User:Haley-Lynn Mason/Sandbox

Winter's Story- Winter was a 3 month old dolphin when a 12 year old boy named Sawyer found her on the beach tangled up in a crab fishing rope. She was wrapped up so tightly that there was holes in her tail and she was bleeding pretty bad. Sawyer called the local animal hospital and soon they were there to get her. later that day Sawyer went to the animal hospital to see her only to find that he was the only one there minus the owners 11 year old daughter Hazel. She took him to see winter and they soon discovered that Winter would only eat, drink and co-operate if Sawyer was there with her. Over a long week of trying to save Winter's tail they discovered that her tail had lost circulation from the rope and it was severly infected from sitting on the beach for day's before Sawyer had found her. The hospital only had one choice and that was to cut off her tail. She was being held by Sawyer and Hazel one day in the water when she started to swim! Even though she didn't have a tail she really started to swim! But they later found out that her swimming with the side to side motion was in the long run killing her bceuase dolphins spinal cords were the exact same as humans so it was supporting her brain hand her lungs and her heart. But swimming like she was, was fracturing her spine because she was stengthening the wrong muscles. So Sawyer talked to a docter and he was able to make her a fake tail. After a lot of time adn patience Winter is happy and healthy and you can watch her from a live camera at www.seewinter.com! Please help me support Winter and other sea animals by raising awarness about those pesky crab lines and freeing other animals that are being humted ilegally! -Haley-Lynn Mason