Boomer, a blue heeler, left, and Jake, a Black Labrador mix, both were severely burned but recovered.
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News from around Johnson County as reported on June 1 in the pages of the Daily Journal and the Franklin Evening Star from the last 111 years.
On this day in 2010, the main story in the Daily Journal was about how donors helped pay the veterinary bills for two dogs who were severely burned.
Southern Indiana resident Carol Thornberry was sickened to hear that two dogs were tossed into a 55-gallon barrel, splashed with gasoline and set aflame.
So she went around her workplace a day before payday to ask her coworkers to spare whatever change they had to help Jake, a black Labrador mix, and Boomer, a blue heeler. She told them how Jake, then six months old, had suffered burns on 85% of his body.
Thornberry raised about $50, mostly in loose change.
Hundreds of people from across Indiana sent a total of about $10,000 to help pay Boomer’s and Jake’s veterinary bills or offered to give them a home, then-Johnson County Animal Control Director Michael Delp said. The dogs had since healed after getting the treatment they needed and were in a temporary foster home.
The outpouring of support had helped pay for veterinary treatment for other sick or injured dogs, some of which otherwise might have died, Delp said.
A dog, for instance, contracted parvovirus after being forced to stand in water when it was left in a cage in the back of a pickup truck. That condition would have been fatal, but animal control used part of the leftover donations for Jake and Boomer to get the dog treated, Delp said.
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Other memorable Johnson County stories from this day
2011
A Whiteland couple was speaking out after their dog was killed by a coyote.
1994
A huge fire engulfed the old Nineveh School, destroying the historic building.
1983
Tuesday night boxing matches at Franklin’s South Fork Inn had stopped while owners and promoters sparred with state officials over the legality of the bouts.
