Westman shelter searches for homes for abandoned puppies
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This article was published 15/11/2011 (5383 days ago), so information in it may no longer be current.
Six puppies, just five-weeks old, are looking for homes after they were recently abandoned near Sioux Valley First Nation.
Four other puppies were rescued from the Rivers dump last Friday, and luckily Erika Shelvey was able to find homes for three of them.
“It was really sad because they were so cute, and I didn’t know how somebody could just dump the cute little puppies there,” Shelvey said. “I hate seeing animals like that.”
Shelvey’s neighbour Carla Chamberlain took in the fourth puppy, and picked up the other six from the reserve, after she found out there were even more abandoned pups.
“I heard they would be destroyed if they weren’t taken somewhere,” she said. “It just sickened me to think that somebody was going to do this to these dogs … I was just beside myself, I just couldn’t bear the thought of somebody shooting these dogs.”
Three of the puppies are now at the Brandon Humane Society, waiting to be adopted. The other four are being fostered by Chamberlain until more room is available.
Manager Tracy Munn said it makes her “sick” to think of helpless animals abandoned in such a way.
“I know there’s a devil because there’s people like that,” Munn said. “It’s the scum of the Earth that would leave little puppies at the dump.”
She said laws need to get “a whole lot stricter.”
“They need to make spaying and neutering a law, not a bylaw,” Munn said.
The puppies appear to be a smaller breed, Munn said, likely a beagle or boxer and shepherd mix.
They look to be in decent health, however Chamberlain said they need to be de-wormed.
While she’s happy they have been rescued, Chamberlain said it’s a lot of work to care for them.
“It’s kind of one of those bittersweet things. I can’t effectively care for all of these dogs,” she said. “We work … and it’s not fair to them. They need constant care.”
Chamberlain hopes to find loving families for the dogs as soon as possible.
“My hope immediately, is that these pups are going to find … homes where people are going to actually adopt them as part of their family, care for them and give them what they need,” she said.
“I would hope that it raises awareness for everybody that … this is happening in all kinds of communities because people are not getting their animals spayed or neutered, and these puppies are suffering from it.”
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