If you know me well enough, you know my actions towards animals are so strong and sometimes, I have more compassion for animals than humans because through the years, humans are giving each other a reason to not have hope in humanity and though that can change in hundreds of years right now, I have tremendous respect for animals and I do what I can to make sure that they are healthy and well and I like to be active in numerous organizations to make sure that keeps going on... Dogs and cats are included as well.
Also, if you know me or my friends, they'll surely tell you that I have a whole family of dogs. Yes, I'm a huge dog-lover. I have six, lovely and healthy dogs (okay, maybe Bruno's a bit sick with spring allergies but he's healthy overall) and there's nothing that I don't do to make sure that they stay that way. I give them organic and healthy kibbles, milk, fresh cold water, toys, veggies and some fruits, and so much more... They are like my own children and I treat all animals like they were my children.
I even have dog and cat kibbles in my car to feed strays that I see around the area. I feed cats at the basement parking of my lobby and even if I'm out and I see a cat who's sitting near a restaurant with no food, I'll give that cat some kibbles. And if I see a dog or a pack of dogs, I'll prepare food for them when I have nothing to really do and I will even provide water since I have some water in my car. I do what I can to give back... Even if we can't have conversations, we look different and even smell different.
Now, the point of my blog...
Today is that I found out that an ex-housekeeper of ours has a new one-month old puppy. She's back for three weeks just to help us with our dogs since we'll be gone for almost two weeks when my cousin comes home.
She was given the one-month old puppy by a friend or a neighbor who had the mother dog who gave birth to a litter of puppies. Now, the mother died because someone beat the dog for some reason... So, now the puppies are motherless and that's a bad thing because puppies need their mothers for the first three months of their lives... This neighbor/friend person gave one to our ex-housekeeper. Sigh... This is how the conversation she had with my mother went. (my mother told me)
Housekeeper: I have this one-month puppy and it can't walk, it's blind and it doesn't do anything.
Mother: Well, it's only one month.
Housekeeper: I was thinking of throwing it out. I'm thinking of just leaving it outside and hoping that someone can just pick it up.
Mother: Noooooooo! Don't do that~! If you don't want it, give it to me.
Housekeeper: It can't walk, it can't eat, drink or even see.
Mother: It's only one month!
Here's the thing, puppies can't walk, can't see, can't bark, can't eat solids, can't drink anything but water or their mothers milk/formula... Basically, they don't do anything on their own and sleep 90% of the time. When they are one month, you can try and introduce wet kibbles and mush them but don't expect too much from them... But just try and teach them. After one month, their eyes open BUT they still can't see until the second month. By the second month, they learn how to walk, their ears start to open but they're still kind of deaf but this is when they start to learn how to pee and poo on their own without their mother's licking them and stimulating them to use the bathroom... By the third month, they should know how to walk, bark, hear and they start to learn.
But this housekeeper of ours keeps it at her house, in a box with no food, no water, NOTHING... ALL DAY. With a puppy at one month, you need to feed it every hour with formula and help it go to the bathroom with a wet washcloth and stroke the lower area so it can go poo or pee.
If a puppy can't eat every hour, they can starve to death. It'll get sick and put itself in danger of so many sicknesses... The last thing I want to see is a baby animal, slow starving, all alone in a box in an empty house and being left alone to die. It's things like that, that make me tear/cry and leave me heartbroken and I'm left with nothing but worry for the puppy.
She doesn't feed it and she was even thinking of just leaving outside her house hoping that someone would pick it up. It can be eaten by any animal, picked up by a bird and eaten or no one has interest in it at all and it just starves, outside your house, in a box, all alone. Ohmygod, I'm about to cry...
This is the reason why I can't rely on people to take care of puppies, especially newborns because no one does their homework, no one reads up on what to do and how to do it when it comes to puppies. This is why people who breed dogs without doing their homework are left giving them away and those puppies are left to die when no one knows what to do. Puppies are to NEVER, as in never, never, never, never everrrrrrrrrrr leave the mother until they are three months AT THE LEAST. If however, the mother were to die of something, NEVER EVER EVER give it away until they are healthy enough to leave and they all need proper shots before leaving.
When my puppies were born, the moment Charlie was giving birth, I had the camera, video recorder and all my first aid necessities to assess her (along with my mother) during the moment she was giving birth. Thank god Charlie trusts my mother and I, and didn't eat her puppies. But when all the puppies were born, I slept on the bathroom floor for three months. I would stay up, feeding them every hour and even when I sleep, my mother would take over but I would still wake up every hour to make sure that they all were fed properly and evenly. I would even make formula ahead of time... I slept on the bathroom floor, watching them and just making sure that they're all fine. I would even be more concerned for them than Charlie was. Charlie would freely leave the bathroom and chill in the living room while watching tv with my mother and I'm in the bathroom, concerned and giving all the puppies company.
I've put in sooooooooo much time, effort and love for Charlie and her puppies that my bond with each of them were so strong, that I didn't have the heart to give them away but to see someone like our housekeeper even have the thought of putting it outside in hopes that someone will just pick it up was just extremely heartbreaking.
My mother texted her that at one month, it can't see, can't hear and can't walk and can't eat on it's own. My mother also said that if she can't take care of it, give it to us and we'll make sure it's healthy and we'll find a nice home for it. If we can't, we'll keep it. Yes, I'm serious... We'll keep it. Whether it's a stray, no breed dog, we'll take it. It doesn't have to be a champion dog with good genes and a suitable breed... If it has a kind heart and repays you with so much more love than you're giving it... It's a dog worth having.
Dogs are dogs, no matter what they look like, no matter what breed they are... If you treat them right, give them attention and the love they deserve, they will give you their heart and love you back two times more and that's the most rewarding thing you can ever have. A unconditional love from an animal.
So please, before you even think of breeding an animal, do your homework. If you don't have the money to support it, think twice before you do it. If you don't have the time, don't think about it. Don't breed a dog because you want money out of them, I've seen too many people, get top-notch breeds to just only get money out of them and turn them into a breeding factory... That's greedy. Animals are meant for breeding, that's another reason why we have so many strays in the world. You can't just breed a dog or a cat... You have to get it check because once you breed a dog that has underlying sickness such as diabetes, cancer, hernias or some kind of hereditary gene... You're just spreading the problem. Only poor breeders do that... You want a pet from a shelter, who's already fixed, has shots, and well-taken care of. Don't go to breeders. They will just cheat you for your money. There's more to breeding than what you may think...
And, if you are given a puppy and you can't take care of it, bring it to a shelter or a vet clinic and they'll help you with what you can do about it. Don't just assume that if you leave it out, someone will pick it up because you can just end up starving it and it'll die a slow death.
So yeah, please... Think twice before doing anything stupid like that. The last thing I want to see is a puppy in the streets when that puppy could have been in a comfortable home, learning and even helping someone feel better at a hospital, helping scientist discover the greatness of dogs, helping doctors and scientists cure cancer, or helping a child give a simple companion.
Stop poor breeding and the sad, fast-increasing rate of strays.
A Philanthropist for animals,
Otters
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