Help Sadie, Travis and family find justice.

This page was started by a friend to help my dog Sadie through multiple complicated surgeries while in the ICU. Sadie and Travis were attacked on the evening of March 19th by two loose dogs in saint Andre d'argenteuil, Quebec.
The photos below of her injuries are very graphic so please be warned. They will upset you and they are not appropriate to show to children.

Sadie had been bitten around 40 times and her anus and part of her rectum was ripped out, meaning any surgery would first have to stabilize her and save her from dying from the wounds to her body as well as try to reconstruct parts of her lower digestive tract and due to the complications of this, the cost would have been $20,000.

The doctors classified it as being experimental as they had never seen this amount of damage done to another dog and had no idea about her ability to survive or lead a good life after but were willing to make the attempt
to save her. Furthermore the various bites on her body were beginning to necrotize and all of the above was a considerable amount of pain and suffering with very little chance that she would even live through the surgeries.

We studied the odds and we laid with her as she cried to us, we listened, and then we made the excruciating decision to put our girl down. This one intense night in the ICU, one surgery, euthanasia and cremation costs have added up to over $3,000. This page has helped us meet this goal of covering the initial ICU charges, and we thank everyone for their support. We were originally hoping to raise enough to save her but she was really suffering badly and we couldn't put her through that with the odds so slim of her surviving.

We thank everyone who has been so generous but still need help. We need Justice.

Here is her story.

Sadie is a Husky that I rescued as a 5 week old pup and has been my companion and best friend for 7 years. My family life has its own share of tragedy and Sadie was someone that gave me all of her love and support and has helped me deal with all of my own hard times. During this time in my small community, Sadie has taken on a bit of a role as the unofficial town mascot.

Travis is my partner and was walking Sadie down our usual route all around town. Trav and Sadie came to an intersection where they would normally turn to come home, but they noticed two large dogs on the loose on their path: irresponsibly owned, male Bullmastiff/Rottweiler/Boxer mixes, not neutered, a lot bigger, and a lot more dangerous than my Sadie ever was.

Trav decided to take an alternate route home to avoid the dogs and continued on a different trail. They walked about 300 meters and were directly in front of our local daycare when these dogs tracked them and came up in silence and attacked.

The two dogs latched their jaws onto my girl and thrashed her around like a rabbit and particularly focused on disembowelling her meanwhile attacking Travis as well..
Trav fought as hard as he could to fight the dogs off while getting bitten many times in the process. Sadie almost got away at one point but the dogs caught her again and continued to rip her apart. Trav continued to scream for help as he fought, he found a small window that the dogs had released their jaws, and he laid down on top of Sadie to shelter her from the attack. The
dogs continued to circle Travis and Sadie, mauling his hands, arms and legs until a passerby (thankfully) heard their cries and came to help fight the dogs off of them.

Travis was taken to the hospital, he was in shock, vomiting and covered in blood.  He had
acquired over 30 punctures and severe bruising on his hands, legs, arms and groin. Sadie was taken to an emergency surgery veterinarian in Laval where she spent the night sedated and monitored in the ICU. In the morning, surgery was performed to see the extent of the damage. She had acquired over 40 bites, her teeth were knocked out, her eye was punctured,
and her anus, sphincter and rectum had been nearly entirely removed. We were told that even with the experimental reconstruction, that she would have severe fecal incontinence for the remainder of her life - if she even survived.
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This is not the first time these dogs have gotten loose or harmed others, although, it is the first time anyone has reported it to the police until now. Since telling Sadie's story, multiple brave individuals have come forward to us with their statements of attacks from these same dogs/owner which leads us to court....  We encourage any other unfortunate victims to come forward to the police with their statements, it is not too late to seek justice and prevent this from happening again.

This legal battle will likely be lengthy, expensive and painful . Travis is Australian and while in Canada his insurance will not cover psychological treatment for the trauma he has gone through of being attacked by these dogs, trying to save my Sadie, watching her die and then suffer with survivors guilt/PTSD.

Therapy costs us over $100 per session minimum. We will be using these generous funds to heal, find justice and to bring awareness to this preventable problem. This could have been your dog, your partner, or your child that one mans repeated neglect ripped to pieces. We can't let this keep happening.

Thank you all for your help.