33 useless attempts to help save a dog in via San Pietro d'Ottava in Sassari. 33 phone calls made, from late yesterday morning until the afternoon, by those who saw Zanna , this is the name of the Maremma, dying. But there could be many more because the alarm went off earlier.

"They tell me - declares a lady who rushed to the scene referring to those who were already present on Monday - that from 8 in the morning they were calling various organizations to retrieve the dog and that no one had shown up". Yet, investigating further, it turns out that Zanna has been lying on the ground, in the sun, her breathing reduced to a rattle, since Saturday .

Several reports of the dog over the weekend, by motorists, but the intervention only arrives on Monday . The zoofiles arrive, activated by one of the 33 calls, which report the case to the Municipality but the dog remains there.

"Unfortunately we have no means or agreements with, for example, taxi dogs - says Emma Angius , who manages the municipal kennel - to have the animals taken and, that day, the municipal police could not intervene".

So she takes care of it, thanks to the commitment of Susanna Tedde of the Environment sector, to arrive in the afternoon with the association's truck. “ Fang was more dead than alive , gums white as paper. Someone says invested, but perhaps anemia and ehrlichiosis transmitted by the ticks with which it was full have something to do with it».

With the help of two Aeopc zoophile guards, Manuel Chessa and Gavino Zamburru, they load the 30 kg of Zanna, a 14-year-old neighborhood dog, microchipped by the Municipality, and run towards the Veterinary faculty. " But unfortunately she died on arrival ." And now one wonders if everything possible was done to save the dog.

It is a question that returns in the comments to the post on the case published on Facebook by the group "Friends of animals Sassari and Northern Sardinia". «Zanna had been ill for a long time - concludes Angius -. With a little more humanity, we could have intervened earlier, avoiding leaving it in the sun for a day and a half ».

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