‼️

Hello everyone, this past Tuesday our family dog Max was shot in the nose by an unidentified male. Our dog’s breed is a pitbull mix. He is energetic, playful, and is curious by nature. We found max as a puppy abandoned in a dumpster in Virginia. We cherish him a lot and he is considered a part of the family. To clarify about this incident, we live in a small duplex off a neighborhood street. Our duplex does not have a backyard so we walk him on a leash or tie him to the rails on the front porch stairs to pee in the grass next to the house. He has a lot of zoomies because we live in a small space. In September, i suffered major injuries from a bad car accident along with two of my children. I had to get multiple heart surgeries and heal my arm and leg. I lost my job due to the accident and I am still recovering from the crash. I am unable to restrain or pick up our dog max. It is hard to restrain the dog away from our screen door whenever I need to leave the house. We usually tie max to a leash to go pee or leave in our bedroom when we have to open the door. On Tuesday, I had max tied to the house to go pee and he broke away from his collar. Max was only gone for five minutes and he came back home with a bloody face and a gunshot wound in his nose. According to our neighbor, he witnessed the person with a firearm shoot at our dog’s head. Everything happened so fast, I am devastated that this happened to our family dog.