A tale of lost puppies isn’t anything you haven’t heard. It usually plays out the same way – someone finds a puppy out in the streets or in a shelter, then cares for it until it goes to a new home.
But this story is a bit different. These puppies weren’t behind a dumpster, in a shelter, or even in a cardboard box.
These seven puppies were on a small island by a lake in Manitoba.
The puppies, three females and four males, were discovered by local boaters. It seems to have been a “Right place at the right time” situation – there’s no telling how long before someone else would have just stumbled upon them by accident.
No one is quite sure how the puppies got here.
Now that they’ve been rescued, the important thing was to get them somewhere a little more homely. They’re not going to find treats or head-pats all the way out here.
The director of the rescue was Deb Vandekerkhove, who had some more info to share about the puppies. She told the news how they were found, and by who.
Turns out, it was a boater named Junior Cook who first came across them.
Cook had heard the litter just the night before with his friend.
“They took their binoculars and they couldn’t see anything but some dark shadows, and they heard a bunch of crying. They thought originally it was wolves.”
Cook and his friend reasoned that it was too dark to investigate the sounds. So they returned the next morning instead. That’s when they found the seven abandoned puppies in the most unexpected spot.
First things first, they offered the puppies some food from the boat.
They quickly ate up all the food provided by Cook and his friend. It was a reasonable guess that the puppies hadn’t eaten in a while. They might have even been starving.
The puppies were rather cautious – even a bit scared, of Cook and his friend at first. A few hours after offering them food, it seems like that fear was all gone.
In the meantime, Cook brought a doghouse he had for them to use. At least they’d have some shelter now too.
Thanks to Cook, and then Vandekerkhove, the puppies came into the hands Norway House Animal rescue for initial care.
After looking after them for a while, the folks who helped rescue them suspect they are Lab-mixes of some kind.
Their time at Norway House Animal Rescue wasn’t long.
Potential forever homes awaited these puppies, and another shelter was going to handle that.
And that shelter would be Winnipeg Pet Rescue. Their job now was to help the puppies get adopted.
It’s been a long journey for these puppies.
Abandoned by the lake, going days without food, being rescued by a boater, and making it all this way to a shelter. But it was all worth it, and well-deserved too. Every puppy deserves better than to be left by the lake.
Now they’d been shown what a puppy’s life should be like. Let’s hope the homes they’d end up in give them more of that life they deserve.
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