When Zena was taken in by the Diana Brimblecombe Animal Rescue Centre she was a confused, broken soul. Being totally blind, and having survived years in a puppy farm, it was no surprise she found everything utterly bewildering. Special care, gentle lessons in accepting love and kindness and generous amounts of time, patience and understanding were needed for this special girl to overcome her dark past.
Mungo has spent his life in a puppy farm. The experience will take time for him to recover from. While male dogs don’t have the endless demands of repeated pregnancies that females endure in puppy farms, their lives are just as miserable. Isolation, loneliness, neglect, everything is as bad for the boys as it is for the girls. Hormone driven fights are common. It’s a dreadful experience.
A few weeks ago Nancy had no name, no life, no love. She was only valued for the puppies that her neglected body could produce for the puppy farmer whose ‘property’ she was. Nobody will ever know for sure what Nancy’s life to this point has fully entailed but it’s clear that little in it has been good.
Five year old Willow, an ex-breeding miniature schnauzer has not had a great life. No dog saved from a puppy farm has much of a life before they’re rescued. For the few like Willow who survive long enough to be rescued, life can be bewildering, scary and completely alien. For Willow, it has been all this in the few months since being rescued and made even more challenging because she has poor vision due to cataracts in both eyes.
For years Gracie had no name. She had no life. She existed in a puppy farm as ‘stock’ for a puppy farmer. Her only worth was the puppies that her body could produce. That was until the volunteers of Puppy Love Campaigns found her. But it was to be some months before they could take her to safety.
