Dog surgery again
PA Auckland Luke, the police dog shot in the left foreleg by a gunman in Auckland on Thursday, underwent surgery for three hours yesterday. A Herne Bay veterinary
surgeon, Mr Tom Henderson, described the surgery as reasonably successful but said amputation might yet be necessary. Shotgun pellets shattered the bone, the sun -unding muscle and nerve tissue of the dog’s leg.
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Press, 31 October 1983, Page 5
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