The men and women in the armed forces dedicate their lives to protecting the innocent, and when one off-duty Marine saw an innocent dog tied up to a dumpster one cold night, he knew he had to save it.
Jaryd Horsley had just gotten home from work at about 2:30 a.m. and as he was walking inside his home, he noticed an exhausted dog tied up tightly to a nearby dumpster. “I heard a growl and she was tied up. The leash was wrapped around her neck and tied to the Dumpster. The leash was so short she was choking if she tried to sit down,” said Horsley. “Waiting for the trash to come pick her up, that’s what it seemed like. It’s rough. Who would do this to an innocent puppy?” asked Horsley.
“He came into the house and let me know the situation,” said Jessica Vargas, Horsley’s fianceé. “I grabbed some chicken that I had cooked for dinner, and we went to look for the dog. I used my phone to light the way. She was abandoned. The heartless person that left her in the dark on a cold night of December made sure that she could not escape, and that she was hidden.”
After feeding the starving dog, they could sense that she started to trust them more, and carefully untied her and brought her inside. “She was so malnourished and was missing fur from different parts of her body. She seemed to have a bad skin rash and infection,” Vargas said. The next morning, the couple brought the dog they named Pheobe to the vet, and found out that she did have a bad skin infection and was also suffering from a heart murmur that would kill her without treatment.
Horsley and Vargas are determined to keep Phoebe, but her treatment will cost thousands of dollars, which the couple doesn’t have and decided to start a GoFundMe to raise the money.”I just want her to be happy, be comfortable and have good life, no matter how long it is,” said Horsley. So far, they have raised more than $3,400 of their $1,700 goal.
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[Featured image: GoFundMe/Jessica Vargas]
Marine Rescues A Dog Tied To A Dumpster Like Trash is an article from: LifeDaily