A team of University Veterinary Specialists (UVS) in Pittsburgh on Saturday night performed a successful operation on a 10-month-old puppy dog and removed a 5-inch metal rod lodged inside its eyes and through its head.
The puppy is now well and recovering fast and it can be seen gulping its meal after the successful surgery - as if to convey to the doctors that saved it that they had done a great job which can only be appreciated by how much it ate its food.
The puppy will see with one eye, but not yet with the other
A terrier mix, the puppy was found abandoned in Bentleyville on Friday and the operation to remove the metal lodged into its head was performed the second day. The surgery team said the metal rod went through the eye of the dog and past its eye socket before jutting through its brain.
According to Dr. Dimitri Brown, chief medical officer, the surgery was performed by three doctors and several veterinary technicians and other staff who volunteered to help treat the puppy. He added that the surgical team spent a day to plan for the surgery, run advanced imaging, and consult with vet specialists to ensure that nothing would go wrong with the proposed surgery, CBS Pittsburgh reported.
Dr. Brown also revealed that while the surgical team is certain the puppy will regain the use of one of its eyes, it was too early to determine if they can save the other eye.
Investigators have been dispatched to determine possible case of abuse
The owner of the dog is not yet known and how the dog got its accident or brutality is not known and currently under investigation.
The UVS Express Pet Transport has been dispatched on to Bentleyville to investigate the circumstances that led to the dog having a metal rod in its brain and through its eyes, and to determine if there had been any case of animal abuse and abandonment, Action News Ajax revealed.
To this extent, the UVS Cares Foundation has agreed to foot the bills for the puppy's medical treatment and calls for more donations; while they will also assist the Washington County Humane Society to determine the dog's injuries.
In a related development, doctors in India removed a live cockroach from the skull of a Chennai woman, the big bug was lodged inside her nostrils and in-between her eyes.
