NEWSFLASH: From Ernie’s house of whoop-ass dot com

“When a man’s best friend is his dog, that dog has a problem.” — Edward Abbey

It all started at the tail end of last week, when I received this rather disturbing email from a fairly new subscriber (he actually signed up on my birthday, ironically as that is…) I was a little skeptical at first, and I wanted to believe what he was telling me was too absurd to be true.

Unfortunatly, this is one of those cases where truth is stranger, and infinitely more cruel, than fiction.

At 10:02 PM 7/2/2002, Brad Ward wrote:

Ernie,

I hope you could help. This dog was doused with gas and set on fire. The sick Fuck who did this claimed that he was tired of the dog walking through his yard. He is in Jail, with Felony charges.

The Humane society of North Texas has taken in and treated the dog, but he’s not out of the woods yet. They can use any donations that the readers of your website can provide.

I want to warn you that the pictures of the dog are on the front page of the website, and they are pretty graphic. Please go to www.hsnt.net to see what i’m talking about.

Thanks again,

Brad

PS- I would like to cover the sonofabitch who did this in gas and light him on fire, just to see how he would like it.

And so I went to the website, looked at the pictures, read the story, and got pretty pissed off. And you know when I get pissed off, bad things happen.

http://www.dfw.com/mld/dfw/news/local/3591257.htm

In twenty words or less, Daisy is a 10 month old dog who was a’ramblin around her neighborhood and happened to wander into a neighbor’s yard. Said neighbor didn’t much appreciate Daisy’s presence, so after a few unsuccessful attempt to shoo her off his property, he got another bright idea. And so, he doused Daisy with gasoline and set her on fire.

You know, because *that* seems a totally fucking rational thing to do.

Fort Worth Police responded to the scene, and called the Humane Society of North Texas, who took ownership of the dog. She was then transferred to a 24-hour veterinary hospital, where she remains, in very guarded health.

Her feet and lower legs must stay bandaged, except for swirling hot tub sessions. Dead and dying tissue has to be massaged and scrubbed from her body after it’s softened by the sessions in swirling hot tub. Ointment that should stimulate the tissue to regrow and help fiight infection is applied, followed by yet another bandage. She’s in such bad shape that even the lifesaving medicines she needs so desperately can cause her harm in the long run — the antibiotics she is being treated with to fend off a lethal infection are so powerful she has to be constantly monitored for damage to her kidneys (renal failure). The fire burned all the tissue around her ears and eyes, including her cornea. The vets are still concerned that she may never completely regain her eyesight.

All because some ASSHOLE decided to set her on fire because he didn’t want her in his yard. Like we don’t have enough fucked up things in this world to deal with already.

As a testament to this dog’s unbreakable spirit and willingness to please, less than two weeks after this encounter with unspeakable cruelty, Daisy is up and walking (on burned paws) under her own power, managing to eat and drink for herself, and even managed a tail wag from time to time.

I’ve been in contact with Jamey Cantrell, the operations manager for the Humane Society of North Texas since last week, and was able to speak with him regarding Daisy’s progress, and her ever increasing bill for her care.

At 07:24 PM 7/8/2002, Jamey Cantrell wrote:

Thank you for wanting to help Daisy, Ernie.

http://www.hsnt.net

What else can I say?

There are many of you out there who don’t agree with me on many key issues of the recent months — our reactions to terrorism, hippies displaying flags incorrectly, the Pledge of Allegiance, just to name a few. In fact, plenty of you consider me an asshole, and that’s okay with me. But I think we all can agree that you don’t set a fucking dog on fire.

Those of you who are longtime members of EHOWA know that you can usually count on both ears the number of times that I ask you to reach into your own pocket for money. Those of you who are new, will learn this soon enough.

I am hereby adding Daisy to that list of things worthy of our focused attention.

I am personally asking each and every one of you, to please, reach into your pocket and donate a few dollars to the Humane Society of North Texas to help pay for the cost of Daisy’s care. While it is too late to prevent Daisy from being attacked, it is not too late to help control the amount of lasting damage that was done. You can donate money to them via two ways…

1. The easiest of course is via Paypal using this link…

https://www.paypal.com/xclick/business=hsnt@hsnt.net

or

2. Send a check via US Mail to…

Humane Society of North Texas

ATTENTION: DAISY c/o HSNT

1840 E. Lancaster Avenue

Ft. Worth, Texas 76103

If you do make a donation to Daisy, and I sincerely hope that you all do, please drop me a note to daisy@ehowa.com I’d like to keep a running tally of the amount of donations from EHOWA subscribers. I’ll be dedicating this on EHOWA to keep everyone informed of Daisy’s most current status and post any updates I receive from other sources.

My thanks to Brad for bringing this to my attention, and to veterinarian Dr K. Head (longtime EHOWA subscriber) for getting the inside scoop and breaking it down into “dumb speak”.

I thank you all in advance for your generosity.

Ernie