Cop helps woman with disabled dog
Published: April 5, 2006
A Briarcliff Manor police officer whose mother runs an animal rescue group was the first — and most generous — to respond to a story about a 70-year-old woman who could not afford a cart to help her disabled dog walk.
After reading the Monday story in The Journal News about Patty Sanderson, a home health aide, and Chopper, her 15-year-old German shepherd-beagle mix, Nick Tartaglione telephoned the company that makes the carts and put the $395 charge on his credit card.
“My family has always done animal rescue,” Tartaglione said yesterday.
Tartaglione was one of more than 70 people who called or e-mailed The Journal News on Monday and yesterday offering to contribute to a cart for Chopper, who lost the use of his hind legs to nerve damage and arthritis two years ago. The newspaper is directing donors to Eddies Wheels for Carts, the family-owned business in Shelburne Falls, Ma., that makes the two-wheeled carts, which strap onto the backs of disabled dogs and other animals.
Sanderson has been holding Chopper up by his tail to walk him, and has been sharing her arthritis medications with the dog. She said she would use whatever contributions come in beyond the cost of the cart to hire dog-walkers and to buy Chopper his own medications from her veterinarian.
Sanderson, who lives on Waller Avenue, said she would offer dog walkers $10 for 45 minute walks. Anyone interested may call Doris Simon at 914-949-7062.
“This will help him a lot,” Sanderson said yesterday. “I think he’s going to live quite a while longer. He’ll get the right treatment, what he needs to get out more.”
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