Another shining example of irresponsible breeders

West Hancock K9 Rescue has been dealing with random influxes of labradoodles. The person(s) responsible have yet to be uncovered. Here is the latest from Anissa:

I was almost done cleaning the pound when I got my 2nd call from the sheriff’s dept yesterday. There were 7 puppies dumped in the middle of nowhere and one was dead. I raced home, unloaded my kids, loaded up dog crates, food, blankets, slip leashes and a trash bag (aka body bag). I met Barb and we both flew to meet the caller who contacted the sheriffs dept and they took us to these pups…I was horrified to see these beautiful creatures staring back at me……wild and scared and almost starved to death. With the help of the 2 people that found them, we chased and corralled them until I could get close enough to grab them. Out of fear they were biting, pooping, peeing and screaming the whole way back to the crate in my truck.

We were down to the last labradoodle-looking one and we must have chased him for almost an hour. He finally went into this old hog house. When I got closer I realized it was full of old cow bones (lots of them). I went inside the dark, dirt-floored, shed with bones everywhere and Barb and the couple stood in the opening so he wouldn’t run out. I slowly crawled to him throwing the slip leash around his head and began dragging him out. The gentleman was able to drape a blanket over him and put him in the crate with the others.

Now, that is the “happy” part…the gut wrenching part is the dead puppy was nothing but fur now after clearly being eaten and after searching for the 6th black labradoodle puppy, blood was spotted splattered on the gravel near some feces and a small trail of blood lead to another spot where a couple of bones were found in the gravel. The 6th pup had been hit and then also eaten by his starved siblings.

The surviving puppies are extremely emaciated under all that fur. Barb and I took the survivors back to my already over-crowded pound where I had to pull another dog out of her run because we have no open runs and we carried the crates into the building setting them down and allowing them to come out in the pens on their own. I left one black poodle pup in the large crate, after all that if he didn’t want to come out of the crate, I wasn’t going to make him. I am heading back out there shortly to check on them…after 2 hours chasing them we all were exhausted, but extremely relieved this part was over.

I am not sure what we are going to do now. They are very unsocialized and in pretty bad shape.

We are going to look at running ads offering a reward for information leading to the arrest of the person/s that did this to them. I have had 19 adult labradoodles that have been dumped at this animal control and we have yet to uncover who is breeding these dogs at such a large number. What was done to these pups is criminal and we want justice for them and their siblings that didn’t survive. I am heading back out there shortly to check on them and calling my states attorney to meet with him.

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