Mell's Mutts helps dogs that are in danger at shelters and sometimes dogs cross our paths and we work day and night to ensure their safety and get them to safety. This is the story of two dogs that were living alongside a train track for weeks and possibly even months.
We'd like to introduce you to a few really special little guys: Prince Eric, Simba, and Murphy. All three found themselves at our local city kill shelter. They sat there unclaimed and all alone, and all three were in danger of being euthanized. They were all so withdrawn, scared, and in horrible physical condition, but we could see past that and…well, let us tell you all about them.
Mell's Mutts started because we saw a great need to assist our community with spay and neuter services. Each year we help several hundreds of people with either low cost or no cost spay/neuter for their pets.
Unfortunately, because of the pandemic, we haven’t had the opportunity to help this past year as much as we usually do, however, we found another great need in our community: to assist dogs with major medical issues.
We would like to give everyone these great updates on the four doggies we saved from the city shelter and wrote about in last month’s edition. If you missed last month’s column, please take a minute to go back HERE and read to get caught up with these amazing four dogs! Let us remind you that all four were scheduled to be euthanized! Look at them now!!!
In the last two weeks, Mell’s Mutts has saved four doggies from our local high kill city shelter (animal control). Three of the four were scheduled to be euthanized because they had some type of medical issue. Sadly, when our city shelter is full the first dogs to be euthanized are those that have medical issues, injuries, or kennel cough.
One Friday afternoon I decided to go into our local city animal control shelter. I was there taking pictures of a couple of dogs that needed rescue. I finished up and was walking towards my car when something in my heart pulled me in a different direction. I found myself knocking on the door of the rescue coordinator’s office. I peaked in and asked if there were any urgent doggies that needed help.
About a month ago, we were told of a little bulldog sitting alone in a back room at our local city shelter. She was in the kennel all alone, possibly blind and hours away from being euthanized. See this sweet girl had such a bad infection in her eyes that we weren’t even sure she had eyeballs! Somehow she ended up at the shelter and was never claimed and was too sick to be placed for adoption, so she sat quietly waiting for her time to end.
Hi I’m Stanley. Yes, I only have one eye and I sometimes only use three of my legs, but I’m still the cutest six- pound min-pin mix little guy you’ll probably ever meet. So here’s my story, but before I start I want to warn you it’s a little sad, but don’t cry because as you can see I’m really good now. This is how it started.
We would like you to meet Izzy and her “fast food" gang. Why fast food, you ask? Well, all nine of her adorable puppies are named after fast food favorites. Let us whet your appetite, care for some, Panda Express, Deli-Delicious, Carl's Jr, Arby's, Wendy's, Starbucks, Bob's Big Boy, Taco Bell, or Burger King? Whatever you’re craving we got it!
We would like to tell you a story about a very special, and some will say, very lucky little girl. Vita is only about a year old and weighs maybe seven pounds now. She’s very young and small but oh boy, has she already lived an eventful life.
