Mange Puppies Rescued - Foster Homes Needed!
Last Updated: March 15th, 2010

It was supposed to be a simple run, drop off some dog-food, a dog house and pick up one dog. After the second stop we had already picked up 2 pups suffering horribly from mange. A few stops down the road we discovered the rest of the litter, 7 pups in all. Absolutely appalled by their condition, we knew despite being at capacity plus, they could not be left behind. Its always hard to the rescue team to say "No" when you see a dog that needs to come in and you know there is no room in the foster homes, but there was no way we were going to leave them behind for certain death. At the end of the day, rescuers headed to Calgary with 11 more rescued dogs.

 “Where there’s a will, there’s a way”

 With the help of several volunteers we were able to organize transport of a dog run to a foster home's heated garage so the pups could be taken into care. A big thank you to Dr. M. Scheck of Poplar Grove Veterinary Services (Innisfail) for seeing us on short notice and ensuring all our dogs were started immediately on treatment to ease the discomfort of this terrible, agonizing mite.

 

 In only 3 short months of life these pups have known little kind treatment from humans and have been suffering with a condition most have never seen this bad. Hair loss, accompanied by crusting, pain, enlarged lymph nodes,  deep skin infections, open wounds, inflammation of the skin so sever to cause eye lids to swell shut, chronic itching, and overall misery has been inflicting these pups for a long time. They will need advanced care including daily meds and several treatments to get them on the rebound to being healthy, normal pups again. The care these pups need are very time consuming and the costs are building every day. In the mean time, they can not be normal pups allowed to play with other dogs (aside from their infected littermates), or snuggle on the couch, or be allowed to explore the world until they test negative for the mites. This all could have been prevented, and stopped long before they got this bad with simple human intervention and proper veterinary care..

 

AARCS currently has 65 dogs in care, with 50 of them "behind the scenes" (too young, not ready for adoption, receiving treatment or awaiting surgery). We have several litters that need to be split up for one on one socializing, prior to adoption. If you can, please open your home to a rescue dog in our foster program. If you are not able to foster please consider donating or sponsoring one of our mange babies, lovingly named after the characters from Monsters Inc., Sulley, Mikey, Smitty, Randell, Boo, Celia, and Roz.

 

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If you have room in your heart and your home, please contact Paula at 403-669-4387 or foster@albertaanimalrescuecrew.com and become a foster parent today!