OLIVE - Survived a meth lab explosion,
the shelter, and found her forever family!
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If there ever were a rags-to-riches tale involving the rescue of a dog, it would be about Olive. One day in the fall of 2010, Animal Control officers were called to respond to a house where there had been an explosion. When the officers arrived, they discovered what had been a methamphetamine lab, in the heart of an area notorious for criminal activity of this nature, and this lab had exploded. They weren’t the fire department or the Drug Enforcement Administration, they were Animal Control. Why, then, were they dispatched to this scene? They soon discovered the reason: A sweet little black Pit Bull, who somehow survived the explosion, emerged—she was scarred from head to toe and pregnant. |
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VIOLET - A victim of dog fighting and placed on death row...
then rescued and living the good life!
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I stumbled onto Violet while she was awaiting death after a police confiscation. She was covered in scars and open wounds. I could see the outline of every bone in her body, and her teats were so huge and filled with milk that they were developing sores from being dragged on the ground. Violet was a victim of human cruelty. She had been forced to fight and to watch the dogs she beat finally lose their lives to a bullet in the head. Because she was such a survivor, they tied her to a horrible contraption called a rape stand in order to force her to breed. Eventually, her owners fled the police and abandoned Violet with no food or water and only her survival instincts to feed herself and her pups. Eventually, she found her way to the end of a dog-catcher’s pole, then to a cage in a kill shelter where she awaited her own death. |
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2 Rattlesnakes, 1 Pit Bull, and a Miracle!
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My husband Matt and I decided to take our dog Sadie along on our Memorial Day weekend camping trip to Angeles National Forest, in Los Angeles County’s San Gabriel Mountains, not far from Linda Blair Worldheart Foundation located in Acton, California.
We had adopted Sadie from a rescued litter of Pit Bull-mix puppies about two years prior from Linda Blair’s rescue organization. |
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A PICTURE POSTED ON FACEBOOK
HELPS SAVE A MAMA DOG AND HER 2 PUPS!
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This story is living proof that everyday people and actions can change the world. One act of kindness—as simple as a phone call, an email, a Tweet, or a Facebook message—can save a life and, in this case, saved three! |
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LINUS Goes From the Dog Fighting Ring to
A Forever Family!
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In April 2011, an anonymous tip to the Humane Society of the United States [of a suspected dog fighting and cock fighting ring] led law enforcement officials to a home in Union County, Florida. Linus was one of over twenty dogs, all Pit Bulls, and many more chickens, that were seized from the property. When the HSUS arrived, they found the dogs tied to trees and posts with heavy logging chains. Others were in cramped cages. Linus, along with all the other animals confiscated, were cared for in a temporary shelter facility coordinated by the HSUS, and a group of volunteers from all over the United States.
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TUGG THE BULL TERRIER PUPPY
Left for dead on the side of the road...then rescued, saved, and adopted!
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Superheroes originate from the most unexpected places. On the night July 6, 2010, a call came into the
Fort Worth police dispatch. One little puppy was reported as badly burned on the side of a busy road. When the police officer arrived at the location, he found a blanket that was staked to the ground, and on that stake was a small sign that read “dog.” Waiting for animal control to arrive, the officer sat for about an hour with the future little superhero—an eleven-pound, four-month-old Bull Terrier puppy, who had been tightly wrapped in that blanket. |
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