A north-east pet owner is still waiting to learn whether a serious injury will leave her four-month-old dog with lasting physical disabilities.
Puppy Kai was found on the opposite side of a 6ft fence after being allegedly hurled over it by a 20-year-old man.
He suffered a fractured skull and has not been able to use his hind legs since the trauma on Sunday.
Michelle Mackie, his owner, last night said she was waiting for vets in Glasgow to give the go-ahead for her to visit Kai in the city’s animal hospital.
She said she hoped she would finally be able to visit the pup today.
She added: “They took him off the incubator but put back in his feeding tube because there’s been no attempt by him to eat anything. His bloods and sugar-levels have remained the same, though. There’s no major improvement, but no major deterioration.”
There has been no improvement on bringing feeling back to the animal’s legs.
Ms Mackie added: “He’s trying to stand up, but his back legs aren’t working. He keeps wobbling about and falling over. He doesn’t understand what’s going on.
“Once the swelling in the brain goes down we’ll get a better idea if his back legs will come back. But it’s just a waiting game to see if anything starts improving or if it’s going to be permanent or not.”
If the damage is permanent, however, Ms Mackie anticipates that there will be no issue in ensuring that Kai will still be able to go for walks and play using a harness or doggy-wheelchair.
“Me and my partner are both engineers, so I’m pretty sure if I needed any sort of harness, I’d be able to get something made up in no time at all.
“But we haven’t been thinking about that, there’s all sorts of things that can be worked on – anything we can do to try and strengthen-up his legs to try and bring him back up to any sort of ‘normal’ ability,” she said.
The Procurator Fiscal is currently considering the case against the 20-year-old alleged to have injured Kai.