Please Help Give These Dogs a Second Chance

Please Help Give These Dogs a Second Chance

By Karen Delmonico

For those of you who volunteer for an animal rescue or shelter, this story may seem all too familiar to you and an experience you have had firsthand. For all others reading this article, I trust you will become more aware of the plight of millions of domestic animals.

A few weeks before Thanksgiving 2013 I was volunteering at an adoption event for Chicagoland Dog Rescue. A patron of the store stopped and gave us a donation. She began to tell me about two dogs, Conan and Violet who had been rescued three years ago from abuse and cruelty in the City of Chicago. I gave her my contact information and asked her to send me their bios.

Violet is a small/medium Pit Bull who is deaf. When frequent starving and regular beatings did not turn this sweet soul into a mean fighter she was slated for breeding with the puppies being sold to dog fighters. When a rival gang set the building she lived in on fire and it burned down, she survived only because she was left outside; abandoned to fend for herself in the cold and dark.

Conan is a small/medium Pitt Bull with one ear that droops down and one ear that stands erect. He was a severely mistreated and neglected dog that was allowed to run loose in the neighborhood. When authorities tried to cite the owner for violations concerning Conan, he hid Conan at a friend’s auto body shop. The person who rescued him found Conan chained to the axel of a truck on a loading dock. When he began to move around he slipped and fell, helplessly dangling and hanging by his neck. Luckily an employee of the shop and the rescuer were able to put him back on his feet/paws.

Although the rescuer risked her own safety to give these dogs a second chance, she was not capable of giving them what they needed. Thus Conan and Violet had been living and languishing in an overcrowded situation for the last three years and desperately needed help.

Through contact with It’s a Pittie Rescue I found trainer Curtis Scott of Canis Familiaris in Chicago. He has evaluated both dogs and is currently boarding and training them, preparing them for adoption into new loving homes. My research also located a wonderful in home/traveling veterinarian, Dr. Dawn Straily of Chicago in Home Veterinary Care, who is attending to their medical needs.

 A special big thank you goes out to these professionals, who have brought Conan and Violet back to health, happiness and balance. We could not have done this without you.

The following rescues have graciously posted them as courtesy posts on either their Facebook page or web page: “Bombshell Bullies” (Facebook), “Illinois Animal Rescue” (web page), “Chicagoland Dog Rescue” (web page available dogs/courtesy posts). They will soon be on “Pit for Patriots”, “It’s a Pittie Rescue”, “Midwest Rescue” and Violet will be listed with “Deaf Dogs Rock”.

We can’t thank these organizations enough for helping these two darling dogs get exposure as they wait for their families to adopt them.

What they need now is your help. I have posted a page on “Go Fund Me” to raise money for them, http://www.gofundme.com/5mwi88.  So far the person who originally told me about the dogs and I have paid for the rehabilitation of Conan and Violet.

Won’t you please help these two dogs get a second chance at the life they so richly deserve? Please give whatever you can and share their story and the link. We need to help give these dogs their second chance.