Bev had to take Travis to the vet on 23rd January as he pulled out his stomach stitches after his operation. He was stitched up and went home. Yesterday this happened!

‘Oh Travis.. you scared me last night ! today he has eaten and been out for a few walks on the lead in the paddock.

Last night I had given his evening meds he was fine went to do something came back 5 minutes later to take him for a walk. To see blood everywhere on the walls the floor he was covered in it. He was trying to pull his insides out and screaming. Has I tried to strap it up to stem the bleeding he was trying to bite me he was in such a panic ..

The emergency vet I’m registered at is over an hour away I called a friend to ask for help. She rang her vet who is closer and they very kindly offered to open the clinic ..My friend dropped what she was doing and drove to the finca and took us to her vet. I had to hold onto Travis to stop him going for the wound..

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This is the worst case of mange I have seen in the 13 years since I’ve been helping the hounds in Spain. The Prdotectora Lugo in Galicia says ‘This little angel arrived a couple of hours ago at the Lugo Protectora, it looks like a little boy, brought here by the lacero from Begonte, it will be the waste of some hunter. Starving, sick and mostly cold dead, got into the heat of blankets and heat lamp. To know his life, what the poor guy has gone through, now he has to heal his body and surely his soul.

To the one who mistreats an animal like this, I wish the universe pays for it with the worst of life and the worst of deaths.’