Sleeksmama
New Born Pup
Hello all!
I am sharing a sweet and tragic story that happened this morning! It was a good and a hard day here at the rescue!
Here goes:
So this morning at 6am my hubby got a call that a lady had found a plastic bag in her trash can... and it had guinea pigs in it! To be exact... it had 6 guinea pigs in it! She asked us to come and pick them up. So we got in the truck and drove to her house, there we met her and were handed a re-tied bag... My hubby handed it to me.
It was very cold to the touch, telling me the animals might be dead! I walked back to the truck and got in, once in the truck I opened the bag... I WAS SHOCKED! In the bag there was a female adult guinea pig and 5 babies! The female had terrible wounds that looked like bludgeoning and chemical burn and was barely breathing
... next to her were her 5 babies. 2 were crushed (by human force), dead. I started crying and told my hubby to drive as fast as possible. He knows by now I only cry with the worst of our rescues! I picked the mother up and held her... telling her to hang on! With my other hand I pulled the 3 unhurt babies out of the bag and started warming them in my shirt.
Once we reached home my hubby rushed the three babies into the house and put them with Davy Jones, our best foster mum. I ran to the ICU building and started caring for mum. I got her on IV drip and a million other things... but the blows had fractured her spine and skull. So I made the hard choice to put her to sleep. My hubby came in a hour later to find me on the floor sobbing for this tiny, valiant mother I had just been forced by her injuries to put her to sleep!
It also made me decide I need to make a blog and YouTube Channel for TinyPaws and finish the long avoided SPCA registration process! (I wanted to avoid taxes and crazy high building prices) All this I hope to do as soon as I can take a few day break from saving lives!
I am sharing a sweet and tragic story that happened this morning! It was a good and a hard day here at the rescue!
Here goes:
So this morning at 6am my hubby got a call that a lady had found a plastic bag in her trash can... and it had guinea pigs in it! To be exact... it had 6 guinea pigs in it! She asked us to come and pick them up. So we got in the truck and drove to her house, there we met her and were handed a re-tied bag... My hubby handed it to me.
It was very cold to the touch, telling me the animals might be dead! I walked back to the truck and got in, once in the truck I opened the bag... I WAS SHOCKED! In the bag there was a female adult guinea pig and 5 babies! The female had terrible wounds that looked like bludgeoning and chemical burn and was barely breathing
... next to her were her 5 babies. 2 were crushed (by human force), dead. I started crying and told my hubby to drive as fast as possible. He knows by now I only cry with the worst of our rescues! I picked the mother up and held her... telling her to hang on! With my other hand I pulled the 3 unhurt babies out of the bag and started warming them in my shirt.Once we reached home my hubby rushed the three babies into the house and put them with Davy Jones, our best foster mum. I ran to the ICU building and started caring for mum. I got her on IV drip and a million other things... but the blows had fractured her spine and skull. So I made the hard choice to put her to sleep. My hubby came in a hour later to find me on the floor sobbing for this tiny, valiant mother I had just been forced by her injuries to put her to sleep!
It also made me decide I need to make a blog and YouTube Channel for TinyPaws and finish the long avoided SPCA registration process! (I wanted to avoid taxes and crazy high building prices) All this I hope to do as soon as I can take a few day break from saving lives!
How can people be so cruel! Sleep tight little ones, sending lots of healing vibes for the surviving babies.
I can only imagine what that was like for you first hand!
