Are You Considering Spaying or Neutering Your Pet?

I would like to start off by explaining the difference between spaying and spading. Often time people will say, “I’m going to get my dog spaded”. A spade is a tool designed primarily for the purpose of digging or removing earth. The correct word is Spaying.

A female dog is spayed, and a male dog neutered (castrated). This is the only way to be sure your dog doesn't produce unwanted puppies. In most cases, it is considered safe to alter dogs as early as eight weeks of age.

Spaying involves the removal of both the uterus and the ovaries. Castration refers to the removal of a male dog's testicles. The term neutering is a general term to describe either spaying or castration.

Some questions that you may have:

Question: Isn’t it unnatural to deprive my pet of a sex life?
Answer: No. Dogs and cats have sex strictly to satisfy hormone-induced instincts, not for pleasure.

Question: What is actually done in a spay or neuter procedure?
Answer: A spay surgery (also called an ovariohysterectomy) is performed on females. While performed routinely, an ovariohysterectomy is a major surgery in which the reproductive tract including the ovaries, fallopian tubes, and uterus are removed. Blood work may be performed to make sure the pet is healthy enough for anesthesia and surgery.

Neutering refers to the castration of a male animal. It is a surgical procedure in which both testicles are removed. Neutering requires considerably less time and equipment than a spay surgery. In both cases, the animal is given general anesthesia so that it cannot feel anything.

Advantages of Spaying or Neutering:

1. Altered pets are less likely to make inappropriate sexual approaches toward people or objects.

2. They are less likely to roam and are less likely to be aggressive. This helps to prevent pets from becoming lost or stolen, being hit by cars, or contracting a contagious disease through fighting with other animals.

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Be Careful! That Cute Puppy that You See in the Store or Online...May be Coming from a Puppy Mill!

So you've decided to get a puppy? If you are thinking about getting one from a pet store or on-line, please be careful. That cute puppy most likely came from a puppy mill.

Definition of a puppy mill:

A puppy mill, sometimes known as a puppy farm, is a commercial dog breeding facility that is operated with an emphasis upon profits above animal welfare and is often in substandard conditions regarding the well-being of dogs in their care. Similar types of operations exist for other animals most commonly kept as pets or used as feed for other animals. The term can be applied to operations involving other animals commercially bred for profit, e.g. "kitty mills." There are an estimated 4,000 puppy mills in the U.S. that produce more than half a million puppies a year. Commercial kennels may be licensed by the United States Department of Agriculture which may inspect the kennels routinely.

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Does Your Puppy Have Swimming Puppy Syndrome?

Does your puppy have swimming puppy syndrome? Do you know the signs? Swimmer puppies are puppies that cannot walk and stand upright. Instead, they paddle their legs like a turtle.

Meet Harper, she was rescued by Erica Daniel, 26, who fosters dogs that need serious help. On Aug. 31, a woman in Sanford, Fla., first encountered the little dog when she spotted it squirming garbage bag.

“There was a man outside of a store selling pit-bull puppies for $50,” Daniel explained. “This woman approached him and noticed a noise coming from a garbage bag he was holding. She asked him, ‘What’s in the bag?” He wouldn’t answer her, so pressed the issue and the man opened the bag and gave her the puppy. Harper, was so deformed that she could not walk or hold up her head. Veterinarians advised that the puppy should be euthanized.

Daniel, a regular at the local animal shelter, decided to take the puppy home for one full and final day of affection. “I had to show her what it was like to be loved,” Daniel said. “I’d planned on taking her home that night, letting her sleep in bed with us, and having her humanely euthanized in the morning.”

The puppy had been born with a condition commonly called “swimmer puppy disorder,” and most dogs afflicted with it don’t survive. The formal name of Harper’s disorder, pectus excavatum, causes puppies to lie flat on their chests with their legs perpetually splayed out, as if they were humans or frogs swimming through water.

Daniel kept massaging Harper’s tight muscles, hoping to alleviate at least some of her stiffness and pain. Within just a few hours, Harper started lifting her head and looking around. Her front legs became more limber as well, so much so that she tried using them to walk and pull herself around.

Symptoms of Swimming Puppy Syndrome

If you notice a puppy that is always on its belly or beginning to show signs of a flat chest. Lay mom down and put this pup on a good nipple. Turn it on its side, holding its entire body and making sure it stays on its side. If the pup lets loose start over. Do this several times a day until the pup returns to normal and lays on its side; when that happens you have just cured swimmer puppy syndrome. There's no way to prevent Swimming Puppy Syndrome.



