Ronni, my daughter had boarding kennels in the mountains. To get to her kennels was an arduous unmade road of 6 miles before then joining an arterial road of another 12 miles before reaching the bottom of the mountain where the villages were... Daughter and or her staff had to travel up and down this road to get to her clients, twice a day sometimes more.. on most days..
I can't tell you how many dogs were abandoned on the mountain between her place and the villages..every day.. no exaggeration. My daughter would rescue those who were in the worst condition, get them to her vet to check them out then nurse them back to health and finally find a home for them... which she always managed to do..
However it was so rampant, it wasn't possible for her to rescue them all, so eventually the only thing they could do was carry a sack of dried food in the vans , so when they found abandoned dogs who looked fairly healthy they would stop and feed them..that's all they could do..
DD ended up with 7 dogs of her own, because 3 of them over a space of just 6 months found their way mange ridden..one suffering with Pavo.. half starved, onto her property.. wandered all the way up the mountain.. and found sanctuary with her. To this day she has the sweetest little chihuahua who was dumped approx 14 months on the mountain.. and who is now 13 years old.. and still terrified of strangers..
this is pixie she was tiny beaten..abandoned... and DD nurded her to recovery.. she never leaves my DD's side..
This is Rodders.. at 7 months thrown out, half starved, so thin, skin and bone, completely infected with Pavo he couldn't stand and was in such poor condition he made the TV news.. DD nursed him back to health..and this was him 4 years later..
..and there was many more that I could show pictures of...
I could write about this for many pages, people are disgusting the way they treat animals sometimes.. My DD sold her business after 12 years mentally and physically exhausted.. but champions for abandoned and abused animals every day of her life.
I’ll foster him till he goes to rescue.
