Please LIKE Leos FB page at the link below! He is an ambassador for the Stop Puppy Mills crusade. If you could also SHARE this post that would be pawsome. Thank you! https://facebook/4TheLoveOfLeo I was starving, nothing but skin and bones. Except you could not see my bones. My whole body was encased in mud and feces with my fur congealed in heavy filthy mats making it impossible for me to stand up or to walk. My nails were so long they curled under if I tried to stand they cut into my paws. Too weak to stand on my own I was too miserable to even be frightened at all any longer. I just wanted to give up and have this miserable existence end. My skin burned where the fleas relentlessly bit me. Parasites were ravaging my insides. My world is darkness. I was born without eyes. I have learned that this is common due to poor nutrition for my mother before me causing my birth defect. I never saw my captors and likewise I never saw my rescuers but I felt them bring light and joy into my world. They showed me the first kindness I have known in my life. They carried me out of that dark and dank place. They held me against their body and whispered reassurances to me. They cleaned me and trimmed the mats for hours. I whimpered some, I felt pain but I also once again started to feel the hope of being alive. My new Mommy told me it was Melissa from Dog Daze Mobile Groomer that was so kind to me. Next my Mom took me to the vet. They think I was at the puppy mill for four years. They used needles to vaccinate me but they told me I needed the medicine to help me and to make me strong. My new Mom held me and comforted me and gave me a warm safe bed to sleep soundly for the first time in my life. She fed me and nurtured me. It took some time but little by little I grew stronger each and every day. I love to be in the arms of my Mom. I love to ride in the car and go everywhere with her. My new life and my Mom make me smile! The vet told me I will not have a long life because of complications from my poor living conditions. I cough and sometimes I cannot catch my breath. I am heartworm positive and suffering from congestive heart failure. I also have fluid in my lungs. Even though my new life will not be long I want to make it count. Right now there are others like me suffering at the hands of ruthless breeders. I want to use my voice to be a spokes dog for the thousands of dogs living in NC puppy mills. Dogs who endure misery, fear, hunger and sickness , day after day just like I did. Dogs who have lost hope as they wait. The loss of hope shows in their empty eyes when the puppy mill they live in is raided. Maybe, just maybe they will be lucky enough to get another chance like me. A chance to enter the world of light and have a chance to feel love, care and comfort. I want to help to be the voice for these dogs who have no voice. Please help me to help them. Someone must be their voice. Do not feel pity for me. I have escaped the darkness and I have known joy. I want to make sure the others can too before it is too late. Follow my journey to help others through the last of my days. Even if they are few they are all precious to me. I will work until my dying breath to try to free the other puppy mill dogs until they too make it out. Follow this story For the Love of Leo!
Posted on: Fri, 06 Jun 2014 17:09:49 +0000