It’s all too common to see people who have needed help with their pets, need help more than once. Katie Wing with Houston K911 Rescue in Houston, Texas, explains that the house they are going to they have been too before – they helped them before with Chocolate, a dog that need some medical attention and to be spayed. The rescue fixed her up and returned her to the family.
Now, they have two litters of Chihuahuas, just five or six months apart, that may even be from the same mom.
The rescue is hoping the owners will let them take at least take the mom and spay her.
“They’re their own dogs and at first the family was kind of skeptical of us but after we took Chocolate and returned her they are more open to help,” says Wing. “Hopefully they will let us just rescue all of the dogs. I think they have enough on their plate and they can’t really afford to take care of the dogs.”
While there, Tom McPhee, Director for World Animal Awareness Society (WA2S) who is filming the series on the stray dog problem in Houston, realizes he has been there before as well.
“This was the house of a dog that I photographed under a pick-up truck last December when we were in Houston,” McPhee recalls. “She was too shy to come out then, but now she was happy to visit with us. In another moment I realized that we were at the same spot where we came with Forgotten Dogs of the Fifth Ward to feed Mr. Woolsworth! It became very familiar when the toddler puppies came running out to say hello. So we were back at the house of a family who seems to have too many dogs to handle.”
They found the young pups laying in a pile underneath a dog house in the yard. It turned out this litter of puppies was super young, just a few weeks old, and had no teeth.
This meant mom and puppies could not be separated. But mom was nowhere be found.
Watch at this rescue group reunites the family and brings them to safety, where they will be adopted into loving homes when they are old enough.
This story is part of the collection from the WA2S Films: Celebrates American Stray Dogs Tour. You can help out by donating here.
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