MIAMI-DADE COUNTY, Fla. – Miami-Dade County Sheriff’s Workplace deputies responded to Cutler Bay after a girl reported that her 15-year-old Shih Tzu “Gizmo” suffered a number of stab wounds.
On Thursday, Karen Maisonet stated she and her canine had returned dwelling from the Veterinary Emergency Group in Pinecrest and he wandered away whereas somebody was taking out the trash.
Maisonet and her household spent hours looking for “Gizmo” round their residence complicated off Southwest 216 Avenue and located him yelping faintly.
Maisonet stated he was caught in a canal and was holding onto rocks close to Southwest 212 Avenue and 103 Avenue.
“I jumped in; I grabbed him,” Maisonet stated. “I noticed blood … I believed it was simply him from falling down since he can’t see, however as soon as I obtained to the vet, they informed me it was stab wounds.
“A number of stab wounds throughout his neck and again!”
Vets on the clinic reported the canine suffered seven totally different accidents and the injuries had been unfold aside and formed like straight strains versus circles.
The household has many questions, together with how “Gizmo,” each blind and deaf, ended up past a fence, throughout the road, and right into a canal and the way he was injured.
The household requested the general public for assist. There have been suspicious folks within the space between 9 p.m. and midnight when Gizmo had vanished.
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