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Lucas

Australian Shepherd / Border Collie / Mixed (medium coat) • Male • Young • Medium
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Meet Lucas!
 
Lucas was picked up by BARC as a stray showing signs of severe trauma and repeated long-time abuse. We immediately got him to the vet to be checked out and have x-rays. As evidenced by the old and new wounds and scars, he’s endured a lot over a long period of time – it’s heartbreaking!
 
When the vet called us to let us know what they found, it was hard to hear. Lucas has a broken leg that has mostly healed; imbedded collars that left multiple scars and open wounds on his neck; multiple pellets in him from people shooting him with pellet guns; a severed quadriceps muscle that prevents him from using his right leg properly; a left hip joint that is out of socket with fractures around it; fractured pelvis and multiple wounds and scars all over his face and body as if he has been beaten or attacked. This precious boy has suffered for literally years at the hands of humans.
 
Despite all of this he's a sweet boy and we decided to have him undergo a pretty extensive surgery to both legs a few months back due to the amount of pain he was in – we just couldn’t wait. The surgery was a long and complicated one and the vets found foreign objects of hair and wood in our sweet boy’s right leg that had created a tunnel all the way down his leg of scar tissue which was obviously causing significant pain, among everything else. Good news is he came through surgery great and is doing fantastic. He almost immediately started putting weight on his legs which the vets said was AMAZING!!
 
Lucas is good with other dogs and even cats, but would do best in a home without any small children. They just move too fast for him and make him very nervous. He's a love, just a bit timid at first - but who can blame him after all he has endured at the hands of people.
 
Don't let this boy's limp fool you - he can run like the wind when he wants to!  He also does a happy dance for mealtime!  He's truly blossomed into an amazing boy who loves life!
 
Let's find him a home where he can live "happily ever after"!