{"id":20348,"date":"2013-06-11T16:00:17","date_gmt":"2013-06-11T14:00:17","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/in-league-to-save-hero-striker\/"},"modified":"2013-06-11T16:00:17","modified_gmt":"2013-06-11T14:00:17","slug":"in-league-to-save-hero-striker","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/in-league-to-save-hero-striker\/","title":{"rendered":"In league to save hero Striker"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>        \t                                <!-- Main Editorial Image --><br \/>\n                    \t\t\t      \t\t\t                                      <img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-content\/plugins\/rss-poster\/cache\/c2ba4_2244917668.jpg\" alt=\"dog amputated\" title=\"\" class=\"pics\" \/><\/p>\n<p class=\"captions_credit_article\">INLSA<\/p>\n<p class=\"captions\">Beauty Memela and her dog Striker, whose leg was amputated after it was severed by thieves who tried to rob Memela.\tPicture: Marilyn Bernard<\/p>\n<p class=\"captions\">\n<p class=\"related_articles\">Related Stories<\/p>\n<ul class=\"menu_tab_lists_related\">\n<li><a class=\"related_articles\" href=\"http:\/\/www.iol.co.za:80\/dailynews\/news\/hero-to-go-back-home-after-ops-1.1527948\">Hero to go back home after ops<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><!--PSTYLE=WT Web Text--><\/p>\n<p class=\"arcticle_text\">Durban &#8211; A mongrel named Striker, severely injured two weeks ago when his owner was robbed, has been saved through a united effort by the Animal Anti-Cruelty League, a Hillcrest vet and his owner. <\/p>\n<p class=\"arcticle_text\">Striker was hurt by thieves who tried to rob Beauty Memela, 61, a chicken vendor who sleeps in a chair in the shelter where she raises and sells chickens in Kelly Road in Hammarsdale. <\/p>\n<p class=\"arcticle_text\">Her two dogs, Pupi and Striker, chased off the thieves but, in the process, Striker disappeared. He limped home two days later with his right back leg partly severed. <\/p>\n<p class=\"arcticle_text\">\u201cThey are my friends &#8211; not just my guards\u201d she said. \u201cI couldn\u2019t bear losing Striker.\u201d <\/p>\n<p class=\"arcticle_text\">Not sure how to help the animal, Memela became desperate, but then, she said, a miracle happened. <\/p>\n<p class=\"arcticle_text\">\u201cI was in my stall when I saw a van with animal prints on it (the Animal Anti-Cruelty League) and I approached it and asked them if anything could be done,\u201d she said. <\/p>\n<p class=\"arcticle_text\">A team from the organisation assessed the severity of Striker\u2019s injury and he was taken to the Hillcrest Veterinary Clinic for an operation. <\/p>\n<p class=\"arcticle_text\">Judy Gibson, spokeswoman for the league, said: \u201cWe were dropping staff at the taxi rank when Beauty approached us. When I saw her affection for the dog and heard her say her dogs were her life, we had to help.\u201d <\/p>\n<p class=\"arcticle_text\">\u00a0 <\/p>\n<p class=\"arcticle_text\">The dog was in \u201csevere pain\u201d and the league staff thought euthanasia was probably the easiest option, but Memela became distraught. <\/p>\n<p class=\"arcticle_text\">That was when Dr Pieter Hanekom of the Hillcrest Veterinary Clinic stepped in. Hanekom and the league picked up the R6 000 tab for Striker\u2019s operation. <\/p>\n<p class=\"arcticle_text\">\u201cThe dog\u2019s leg was severed below the hock joint and we had to amputate further up. There was nothing we could do to save it, but Striker should be able to recover nicely and live on three legs,\u201d the vet said. <\/p>\n<p class=\"arcticle_text\">\u00a0 <\/p>\n<p class=\"arcticle_text\"><strong>The Mercury<\/strong> <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>INLSA Beauty Memela and her dog Striker, whose leg was amputated after it was severed by thieves who tried to rob Memela. Picture: Marilyn Bernard Related Stories Hero to go back home after ops Durban &#8211; A mongrel named Striker, severely injured two weeks ago when his owner was robbed, has been saved through a [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_genesis_hide_title":false,"_genesis_hide_breadcrumbs":false,"_genesis_hide_singular_image":false,"_genesis_hide_footer_widgets":false,"_genesis_custom_body_class":"","_genesis_custom_post_class":"","_genesis_layout":"","ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[1],"tags":[8275,953,2143],"class_list":{"0":"post-20348","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-south-africa","7":"tag-durban","8":"tag-newspaper","9":"tag-the-mercury","10":"entry"},"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20348","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=20348"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20348\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=20348"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=20348"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=20348"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}