WINNIPEG -- The Winnipeg Humane Society is hoping that amputating a severely injured leg of a Husky-Shepherd cross, will help her get a new lease on life.

One-year-old Yazmine broke her right leg and didn't receive medical attention; it was fractured and then incorrectly healed. Now she has been left with a "significant limp and visibly deformed leg".

On Thursday, Yazmine will have that leg amputated.

 

"There's a possibility Yazmine's leg could have been mended had she received care shortly after the injury," said WHS Director of Animal Health Dr. Erika Anseeuw in a media release.

"Unfortunately that was not the case, but Yazmine will be better off as a three-legged dog than one with a leg that caused such an obstruction."

The dog will heal in foster care and then be put up for adoption at the Winnipeg Humane Society.
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