Puppy rescue

 I’m in Anchorage right now for LSCI training. I love the training, meeting with other teachers and counselors in our district, and being in civilization again!!! Yay for restaurants, shops and internet! But last weekend until now was pretty crazy! We were told that Beano’s black puppies were getting shot right then. We were devastated. But the next day Beano said they shot one but that they ran under the house and couldn’t shoot any others. I assumed they meant shot AND KILLED one dog, not shot it in the leg and left it out in the subzero temps to suffer with a gunshot wound! So when we heard they weren’t shot, my roommate and I decided to grab the puppies and take them to a shelter in Nome called Paws of Nome. Bering Air will take a crate to Paws of Nome for free, but only if there’s room in the plane. There are usually two flights that leave St Michael, one in the morning and one at 4pm. However, we also would have to get a ride out to the airport bc we don’t have a car or a 4 wheeler (everyone here has a 4 wheeler and call them Hondas). We had quite a fun weekend with puppies all over our apartment lol! It was a little crazier than we had anticipated but it was worth it to save their lives. There was a puppy we couldn’t catch that stayed under the house, so we thought we’d get that one the next day. The next day we asked to borrow the school van, and took the dogs outside and put them in two crates. However, my crate’s door latch got bent so it only shut on the top and not the bottom. I thought it felt secure though. Later we saw the door to that crate open and they had escaped:(. We still had the other crate of dogs though. We went back over to Beano’s and saw that one puppy’s leg was injured. I thought it was from escaping the crate and I felt HORRIBLE!! I thought it was my fault I had really badly injured this poor puppy!! We captured the injured puppy and got the crate to the airport, leaving two puppies and the mama behind for the next trip (they wouldn’t have had room for two big crates at once). I was so nervous bc I thought this puppy I had injured by not latching the bottom of the crate door would for sure have to be killed if it didn’t make it out on this flight. I was a nervous wreck!! Luckily, the plane took the crate!! Kristin and I were so happy!!! They got to Paws of Nome and they immediately took the puppy to get emergency vet care. I couldn’t sleep that night hardly at all bc i just felt so awful I had hurt that puppy. The next day they  told us it was a gunshot wound! Then we realized that that was the puppy they had shot about a WEEK earlier, and it was just outside in the frigid weather with a gunshot wound!! So we grabbed the rest of the puppies and mama to keep them from getting shot and try and get them out. It took 4 tries to get them in the plane, but the fourth try they finally made it on the plane. The poor shot puppy had its leg amputated. If you want, you can adopt any of the puppies or mama. I hope they go to loving homes! Now we have another puppy that always comes over and is shivering and hungry that we need to ship out, and another litter of puppies were born about two weeks ago. Uuuugh. If you want to help, donate to Paws of Nome, or you can donate towards the shot puppy’s vet bills here: https://fundrazr.com/campaigns/128oG2

Or you can donate to starving dogs in st Michael by ordering puppy food on Amazon and sending it to Kristie Carlson 100 Old Airport Rd St Michael, AK 99659