 Dog tied to railing - shoe laces, wire around neck
Olympia, WA (US)Date: Dec 13, 2005
County: Thurston
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Disposition: Open
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No doubt about it � with her muscular body, she looks like a tough mama. As soon as the abandoned pit bull moved from her blanket in her kennel at the Thurston County Animal Shelter, nine orphaned black and white border collie puppies, a four-week-old litter whose mother died in an accident, sprang from where they had been napping next to her. �She did a great job with them,� director Susanne Beauregard said. Good timing may bring a happier future for the traumatized pit bull and nine orphaned puppies who came to together.
Residents of a Yauger Way apartment building called the shelter on Dec. 13, 2005 to report the pit bull tied to a railing, Beauregard said. Around her neck was a choke chain, shoe laces and speaker wire. Her blanket was stiff with frost. �When she came in, she was scared, cold and needed food,� said shelter staff member Dustin Wade, who walks her daily. Her teats were also engorged with milk for nursing, and the dog limped in pain, Beauregard said. There was no sign of her owner or the puppies that the pit bull obviously had given birth to recently, she said.
�I don't know if she had been used to breed puppies and the puppies were taken away,� she said.
Later that same day, workers at the Thurston County Animal Shelter became frantic when a local family turned over nine three-week-old puppies. Their mother had been struck and killed by a car, and the family couldn't commit to multiple feedings a day of the orphans. �I don't know when we put it together,� Beauregard said. One of the staff members supervised the pit bull with one of the puppies. The pit bull accepted the puppy right away and happily let it nurse, Beauregard said. �I think it was a relief to her,� Beauregard said. Without the puppies to nurse, a veterinarian would have had to treat the pit bull to relieve her milk production. �This clearly is an experienced mother,� Beauregard said.
Eventually, families may adopt the puppies through the shelter. But a rescue organization will handle the pit bull's adoption, Beauregard said. �Mama� barks and growls in fear when she sees someone with a hat, and shelter workers think she may have been harshly treated. All of the dogs will be spayed or neutered before adoption, Beauregard said. Neighborhood MapFor more information about the Interactive Animal Cruelty Maps, see the map notes.
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