It’s hard to believe how anyone can abandon a dog so heartlessly. We see so many stories of owners getting rid of their pets by just tying them up somewhere—in the best-case scenario, they get found picked up by an animal shelter (where they could’ve gone in the first place) and in the worst-case scenario they’re just left for dead.
But this story is particularly heartbreaking in that it wasn’t just one dog, but a whole family… a mother trying to care for her children even as she fought for her own life.
On November 5, a two-year-old lurcher was found helplessly chained to a gate in County Roscommon, Ireland, apparently abandoned by her owner.
With her were six newborn puppies, all nursing from their mother.