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HARLINGEN – She’s a brown-eyed lady.
She searches for with her demure and rather worried expression from the red and green blanket while her puppies feed excitedly on her under-nourished body.
Her name is Ginger, and she’s simply been rescued from a building and construction website where she was abandoned simply as she’s about to deliver.
Fortunately, somebody has actually pleased to call animal control to have her and her male buddy rescued from the 100-degree heat.
And that’s where Antonio Caldwell, deputy director of animal services at the Brownsville Animal Regulation and Care Center, signs up with Ginger’s rescue story.
“It was about eight or nine weeks ago that we got a call through dispatch for an animal control officer to respond to a construction site,” Caldwell keeps in mind. “There were two dogs that were kind of roaming around, and they looked like they had been dumped at this construction site.”
Animal control brought the 2 fighters to the shelter, and Caldwell right away saw the higher issue here — a pregnant mom without any location to deliver.
“Ginger was as wide as a house, like super pregnant,” he says. “It makes you sad to think who would abandon a pregnant mama with no food, no water, in the heat at a construction site. It’s a terribly sad thing, it’s insane, but these are things that we deal with on a regular basis.”
It’s an awful and ugly thing that the desertion of a living thing must prevail. But similar to all things dark and terrible, there is a method to work it to a positive impact.
In this case, that positive something can be found in the form of a practiced procedure when setting in motion on behalf of an abandoned animal.
“They brought in Ginger, and we immediately got her food and water and got her settled,” he remembers.
A recue organization in Central Texas rapidly took in the male fighter. Ginger, nevertheless, stayed in Brownsville and really remained in the vet’s workplace for about 2 days.
“They made her super comfortable,” Caldwell says. “She was so pregnant she could hardly walk it seemed yet.”
At this point, nevertheless, Caldwell had actually not yet seen Ginger. That altered about 2 days after her arrival.
“I went next door to our vet’s office and peaked in and saw these ginormous brown eyes staring at me, and immediately it was, ‘Oh, my goodness, we can’t have you having your babies here at this shelter,’” he remembers. “This is no place for a pregnant mama to give birth.”
On top of that, a three-day weekend was upon him, and he couldn’t accept a mother dog having her pups alone in a veterinarian’s workplace without support and laying there for 3 days.
He called his partner, let her understand they were having “company” that weekend, then took Ginger home.
Just in time, obviously, since within 2 days Ginger had actually brought to life 12 fighter puppies.
“I cleared out my office completely, and my office became a nursery for these puppies,” Caldwell said. “We cared for them for the eight weeks they were with us.”
Four of the puppies didn’t live long, however the other 8 were strong, healthy, full-blooded fighters — 4 males and 4 women. Caldwell had an adoption occasion at a regional PetSmart, and all 8 puppies discovered houses.
But there was still Ginger, and nobody took her home. It is a sad scenario that even in adoption circumstances for kids, individuals desire the younger more than the older. The children and extremely children discover houses, and the older kids and the teens get left.
Such holds true likewise with dogs and cats. While everybody desired Ginger’s children, they didn’t desire Ginger herself.
But once again, this negative developed into a positive.
“My wife and I were so attached we were actually glad that she didn’t get adopted because I think we wanted to bring her home,” Caldwell said. “She had already spent two months with us, and we couldn’t imagine seeing her with anyone else. So she’s now happily running around our house, and it’s so good to see her wagging her tail and with those big beautiful brown eyes.”
Caldwell advises everybody to get their dogs and cats made sterile or sterilized to avoid undesirable puppies and kittens being born into a life of anguish.
And if you have a family pet you don’t desire any longer, do the gentle thing and bring it to a shelter, not a building and construction website in 103-degree weather condition.
