QUICK thinking and swift action from a network of patrollers, security staff from Lad Security, SPCA inspectors and paramedics helped save a frightened dog that was fleeing from loud bangs on New Year’s day.
Andreas Mathios of Community News Network TV said Pet Rescue Pinetown, an animal rescue network site, was alerted about a stray dog that was spotted by a motorist travelling on the M13 Fields Hill.
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As soon as he received the photo and information of the dog, he began circulating it among the 5000 member network to try and find its owner but a few minutes later received a message that a stray dog had been run over on Field’s Hill.
Patrollers arrived at the scene and realised it was the same dog but at the time assumed it was dead as it was run over by a car.
Kloof and Highway SPCA soon after received reports that the dog was still alive but was seriously injured and sent out Inspector Petros to the scene.
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Tracey Dragsund from Pet Rescue Pinetown/Harrys Firework Rescue Team, and a patroller from Padfield Park took the dog’s microchip and positively identified the dog’s owners who was overseas at the time and was not aware of his pet’s incident.
ER24 then arrived on the scene and voluntarily offered to stabilise the dog in the ambulance and transport it to the vet to help the SPCA.
Mathios believes that the dog somehow escaped from its property and in the ensuing chaos of firework explosions, ended up on the notorious M13 Field’s Hill freeway.
“The heart and passion of a team of volunteers who use their own cars to patrol for missing pets and get them networked during extreme moments like this is admirable. To ER24 and Inspector Petros, you once again came through for the animals,” said Mathios.
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