Dogs can be talented escape artists when they want to be, and when one Arizona Pit Bull mix wanted to play with the neighbor’s dog, a flimsy chain-link fence had no chance at keeping her in.
The rescue dog named Ginger dug underneath the fence and easily slipped underneath into the neighbor’s yard, however, when the neighbor saw her on his property, he shot her in the head at point-blank range. “I think she wanted to go play with their dog,” Ginger’s owner, Hayley Miller said. “The neighbor claims Ginger charged him so he shot her in the face. She had gone over there twice before so he was ready and waiting for her to come again.”
Miraculously, the shot didn’t kill Ginger, who was found shortly after wandering a dirt road by Maricopa County Sheriff Deputy Brian Bowling. “Because the dog was injured, I didn’t know if the dog was going to be safe to handle or not,” said Bowling. “But instead of running away from me or trying to bite me or anything, she ran right up to me and started wagging her tail, and tried to get in the front seat of my patrol car.”
Bowling rushed Ginger to an animal hospital where scan revealed the miraculous reason she was still alive. “The bullet was in the back of the head, but not in the skull,” said Veterinarian Nicole Keaner. “It bounced off of the skull, so the dog was really lucky.” Ginger was still alive, but needed $3,000-$4,000 worth of surgery and treatment. ”
“Unfortunately, I don’t have this kind of money. If I did, I would not hesitate one moment to treat her immediately,” said Miller who decided to put Ginger down when the vet contacted her with the bad news. “He got me on the phone,” Miller said about Bowling. “When I said, ‘yes, we need to put her down’, he said, ‘please don’t. We’re going to cover all of the costs.'”
“The mere fact she was shot by a .357 at what we assume was close range in the head and survived that, it means there is a big reason for all of this,” said Bowling. “This wasn’t just about a neighbor who shot a violent pit bull. There’s a lot more to this story,” said Bowling, who paid for everything out of his own pocket.
Watch the entire video below to see this dog’s remarkable recovery after bing shot in the head.
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