The Angel of Texas Rescues 'Unreachable' Dogs

[Omaha Steve]

http://www.care2.com/causes/trailblazers/blog/the-angel-of-texas-rescues-unreachable-dogs/

posted by: Emily L. 5 hours ago



Photo: Kelle Mann Davis holds a pup rescued from a park in Montgomery, Texas. The Pup Squad took her in to their rescue program and she is safe and being treated for her horrendous skin problems.

NOTE: This is a guest post by Laura Simpson, Founder of The Great Animal Rescue Chase and the Harmony Fund.

In the Texas area between Interstate 59 and the York area of Houston, there are whispers of an angel. She appears as a slender woman with auburn hair who skillfully descends dark crevices, enters abandoned buildings and braces against extreme weather in pursuit of homeless and injured dogs and cats. She's trapped aggressive dogs with collars and rope deeply embedded in their necks and she opens her arms to dogs who have lost every bit of their fur to mange. It's rumored that she has a near magical way of sustaining orphaned newborn pups and a golden touch in trapping frightened survivors in an area dubbed the Corridor of Cruelty. Her real name is Kelle Mann Davis and her story is one you won't soon forget.

For 25 years Kelle devoted her nursing career to high risk patients at an obstetrics clinic in the Houston, Texas area. She spent her days tending to the complex and unpredictable medical needs of expectant mothers and their developing babies in what could only be described as the ultimate recipe for a high stress job. But for Kelle, after-hours was when things really started to heat up as she went about the business of raising five kids of her own through the years of science projects, skinned knees, puppy love and all the rest. And while most of us might collapse on the bed and pull the blankets over our heads after an 18 hour day in Kelle's world, she did something different. Kelle was stirred by a passion that pushed right past the veil of fatigue, a delicately balanced check book and even the fortress of motherhood. We're talking about the sort of thing that makes a person slide out of bed at 4am or run out into the street in the middle of a thunderstorm. And it's a calling she simply had to answer.

"It started small," Kelle explains of her work occasionally volunteering to walk shelter dogs and fostering through Pals for Pooches. But five years ago when a sea monster named Katrina hit the Gulf Coast of the United States, something shifted inside of Kelle.

"My grandmother had Alzheimer's disease. She loved dogs and that was one of the things that would make her respond. She died about two weeks before Katrina hit and left me money. So I used that to head out to head out 10 days after the storm. I just knew that was in the divine plan."


FULL story at link.

[xchrom]

1. may she be Blessed all the days of her life. nt

[Tansy_Gold]

2. ditto

I usually don't even click on these threads because they leave me too upset, and I never -- not even in this case -- click to read the rest of the story.







TG, with her own four rescues

[xchrom]

3. i have a rescue too.

and yes, lots of animal threads i can't read.

[old mark]

4. K&R- All of our family pets through my 63 years have been rescues-I am grateful

to anyone who saves these unfortunates.

mark

[CurtEastPoint]

5. Every time human stupidity pisses me off, I remember there are wonderful people like this. n/t

[roguevalley]

6. In all ways that we can be, she is the best among us,. If you don't

think so, look at that dog's face. God loves her and so do I.

[Omaha Steve]

7. Marta and I have 3 rescued dogs

Two rat terriers and a wire haired mixed terrier.

[Rhiannon12866]

8. Wonderful thread! K&R!

I adopt senior dogs from rescue, so this story is dear to my heart. Thanks so much for posting this and kudos to you for adopting your rescue dogs. They were so very fortunate to have found you and Marta... O8) :pals:

Meneken and Sheena, Sara :loveya: