Getting Dogs Off Chains

Dear Friend of Guardians of Rescue,

Puppy mills in the US are a dark side of the pet industry. These facilities typically house large numbers of breeding dogs in overcrowded and unsanitary conditions. The dogs often lack proper veterinary care, nutrition, and socialization. These animals are used for one thing — profit.

These puppies are sold in pet stores and websites, and they are found for sale at roadside flea markets. These animals often suffer from malnutrition, untreated illnesses, and parasites. Breeding females are continuously exploited until their bodies are exhausted, and puppies are often taken from their mothers too early.

Puppy mills are everywhere; they are in neighborhoods, in back yards, in small storage sheds, they are in basements and, often, in barns.  After the mother dog is too weak to produce another puppy she is often discarded like a piece of trash, because she is no longer able to make money for the operators. 

Saving dogs from puppy mills is a priority for Guardians, and over the years we have worked with Law Enforcement to shut down and empty these heartless puppy factories. Sometimes we are able to get dogs surrendered to us by active mills, when the dogs are no longer useful to them as breeders. 

Here are a few of the mill survtivors we have recently taken in to our medical foster for physical and mental healing. Their previous life of neglect leaves scars of both kinds, and they need a tremendous amount of care and love to emerge as the dogs they were meant to be and to find the happy new lives they deserve in loving homes.

PUMPKIN

Pumpkin, a miniature poodle, is one of those mothers, and has had her share of puppies. Her tiny frail body trembles in fear at every noise she hears. When we found her, her coat was matted and loaded with fleas and fecal matter. Her toenails were so long they wrapped around her paw, making it hard to stand and walk. She was very dehydrated and underweight. Sick from the untreated intestinal parasites and infection, she haed suffered for a long time.

 As bad as this all is, the saddest part of this all is her emotional state; she stands in fear and trembles. even though she is safe now, we can only imagine what she went through all the years imprisoned as a puppy mill mom.

Puppy mill dogs show survival behaviors—Pumpkin protects her food. She will dump her bowl and hide the kibble under her blanket. She will stand in place for hours even though now she is able to move freely. Her trauma is deep.

But Pumpkin is receiving medical care and lots of love, and we are showing her that people can be kind and that life can be good.

 
PEANUT

Hidden away in a forgotten corner of a puppy mill, Peanut's life was a cycle of endless litters. Her happiness and health were not important to her jailers, just the money she could produce by being bred. over and over.

Peanut existed solely to produce "product", her worth measured in the number of puppies she birthed for sale. Her days were marked by discomfort and neglect, her nights filled with the cries of her young, soon taken from her, loss after loss.

Then, a beacon of hope appeared on the horizon—Guardians Of Rescue, dedicated to saving animals from dire situations, learned of Peanut's plight. We arrived, not a moment too soon, and gently took her into our care.

It was the first act of kindness she had ever known, but her life would be only kindness from now on.

You and Guardians, together, have saved so many suffering animals like Peanut together that this partnership became our motto—Together we save them.

DOLLY —ANOTHER PUPPY MILL MOM WE SAVED TOGETHER

A backyard breeder in Robertson County, Kentucky, used Dolly to breed puppies and didn't care enough about her to give her even the most basic standard of care. Left in a small freezing building, her horrendously matted coat was damp and filthy with her own urine and feces that covered the floor and every surface - she had no option but to sit and sleep in the mess; breathing in dangerously high levels of ammonia that made her eyes burn. Even worse, she wasn't alone. 13 other suffering souls were trapped there with her.

With severe upper respiratory infections, open wounds, eye infections, internal parasites and low rapidly-dropping body scores, these dogs wouldn't have survived much longer and their abuser didn't care. To them, the dogs were only valued as dollar signs....but not to us, and not to you.

Thanks to your support for Guardians of Rescue, Dolly was rescued and transformed, and the photos speak for themselves.

