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| Island Vet Ken Diestler is Honored for Work After Ike |
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GALVESTON — Dozer seemed happy to see me, despite the fact that he can’t actually see.
He stuck out his tongue and lapped at me while stretching his wide face toward my general vicinity, and he didn’t mind when his nose thumped the chain-link fence that contained him.
Dozer is a good-natured, nearly blind pit bull that was rescued by Dr. Ken Diestler and his veterinary technician Lucy Click in the chaotic days that followed Hurricane Ike.
More than 1,000 animals were rescued on Galveston Island in the weeks after the storm, according the Galveston Humane Society director Caroline Dorsett. More than 400 eventually were reunited with their owners after being shipped to the Houston SPCA.
The Galveston Humane Society, which was leveled after the storm after sustaining hurricane damage, now is the happy recipient of a $5,000 contribution in Diestler’s name from an award he received this year from the Texas Veterinary Medical Association.
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