COLUMBUS, Ga. (WTVM) – A foster-based dog rescue organization is gradually growing due to the increasing variety of given up or abandoned dogs throughout the Chattahoochee Valley.
The organization needs the neighborhood’s help as they take actions towards broadening.
“We’re here without judgment, we just want to keep dogs out of the shelter,” says Paige Dougherty, Executive Director of PCS Pups, or Permanent Change of Station Pups.
A better half of a fight veteran and her partner established PCS Pups in action to the disconcerting quantity of dogs who are left by outbound military households.
They’ve rescued, cultivated, and discovered houses for almost 50 dogs in their brief 3 months of remaining in the Tri-City neighborhood. now, they require the neighborhood’s help to continue these efforts.
Paige Dougherty and her partner have actually constantly had dreams to start a dog rescue to keep as lots of dogs out of overcrowded animal shelters.
Those dreams entering fulfillment this past January.
“These dogs are amazing, we don’t deserve them truly as humans we don’t deserve dogs,” says Dougherty.
Permanent modification of station pups PCS Pups has actually a rescued, cultivated, and assisted discover permanently houses for 40 dogs…the saves typically originating from Russel-Phenix City Animal Shelter and Columbus Animal Care and Control.
One of the dogs is Tilly, a rescue discovered in Phenix City that Dougherty saved less than a month into the companies launch.
“She was covered in wounds, fresh wounds and halfway healed wounds,” says Dougherty, “If I sit and think about her wounds I would be off track.”
PCS Pups is on an objective to build a no-kill sanctuary.
“Because dogs are dying. Five dogs died in Columbus yesterday [Friday] and 3 died in Phenix City and they didn’t have to,” says Dougherty. “There’s a million reasons why it shouldn’t have happened, but dogs are still dying and we can’t sit by and not continue to help when we know there’s more that we can do.”
The organization has the possibility to acquire an 11-acre land in Harris County. It would offer the required room for unadoptable, elderly, or ill dogs.
“We’re going to use this land to save lives and that’s all that matters,” says Dougherty.
PCS Pups has less than one month to raise the $80,000 to secure the sanctuary space, however a good-hearted benefactor is matching every contribution.
“100%, penny for penny, no limit, which I can’t even tell you my heart could explode. That’s unbelievable that someone would do that for the dogs. It blows my mind,” says Dougherty.
Dougherty says the problems are organized, space being the primary issue. The sanctuary’s objective can attempt to reduce the on-going problems.
Even if PCS pups does not reach their objective, Dougherty says dogs still matter.
“Every single dog in this community matters. If it doesn’t work out, I’m still going to pull who I can. If it does work out I’m going to pull a lot more,” says Dougherty.
To learn more about PCS Pups’ Sanctuary in the South and how you can help, click here.
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