Many dogs and cats end up in shelters when they’re lost, abandoned, or given up because their owners can no longer care for them.
While several shelters have strict no-kill policies, others are overwhelmed with the number of animals they see and choose to put down animals that they struggle to adopt out.
Animals that could make perfectly loving companions are killed every day in shelters like these. Some are put down because they’re new mothers and need special care while they take care of their babies.
But one dog and her newborn puppies were lucky enough to be saved from being euthanized while they were staying at the Pinal County shelter.
Dr. Deborah Wilson from the Circle L. Ranch Animal Rescue & Sanctuary offered a home for the mom and her babies. What happened next is truly amazing.
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Dr. Wilson heard that the new mom of two 6-day-old puppies was going to be put down. She swooped in and gave all three of them a home at the Circle L. Ranch.
Then Dr. Wilson received a fateful call. She heard that nine pit bull puppies were in danger of being drowned by a man who didn’t want them. The dogs needed saving as soon as possible.
Dr. Wilson and the rest of the rescue community banded together to save the baby pit bulls. She brought five back to the Circle L. Ranch while another rescue organization took the remaining four dogs.
But the work of the community could not have prediected the essential role that the recently-rescued mom would play in well-being of the five puppies.
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Once the pit bulls were brought back to the Circle L. Ranch, the new mom took responsibility for them immediately. She was already nursing her two puppies when she began nursing the five pit bulls too.
“She is the best mom. Even though the new five are older, they are smaller than her two,” Dr. Wilson said about the mom.
“We introduced the runt to her, she sniffed him and licked him, we placed him down on her nipples and he started eating right away. She was OK with it and seemed pleased. So one by one we brought in the others…”
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Thanks to Dr. Wilson and the other people committed to animal rescue, the dogs have a safe home where they can live until they’re ready to be adopted into forever homes.
And thanks to the mom, the puppies are well cared for. They will not miss out on the experience of having a living mother to dote on them and feed them as they grow.
The blended family is unique and adorable. Humans can certainly learn a valuable lesson from the kindness of animals. Perhaps if everyone saw animals as their own children, none of these dogs would have been in danger in the first place.