Guardians works to end this profit-driven cruelty; to seek justice for the victims of greedy heartless humans, and make sure innocent animals can know the life of love and safety that should always have been theirs. Thank you for making transformations like this possible!

THE TRANSFORMATION OF HENRY

When we save a severely neglected dog from a puppy mill, it is immediately life-changing for them to get cleaned up and relieved of the constant pain and discomfort caused by that neglect.

It is a relief to us, too, to see the real dog emerge from the years of suffering.

When we saved Henry from a puppy mill hell-hole in Colbert County, Alabama, he barely looked like a dog. Once freed from his prison of hair, it turned out there was someone under there after all!

These are the types of comfort and happiness you help to provide when you donate. Without you empowering Guardians, Henry would still be trapped and suffering, if he had survived at all.

TWO RESCUED CHIHUAHUAS WHO CAME WITH PASSENGERS

When Guardians rescued six Chihuahuas from a terrible Tennessee neglect case, we suspected that two of the dogs were pregnant.

Recently, Chica and LaBitty proved we were right. At the end of July,, Chica welcomed four adorable babies—Nacho , Bruno , Lila and Silas—into the world and into Guardians' foster care. In September, LaBitty added three adorable babies, Dinky, Mini and Trixie to the family

We don't even want to picture the fate of these innocent puppies had we not had your support to get their mama dog out of there in time to be born where they are cherished insrtead of exploited.

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Until our society decides to end these abusive breeding mills for good, the need never ends. These are just a few of the many, many puppy mill dogs Guardians has rescued with your help. and these and so many others got a second chance at a real life because you are there to help this mission of mercy,

Thank you for helping Guardians to save so many victims of puppy mills and other horrors—without you, it would be impossible.

Guardians works to end this profit-driven cruelty; to seek justice for the victims of greedy heartless humans, and make sure innocent animals can know the life of love and safety that should always have been theirs.

Thank you for helping to make these new lives possible, because as we say,

Together we save them,

Guardians of Rescue

Links:

• Guardians website
• Guardians YouTube Channel

Dear Friend of Guardians of Rescue,

We are back to share some of the outreach we've done for animals in need over the past few months.

Anyone with a pet knows that the costs of food and other pet supplies adds up quickly. When someone with a well-loved dog or cat finds themselves unable to afford these essentials, they need help quickly. Because you support Guardians, we are able to ride to the rescue, ensuring that these pets are well-fed and their humans relieved of the stress and worry that their animal companions will go without.

Recently we made these life-sustaining food deliveries in multiple locations. At the Shinnicock Community Center, in Long Island, NY, families came out to happily accept food for their dogs. We also brought food out to the seniors who couldn't get to the Center. Thanks to the Guardians—and you—many more dogs were able to be fed regularly.

In this community, a lot of the dogs live outside. Guardians will come out and help put up secure pens and cozy dog houses to help get these dogs off of their previous chains, and let them live in a much more comfortable situation. We have contructed these kennels in many areas where dogs are kept outside. In those situations we do as much for the dogs as the owers will permit. Sometimes they can be persuaded to let the dogs come inside, and sometimes we have even gotten dogs surrendered and have rehomed them in a better situation.  

We also visited South Philadelphia and Newark, where residents with dogs in need gratefully accepted gifts of food which will keep their pets' bellies full till our next visit, all made possible by our caring donors like you.

Guardians doesn't forget about the feral or community cats living outside in all types of weather. We build and place insulated cat shelters for their protection, and feed colonies, which are dependent on human support. 

The need never ends, and as long as Guardians has the help of many caring people, we will be able to support animals in need with food, supplies, protective shelter, veterinary care and their other necessities. 

We never forget who makes this work possible, and in an important way, you are there with us on each delivery of food and hope to animals in need. Thank you!

Together we feed and shelter them,

Together we heal them,

Together we save them,

Guardians of Rescue

Links:

• Guardians website
• Guardians YouTube Channel