Our dog is attacked!

Bola recovering. He hasn't moved all day.

Got up this morning to find our Golden Retriever's neck soaked in blood. Didn't think much of it -- we have three dogs, and they set upon one another from time to time as dogs will.

But the wound was curious. It bled, but in a strange way, slowly, by drips, instead of a robust red flow. I took to wondering, washing it off, and searched, but couldn't find the opening of the wound. Strange. It looked like a scrape, pink flesh oozing blood. Had he scraped himself attempting to jump through the fence?

Worse, the dog was behaving strangely. Bola was always high-spirited, stealing food and demanding to play, but he wasn't moving and refused to eat. Dogs never do that when beaten in a dog fight. As the morning wore on we debated taking him to the vet, but he ate a little. Then we found his eyes were funny-looking and leaking mucous like there was no tomorrow. We packed him up and took off to the vet.

The vet met us with a sad shake of the head. After I explained the problem, he checked the animal. "Somebody has dumped lye or acid on the dog." The vet said that he had seen many cases of this before, but only with homeless dogs, which sick locals apparently enjoy torturing.

You'd have to be really sick to want to burn a friendly and loving animal like Bola. And we have two other dogs as well we now have to live in fear for.

I'm sad. And feel violated. And I want revenge!
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