This was written in April 2006 by a former employee.
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Angel's Story
by
Minnie Parsons,
This is a very hard story to tell, Cathy and I are
Animal Control here in Tucker County. We work around the clock. We don't
get paid for the hours we work--most of it we do due to our love of
animals and out of the kindness of our hearts.
We get called day and night 7 days a week. We have a
story to tell and it is true it really happened
so bear with me while I try to tell the story.
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Angel
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Cathy and I were called on a
neglect and abuse case. We arrived at the home and that's when we found Angel
a mommy Pitt Bull who was living in an old junk car.
When she got so big she could no longer jump in and out of the car she
was forced to go into labor on the cold muddy ground.
The owner told us that the day before Angel had
delivered two puppies, one of which did not make it and the owner had
taken the surviving pup away from the mom. In the meantime believe this
or not we learned that the owner had stuck her hand inside Angel and then
waited 24 hrs later to call Cathy and me. When we loaded Angel we could
tell she was very weak and very underweight. Her backbone was sticking up
and except for her belly she was all skin and bones. When we loaded her
we noticed a horrible smell (infection).
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When we arrived at the vet's office we did muzzle Angel
for the vet's safety and must add and stress that not one time did our
sweet Angel try to bite she didn't even growl. Even though she was so weak
and hurting all she wanted to do was snuggle with Cathy and me.
Our county has no funding for situations like this so Cathy and I had to
pay for our sweet Angel's vet bills. The vet did some X-rays and examined
Angel, that's when we found out that when the owner had stuck her hand
inside Angel she ruptured Angel and the puppies had fallen and were all
dead but the one. Angel had also developed a severe infection from the
owner's hand.
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Cathy holds Angel at the vet's office.
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Our
sweet Angel we were losing her. The vet stated that due
to Angel's condition she would never survive surgery and we lost our
sweet girl. This was very hard for Cathy and me even though we had just
met our sweet Angel we had promised her a better life and that we would take care of her and she would never
have to go back to living like that again.
We pulled ourselves together
and went to the owners home and got her for
abuse. We took the newborn puppy and
to our surprise we found 3 more puppies, 6 months old, from a different
litter of Angel's.
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The junked car where Angel had
been tied and gave birth to her pups.
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These three puppies are on our
Petfinder list and their names are Chance,
Sandy and Reba. They were literally living in a pigpen, it was horrible,
there was mud up past your ankles and there was mud from one end to the
other.
We took these
three pups and are looking for rescues or adopters for these kids. They are real dolls; they're at my home now and my son and
daughter play with them. They are a little shy but real sweet kids. They love attention and love to be played with.
They deserve a home where someone can show them that life doesn't have to
be the way they have been forced to live. We're working on leash training
since these poor kids were never fooled with and just left in that mud
pit.
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I apologize I had to stop for a minute and get myself together
to finish this story, the heartbreak that we are going through is not
easy and this is the hardest part of our job. We don't just pick up dogs
and cats we get attached to each and every one of them. To us they're all
very special and we love happy endings. But I'm sad to say this story
didn't have that happy ending.
We took the newborn Pitt puppy to my home where I have a
mommy cat with 4 newborn kittens. We
put the little Pitt pup in with the mommy cat and she took him right in
as her own. She washed him all up and completely accepted
him. It's hard for me to say but we lost our sweet Pitty
kitty this morning at 4:30 am. My sweet mommy cat is crying and looking
all over for him. She really thought he was hers.
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Momma
Cat accepted the little "Pitty Kitty"
(he's white in the middle) as one of her own.
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We're
reaching out to anyone who will listen to us. We need
help here in Tucker County, we have a building donated to us by the City
of Parsons and the County is putting in a septic system, but there are no
funds left. We are in desperate need of help!
We need to get kennels for our
shelter and cat cages, and we are reaching out to our County and citizens
for help. Our County has never had a real shelter and never before this
year have cats received any assistance. Cathy and I are working around
the clock trying to do all we can, but we have come to a point where we
need to ask for help from anyone who has a kind heart. There are a few
citizens in our County who are helping us and they're doing all they can
but we're asking for any other help we can get!!
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If
you can help with Angel's puppies, vet bills, or even help in anyway with our shelter we would be so grateful.
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