When animal rescuers save animals from abuse or neglect, they often find clues to their painful past in the physical and emotional scars left behind.
Last week, 200 dogs destined to be slaughtered were rescued from a South Korean dog meat farm and flown to Humane Society animal shelters in the US, Canada, and the UK. The Human Society of Tampa Bay took 14 of those dogs in, and while they knew these animals had been horribly abused and neglected, they had no idea how bad it was until they saw one of the dogs sleeping.
When the dogs arrived at the shelter, each dog received their own fluffy bed to sleep on, however, when an exhausted 3-year-old Korean Jindo named Harriet went to go to sleep, rescuers were heartbroken to see her trying to sleep standing up.
Before being flown across the world, Harriet was kept locked up in a tiny cage stuffed with other dogs and was forced to sleep standing up. So when she got her first bed, she had no idea what to do with it. “Even though our Korean pups are doing well and beginning to adjust, they are still suffering from the horror they endured. This video shows Harriet falling asleep standing up because she doesn’t understand that she can use the bed provided for her,” rescuers wrote.
One of the volunteers then spent the entire day gently teaching Harriet how to lie down for the first time and get comfortable. “These dogs have been on an arduous journey and still have a long way to go, but we are hopeful that wagging tails and snuggly beds will become their norm.”
Watch the entire video below to see the heartbreaking moment rescuers realize Harriet didn’t know how to lie down to go to sleep.
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[Featured image: Humane Society of Tampa Bay]
Rescuers Teach Dog Saved From Meat Farm How To Lie Down is an article from: LifeDaily