Large group of Bullmastiffs needing foster/adoption (Phoenix & LV)

[Fixer]

Large group of Bullmastiffs needing foster/adoption (Phoenix & LV)

http://bullmastiffrescuecrisis.blogspot.com/2011/12/bullmastiff-rescue-crisis.html

Descriptions of each dog in the link. Looks like they set up a Chip-In account and have raised/spent $11k so far on some of these dogs.

An amateur breeder/hoarder in Nevada can no longer care for the 27 dogs on his property and ABARS has stepped in to get the dogs out. Some of the dogs were living in kennels that were full of a month or more of excrement. Some were living in the garage, in kennels inside or loose. Some were in the house in rooms, and as you might imagine, the house is trashed. Carpet has been ripped up, puppies were eating sheet rock in their room, the place smelled so bad that the rescue volunteers had to struggle not to vomit and refused to go inside. The owner bathed the ones that have been removed thus far, but they still all stink as the fecal bacteria is embedded in their skin & hair.

On the weekend of December 10/11 the South-Western US Rescue Coordinator (Dawn Hamilton of Citadel Bullmastiffs in Phoenix) made two round trips to Las Vegas and pulled 15 dogs, and two 4 month old puppies. A complete assesment has not yet been completed but what is known is as follows:

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The owner was feeding these large breed dogs every other day. Thus, several dogs are very thin, Titan, Teala, Prancer, Repo, Snort, Cowboy, Boy are all underweight. Some of the dogs may never achieve "normal" Bullmastiff size due to malnutrition as puppies.

None of the dogs have had vaccinations. Many have lived their entire lives on the same property and their immune systems are at minimal strength. Because of this many are contracting Parvo as a result of being exposed to the modified virus in the vaccine.

 

[AKBull]

Re: Large group of Bullmastiffs needing foster/adoption (Phoenix & LV)

How freaking horrible...
Thank you for sharing the link though.

 

[Fixer]

Re: Large group of Bullmastiffs needing foster/adoption (Phoenix & LV)

A few updates in their blog:

http://bullmastiffrescuecrisis.blogspot.com/2011/12/update-122311.html
http://bullmastiffrescuecrisis.blogspot.com/2012/01/update-010312.html
http://bullmastiffrescuecrisis.blogspot.com/2012/01/update-011012-titan-has-home.html
http://bullmastiffrescuecrisis.blogspot.com/2012/01/good-and-bad-news-update-011212.html


I also mis-spoke earlier, they have raised $11k so far but costs has far exceeded that.