I Followed My Rescued Pit Bull Around to Document His Day
Pit bulls are wonderful dogs when they’re given a chance to be — here’s how mine spends his day
We rescued Raffie from an out-of-state shelter eight months ago. He was transported for several days before arriving at a local sanctuary where we picked him up.
I was raised on a farm-turned-sanctuary, so I’m no stranger to rehabilitating animals, but Raffie pulled at my heart more than any other animal that I’ve ever rescued.
He arrived mangy, dirty, scared for his life, and yet full of love. There was also one other detail, and one reason that I quickly put in an adoption request before his scheduled euthanasia: his enlarged eye. To be honest, it was heartbreaking to see. He had sustained some sort of blow to the head which had resulted in Ocular Proptosis.
At first, I thought that he would need emergency surgery, but after consulting with multiple vets, the prevailing suggestion was that he should keep the eye since it was a very old injury, caused him no pain, and could be covered by his eyelid when he closed his eye. Eye removal would have been only for cosmetic reasons.
I was relieved to not subject Raffie to the additional trauma of eye removal. Through his frequent vet visits, we…
