How is K-9 Obie doing after being shot in line of duty?

OAKHURST, Calif. (KSEE/KGPE) – K-9 Obie is recovering aft helium was shot successful the enactment of duty connected Wednesday pursuing an speech of gunfire with a fishy successful Madera County.

Although helium has a limp and is inactive successful the carnal infirmary with bandages, Obie is up, alert, and walking.

Veterinary unit accidental his betterment is going "really well," but the Sheriff's Office warns that Obie was "riddled" with shotgun pellets and immoderate of those pellets are concerning.

The Madera County Sheriff's Office adds that Obie is expected to marque a afloat recovery, but however agelong that volition instrumentality is unknown. Deputies accidental they person received an outpouring of enactment and interest for however Obie is doing.

"We admit you and we admit the emotion everybody has for Obie," said Sheriff Tyson Pogue. "He is specified a bully dog. And we cognize that our assemblage loves him arsenic overmuch arsenic our section does."

As Obie is simply a specialized breed of dog, deputies accidental helium requires specialized toys and food, truthful anyone who wants to assistance successful Obie's betterment is asked to marque a monetary publication done the Madera County Sheriff's Office Foundation (MCSOF) webpage.