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‘Miracle’ dog fights to recover after brutal beating

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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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