Lyme Dog rescued from Delaware R. island dies
- From: "CaliforniaLyme" <CaliforniaLyme@xxxxxx>
- Date: 24 Nov 2005 10:43:14 -0800
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Dog rescued from Delaware R. island dies
11/23/2005
By ARTEMIS COUGHLAN
Staff Writer
PHILADELPHIA, Pa.-- Jade, the dog rescued from Burlington Island last
week, died yesterday morning, about a half an hour before she was to be
reunited with her owner after a monthlong separation.
"Jade died of renal and heart failure and she has lyme disease. She was
so very malnourished and weak," said a tearful Sharon Walker, of
Bristol, Pa., sister of the owner, Gail Linko, of Scranton, Pa.
"It was horrible. She suffered so badly. Someone took that dog off of
her porch, brought it down here and left it on the island."
Linko, and John Haldis, of the Rhawnhurst section of Philadelphia, one
of the three men who rescued the pooch, were being interviewed by a
television station at 8:30 a.m. yesterday, about the same time that
Jade, a chow, passed away at the Brees Animal Hospital in Philadelphia,
Walker said.
They suspect that Linko's neighbor snatched the dog in October
because the dog barked at the deer that regularly come into yard from
the woods. The neighbor works in New Jersey, possibly in Burlington,
they said.
"That is very fishy. He told my sister's family to 'Stop the dog
from barking and don't let it happen again,'" Walker said.
The dog was on the island for weeks until Friday when Haldis and two
buddies, hopped into his work boat docked at Snug Harbor Marina in
Croydon, Pa. and headed up the Delaware River to the island between
Burlington City and Bristol Borough, Pa.
They used kibble to lure the dog, plucked her from the island and
Haldis took her to his veterinarian.
"He visited Jade every day, morning and night.He never left that dog,"
Walker said.
Linko was very upset yesterday after learning the news about her dog of
three years.
"It's just so unbelievable. I don't understand it. To put her
somewhere to die. She was a really good dog," Linko said yesterday from
her sister's home.
"She looked like a black bear cub. She was beautiful."
It's particularly tough on Linko and her family because their other
dog, a Rottweiler, is at home dying of congestive heart failure.
Linko said the police were called about the incident and the vet wants
to put up a reward for the capture and conviction of the person(s) who
displaced the dog.
"She was tortured," Linko said. "I'd rather she was hit by a car or
shot in the head."
©The Trentonian 2005
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