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A destroyed family is confronted with a medical bill of £ 10,000 to give their dog a life-saving skin transplant after it was dragged along a road through a hit and runa car bilist.
Charlie de Chow Chow, three, was seriously injured after he was dragged 100 feet along a road during the incident on Tuesday 4 February – only a few months after his family had canceled their precious pet insurance.
Owner Zoe Edwards, 44, said that the beloved dog had escaped from the house by a door that was opened while one of her daughters moved.
After he had not searched anywhere in the neighborhood, the family made a message on Facebook when they were contacted by a passer -by who brought him to a veterinarian after a serious crash.
“He had a lot of fire wounds at his back, he had a very big hole that was pretty serious,” said Zoe.
“When we brought him back to the vet, the gap looked like it was getting worse and they said he would probably have to go for a skin transplant.”
Now Zoe's family is confronted with the choice between extending veterinary accounts up to £ 10,000 or their beloved companion after canceling their pet insurance just before Christmas.
The family has already picked up more than £ 1,700 on Gofundme to help pay for the treatment of Charlie.
Charlie the Chow Chow was seriously injured after he was dragged 100 ft along the road in a hit-and-run incident
Dog owner Zoe Edwards, 44, only a few weeks before her pet had canceled the family insurance of the family on February 4
Charlie sustained a series of injuries, including a 'really big gap that was pretty serious'
Zoe said: 'We had paid for about a year and a half, it cost £ 45 a month and we never used it, so we thought what it was like to have it – we never used it.
“Afterwards is something great, but I don't know if it would have been covered by the insurance, I'm not sure.”
The incident has left furniture painter Zoe's 10 children.
Zoe added: '[The driver] must be known [they] Save him, he is a huge dog.
'If you touch a brick or something, you know, but just to drive away.
'If you touch something, you would stop. Even if you didn't stop, even if you panicked and drove home, you would report it immediately. '
Charlie is now confronted with put down after his family had hit a £ 10,000 veterinarian account
Zoe Edwards said that her children 'destroyed' were left behind while their dog is being laid down
A GoFundMe page started by the family who wants to pay for the treatment of Charlie has so far raised around £ 1,700
The police say that the incident concerned the driver of a yellow Ford, who did not stop after the crash in Darlington, County Durham.
A spokesperson for the Durham police said: “The police investigated after a dog was seriously injured after he was struck by a car in Darlington.
“The incident is supposed to have happened on Northgate last Tuesday (4 February) on Northgate and was a yellow Ford that did not stop on the scene.”
