Sixteen Dogs Find Forever Homes After Being Rescued Last Minute from a High-Kill Shelter
An extremely overcrowded shelter in Mississippi is sending dogs to Maine so they can be adopted instead of euthanized at a rate of 60-80 dogs a month!
An extremely overcrowded shelter in Mississippi is sending dogs to Maine so they can be adopted instead of euthanized at a rate of 60-80 dogs a month!
A total of 23 people were arrested, 41 cars had to be towed away from the property, and there was one person that was also hit with a drug possession charge.
After spending the first ten years of her life cooped up in a tiny cage, Katarina is getting to taste all of life’s little pleasures, now!
A woman takes her car into a sop for service, and leaves with a new dog!
“As I got closer to it, I could see these eyes peering back at me… and they looked pretty desolate, like they needed help, and that’s when I called it in to authorities.”
“Because nobody else did. I don’t know. That’s just the way I am,” said Eaton.
“We don’t know how many he got, we just know he had blood all over him,” Sheriff Ricky Adam said of the K-9.
“Congratulations to Flurry and Pumpkin on their sponsorship, and a huge THANK YOU to this amazing young man,” the shelter said.
When Constance made it back to the wreckage that was her home, she breathed an overwhelming sigh of relief to find her dog alive.
“I just started to cry – it was the most joyful thing,” Ronnie said. “It’s hard to explain the emotion I felt when he said ‘I found your dog.’”
“This type of criminal activity will not be tolerated in our parish. Our detectives are going to follow every lead they can to get to the bottom of this,” said Rapides Sheriff William Earl Hilton.
Preschool teacher Savannah Pipkins started the petition after having seen the cruel conditions the dogs are forced to be kept in.