Remarkable Recovery

Remarkable Recovery

Buddy the beige dog stands with a bandage down the bridge of his nose with the CVM student crouched smiling on the left and Dr. Swanson wearing a white lab coat, crouched and offering a tennis ball to Buddy from the right.
Photo by Tom Thompson

September 15, 2021

Dr. Elizabeth Swanson, 桃花直播 associate professor of animal surgery, right, and Sophia Mauldin, a third-year Doctor of Veterinary Medicine student, attend to Buddy, a labrador retriever mix, that has been recovering at the university鈥檚 College of Veterinary Medicine since being set on fire in April in Tate County. Buddy is reported to be healing nicely, after undergoing codfish skin grafts, and will go through heartworm treatment and reconstruction procedures to his eyelids that will keep him in Swanson and CVM鈥檚 care until the end of the year.