Dog to return home after surgery on gun injuries

A PET dog who was shot in a vicious gun attack in Limerick is due to return home today after undergoing life-saving surgery.

Vet John Garrahy, who saved the badly wounded dog during two long operations, said: “I have never come across a case like this in all years practising. The unfortunate animal had shotgun wounds to the face and numerous lacerations.”

The two-year-old German Shepherd bitch was shot and badly wounded in the early hours of Monday when a gunman fired into the back garden of a house in Garryowen.