Abused Dog Suffering 7 Years In A Prison

Theresa Strader is founder of the National Mill Dog Rescue in 2007. She rescued an abused dog, Lily.

According the website: “Lily spent all of her days confined to a little , cold wire cage a dark, foul-smelling barn. Never was she far away from her cage for exercise or socialization. Lily was forced to supply one litter after another with no respite.”

Lily had endured tons of abuse in the name of profit before being rescued. By the age of seven, Lily was wiped out. She hadn’t received veterinary care throughout her life, the results of which were terribly disturbing. Her chest was riddled with mammary tumors and she or he was absolutely scared of people.

She finally received the care and love she deserved. Lily gave up the ghost reception and took refuge in the embrace of her loving adoptive father and family. Just fifteen months after her rescue. While trying to affect Lily’s passing, Thersea wrote a potent letter.

She writes: “The whole purpose of this letter is only about Lily. This dog will find her and my family’s home here forever. In our house, we cut the chain from her neck, put on a soft collar, and named her Lily. Lily was released when she was seven years and one month old.”

‘Lily is one of your few dogs that lack a mandible. I’m wondering if you were ever concerned about their pain or perhaps about how they were ready to eat enough to remain alive.”

“It was agonizing for our family to see her suffer through four surgeries to get rid of mammary tumors, to aim to repair her decaying face and to spay her — removing the papery black, pus filled organ that was once her uterus. How selfish you are, never know her pain, just dollars.”

“We tried numerous foods then many various ways to form it easier for her to eat. But in the end, she had to try to do it her way, the way she learned at your home, the way she kept herself alive for you – picking kibbles out of her bowl. She did that a couple of at a time together with her feet, spreading them round the floor.

“Then rubbing the “good” side of her face along the ground to catch a kibble on her tongue. Then extending her neck upwards and swallowing it whole. believe that, Martha. How would you wish to eat only one meal that way?”

“Lily has learned a lot in our family, about being a loved person, being a dog, being a worthy person. I will be able to learn her not to run. But instead, to love and be loved, and for this, she didn’t have any words. She changed our lives forever.”

Lilly suffered for seven years of her life at a puppy mill as a breeding dog. Lily died on May 13, 2008, at the age of 8-about half the expected value of an Italian Greyhound.

Martha, she died as an immediate result of the neglect she suffered for seven years in your care. What percentage others have suffered an equivalent fate?

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