I just read this in our local paper....I'd like to string people up that do this! Instead I think I'll make a donation to the organization and say a prayerÂ
______________
______________
____
Pups, mom abandoned
Only seven pups survive being left on side of road
By BILL POWER Staff Reporter
Some animal rescue volunteers are outraged a female dog was killed and her litter of puppies left for dead near Shubenacadie over the weekend.
Seven surviving puppies, about four or five weeks old, are with volunteers in Hants County and Dartmouth and are responding well to medical care and nourishment after their plight was brought to the attention of members of the Labrador Rescue Club of Nova Scotia.
"I can understand people cannot keep their pets sometimes, but to abandon them this way is unacceptable," Joan Bouchie, a volunteer with Lab Rescue, said Tuesday.
Two dead puppies were found with the deceased mother, who had a fractured skull, near a Shubenacadie-area road on Sunday. The dogs appeared to be mixed breed, or mutts, with some indication of Labrador retriever or German shepherd in their breeding.
The grisly find of the dead mother and two dead puppies followed two separate discoveries of clusters of young puppies wandering along the roadway in the same area.
In each instance, the puppies made their way up an embankment from the spot where they apparently had been left to die.
"A group of four pups was found by some people who happened to be driving by," said Ms. Bouchie. "The other three surviving pups were found by a family that was out for a walk."
It would be difficult to determine the exact cause of death of the mother without an expensive autopsy. However, the nature of the head fracture suggested it was deliberate.
"It did not look like she was hit by a car," the animal rescue volunteer said. "It would only be speculating to suggest how she was killed."
Three male surviving pups received a medical check at Harbour Cities Veterinary Hospital in Dartmouth in preparation for their anticipated release to foster homes in about three weeks.
Plans were also being made for medical checks of the four surviving females, now with volunteers in Hants County.
People interested in providing a home for any of the pups can check the
www.labrescuen s.com website.
"If people cannot keep their pets for whatever reason, they can contact us," said Ms. Bouchie.
All the surviving pups are lucky to be alive because they were still nursing and without teeth when they were abandoned, she added.
( bpower@herald.ca)
Show Posts
