Thursday, February 26, 2009

Pellet to the brain didn’t stop one dog

By Bonnie Coblentz
MSU Ag Communications

MISSISSIPPI STATE -- A bullet to the brain usually means game over, but one young Labrador retriever beat the odds with the expert emergency help of a local veterinarian and Mississippi State University’s College of Veterinary Medicine.

Tess is an 18-month-old female black lab who was accidentally shot in the head with a shotgun while duck hunting early one Sunday morning in December. She was in a near comatose state ... Read More in Animal Health News