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Give Hope to Three Scared Great Pyrenees Pups
Great Pyrenees Rescue of Atlanta
In the Dog Rescue World there are always surprises, some good but also some not so good. Through Facebook we learned of 3 five month old puppies in West Georgia the owner was wanting to rehome and another rescue volunteered to help us get the puppies to our GPRA foster.
The owner could not tell us what sex the puppies were (Missed Clue # 1) and he was very hard to engage with a pick up time. He told the rescue contact he “gave the boy away” but when she was finally able to set up a pick up date he told her he still had the boy but “if you take these dogs they are never coming back (Missed Clue # 2).
The pick up date was set and GPRA’s transporter was to meet the other transporter halfway to get the puppies. The other rescue’s transporter, after picking the puppies up, called the GPRA transporter and said she would drive them on the the foster’s house as she did not think the transfer could be done safely in a parking lot as originally planned (Missed Clue # 3).
Once the puppies arrived at the foster we were told the puppies were living in the woods and the three teenage boys who helped her “had a hard time wrangling them”.
The three puppies were terrified and the girl screamed anytime you looked at or came near her.
At this point there was no option but to load the three into crates as there was no way to hold onto/carry the pups. The foster’s puppy area is downstairs in her basement and the pups had to be carried down outside steps.
Sabine, who does intake, received the call from the foster as we were not prepared for puppies that had apparently never been handled by humans. A lot of phone calls and scrambling later, we found a trainer who had worked with feral dogs and was willing to help with the three.
We asked two of our volunteers if they could meet Sabine at the foster’s the next morning and help carry the puppies back up the steps to Sabine’s van to transport them to the trainer. After loading them into Sabine’s van they followed to the trainer’s as they had to be carried in the crate to the training area. They have been at the trainers since Jan 26th, at a reduced but still substantial rate, of 210.00 a day for the boarding/training. The original time estimate for decompression/training/socialization was for two months which is a $12,600 expense GPRA had in no way anticipated. One of the boys is doing better than the other two but we are not sure how long these three need before they can go to a regular foster.
Do we regret getting the three - never as they needed to be out of the situation they were in but we would appreciate it if anyone has the ability to donate funds to help, however small/large the amount.
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