It’s cruel enough to abandon a helpless puppy on the street when shelters are happy to take animals in without questions, but it’s even crueler to abandon an animal in a place no one would ever find it.
Instead of being surrendering to a shelter, one unlucky litter of newborn puppies were callously throw in a box and abandoned in the middle of the woods where no one but possibly a hunter would ever find them. And in case a hunter did stumble on the puppies before they starved to death, the cruel owner left a message on the box that said ‘shoot me’.
Eventually, a hunter and his wife ended up stumbling upon the box, but the kind woman managed to convince her husband not to shoot them. “The words “shoot me” meant more to the hunter than the 6 lives breathing in the box. He wanted to shoot them, he had to be convinced to not kill them. The wife immediately reached out for help, and we rushed to get them,” said Leslie Ysuhuaylas, founder of The Underdog Project.
Karen Rene’e, a volunteer from the rescue organization took the six puppies in and immediately got them to a vet since they were clearly starving and sick. “Just looking at the puppies, anyone could say that they were really sick,” said Rene’e, who named the puppies Aries, Aphrodite, Athena, Atlas, Apollo, and Hera after the Greek gods.”I thought they needed every advantage we could get,” she said.
Sadly, Aphrodite and Athena didn’t survive, but the rest of the litter has made a remarkable comeback and spend their days learning to be puppies and cuddling with their rescuer. “The three boys love to play tag and occasionally get stuck under the sofa, where they cry like babies until we help them out,” Rene’e said. “They are all strong and ready for their forever homes,” she said.
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[Featured Image: Karen Rene’e]
Puppies Rescued After Being Left In The Woods In A Box is an article from: LifeDaily