Family Saves 7 Giant Puppies Marked to Die for Possible Ringworm

[Omaha Steve]

http://www.care2.com/causes/family-saves-7-giant-puppies-marked-to-die-for-possible-ringworm.html

by Laura Simpson September 19, 2013



Written by Robin Shuten of Michigan

My son was about 11 when he called me from his grandma’s house and told me that someone had dropped off an entire litter of puppies. He was really upset as there was talk of calling the pound to have them picked up. I debated briefly, but the next day we went to pick them up. I told him we would find homes for them, and in the mean time, they would be in no danger of being euthanized.

So we went out to his grandmother’s house to pick up the seven puppies, only to find that the dog pound had already picked them up! So I proceeded to talk with them about letting me take them. We knew they were homeless and there was no way that an owner would come for them. And the odds of all of them being adopted within the seven day stay of execution were rather slim.

At this point, I hadn’t met the puppies and my expectations were that I would find puppies weighing 8 or 9 pounds a piece. But, they were all around 25 pounds each! I was stunned. My son had failed to mention that, thinking that I may not want to take them, but at this point my son, my daughter and I were feeling pretty protective of them. But the pound would not budge. They said we had to have them all fixed and get their shots, all of which would have come to around $1,000. I could not afford that. They refused to work with us.

Next I called the humane society in a bigger city thinking they may have more room. I was just trying whatever occurred to me. I finally got a glimmer of hope when the newly contacted humane society offered to make us “agents” of theirs long enough to pick them up and drive them in. So that was what we did. We picked up roughly 175 pounds of wiggly adorableness!



FULL story at link.

[xchrom]

1. du rec.

[Mnemosyne]

2. K&R for puppies and kind people! nt

[Live and Learn]

3. I find it horrendous that a "humane" society would

even suggest murdering any dog for a curable disease.

[TalkingDog]

4. Seriously. You can cure ringworm in one day by smearing black walnut hull on it. Jeebus.

A couple of years ago the dogs got it from somewhere and passed it on to the spousal unit. One swipe with black walnut and next day nada, nothing, zilch. No recurrence. We haven't had a problem with it since.

[KurtNYC]

5. parts of the story don't make sense to me and that is one of them

I don't know if the Humane Society makes people honorary agents-for-a-day.

Ringworm (misspelled in the article) is dog equivalent of athletes foot.

[IdaBriggs]

6. The concern is most likely that it will spread to the other animals

and possibly humans, since it is one of the things that can cross the species barrier. Treating a family pet isn't the same as trying to contain this type of issue in a kennel situation with animals revolving in and out.

Please note I am not in favor of the practice - just trying to explain some of the (possible - since I wasn't there) logic.

We did rescue for a few years. It was heartbreaking and rewarding. There are a high percentage of idiots out there, and trying to protect animals from coming *back* into the system is a big challenge.

[kaiden]

7. Intermountain Humane Society in Colorado euthanized 23 kittens for ringworm.

There was such an uproar from the good people along the Front Range -- the Denver t.v. stations carried the story -- that the entire IMHS board had to resign and the vet who did the euthanizing had rocks thrown through his windows.

[gopiscrap]

8. Wonderful family, cool dogs

I got fined when I was in college because I seven puppies in my dorm room til I found homes for them. Their mother was run over by a car when they were 9 weeks old and the authorities were gonna euthanize them.

[Liberal_in_LA]

9. 25 pound puppies! i am so glad they were saved