Help save Pablo

Please help save my poor boy. Pablo was injured in a road traffic accident while under the care of his doggy daycare.

On Friday 21 Feb I had messaged the daycare to ask for him to be left out in my back garden, which is secured, as it had been raining all day and knew he would be filthy so I planned on washing him before allowing him into the house. I arrived home from school run at 3.20pm and Pablo was in my garden. At this point he seemed fine. I’m assuming he was running off adrenaline. He wasn’t as dirty as I thought he would be so I towel dried him and seen some blood on the towel. I noticed he had a small graze on his bum but didn’t think too much of it.

I went onto Facebook and seen someone had posted in a local community page 45 minutes earlier there was a cropped ear Doberman running loose infront of cars on Burnbank. Pablos almost four years old and I’ve yet to see another Doberman like him in the area. He is a Serbian import with his ears and tail cropped and docked. This is legal in Serbia. I messaged the daycare and was told it wasn’t Pablo. We were actually joking about it as he’s an escape artist with no road sense. I first noticed something was wrong with him when I went to give him a treat after his dinner. Was asking him to “sit” and he wouldn’t sit down. He then slumped on the couch which isn’t unusual after a day at daycare. I then left the house for 45 minutes. Normally Pablo hears the car pulling into the drive and he’s at the window barking. When I came in he was still lying in the same position. He didn’t even lift his head. I actually thought the worst. I went upstairs and he followed me but was hobbling and struggling and wouldn’t put his hind leg down. I then sent a message to the daycare telling them Iknow it was Pablo as this was all too suspect as I had now seen a woman had wrote on the Facebook post that there was a woman in a white van asking people if they’ve seen a Doberman on Clydesdale Street. Pablo’s normally dropped off by a woman in a white van! Coincidence? I think not! I also had someone messaging me telling me my dog ran past them and they tried to catch him he was 100% sure it was my dog yet the daycare were still adamant it wasn’t him. My dogs injuries were confirming to me it was infact him as I had suspected all along. The post on the local community page was then taken down as a profile had messaged the page saying it was their Doberman who was running loose but they found him at the train station, they had gone to the lengths to make a facebook page to do this! Fast forward a wee while and I receive a messsge from the daycare page admitting my dog did escape the van but wasn’t struck by a car. So basically he was running infront of cars on probably the busiest street in Hamilton at one of the busiest times of the day and he’s now injured but he wasn’t hit by a car I give them their due they did come and collect him and take him to the vet where they were told he looks to have sprained his hind leg, he was given medication. I have since noticed around 20 odd messages in my message requests where some people have actually named the daycare asking if it was them as their dogs have been injured in their care. Had they been upfront and honest about this situation I wouldn’t have put this post out. But for them to know my dog had been hit by a car and for them to bring him home and leave him without telling me about it is absolutely shocking. Had this not been posted online I would be none the wiser. I would have just thought he hurt his leg while jumping out of her van as that’s what she suggested to me might have happened!!

Have now received dash cam footage of my dog colliding with a small grey car, which will probably have damage to the side of it, at the junction bar west / peacock and ivy.

On Sunday 23 February we took Pablo to 24 hour vet and were charged £260 for the consultation and painkillers. Today we took him

to his own vet who charged £106 for pain relief and a catheter to be placed in. He is now is veterinary specialist Scotland where they are telling us his treatment could cost £10000+, we have already paid £1500 to them for his overnight stay and xray. They have told us the next step with be CT scan if the xray doesn’t show enough. The CT scan is £3000. These costs are only for diagnosis they don’t include my poor boys treatment.