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Kayla Staton of Barnes Run has found a stray female dog that she believes belongs to someone nearby and is concerned for the dog’s health and safety. If this dog belongs to you please contact Kayla through Facebook or let Ridgeview News know and I’ll contact her for you.
Hi Shari. I am working with Kayla to have the dog vetted and hopefully move it to rescue. It will be taken to the vet this evening. It (female) has a badly injured back leg with two toes missing. The missing toes and leg injury appear to be recent injuries. She also has injuries to her abdomen and has multiple sores on her body. She laid in ditch for three days until Kayla picked her up and took her to her home to try to find the owner and seek help for it’s injuries. Many thanks to Kayla for contacting me and helping this poor dog. I also want to thank Katelyn Fletcher for caring for a stray until I can hopefully get help for it. Many, many thanks to Teresa Jones Overton for her continued donations of rescue items and supplies to help with rescue dogs and local dogs in need.
People who dump their animals need to know that not all abandoned dogs are found in time to save them. Many starve to death or have untreatable injuries from wandering roads looking for someone to help them. Many have to be euthanized. A large percentage of dogs that are dumped in our county are hunting dogs such as hounds and Beagles. Dogs are frequently dumped simply because they are pregnant. It has become an epidemic. This is why it is so very important to spay or neuter your animals.
Most people aren’t aware that the SPOT clinic in Parkersburg offers free spay and neuter to anyone receiving SNAP or any other type of of government assistance. Dates for the spay/neuter clinic are published on the SPOT clinic website near the end of each month. The spots fill up fast. You can have all of your animals done on the same day. The person with the SNAP card or proof of other assistance must bring the animal for its appointment and pick the animal back up at which time they must show proof of assistance The animal must be there at (normally) 7-7:30 a.m. and picked up at approximately 3 p.m. They do occasionally have weekend appointments available.
Shelters are full, so to people dumping their dogs, don’t assume someone will save that dog. Just because it’s “out of site, out of mind” to you doesn’t mean it is the same with people who are trying to save these poor dogs. It is constantly on rescuers minds. We spend hours everyday contacting and networking animals to hundreds of rescues across the nation. It is not an easy or cheap task to attempt to save your dumped animal.
Like I said, shelters are full. For every stray taken to s shelter, a shelter animal is killed to make room for your dumped dog.
Your help is greatly appreciated Shari, for reporting about these dogs.
Thanks ladies. We have a now 6 year old doberman we found wandering on Altizer when he was a lost pup. He is a pain but also a blessing. I seen this one over the weekend but did not stop. Just thought it was wandering. I have had pictures on trail cams of many dogs in that area. It has unfortunately become a drop off area for unwanted animals.