![]() The woman made arrangements to pick Carl up in October and asked what she owed. She hinted about getting Carl back and naturally, Sillery who believes in reunification, said, yes. “What’s next” she asked and when Sillery said she’d approved the surgery, the woman wept. The day after Carl’s surgery his owner called. How Carl ended up dirty and disheveled on the side of a road in Montgomery County remained a mystery. Her ex, who had most recently lived in Marion County, had died days before. When she called, she learned that the dog’s name was Carl and the woman who owned him lost him in a divorce. The owner was registered to a woman who now lives in Florida. While Carl was receiving surgery, they discovered he was micro chipped, so Sillery chased the trail of ownership. Under their direction, the AWL went from 15% of its animals leaving the premises alive to 10% or less needing to be euthanized due to extreme health issues or even more rarely, extreme violence. In the eight years since Sillery began at the AWL, she and the former director Misha Fisher, who came a year before Sillery, were a force to be reckoned with. This old boxer had a lot of life left in him. “It’s basically a skin tag, but it’s a tumor and he’s in pain, so it has to come off,” the vet said. ![]() “He has a mass hanging down several inches but it’s not bleeding,” her staff told her.įirst thing Monday morning she called the vet in New Ross, one of a few vets who provide services at an affordable rate for animals housed at AWL. “Like I can tell you this story,” and she leaned forward and hung her hand six inches below her neck when she told us about Carl, a little boxer someone found wandering along a road one Sunday night recently. ![]() Sometimes, though, it’s happy tears,” said Nickee Sillery, medical director for the Animal Welfare League of Montgomery County. “I’m a very tough person, but in this job, I cry a lot. ![]()
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