An 11-year-old yellow Labrador Retriever named Duke underwent a third surgery on Friday to save its life after a vicious dog attack that happened at a Linda Vista park in the early evening of Martin Luther King Jr. Day. <\/p>\n
Duke\u2019s owner is hoping someone can identify the dog that attacked them both and the man who lost control of it. <\/p>\n
Morgan Edgar and Duke are inseparable. She\u2019s had him since he was a puppy and she was just 19 years old.<\/p>\n
\u201cI\u2019ve just experienced so much life with him and this incident that happened was unprovoked and not fair. It just isn\u2019t his time to go,\u201c Edgar said.<\/p>\n
Over the Martin Luther King Jr. holiday, Duke was attacked, ambushed, you might say, from behind. His wounds were so deep he had emergency surgery just to stop the bleeding.<\/p>\n
Morgan was also bitten on the arm. \u00a0<\/p>\n
\u201cMy heart has been shattered into a million pieces,” Edgar said.<\/p>\n
Morgan was walking Duke at Mission Heights Neighborhood Park near Mission Valley. She says a long-haired German Shepherd viciously attacked Morgan and Duke. She said afterward, the dog\u2019s owner wouldn\u2019t answer questions or identify himself. He left Duke severely injured and Morgan traumatized, Edgar said.<\/p>\n
“The German Shepherd was so large and aggressive. He just said we weren\u2019t hurt and that I was fine then he refused to call 9-1-1,\u201d Edgar said.<\/p>\n
Duke is not yet out of the woods. He has an infection, and the wound is covered but remains open.<\/p>\n
Because he\u2019s 11 years old, Morgan says it\u2019s been suggested she put him down.<\/p>\n
“He has such high, good, spirits that putting him down just because he was attacked, I can\u2019t do it,” Edgar said.<\/p>\n
Recovery will be long struggle for both of them.<\/p>\n
Morgan\u2019s wish is that Duke lives long enough for the two to enjoy life again together.<\/p>\n
A friend started an online fundraiser for Duke\u2019s recovery. At last check, contributions were more than $5,100.\u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"An 11-year-old yellow Labrador Retriever named Duke underwent a third surgery on Friday to save its life after…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":157824,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[28],"tags":[10923,74,76,75],"class_list":["post-157823","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-san-diego","tag-linda-vista","tag-san-diego","tag-san-diego-headlines","tag-san-diego-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/157823","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=157823"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/157823\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/157824"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=157823"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=157823"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=157823"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}