Who Would Do This To Zachary?

     The call is made and I hear the voice on the other end…can you meet me in half an hour?  When we meet we begin to do what needs to be done. 

He was wandering in this condition for who knows how long until he was spotted by two of our volunteers. 
  Where did he come from?  Who tied the rope around his neck?  By the size of the loop, the rope had been tied when he was considerably smaller and younger.  As he grew, the rope began to cut into his throat. About one to  two years old, he is very thin and half the weight he should be.  He is covered in prickly burrs.  

   

Rebecca - The Rope around her Neck.

     Rebecca, an adorable girl about one years old, grew up at the end of a short rope.  Her owner tethered her next to a make shift house and that was all Rebecca knew.   She ate there, she slept there, she sat there, she baked in the sun there, she did her doggie business there and paced back and forth.  Yes, she had food and water but that was it.  Her owner didn’t bother to pet her, touch her nor walk her.  Her owner didn’t even consider that as Rebecca grew the rope around her neck would have to be adjusted for her size.  Rebecca grew and the rope that was now her noose began to cut into her neck, choking her. 

Calling out Help for Cairo!

Cairo was transfered to the vet for x-rays.

Some have a harder start in life than others! MEET CAIRO ... TOO YOUNG TO BE TAKEN FROM HIS MOTHER;  Two and a half months old, WANDERING ALONE HE WAS HIT BY A CAR!! 

Magda - Hit and Run!

 
 July 15, 2014

Earlier this evening, we get the call…emergency….a dog hit by a car lying on the side of the road. I have named her Magda. She is very wary towards humans and she put up a bit of a fuss. The x-rays show; bones in her pelvis are broken on one side. She can’t walk nor stand. The break is in a spot that will mend itself. There is some pressure being placed on her bowls increasing her discomfort.

Tiny and Vulnerable ... Yet Abandoned

     They are so vulnerable and tiny.  They can’t fend for nor feed themselves; they won’t survive alone.  Someone who has a female dog, allows her to get pregnant, to go through the whole process of giving birth; to start raising them and then when they are just shy of 2 months they take her babies away from her and dump them somewhere not knowing or caring about their fate.  The dangers are numerous. 

The Final Days of Finn

 I named him Finn, I don’t know why … it just came to me.  A few days back, my pack created a huge commotion as I barely heard a car drive off.  I am leery of people dumping dogs close to my house so I suspected as much.  I made my way out to the road and there, opposite me, he stood frozen; a ghost of a dog.  He looked so fragile.  I didn’t want to scare him so I approached accordingly to make him comfortable.

Viva Virna!

After two days of barely moving, she finally started to eat and drink on her own.

     It has been quite a week.  Wednesday morning Virna was found, in her excrement, on the side of the road, her entire body twitching uncontrollably.  Someone had laced food with poison, a common practice here in Greece, with the intent to kill her.  After all we and our vets could do (pumping her stomach and the required inter-venous medication) it was up to her to fight the poison that had made its way through her system. Weak and unconscious, she was put on IV and cortisone. All we could do was wait and hope for the best.