Owner of 'Afro Man' speaks out: I couldn't care for him anymore
By Dave Dormer, Calgary Sun
First posted: Wednesday, August 12, 2015 12:03 AM EDT | Updated: Wednesday, August 12, 2015 09:33 AM EDT
The owner of a dog found abandoned near Morley with casts on its two broken front legs denied causing those injuries or leaving the animal there.
Mohammed Nadeem Dar said the dog — since dubbed Afro Man — was injured in an accident and since he was unable to care for it following that, he later gave the dog to a couple outside a south Calgary SPCA office to be euthanized and doesn’t know how it ended up west of the city.
Meanwhile, Alberta SPCA spokesman Roland Lines confirmed an investigation was launched Tuesday morning after receiving a complaint.
“We are trying to figure out what happened,” he said.
“And see whether or not there’s a reason for us to be involved.”
Dar at first denied the injured dog was his when contacted by the Sun.
“No sorry, that dog that was found is not mine,” he wrote in an email response.
“It looked very similar to mine.”
Dar later admitted the dog — which he said was bought in March and named Scoot — was his and he brought it to Calgary on Friday to have it euthanized.
However, he was too emotionally distraught and instead he said he gave it to a man and a woman he didn’t know outside an SPCA along with $500 cash and asked them to take it inside to be put down.
Dar said he is recovering from surgery and was unable to care for the dog properly or pay for necessary surgery he said would cost upward of $10,000.
He said the dog broke its legs last Tuesday when it “rolled the wrong way” and fell off a one-metre high ledge onto a cement step in his Invermere backyard.
The eight month old pure bred puli — named Afro Man by Rocky Mountain Animal Rescue workers now caring for him — was found Sunday near Morley sitting on a blanket next to a bag of food.
Rocky Mountain Animal Rescue dog behaviourist Rory O’Neill said she was contacted Tuesday by people who knew Dar and identified him as the owner.
She said she’d like to see the person who dumped the dog charged by RCMP.
Despite the ordeal he’s been through, O’Neill said the pooch is in good spirits.
“He’s happy and content but he has to lay down most of the time because he can’t really walk,” she said.
“He’s happy to get attention, he’s so loving and very affectionate.”
Once healed, O’Neill said she will find a new home for Afro Man and the rescue group is now collecting donations to pay for surgery to put plates in Afro Man’s legs at Rocky Mountain Animal Rescue | Calgary & Alberta Animal Rescue
dave.dormer@sunmedia.ca
A snapshot of Afro Man, the poodle with two broken legs who was found abandoned on the side of the road near Morley, Alta. (Submitted photo)
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By Dave Dormer, Calgary Sun
First posted: Wednesday, August 12, 2015 12:03 AM EDT | Updated: Wednesday, August 12, 2015 09:33 AM EDT
The owner of a dog found abandoned near Morley with casts on its two broken front legs denied causing those injuries or leaving the animal there.
Mohammed Nadeem Dar said the dog — since dubbed Afro Man — was injured in an accident and since he was unable to care for it following that, he later gave the dog to a couple outside a south Calgary SPCA office to be euthanized and doesn’t know how it ended up west of the city.
Meanwhile, Alberta SPCA spokesman Roland Lines confirmed an investigation was launched Tuesday morning after receiving a complaint.
“We are trying to figure out what happened,” he said.
“And see whether or not there’s a reason for us to be involved.”
Dar at first denied the injured dog was his when contacted by the Sun.
“No sorry, that dog that was found is not mine,” he wrote in an email response.
“It looked very similar to mine.”
Dar later admitted the dog — which he said was bought in March and named Scoot — was his and he brought it to Calgary on Friday to have it euthanized.
However, he was too emotionally distraught and instead he said he gave it to a man and a woman he didn’t know outside an SPCA along with $500 cash and asked them to take it inside to be put down.
Dar said he is recovering from surgery and was unable to care for the dog properly or pay for necessary surgery he said would cost upward of $10,000.
He said the dog broke its legs last Tuesday when it “rolled the wrong way” and fell off a one-metre high ledge onto a cement step in his Invermere backyard.
The eight month old pure bred puli — named Afro Man by Rocky Mountain Animal Rescue workers now caring for him — was found Sunday near Morley sitting on a blanket next to a bag of food.
Rocky Mountain Animal Rescue dog behaviourist Rory O’Neill said she was contacted Tuesday by people who knew Dar and identified him as the owner.
She said she’d like to see the person who dumped the dog charged by RCMP.
Despite the ordeal he’s been through, O’Neill said the pooch is in good spirits.
“He’s happy and content but he has to lay down most of the time because he can’t really walk,” she said.
“He’s happy to get attention, he’s so loving and very affectionate.”
Once healed, O’Neill said she will find a new home for Afro Man and the rescue group is now collecting donations to pay for surgery to put plates in Afro Man’s legs at Rocky Mountain Animal Rescue | Calgary & Alberta Animal Rescue
dave.dormer@sunmedia.ca
A snapshot of Afro Man, the poodle with two broken legs who was found abandoned on the side of the road near Morley, Alta. (Submitted photo)
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