Wednesday, January 5, 2011

Snow


Could you donate $5 to save this innocent dog?

Snow is a handsome, 18-month-old, pure bred Great Pyrenees that needs our help to survive. He and his brother Klondike were strays, minding their own business, wandering around in the country near Rolla, MO looking for something to eat, when they found a deer carcass. (In that area of the country, animal carcasses are pretty common sights.) They were scavenging a meal, when some farmers spotted them. The farmers figured it would not take long for Snow and Klondike to progress from dead deer to live calves, so they went home to get their guns.

They came back and started shooting, luckily not very well. Perhaps they had been drinking? 

The county sheriff got reports of gun fire and came out to investigate. He was worried, sot so much about the dogs, but that a bystander might be shot, so he calmed things down and called for animal control. They captured Snow and Klondike and brought them to the local kill shelter. The wild boys had 4 days to live (the pound has to wait a few days to see if their owner would show up). On the last day, the owner hadn’t shown up, and the animal control officer called our friend Carolyn at Bear Creek Rescue and told her that the boys would be put down in the morning.

Carolyn never hesitates when a dog’s life is on the line, so she rushed to the rescue and pulled them out that night. They are now safe at Bear Creek.

Snow needs a lot of work before he is ready to be adopted. He is something of a wild thing, fearful and non-social. He is very underweight at 74 pounds. Carolyn will fatten him up and work on socializing him, and then find him a home. She needs our help to pay for vetting and boarding Snow.

Please help us raise the $160 we need to help save Snow using the ChipIn.

All donations go directly from Paypal to National Great Pyrenees Rescue, a 501(c)(3) charity, and are tax-deductible. Please chip in - together we can save Snow and many more!