The girls are doing great. We went ahead with their spay surgeries yesterday and they are back home with us and recovering. Neither girl lost an eye, which is great. Sophie, who was the more severely injured, still has a small ulcer on her eye, and will never see from it again, but is healing well. She will need eye meds for the rest of her life, but that is easily managed.
Tasha is doing well too, she is bright and happy -- she's really come around. Her eyes are slower to heal, and like Sophie she has lost vision in one. The other is also pretty bad, and we are working to save it. Yesterday while under for spay, the surgeon scratched a gird pattern into her eye to encourage healing (I have no idea how scratching the eye helps it heal but apparently it does!) We are cautiously optimistic that we can get this under control.
No charges have been laid, although tips continue to come in. There are conflicting stories -- and 2 people are suspects. I doubt we will ever see justice for the girls.....but hopefully our ad campaigns and very public outrage over this and some of the other cases of abuse we have seen recently, will continue to push this previously apathetic community into action. We are already seeing some positive changes, and people are speaking out against cruelty they see around them. HART's ads have generated many new leads on cruelty cases in this region, and there are many investigations happening.
After Soph and Tasha's rescue, some local children got together and did a bottle drive to raise funds for their care. We hope to be able to have a special interest piece written about this, and perhaps put on the local TV station. Hopefully the children will get the public praise they deserve, and others will learn a lesson from their excellent example.
Out of all of this negativity, a lot of good has come. This is what we focus on.