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Puppies Spread Antibiotic-Resistant Bacteria In Recent Diarrhea Outbreak

Puppy poop gave 118 people diarrhea in a recent outbreak caused by antibiotic-resistant bacteria, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention reports. Nobody died, but 26 people were hospitalized. And if the pet industry doesn’t change its puppy-peddling ways, these outbreaks could continue.

The CDC was first clued into the outbreak in August 2017, when the Florida Department of Health reported that six people had been infected with a type of bacteria that causes fevers, vomiting, and bloody diarrhea. By February 2018, the CDC discovered that more than 118 people in 18 states had been infected with the same thing: a bacteria called Campylobacter that’s usually linked to eating raw chicken or food contaminated by chicken juices.

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Ice Cream Shaped Puppies, Would You Eat Them?

Every day happy customers take pictures and tear into them, limb by limb, feeling sorry and happy at the same time. The shar-pei puppies look almost too real to eat but are made chocolate, milk tea or peanut-flavored ice cream.

J-C Company Art Kitchen in southern Taiwan has been serving these treats since last month, making them in special molds with a special recipe that creates a hairy-looking frost on top of the ice cream.

The ice cream is frozen at more than 20 degrees below zero, so it will keep shape long enough for staff to color the puppies' eyes with chocolate sauce before the wrinkled features of the dog start melting.

One puppy ice cream takes about five hours to make and customers can devour the small ones for $3.50, and the larger ones for about six dollars. Thanks to social media, the restaurant is struggling to keep up with demand as they can only make 100 per day.

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That Cute Puppy That You See in the Store or Online, May Be Coming From a Puppy Mill

So you've decided to get a puppy? If you are thinking about getting one from a pet store or on-line, please be careful. That cute puppy most likely came from a puppy mill.

Definition of a puppy mill:
A puppy mill, sometimes known as a puppy farm, is a commercial dog breeding facility that is operated with an emphasis upon profits above animal welfare and is often in substandard conditions regarding the well-being of dogs in their care. Similar types of operations exist for other animals most commonly kept as pets or used as feed for other animals. The term can be applied to operations involving other animals commercially bred for profit, e.g. "kitty mills." There are an estimated 4,000 puppy mills in the U.S. that produce more than half a million puppies a year. Commercial kennels may be licensed by the United States Department of Agriculture which may inspect the kennels routinely.




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After the Chernobyl Nuclear Plant Disaster in 1986, Puppies Can Not Be Petted, They Could Carry Radioactive Particles in Their Fur

After the Chernobyl nuclear plant disaster in 1986, the area was deemed uninhabitable - for humans, at least. Wild animals have since prospered in the area, including man's best friend: dogs. When residents of Pripyat and Chernobyl evacuated, many people had to leave behind their dogs. Thirty-one years later, puppies now walk around the Chernobyl Exclusion Zone (CEZ), waiting for a pat on the head that will never come.

As the documentary Puppies of Chernobyl explains, the animals should be avoided at all costs, since they could carry radioactive particles in their fur. It's estimated that about 900 stray dogs exist around the area and it's unknown just how much (or little) radiation is affecting them. The dogs are receiving some care, however; organizations Four Paws and Clean Futures Fund (CFF) teamed up to spay, neuter, and vaccinate the dogs to protect power plant workers. "By neutering the strays, we will also achieve a long-term reduction in their population, improving the welfare of the dogs," Julie Sander of Four Paws said to the Vet Times. "This is important because their chances of survival are greatly reduced if their numbers increase, due to lack of food and shelter in the extremely cold Winters."

It is undeniably sad to watch the puppies frolic around Chernobyl in the documentary, but give it a watch anyways. You might feel sad enough to help them out. 





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Not Everyone is into Chocolates for Valentine's Day: Oddities Shop Sells Dead Puppies for Valentine's Day

Some might prefer, say, a dead puppy preserved in a jar.

Jason Haack, owner of Bonez by Dezign Custom Lamps and More, in Sioux Falls, S.D., said the romance-themed weekend brought several customers into his Sioux Falls oddities shop.

"You've got to have a little bit of a morbid side to you," Haack said, as he sat in the corner of his shop between a shelf of bones and a wall of taxidermied animals.

