Rehabilitation of Abused Animals

For our last post, we wanted to talk about the rehabilitation of abused animals. When we interviewed Mr. Stress from the animal shelter, we asked how long it takes until an abused animal feels comfortable around humans again. He said that it depends on the animal. Sometimes they take days, sometimes they take months.

There are places that have horses, dogs and cats that are abused.

One horse there was abused. She is blind in one eye and her previous owners had a bad saddle, and it hurt her. This is a case of accidental abuse. Now that she's at Sunnyside, even though she has a saddle that fits her, she associates saddles with pain, and doesn't sit still when you put it on.

But a dog there lost one of his legs. He's completely fine now, though (Other than the missing leg) and is great around people. He's friendly, and unless you were on the right side you couldn't even tell that he only had three legs.

This shows how differently each individual animal recovers from abuse.