For Bucks County (Penn.) 911 dispatcher Jessica Finnell, hanging up the telephone at the end of a 911 call doesn’t mean the incident is over. When a fellow dispatcher took a citizen’s report of finding a severely beaten dog, Finnell was shocked to hear that the dog’s eyes were popped from their sockets by the attack, and that the dog had skull fractures. Later, when she learned the dog’s owner was unknown, she called the township animal control officer and offered her help to care for the dog. A veterinary clinic patched up the dog, and Finnell took her home until the owner was later located. She also started a fund to cover future expenses that “Dusk” will need. Police are investigating the incident, which they believe was a deliberate attack. Read more about the incident here, and watch a video after the break.
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Sweet story, but dispatchers step up like this all the time. In 1999 I handled a call about an abandoned litter of lab mix puppies and adopted the one with a broken hip who had been hit by a car. I paid all the medical bills, got him fixed up and took him home.
Max was a great addition to the family, but the dork never learned his lesson about cars and died about age 18 months after being hit by a truck on the highway (we were camping and he got away from us).
RIP Max.
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