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Dr. James Tomlinson evaluates Angelo during the dog’s return
visit to the University of Missouri Veterinary Medical Teaching
Hospital. Tomlinson used minimally invasive techniques to repair
Angelo’s fractured leg.
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Kenny Rost isn’t certain of Angelo’s breed. He thinks the
dog he adopted five years ago from the Jefferson City Animal Shelter is a
mix of German shepherd dog, Australian heeler and Labrador. What is
certain — he’s no cattle dog.
“He
thinks he can work cattle, but he’s not very good at it,” Rost laughs. Despite his lack of herding skills,
Angelo is the cattle farmer’s constant companion. “He goes everywhere I
go. We have 257 acres, and he has the run of the place.”
Angelo
was tearing around Rost’s Chamois-area farm one
Sunday afternoon last summer when a truck suddenly turned from the
highway that runs along the property into the driveway, surprising the
dog who failed to move out of the way. The accident left Angelo with a
shattered tibia in one of his hind legs. Rost
took Angelo to a veterinarian in Hermann who, after reviewing radiographs
of the dog’s injured leg, recommended taking him to the MU Veterinary
Medical Teaching Hospital in Columbia.
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