Story highlights Police found the pup after neighbors heard gunshots

Cabela is expected to be rehabilitated within a week

Her treatment cost several thousand dollars

(CNN) Cabela's not a cat, but the young pit bull mix apparently had a few lives to spare.

Tampa police found her shot and bleeding, tied to a set of railroad tracks in the city's Sulphur Springs neighborhood on Wednesday. Folks called after they heard someone fire a gun.

Cabela was hit by three shots -- two to the neck and one to the shoulder.

Cabela will lose her right front leg because of the gunshot wound.

Officers freed the pup from the tracks and rushed her to Tampa Bay Veterinary Emergency Center, where Dr. Jamie Davidson and staff stabilized and named her.

The dog will have to have her front right leg removed because of the damage from the gunshots, but should be rehabilitated within a week, the vet said.

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