He And His Fiancée Used Their Wedding Money To Save A Dog Found Hit By A Car On Halloween Night
Dylan McCay and Emily Roberts are engaged, and they have been saving up for their wedding day. On Halloween night, they gave up all that money that was supposed to go to their special day so that they could save a dog found hit by a car.
Back on October 31st, Dylan and Emily saw a post on Facebook about the dog, located 20 minutes away from where they live in Arkansas, so Dylan jumped into his car to see if he could help.
“I gathered towels and blankets and sped to the location. As I drove, I prayed that someone had already been able to assist her and that I had driven out there as a precaution,” Dylan wrote on a GoFundMe page.
The poor dog had been hit, but the driver of that car drove off without stopping. Dylan said that since it had been raining throughout the day, the dog was soaking wet.
As Dylan got closer and spotted the dog, he could tell her back legs were coated in blood and seemed to both be broken.
Some good samaritans stopped to help Dylan get the dog in his car and locate the closest emergency clinic.
“She was shivering and coughing. Despite her life-threatening injuries, she did not whine; she did not growl,” Dylan said.
“She tried to crawl towards me and laid her head on my lap. Once getting this wonderful girl to the hospital, it was discovered that she was not microchipped.”
“What that means is that if an owner never came forward, all medical expenses would fall on me. I decided in that moment that I would do whatever was necessary to help this puppy. She deserved a chance at life.”
GoFundMe – pictured above Dylan holds Acklin
While at the Greenbrier Animal Hospital, it was confirmed that this flea-covered dog had broken both of her hind legs and was suffering from fractured femurs.
One fracture punctured her skin, and the staff at the hospital were concerned that she might develop an infection since she had been out in the rain all day.
Dylan washed the dog’s blood from his hands and began to break down and cry. Emily got to the hospital not long after, and they spent the next few hours laying by this dog’s side.
The following day, the veterinarian who saw the dog called Dylan with bad news: the leg with the wound most likely needed to be amputated, while her other leg would require a specialist to perform a tough surgery.
Dylan and Emily named the dog, a Goldendoodle estimated to be 9 or 10-months-old, Acklin, and they resolved to provide her with the loving home she so desperately needed.
“To be fully transparent, this is one of the toughest situations that Emily and I have ever experienced, emotionally and financially,” Dylan added.
“We are upset, we are worried, we are stressed. We have pulled the money from our wedding fund and our overall life savings to fund these medical expenses.”
In an update posted two days ago, Dylan shared that both of Acklin’s legs were able to be saved and that the surgery cost $12,000.
You can view the GoFundMe for Acklin here.
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