Jessica Robertson remembers that day clearly. On Oct. 22,
she came home from work and found her Boone County house ransacked. As
she walked through the rooms, she discovered a horrible sight: Her dog
Armani was lying on the floor, covered in blood.
Robertson said she can’t imagine the cruelty that led the
burglars to beat Armani. The 9-year-old cockapoo
is prone to anxiety and certainly doesn’t look imposing. But he’s a
protector, she said, and he loves her other dog, Ammo, a 2-year-old
German Shepherd who was kenneled that day. Given that Armani was found
next to Ammo’s kennel, she said, he might have tried to protect Ammo.
Robertson immediately called Armani’s veterinarian, who
rushed over and decided Armani needed to go to the University of Missouri
Veterinary Medical Teaching Hospital. There a CT scan showed multiple
skull fractures, bleeding in and around his brain and a lot of brain
swelling. By the next morning, Armani had lost the ability to swallow and
had to be put on a ventilator.
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