A seven-year-old girl in Tampa, Florida was in her front yard playing with her grandmother last Wednesday, when their two-year-old German shepherd started acting weird. And it turned out he was trying to protect them from the RATTLESNAKE.
The dog’s name is Haus, and they just rescued him from a shelter about two months ago.
Luckily Haus DID protect them. But he got bitten three times on the leg. So they drove him straight to a vet, and pumped him full of anti-venom.
It looked like he might not make it, but yesterday we found out the treatments have been working, and they were planning to take him home today.
Apparently anti-venom is pretty expensive though . . . each dose costs around $600, and he’s been getting about five a day. Plus it cost $1,000 a day to keep him in intensive care. So over the past week, that’s about 28 GRAND.
But someone started a GoFundMe page, and as of last night, people had donated over $50,000 to cover the vet bills. (ABC News / WFLA)
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