Purple Hearted Puppies rescues

[Cliffdog]

I just thought I would post these pics of the rescues I'm helping care for from Purple Hearted Puppies. It's a shelter that was left abandoned and almost 300 animals were left to starve and go thirsty. Fortunately many of them were saved... and these are the 5 that my sister's vet clinic took in, and I'm helping in their care until they allow us to foster them out.


Skinny Minnie... whose fecal was full of hair, so we're assuming she had to eat another dog to survive :( Unfortunately many dogs had to resort to eating their dead kennel-mates.



Yoda, who seems to have demodex.



"Momma Mo" who looks to be pregnant (will be having a spay/abort).



Disco.



Stretch.

[hmbutler]

Wow, an abandoned shelter?? That's worse in my eyes than the original people who abandoned the dogs! How can people abandone that many animals knowing they've already had such a rough start to life

Hopefully the beautiful ones you've shown here can find loving homes and be cared for long term

[Kat]

Oh my gosh I never would have thought of a shelter abandoning animals. Why did something like this even happen? Does anyone know how long they were left there before someone called it in?

[Cliffdog]

Yeah, it's pretty horrible... It was actually a shelter slash boarding facility so some of the animals were in for boarding, not shelter dogs.

I know these five are all going to find homes, they're super super sweet dogs. They're starved half to death but they'd rather play with you than eat their food, they're starving more for love than anything else. I wish I could take Disco and Stretch myself but I know my situation just isn't good for them right now...

[Cliffdog]

Oh my gosh I never would have thought of a shelter abandoning animals. Why did something like this even happen? Does anyone know how long they were left there before someone called it in?

They're saying 10 to 14 days is the amount of time that the two women who owned the shelter left it abandoned but it's evident by the body condition of some of the dogs that many of them were not properly cared for for much longer than that... more like months.

[twoisplenty]

20 dogs and 2 cats found dead at puppy breeding operation in Summerdale | al.com

Thank god those poor dogs are finally getting the care they need. My heart aches for the ones that didnt survive :(

[xellil]

That is just sickening. Unfortunately, it happens more than people think - alot of hoarders go under the guise of a "rescue" when in reality it's a torture chamber to feed their sickness.

Those photos just make me cry. How many animals are living like that even as we sit here in our comfy houses?

[Caty M]

WOW. That's insane. Thank you for caring for some of them!

That's disgusting to pose as a rescue and then have a breeding operation.. and then to abandon all those animals.

I hope those people rot in hell

[Cliffdog]

There was no breeding operation actually. At the beginning of the police raid there was a misconception that it was a puppymill but that turned out to be false.

[Janet At Nutro]

Awww, the poor babies.
I am so glad that you will be helping to nurse them back to health.