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1,000 Dogs, including newborn litters, rescued from West Virginia Kennel
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For the 1,000 dogs living and breeding at Whispering Oaks Kennels, near Parkersburg, West Virginia, life was anything but easy.
With as many as five dogs crammed into a small kennel, these dogs lived out their lives on wire mesh flooring to serve a singular purpose: breeding. Even as officials came into rescue the dogs, litters of puppies were found, one after the other, just recently born.
The smell of ammonia and feces was overpowering in their environment, as it would be next to impossible to keep up with the care of that many dogs with a small staff. It's hard to imagine the odor. Even in hoarding cases, where I have helped to rescue as many as 120 animals in one home, the ammonia fumes are so strong -- burning your nose and throat -- that you often can't enter without a mask covering your nose and mouth. And even then, your eyes water and burn.
While the animals were not abused, they were not fully cared for, says HSUS: how do you play with and socialize 1,000 dogs a day? Dogs in facilities like this do not receive enough human interaction or touch to satisfy their emotional needs. "This is not what dogs were put on this planet for," said Maryann Hollis, executive director of the Humane Society of Parkersburg.
The dogs are being sent to various humane societies around the country. You may not know this, but humane societies are all independent nonprofit agencies and do not receive funding from national humane groups. So if you donate to a national group, you also need to donate to the local humane society, as they are the ones who will handle the rehabilitation and eventual placement of these dogs into new homes.
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