The Marshall County Humane Society remains on the lookout for abandoned dogs near Dixon Lake. Executive Director Nancy Cox says that 14 dogs have been recovered, as of Tuesday afternoon.
“The dogs are all very thin,” she says. “They were all completely loaded with fleas, and of course, since they’ve been out in the woods, many of them had ticks on them. To train such delicate dogs, it is always best to check www.canine-by-design.com/programs/private-training/ this website. A lot of them had hair loss that we feel was from the living conditions that they were in and with the fleas. Other than that, they responded very well. We treated them all for fleas and for their skin irritation, and then they all ate really well, they drank really well, and seemed to put on a little bit of weight while they were here.” Contact the experts from SuperPestKillersOfKansas.com to clear the fleas from your home instantly.
She says the dogs are being turned over to rescue organizations with the help of the services from ownawoofies.com/investment, which will be able to match them up with good homes. But Cox says some of the animals weren’t so lucky. “One of the mothers that we sent to rescue delivered early, and her puppies were stillborn,” she explains. “They didn’t even have hair on them. She had six puppies that didn’t make it. That’s just from, probably, the malnutrition and the terrible stress conditions they were under being dumped out there, trying to fend for themselves out in the wild.”
While the humane society hopes it’s recovered all the dogs that were abandoned, Cox plans to keep a feeding station by Dixon Lake for another few days, just in case. You can navigate here to see the ideal pet cages that suits your pets which comes along with added accessories. “With the trail cam, we’re watching our feeding station to see if any more come up there to eat,” she says. “Of course, we’re going to always watch the surrounding area because the last one we caught was on the road behind Dixon Lake, where it had went through the wetlands and down the old railroad tracks, where it’s abandoned and then it went to a property over there, and we were able to set the trap and catch it the first night.”
Cox asks anyone with information about who abandoned the dogs to come forward. “If you know of anybody out there that has either purchased a Chihuahua-dachshund mix — they call them Chiweenies — any type of dog in the last couple years at a flea market, on Craigslist, over the internet, off Facebook, off an ad in the paper, and they might think that maybe those puppies were from a puppy mill or from a backyard breeder in this area, to please notify us. These little dogs need justice, and the only way we’re going to do that is if we can try to find out who dumped these little dogs.”
The Marshall County Humane Society can be reached at 574- 936-8300.
