Posted on April 30, 2013 by WayCoolDogs
Late one rainy and dismal afternoon, they pulled a pitbull out of a large white van, and tugged her up the steps of the shelter. She was a very big pitbull, hugely pregnant, and terribly emaciated. I went across and asked what had happened to her and was told they had found her ‘in the [...]
Posted on April 01, 2013 by WayCoolDogs
I usually try to hurry past the Put-to-Sleep section, but this time my attention was drawn to a large portable cage containing four medium-sized dogs. Their heads were all clustered together, three short-haired and brown, and in the middle, one with smooth, silky white hair, whose eyes seized on mine. I gulped, because I knew [...]
Posted on February 28, 2013 by WayCoolDogs
Petra’s dog story began when she was surrendered by her owners and they realized how much her corrective surgery would cost. Petra had several large, angry-looking mammary tumors, and the surgery would have had to be very extensive.
Posted on February 22, 2013 by WayCoolDogs
Caged foxes wearing human desired pelts are placed on death row the minute they are born. We received the “Letter from a Caged Fox” the other day from our Jamaica writer, Cindi Scholefield, about such a situation.
Posted on January 29, 2013 by WayCoolDogs
Lexie’s owner had brought her in, supposedly because she wasn’t eating. But she was painfully thin and generally in a disgusting state of neglect. She had several other physical problems as well, including severe burns to her back; when her eyes had been thoroughly cleaned out, ulcers were discovered on the corneas.
Posted on January 07, 2013 by WayCoolDogs
A young couple, both of them sopping wet, struggled up the steps of the shelter, holding a small, shivering object wrapped in a towel. As they were handing it in, I asked them what had happened, and they explained they had seen this little creature struggling to stay afloat in a flooded gully. The young [...]
Posted on December 21, 2012 by WayCoolDogs
He had been found abandoned on a roadside and brought in, and he kept to the back of his cage, growling if anyone came near. I suspected that it was fear aggression and not real viciousness, and took my time with him, extending my arm towards him for a little while each day, but never trying to grab him, till he started getting interested in the arm and began to sniff it.
Posted on November 28, 2012 by WayCoolDogs
Hudson, a pit bull puppy, has recently been fitted with a prosthetic hind leg to replace the previous leg which he lost due to an abusive and neglectful owner. The owner is thought to have tried to nail all 3 of the puppies to the tracks but thankfully they broke free. Hudson had to have his paw amputated as it was reportedly injured so badly that it had a large hole in it.
Posted on November 07, 2012 by WayCoolDogs
Booker had an endearing habit. Whether he realized he was a bit heavy and I have a bad back, and wanted to help, I don’t know, but when we were heading back to his cage, which was at eye level, I never had to make much effort because I would bend, get into position to lift, and he would make a little leap and clamber up the bars of the cage underneath, to reach his door.
Posted on September 27, 2012 by WayCoolDogs
When I sat on the stone bench she would hop up beside me, and proceed to wash my face, thoroughly and methodically, starting at the forehead and ending at the chin, and when she was finished I would turn to look at her, and she would move her head back as if she was surveying her handiwork.
Posted on May 02, 2012 by WayCoolDogs
JERRY He was a big, heavy, old guy with scars on his face and body that could have told many stories. I could see that he didn’t hear so well, and moved somewhat slowly, but the first time he fumbled his way to the front of the cage and responded to my tentative patting with [...]
Posted on April 25, 2012 by WayCoolDogs
Two white dogs were brought in by the same person –– one very tiny girl and a medium-sized boy. The larger one was in much worse condition, so I focused first on him. Rodolfo’s fur was badly matted, and stained a dull, yellowish brown (don’t ask by what), and the only part of his body [...]
Posted on March 28, 2012 by WayCoolDogs
One of the most popular dog stories on the web today is “I Rescued a Human Today,” one that I can read again and again. Sent to us by Val Reed of Wilcox, Ne, it demonstrates the hopefulness, the wishes and desires of a dog in a shelter who has no future …. other than [...]
Posted on March 14, 2012 by WayCoolDogs
The first time I saw Morgan all I could make out was a mass of stringy, filthy, sopping-wet black fur. I don’t know if he arrived like that, or if someone put a hose on him to calm him down, but if so it certainly didn’t work, because he was a veritable tornado, tearing at [...]
