LORI’S CORNER: ACRES OF LAND DONT ALWAYS MEAN HAPPINESS FOR DOGS

Over the years, I’ve heard this phrase so many times, “I wish that I had lots of acres of land so that I could rescue a bunch of dogs and let them run free!” Sounds nice, but the reality is that sometimes, people who acquire a lot of land have other people dump dogs on their property, what’s one more dog which leads to ten more dogs, which leads to over one hundred dogs on a property that are not being property cared for.

A group of rescues, including Downtown Dog Rescue, are working together to take over 70 dogs off a property in the desert where they are living in makeshift runs without much shelter. The nights are extremely cold and it will be snowing there soon. Our goal is to rescue the dogs that are social with people and other dogs and there are a lot of them who need forever homes.

A couple of weeks ago, we helped raise enough money to bring Angel Dogs Foundation in to do 28 spay/neuter surgeries. The good news was that most of the dogs were already spayed/neutered but not every dog was done. There are still some feral dogs that are free roaming that need to be done before more litters of puppies are born. The day the mobile clinic went out, three new litters had been born that week.

We need a lot of help to help these dogs. We need experienced foster homes, people to transport dogs back to the Los Angeles area, volunteers to go out to the kennel to spend time with the dogs and cleaning kennels. Most of the dogs get very little human interaction since there are just too many dogs on the property. Most of these dogs were someone’s pet at some point in their lives, they are miserable waiting for someone to rescue them.