The business started in the back room of his mother's flower shop and has expanded to the front room with a section of collectibles for sale in one area of the shop.

Haack sells various animal bones, skulls and skeletons. He also has a shelf of wet specimens, meaning animals preserved in jars.

That's where the puppies are kept, in jars that look like in another life they could have held jam.

The puppies come from different breeders. They are all stillborn. None of them lived outside the womb, and none of them were killed for purposes of making collectors items.

"It's never been somebody's baby," Haack's mother Jodie Haack said.

But Haack has seen his fair share of criticism. When he posted a picture on Facebook of the puppies in jars, he received death threats, his mother said.

He saw another wave of criticism on social media after he posted a Valentine's ad for the puppies. Some commenters raised question as to the legality of Haack's operation.

It's all legal, though, Haack said.

"Just because somebody doesn't like it doesn't mean it's wrong or illegal," Haack said.

Customer Ashely Nielson became interested in collecting wet specimens after seeing the TV show "Oddities." She has purchased a puppy, a kitten, a bat and a scorpion from Haack's shop.

She's also heard people call her hobby "weird" or "gross," but she replies, "To each their own."

"I don't think people should judge other people's hobbies and what they like," Nielson said.

Nielson views her collection as a chance to give love and attention to these animals who never had a chance at life.

She said she would love to receive a wet specimen for Valentine's Day.

"That would be better to me than roses or jewelry or anything like that."

Jason Haack is the owner of Bonez By Dezign in Sioux Falls, S.D., Monday, Feb. 15, 2016. Haack buys, sells and trades unidque and odd items.

A puppy is preserved in a jar at Bonez By Dezign in Sioux Falls, S.D., Monday, Feb. 15, 2016. The puppy was stillborn.

Carson Damiata, 14, shows a snake, puppy and calf preserved in a jar at Bonez By Dezign in Sioux Falls, S.D., Monday, Feb. 15, 2016.

A snake is preserved in a jar at Bonez By Dezign in Sioux Falls, S.D., Monday, Feb. 15, 2016.

Carson Damiata, 14, shows various animals bones, skulls and skeletons for sale at Bonez By Dezign in Sioux Falls, S.D., Monday, Feb. 15, 2016.

Bonez By Dezign buys, sells and trades unidque and odd items in Sioux Falls, S.D., Monday, Feb. 15, 2016.

Carson Damiata, 14, shows a skull from 1895 at Bonez By Dezign in Sioux Falls, S.D., Monday, Feb. 15, 2016.

A zebra lamp at Bonez By Dezign in Sioux Falls, S.D., Monday, Feb. 15, 2016.

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A Litter of Puppies Have Been Born Using In Vitro Fertilization

They're not only adorable - they're a scientific breakthrough. For the first time, a litter of puppies have been born using in vitro fertilization, say Cornell University researchers.

A female dog fertilized with 19 embryos gave birth to seven healthy puppies, according to a statement from Cornell's College of Veterinary Medicine. Two puppies are from a beagle mother and a cocker spaniel father, and the other five are the offspring of two pairs of beagle fathers and mothers.

"IVF was first done in people back in the mid 1970s," Alex Travis, associate professor of reproductive biology at the Baker Institute for Animal Health, told CBS News. Yet until now, scientists hadn't been able to perform it successfully in dogs, despite many years of trying, he said.

For in vitro fertilization, a mature egg is fertilized in the lab with a sperm, and an embryo is produced. The embryo is then transferred into a host female at the right time in her reproductive cycle.

The first challenge for the researchers was to collect mature eggs from the female oviduct (called Fallopian tubes in humans). The researchers first tried to use eggs that were in the same stage of cell maturation as other animals, but since dogs' reproductive cycles differ from other mammals, those eggs failed to fertilize.

It's not as easy to perform in vitro fertilization in dogs as it in in people, or cats, Penn Vet's Dr. Margaret Casal told CBS News. "The cycle in the dog is so very different than in other species."

"Dogs only cycle twice a year so if your'e doing experiments, there's not a lot of material," said Travis.

Through experimentation, the Cornell researchers discovered that if they left the egg in the oviduct one more day, the eggs reached a stage where fertilization was greatly improved.

Also, by adding magnesium to cell culture cultures, Travis said they were able to better prepare the sperm for fertilization.

"We made those two changes, and now we achieve success in fertilization rates at 80 to 90 percent," Travis explained in a statement.

