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A few weeks ago I posted a thread called "a nightmare that almost happened". In the thread I made lite humor of the fact that my dogs got out of our yard and scared the hell out of me. My wife and I don't know how the dogs got out. There was a latch at the top of the gate and after trying every senerio to try to get the latch to unhook we could not get it to. So either someone tried to get into our back yard and found we had pets or purposely unlocked the gate to let the dogs out. We will never know for sure. In the end of my thread I posted a small tragedy had happened. Our 12 year old pomeranian was missing. In the thread I say he was 9 but my miss confirmed for me we've had him for 12 years. Well after a few weeks of looking for him, posting signs, and even posting it on craigslist we had all but given up hope that we'd ever see him again. Just yesterday we finally get a call from the pound. They have our little boy but to our shock he was not no where near the same condition he left. Someone hdid have him and attemted to shave him. In the process of doing it they cut him by his tail and rear very bad. Rather than trying to care for the wound the assholes did something that doesn't surprise me anymore. They let him go back on the streets without treatment and when my wife saw him at the pound they said he had maggots in the wound. He was dehydrated and lost weight.they said he was found in our neiheborhood. You hear of cruelty all the time and I've always wondered. Why have animals if you're only going to hurt them. Let them go to a family who will love them. That's all they want. In the pics you can see how he looked when we brought him home from the pound and a pic of his wound once we got him back from the vet. Well after a trip to the vet he's doing better and starting to act like himself. I'm glad he back home safe.