Free Puppies

Puppies are quite possibly the cutest thing on the planet. Who can resist them right? Certainly not yours truly. I've always been a sucker for an animal with a hard luck story. It's how I ended up with the two dogs I have now, Voodoo and Crazy Deja vu.

So of course when some douche bag neighbors of ours threw their puppy away a while back, I had no choice but to save it. Poor little girl was just wandering around on our street crying, lost, confused, hungry. I. Had. No. Choice. And later that day when E and I walked to the convenience store, I saw yet another puppy lying in the weeds and trash, half dead. Again, No Choice. I took them both to the vet and then home.

The vet wasn't too optimistic about the littlest one who honestly did look half dead. She said she wasn't sure she'd make it until morning, that she'd never seen an animal so full of fleas and ticks it was practically being eaten alive. Don't worry it sounds awful and depressing, but the good news is she made it. She was maybe a couple weeks old when I found her (her eyes weren't fully open yet) and now she's about 2 months. We named her Georgia and her fellow refugee Stella.

Stella was in pretty good condition when we found her, slightly malnourished and exhausted, but all in all reasonably healthy. She was also at Optimum Puppy Cuteness, so I made a point of wandering all over town with her making sure that people saw the aforementioned cuteness in action and understood that said cuteness was looking for a loving home and would come vaccinated and sterilized compliments of us.

Georgia. Well Georgia was just a sorry looking sight when we first found her. Covered in scabs, missing patches of hair. Only one eye open and pooping out piles of worms larger than herself. Honestly, the phrase "It was gross" just doesn't seem to cover it. Not Optimum Cuteness or even optimum health. So we kept her at home, fattening her up and tucking her in with a hot water bottle at night so she wouldn't be cold. It took about a month before she really started to look like a normal, healthy puppy.

Everyone here thinks we're nuts. Stray animals are a way of life here and while not everyone here thinks like this, alot of people do still treat their pets as if they're disposable. It makes me feel violent. There are a variety of problems to contend with where animals here are concerned. The government needs to do a better job of funding shelters and educating the population on the importance of sterilization. The education part alone would go a long way to debunking the many ridiculous superstitions alot of the locals hold. Like, I don't want to fix my dog, it will give him cancer. Or, I don't need to fix my dog because he's male. Only females need to get fixed. Or my personal favourite, I don't want to fix my dog because it will make him GAY.

I'm serious. These people are crazy. And not crazy ha ha, but crazy-in-the-way-that-makes-you-walk-slowly-around-someone-and-wonder-why-the-goverment-hasn't-stepped-in-to-sterilize-them crazy. Yeah. And so of course these puppies were not thrown away because people didn't want them, but because they didn't want girls. A--holes.

Honestly, I had no choice. I mean seriously, look. Just look. You would have too.