These Puppies Only Had Each Other For Comfort After They Were Put In A High Kill Shelter
Two tiny puppies arrived at a high-kill shelter in Texas with almost nothing going for them except each other. Malnourished, abused, and dealing with skin disease, Jeremiah and Neal were quickly seen as dogs with very little time left.
The shelter did not have the money or resources to give them the care they needed, and the pair were placed together on cold concrete with no idea what was coming next. Instead of pulling apart, they curled up for comfort, and that moment changed everything.
Jeremiah, the small black pup, ended up lying on top of Neal, and their story was only just beginning.
"Jeremiah sought comfort, and Neal was accepting of it," said Stacey Silverstein, founder of Rescue Dogs Rock NYC. "They knew they were in danger."
The pups were terrified, but they didn't know that their fate was slowly but surely changing. The local animal shelter wanted to see the pups get better and save their lives, so they reached out to Stacey to ask if she would sponsor the dogs' care.
She couldn't say no to those faces.
That was the moment their luck started to turn.
"Most of the dogs there had been abandoned, found on the street, and picked up by animal control," Stacey said. "We’re kind of their go-to for critically injured or sick dogs, and they have many. All we know is that these two definitely weren’t originally found together."
The pups are now safe, and they won't be put down, but Stacey still can't help but think about all the other pups.
"This is the reality of a kill shelter," Stacey said. "They put these dogs in carts and wheel them off to the euthanasia room. Death is literally knocking at the door… There’s no way the puppies didn’t know that they were in a very scary place."
Neal and Jeremiah’s comfort buddy moment feels like a shelter dog hugging her best friend right before they were about to be put down.
It was a close call, and not every dog gets that kind of ending.
Stacey also managed to save another pup from the same pen named Jagger. He has the same symptoms and diseases as Jeremiah and Neal. They all have severe skin infections infected with mange, and Jeremiah might lose his eye due to an ulcer on his cornea.
Callaghan Road Animal Hospital in San Antonio is now taking care of the three pups, and they will be undergoing extensive treatment over the next few weeks to restore their skin to its former condition.
They have a long road to recovery ahead of them, but at least they will have friends by their sides to help them through it.
"They’re amazing little dogs," Stacey said. "They’re very nervous and not well right now, so obviously they’re weeks away from recovery. But they’re all puppies - so sweet and nice. Hopefully, they will recover quickly so they can come here to New York to be adopted into perfect homes."
Now they just need the kind of ending they were never supposed to get.
Jeremiah and Neal made it out, now see how firefighters rescued eight five-week-old puppies from a burning car. Read the rescue story.
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