The final challenge for the researchers was freezing the embryos. Freezing them allowed the researchers to wait until the right time in the female dog's reproductive cycle and then insert them into the oviducts. Travis said that part of the process was performed in May 2015.

In dogs, pregnancy is 63 days from ovulation -- a little over 2 months, Travis said.

The Cornell team previously delivered Klondike, the first puppy born from a frozen embryo in the Western Hemisphere, in 2013.

This first litter of IVF puppies, born July 10th, has broad implications for wildlife conservation, Travis told CBS News.

"We can freeze and bank sperm, and use it for artificial insemination." He said the technique could be used to conserve the genetics of endangered species.

"The reason for doing things like this is that it will lead to the preservation of species that are almost lost. Canid types - wolves, foxes - certain sub-species. There are many different types. They may not be facing extinction just yet but some are running into a crisis," said Penn Vet's Casal, an associate professor of medical genetics, reproduction and pediatrics for dogs and cats.

She said some types of wolves, for example, are very genetically similar animal to animal - they have very similar immune systems.

"If some virus comes along that has mutated, it can essentially wipe out the population. This gives the ability to freeze embryos and perform IVF later to revive a species that may have been brought to extinction," Casal said.

With new gene editing techniques, researchers may one day be able to remove genetic diseases and traits in an embryo, too, ridding dogs of heritable diseases.

"With a combination of gene editing techniques and IVF, we can potentially prevent genetic disease before it starts," Travis said.

Canines share more than 350 similar heritable disorders and traits with humans, almost twice the number as any other species. So, dogs now may offer a "powerful tool for understanding the genetic basis of diseases," Travis said.

"Yes this is a very big deal. It's pretty spectacular to get that to work," said Casal.

Jennifer Nagashima, a graduate student in Travis' lab and the first to enroll in the Joint Graduate Training Program between the Smithsonian Conservation Biology Institute and Cornell's Atkinson Center for a Sustainable Future, is the paper's first author. The research was described in a study published today in the scientific journal PLOS ONE.

Travis said the puppies have all gone to happy homes, including his own. "I have two of them. We named them after colors and I have Red and Green." The puppies turn five months old this week.

IVF puppy

These adorable pups are the first litter of puppies born by in vitro fertilization. Cornell University researchers introduced them to the world on Dec. 9, 2015. The seven puppies were conceived using an IVF technique that took years to develop successfully for dogs, whose reproductive cycles are much different than humans'.

Cuddle time

To create the IVF puppies, a female dog was fertilized with 19 embryos. She gave birth to seven healthy puppies, according to Cornell's College of Veterinary Medicine. Two of the puppies are from a beagle mother and a cocker spaniel father, and the other five are the offspring of two pairs of beagle fathers and mothers.

Look-alikes

Two of the seven puppies born by in vitro fertilization. Cornell researchers say the technique used to create this litter of pups could also help conserve endangered species and eradicate heritable diseases in dogs.

Frolicking in the sun

These frisky puppies were born using in vitro fertilization, the first successful IVF litter of dogs.

Chew toy time

Two of the IVF puppies play with their chew toys.

A little TLC

One of the IVF puppies gets some love from the team at Cornell.

Out for a stroll

One of the seven healthy puppies born in the first litter using in vitro fertilization.

Faces to love

The first litter of puppies born by in vitro fertilization. Cornell University researchers say the successful use of IVF in animals could eventually also help with conserving endangered species and eradicating heritable diseases in dogs.

Sniffing around

Two of the first IVF puppies, born with the help of Cornell University researchers after decades of failed efforts.

Puppy love

The first litter of puppies born by in vitro fertilization. Researchers at Cornell's College of Veterinary Medicine transferred 19 embryos to the mother dog, who went on to give birth to seven healthy puppies. Two puppies are from a beagle mother and a cocker spaniel father, and the other five are the offspring of two pairs of beagle fathers and mothers.

IVF puppies

It's not as easy to perform in vitro fertilization in dogs as it in in people, or cats, Penn Vet's Dr. Margaret Casal told CBS News. "The cycle in the dog is so very different than in other species."

VF puppies

Cornell University researchers introduced the first litter of puppies born by in vitro fertilization on Dec. 9, 2015. Researchers had been trying since the 1970s to develop an IVF process that worked in canines, whose reproductive cycles are much different than humans'.

