PHOTO SUBMITTED / Amya Williams gets a doggie kiss from an injured pit bull mix dog that was rescued by Amya’s mother, Bertha Williams, from the side of the road Friday. The injured dog has been named in honor of Amya and is awaiting surgery Monday.

Friday afternoon the Brookhaven Animal Rescue League, received a call about an abandoned dog with a missing leg. A local woman, Bertha Williams, had found the dog lying on the side of the road at New Sight Drive and Gaston Trail. Someone had sawed off the animal’s leg left her to die.

BARL immediately took the animal in and had a doctor treat her.

Dawn Daw, BARL volunteer, said that the dog is an extremely friendly pit bull mix. When doctors were attending the dog’s wounds Friday, she was licking people the whole time. The dog has now been named Amya in honor of Bertha Williams’ daughter.

BARL is looking for donations to help pay for the $1,000 surgery to amputate the rest of the dog’s leg. The surgery is scheduled for Monday.

To make donations, those interested can visit www.barl.net or mail money to BARL at P.O. Box 3477, Brookhaven, MS, 39603.

After Amya’s surgery, she will recover in foster care until she is ready to be adopted, Daw said.

It has been a rough past few days for BARL. Two dogs were brought in prior to Amya. One had burns on his face and down his back from hot grease that someone poured on it, leaving him badly burned and blind in one eye. Fortunately, the dog is recovering well.

Another was brought in Thursday with a severely broken femur.

“It has been a really tough week,” said Daw. “It’s hard, but we get through it. There is a big group here that helps.”

Daw added that seeing this many animal abuse cases in not common for BARL, but it seems to her that when it rains it pours.

BARL is a no-kill animal welfare group that helps with the care, treatment and well being of animals in the Brookhaven area. Their mission is to “humanely care for shelter animals while contributing to community activities that reduce pet overpopulation, encourage responsible per ownership, protect public health and safety and promote the human-animal bond.”