A CASE OF ABUSE

Above is a picture of Bubba when he was rescued. There is a facebook page called Justice for Bubba that I subscribe to and that is where I got this picture. I use it here to show you just what I saw yesterday outside the local SPCA office. The dog did not "belong" to the SPCA, but was being walked along with another by a person who wanted to visit yet another dog currently in the shelter. The mother to the young (10 month old) dog he had on the leash. The dog was a little darker in color than Bubba, who is pictured here, but other than that, could be brothers.

I recognized the person with the dog so I stopped to talk. I, of course, asked the person about the dog. He told me the dog was perfectly healthy and that others had asked him about the dog, too. He SAID he fed the dog brown rice and 1/2 can of dog food once a day. I sincerely doubt it. My small dogs eat that much and more in a day for crying out loud.

Does an animal that looks like the one above look healthy?

The only place I have previously seen an animal that emaciated is on the rescue sites and every one of them is suffering from some stage of starvation!

Well, the person went in to the SPCA to ask if they could see the other dog and the SPCA staff saw the dogs being walked.  They declined to let the person see the dog they had in their custody, however they followed the person outside to ask about those dogs. I don't know what was said, but the person was very uncooperative and the sound of raised voices ensued. They have now initiated an investigation. Though they wanted to apprehend the animal immediately, they have protocols to follow and can do nothing until they get a court document to allow them to seize the animal. In the meantime it suffers.

Amazingly the animal was still wagging it's tail and definitely wanted to give and get affection to humans. The other dog was older and had longer fur so it was hard to see what physical shape it was in, but I would venture to say that it too, under all that fur, would be painfully thin.

How I wish I had things going. I pray for the day that the rescue I have planned is opened. I hope for those to help me who have much courage in the face of these abusers. If I could have, I would have taken this animal by force. I hope they can apprehend it sooner rather than later... later could be too late.