As best we can tell what happened to Mira was accidental. The girl who owned her did her best to reach someone who was able to help out - us. The fact that she waited so long to find us; she lives with two other adults - one a boyfriend and the other her mother - sort of made me question the IQ level of the people we were dealing with. But I certainly did not sense anything purposeful about Mira's injuries from the gal who contacted and passed her to us.
What is so odd, is that she had 2 accidents. One with the bleach which the owner said she was totally unaware of and the other having been stepped on. The one thing I have learned running a shelter is that most of the people who give up an animal lie. Usually, it's about stupid things but ocasionally, it's about ages, health records, injuries, you name it. So no one will never know the turth about what happened to her except her - and she can't say.
As for the shoulders. Surgery has just about been ruled out. Although we have received an offer for an ortopedic specialist from NY to evaluate her - but again - we must deal with the scar tissue on her leg. That is the priority, before considering causing even more scaring with additional surgery.
Fortunately, there is no hurry to do any of this. We opted to wait on a skin graft because Mira is young and there is a chance that the scar tissue will desolve enough itself to avoid putting her through the trauma (and added scaring) of graft surgery. After we get through that - which if it must be done will probably be decided at the time of her next visit to Tufts in early December.
If we can avoid graft surgery,then we will probably arrange to bring her to NY sometime early next year after the holidays when as much healing has occurred that is going to occur.
If we have to have the surgery, then the shoulder reassessment will have to wait until after the grafts have healed.
Hope this helps answer your questions and thanks for your continued caring.
Ann