In elements of Greece, many pet homeowners don’t sterilize their dogs – both as a result of they don’t care or it merely by no means happens to them. The result’s a puppy explosion, notably in rural areas and on the Greek islands. Their ‘solution’ is to place the puppies on a highway the place they are going to be hit by automobiles.
It is commonplace for homeowners to take a whole undesirable litter, pack them right into a automobile, drive them a way from their home, and dump them on a highway. Often, heartless folks intentionally select a busy highway to dump dogs. What occurs then is a litany of horrid deaths because the squirming puppies wander this fashion in the hunt for their moms, with no probability of avoiding tons of steel smashing into their tiny our bodies. The homeowners do that on objective, avoiding slaughtering the puppies themselves by placing them the place they’re most definitely to be hit and killed.
One of probably the most horrible issues about that is that puppy dumping is a day by day incidence.
If the highway is a rural one, then a unique however equally ugly destiny awaits the poor creatures – they crawl into the undergrowth, and there, hunger and thirst get them. It will get very popular in Greece in the summertime – as much as 91.5°F (33°C) will be reached within the afternoon, with many days reaching a sweltering 100°F (almost 38°C). In this sweltering warmth, puppies undergo horribly earlier than they finally succumb to heatstroke or thirst. In winter, Greece will get bitterly chilly, windy with heavy rains, then the puppies die of publicity.
Credit: Little Friends Lefkas
Fortunately, there’s hope for these helpless animals: the three musketeers of Little Friends Lefkas.
On the Greek island of Lefkas, three tender-hearted folks couldn’t bear seeing lifeless puppies strewn on roads or listening to the whimpering of injured puppies crying for his or her moms. They fashioned an organization referred to as Little Friends Lefkas and have become the three musketeers of puppy rescue, searching for out undesirable little animals and saving them.
Supporting these small, needy creatures, a lot of whom want intense care – shouldn’t be straightforward. They want meals, vaccinations, shelter and care – and fairly often, therapy for his or her accidents. Importantly, every one have to be sterilized to assist break the cycle of puppy abandonment.
Credit: Little Friends Lefkas
As you learn this, there are 19 hungry puppies, six everlasting residents and 16 grownup dogs of their care, prepared for a perpetually home, who want meals and medical care. They anticipate extra animals to reach any day now. Given time, most of those puppies will go to good properties, however proper now, they need help to survive and thrive until they can be with their forever families and live happy, comfortable lives.
The cost of puppy meals has shot up 58 p.c in Greece. It now prices as much as $60 (£55) a day to feed all of the rescued animals in Little Friends Lefkas’ care. After their tragic beginnings, will you help keep their bellies full by donating now?
Puppy meals has gone up 58 p.c and is now $60 (roughly £55) for a 33-pound (15 kg) bag. Most of the time, that bag lasts a day. Transport prices are additionally rising, and in some circumstances, the cost to ship a single puppy to a home will be $200 (round £160). Getting these animals to their new properties is crucial as a result of it’s the solely technique to unlock house for extra rescued animals.
It is animal lovers such as you, who save puppy lives. Can these little animals count on you today?
Little Friends Lefkas is an ideal instance of the type of caring animal welfare organization that NFA helps – they’re on the bottom, defending the helpless, caring for needy souls, and taking direct motion to avoid wasting lives. They get no funding from authorities – it’s animal lovers such as you, who save puppy lives and provides them a second probability at life. Your donation makes a big difference.
Although Little Friends Lefkas places puppy rescue first, they generally have dogs who can’t be rehomed. Dogs like Renai, who was hit by a automobile when he was a puppy; his pelvis was crushed and he has everlasting urinary issues that want day by day therapy. He will dwell with Little Friends Lefkas perpetually. Long-term residents like him really need the support of animal lovers like you.
We can’t save each canine on the earth, however we are able to save as many as potential and assist forestall extra undesirable puppies from being introduced right into a world the place all that awaits them is starvation, abuse and neglect, so please donate right away.
Your donation will assist guarantee hungry tummies are full, wounds are handled, animals are sterilized, and transport will be organized for every one to achieve a loving perpetually home.
Please donate today so we can continue saving animals – one puppy at a time.
For the animals,
Gloria Davies (and Max and Flora!)
Founder and CEO
Network for Animals
P.S. We know there are dogs throughout Greece who want your assist. We attempt our highest and hope you’ll do every little thing you’ll be able to to assist defenseless puppies. Please donate to Network for Animals right now if you possibly can.
