03/17/2026
MAYDAY FOR DELTA AND DANDY - Puppies Needing Help
This week we received a mayday from one of the shelters. The plea had gone out to many, but still two puppies sat in the shelter. With regular healthy puppies who go to the shelters, there are usually people lining up, but for two puppies with Demodex, puppies who need medical care and time to heal, their only hope is that a rescue answer the call. Without that hope and help, they are euthanized.
Rescues receive pleas like this from shelters, and we spring into action, and that is exactly what happened on January 08 . We needed a foster home and we needed transportation, and we didn't have days to arrange it. We had hours. As you might imagine, as much as we would like, we don't have foster homes for medical puppies waiting in a line. Maybe some day, but on Wednesday, we were working on a wing and a prayer.
Thankfully, one of our foster homes agreed to take them, and then, without even having to ask twice, one of our volunteers got in his truck and made the 140-mile round trip trek to pick them up.
DELTA and DANDY are two brothers, about 12 to 14 weeks old. They weren't strays. No one dumped them at the shelter. They were saved from a bad situation, a home where they were not cared for.
Their intake into the shelter read, "welfare protection". Both of them have Demodex, a condition where their immune systems have been compromised. They hadn't been getting proper care or nutrition. Their bellies were round and plump, but that wasn't because of food they were receiving. It was the parasites who were living off of what little food they were receiving. In these conditions, mites take over and began feasting on their skin, they itch and scratch and lose their fur. With medical treatment it is a simple thing to cure, medication is all it takes. Without treatment, proper nutrition, it can be fatal for puppies like DELTA and DANDY