so ive been talking with a friend of mine today...
she does wildlife rehab...
today at aproximatly 9am she whent out to the pens on the back of her acre (backs onto a state park) to take care of her pre-release coons. 10 am she heads back to the house...
11am she realizes she left her drink bottle and sunglasses by the pens and walks back over there...
where she finds...
1 large dog, skin and boanes, chained to a tree using some chain and a bit of rope, and 10 puppies of aproximatly 1 week old.
the female was dead but still warm and she rushed them all to the vets, vet said shed been dead no more than 1/2 hour.
the pups were chilled and weak, belly full of parisites, but feisty...
the mother looks to be a great dane or dane mix, but was only 39 lbs when they weighed her body, she was nothing but tight leather stretched over a skeletal frame, there was nothing more than drips of milk in her teets, she had a bad case of ear mites, some kind of skin condition, and was covered in scars scabs and what look to be slashing wounds.
oh and a belly full of parisites.
Vet deemed she died of extreem malnutition, and was likley in horrible shape before the pups, once the litter came along they essentially drained what was left from her)
she had no collar/tags/chips/tat or any other identifying feture.
theres been no missing reports, and theres alot of byb's for "mastif types" in her area...
vet was suprised she survived labor.
autopsy reveled 2 retained puppies and a bad case of heartworm to top it all off.
of the puppies.
they are weak, 1 was dead on site and 1 passed in transit to the vet.
2 passed a few hours ago despite attempts to revive.
they all have worms, but no mites and their skin scrapings came up clean, no fleas either...
the vets crowded and she didnt want to send them to the only shelter neer by (a kill shelter who euthanizes orphans due to lack of help and space), and shes got a lactating female shepard at home, she picked up off the side of the road, some guy had her tied to a table for "free and pregnant!" she had 2 puppies and lost both (still born), she has however happily taken these babies in and the vets deemed it safe (id personally be a little worried but...) shes also suplimenting with bottles for them all...
shes horrified, shes seen abuse, and shes seen horrible people...
but to tie your dying dog and dump its 10 puppies to a tree at the edge of some state park... HOW?! its not like this was next to a road, it was at the back of a pretty heavily wooded yard a good distance form a house...he didnt even dump her neer the coon cages, instead it was the other end of the property line, luckily she walks it a few times aday and "got a weird feeling"
people never cease to discust me.
the 7 pups remainding have all be warmed up and are feeding like troopers! shes not sure what bred they might be other than "part great dane"
shes going to try and get pictures for me (cause she knows i love me the danes
) and is trying to talk me into taking one when there old enough LOL, not me she has to convince though .
im just hoping the remainding babies survive, i dont understand how anyone could do that.
poor girl...vet says she was no more than 2 yrs old and should have been closer to 125lbs or so...
she does wildlife rehab...
today at aproximatly 9am she whent out to the pens on the back of her acre (backs onto a state park) to take care of her pre-release coons. 10 am she heads back to the house...
11am she realizes she left her drink bottle and sunglasses by the pens and walks back over there...
where she finds...
1 large dog, skin and boanes, chained to a tree using some chain and a bit of rope, and 10 puppies of aproximatly 1 week old.
the female was dead but still warm and she rushed them all to the vets, vet said shed been dead no more than 1/2 hour.
the pups were chilled and weak, belly full of parisites, but feisty...
the mother looks to be a great dane or dane mix, but was only 39 lbs when they weighed her body, she was nothing but tight leather stretched over a skeletal frame, there was nothing more than drips of milk in her teets, she had a bad case of ear mites, some kind of skin condition, and was covered in scars scabs and what look to be slashing wounds.
oh and a belly full of parisites.
Vet deemed she died of extreem malnutition, and was likley in horrible shape before the pups, once the litter came along they essentially drained what was left from her)
she had no collar/tags/chips/tat or any other identifying feture.
theres been no missing reports, and theres alot of byb's for "mastif types" in her area...
vet was suprised she survived labor.
autopsy reveled 2 retained puppies and a bad case of heartworm to top it all off.
of the puppies.
they are weak, 1 was dead on site and 1 passed in transit to the vet.
2 passed a few hours ago despite attempts to revive.
they all have worms, but no mites and their skin scrapings came up clean, no fleas either...
the vets crowded and she didnt want to send them to the only shelter neer by (a kill shelter who euthanizes orphans due to lack of help and space), and shes got a lactating female shepard at home, she picked up off the side of the road, some guy had her tied to a table for "free and pregnant!" she had 2 puppies and lost both (still born), she has however happily taken these babies in and the vets deemed it safe (id personally be a little worried but...) shes also suplimenting with bottles for them all...
shes horrified, shes seen abuse, and shes seen horrible people...
but to tie your dying dog and dump its 10 puppies to a tree at the edge of some state park... HOW?! its not like this was next to a road, it was at the back of a pretty heavily wooded yard a good distance form a house...he didnt even dump her neer the coon cages, instead it was the other end of the property line, luckily she walks it a few times aday and "got a weird feeling"
people never cease to discust me.
the 7 pups remainding have all be warmed up and are feeding like troopers! shes not sure what bred they might be other than "part great dane"
shes going to try and get pictures for me (cause she knows i love me the danes
) and is trying to talk me into taking one when there old enough LOL, not me she has to convince though .im just hoping the remainding babies survive, i dont understand how anyone could do that.
poor girl...vet says she was no more than 2 yrs old and should have been closer to 125lbs or so...