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In Vitro Fertilization is No Longer a Treatment Reserved for Making Small Humans Can Now be Used to Produce Puppies

It's official: In vitro fertilization is no longer a treatment reserved for making small humans. The assisted reproduction technique that has led to the birth of more than 5 million human babies around the world can now be used to produce puppies.

In work expected to further efforts to preserve endangered wildlife and enhance human health, scientists at Cornell University have succeeded in joining canine egg and sperm, creating embryos, implanting them in the uterus of a female carrier and seeing the gestation of those puppies-to-be to birth.

The successful birth of seven healthy puppies ended about two decades of failed efforts to make the commonly used infertility treatment work on canines, whose reproductive biology differs from that of humans in a wide range of particulars. In humans, physicians have made a science -- and a booming business -- of stimulating egg growth, retrieving oocytes, introducing egg and sperm, cultivating the resulting proto-embryos in laboratory medium and transferring blastocysts to a woman's uterus.

But that multi-step process needed to be tweaked at many points for success to be achieved in dogs. Success was achieved after 19 embryos were transferred into a healthy host female beagle and, after a period of about 63 days, seven healthy pups were delivered by Caesarian section.

Report of the new research was published Wednesday in the journal PLoS One.

Pierre Comizzoli, a research veterinarian at the Smithsonian Institution's Conservation Biology Institute, said the work will offer vital insights into the varied reproductive biologies of many animals. There are 5,500 mammalian species, but scientists have only characterized in detail the biologies of about 100 of them.

For conservation biologists intent on bringing a wide range of endangered mammalian species back from the brink, the project should offer new perspectives on techniques that work, said Comizzoli, who is not among the authors but has been the Smithsonian's point person for joint work with Cornell on the topic.

For human health too, the new work may bring discoveries. Domestic dogs share with humans many diseases, including cancers, diabetes and genetic disorders. So their response to experimental treatments can offer useful insights into the likely outcomes of those treatments in humans.

At the cusp of a new era in which disease-related genes might be edited out of a human's genome, dogs already have provided an important model for experimentation. Because gene editing is done in the laboratory, only with the success of IVF in canines can the animals become a useful test bed for editing changes that might -- pending much ethical and scientific debate -- be used in humans.

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Homeward Trails Animal Rescue, Arlington, Virginia, Needs Your Help with an Urgent Puppy Situation – Please Share

From: Homeward Trails Animal Rescue, Arlington, Virginia

We have an URGENT puppy situation! We are trying to save this litter of 6 week old Border Collie mix puppies TOMORROW. Their mother was killed after being hit by a car and these little ones are stuck in a high kill shelter and have to get out tomorrow if we are going to save them! We are looking for 4 fosters to take 2 puppies each. (The puppies are young and must go out in pairs - much easier to care of for puppies in pairs as well, as they entertain themselves!) If you can help or send an email to HTARAlicia@gmail.com. We're in a time crunch and really want to save these lives! Please help!

Website: Homeward Trails Animal Rescue

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Take a Good Look at This Video…Then Think About What You Are Seeing: A Powerful Message That Every Dog Lover Needs To See… A Puppy is Not a Product

This tongue-in-cheek ad by Same Day Pups is to show you that breeders and puppy mills are using impulse shopping to place animals in homes. This ad is not real. It’s absurd and so is shopping online for a puppy like they’re a toy. Shopping online is surely convenient but bringing an animal into your home should never be about convenience. It should be about love. Adding a pet to your family is a real commitment because an animal is a real family member.

Many puppy mills operate online and pull at your heart strings. They have fancy websites and post adorable photos (and even videos!) of available puppies that they can be sent to your local airport (some even next day!). Don’t be fooled. Just because these puppies look pretty in the pictures doesn’t mean they come from a loving environment. Plus, sending these puppies can be so traumatic. These puppy mills are for profit, not for the good of the animal. Adopt, don’t shop! So many wonderful animals are waiting for homes!

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This Single Dad Is Waiting To Meet His Baby - Wait Until You See His Surprise

This has to be one of the most surprising TV ads I have ever seen. This is a commercial made by an energy corporation in Belgium known as Electrabel. It’s intended to showcase the importance of electricity in the modern family, but the star performers in this video are some miniature canines.

In the video you are about to watch, you will see a man with a dog waiting expectantly outside the operating room in a hospital. However, it turns out that the man actually isn’t the father. When the operating room door opens there’s a big bundle of surprises in the nurse’s arms.

The essence of the video is to show people how important electricity is to every household. Along the way, they have also successfully shown, wittingly or otherwise, how difficult it is to single-handedly raise multiple puppies. They can be quite a handful.

This Electrabel commercial is supposed to demonstrate the importance of electricity in our lives by showing how convenient and useful appliances are for raising a family. The parent dog in the video even utilized the microwave oven for heating the puppy formula. He also washed the dishes using a dishwasher, recorded adorable moments using a camera, and provided a train set that used electricity for playtime.

Enjoy the video below!

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Man Planned to Drive 300 Miles With Puppies in Crate on Top of Car: Concerned Drivers Called Police

Akron, Ohio -  Police pulled over a man after they received multiple 911 calls from concerned drivers about caged puppies tied to the roof of a minivan.

The Nova, Ohio man told Akron police that he was taking the 3-month-old puppies to his wife’s family in Pennsylvania after his father couldn’t take care of them any longer.

A trip that would have had the young dogs on the van’s roof for over 300 miles.

The man, who had his wife and four children with him, told police he didn’t understand that he was doing anything wrong by leaving the caged pups on the roof of the car.

“We had more important things to put inside the vehicle. We have four children,” he said, "If I had known, I’d never agree to it. I would have kept them in Nova.”

The Mennonite family wasn’t charged but was educated on the proper transportation of animals.

“He had absolutely no idea what he was doing was wrong,” Sgt. Kris Beitze stated, “In this case, the cultural issues, he now knows that this is absolutely not the way to transport puppies."

The mixed-breed puppies, who were shaken but okay, were handed over to the Humane Society of Greater Akron.

"The puppies are traumatized," Beitze comments, "but I think they’ll come around with a little love and attention."

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Heartwarming Story: Dog in Chili Saves Her Nine Puppies From Forest Fire, by Hiding Them in a Hole She Dug

Valparaiso, Chili - A dog, desperately dug a hole to allow her 9-week-old puppies to take shelter beneath a metal container.

As firefighters battled the flames, residents told them they had seen a dog leading the puppies away from the blaze and then bury them under a metal container to protect them from the flames.

The rescuers went in search of the animals and soon found all nine puppies alive and well.

At least one person was killed and thousands more evacuated as the fire spread and was fanned by strong winds.

Officials said they would bring charges against the owner of an illegal landfill site, where the fire is believed to have started.

More than 500 Hectares (1235.526905 Acres) were burned since the blaze started, and at least 19 firefighters have been injured, five of them seriously.

Forest fires are common in Chile at this time of year, and have been particularly savage this year after a hot, dry summer.

In 2014, a fire in Valparaiso killed 13 people and destroyed more than 2,000 homes.

Footage shows volunteers digging frantically and rescuing the tiny pups from underneath the metal container where they had been hidden.



Chile evacuates thousands as fire threatens Valparaiso

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Yakima Valley Pet Rescue Volunteer Finds Four Filthy, Freezing Puppies Stranded in a Crate by the Side of the Highway

 Who knows how long four filthy, freezing puppies were stranded in a crate by the side of the highway – but thanks to a vigilant rescuer, these dogs have a second chance to find loving families.

On Friday afternoon, a volunteer for Yakima Valley Pet Rescue was driving along the highway in Yakima, Washington, when she saw the crate on the side of the road. According to Yakima Valley Pet Rescue’s Facebook page, when the volunteer, named Gina, stopped to retrieve the crate, she saw “four freezing cold and filthy puppies all huddled together in back of this crate.” The tiny pups were pushed tightly together to provide warmth and comfort to one another.

Yakima Valley Pet Rescue took in the four puppies, cleaned them up, and provided them with warm baths. The puppies have now been vaccinated and de-wormed. They have full bellies and are full of hope, thanks to the organization’s staff and volunteers.

The organization stated on their Facebook page on Friday:

We think they are a mix of many, looks like some scruffy wirehair and maybe some blue heeler with that coloring...They are 3.5 months old and the smallest weighs 7.4 pounds. They have nice, soft, medium-length coats. They’re three brothers and one sister.”

The puppies have been thriving with the care of Yakima Valley Pet Rescue’s staff and volunteers. The organization stated on their Facebook page today: “The little highway pups are coming along! They are happy little ones!”

Thank you to the dedicated rescuer who found these dogs! To learn more about Yakima Valley Pet Rescue, including how you can donate to this organization, visit the organization’s website HERE and Facebook page HERE.

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