To all those 40/42 kind hearts....maybe you or someone you know can help. This email is being sent to all canine rescue organizations in the Carolinas. Transportation can be arranged and the contact info is below. Here's the message: URGENT - Permission to cross post! NC -Grace, 3 yr old Lemon Walker Hound, extreme cruelty case victim to be gassed imminently! Please help! Grace needs your help! She has been through hell, and yet after being starved and abused and almost 7 months in the shelter's quarantine, she is still sweet and happy. Grace's story so far has me somewhere between wanting to throw up, or cry. Grace is no more than 3 years old and is a Lemon Walker Hound. She is a victim of an extreme cruelty case. She has been in quarantine at Columbus County shelter since JANUARY, while her abuser awaited trial. She didn't even have a name. She was known as "#39", all this time. Why is her owner on trial, you ask? Because he had a bunch of hounds all locked up together for so long without food, that some of them died, and the others were forced to eat the dead to stay alive. When they found Grace, she was literally just bones and barely alive. This man had other dogs that he just let die, no food, no water, no shelter and in a kennel that was a mess. She was purposefully starved. There was a history of starving dogs to death. He was charged with cruelty and neglect and prosecuted. He was sentenced pretty much to paying her boarding for seven months. There's justice for you. The volunteers did the best they could for Grace at the shelter, and she has recovered. It was only this week that she has been moved into a kennel to try to adopt her out. She has gained back most of her lost weight. She looks alert and happy. She has been in there for over 6 months !!!! This is a HIGH KILL shelter that uses the gas chamber for euthanization. They euth every week on Thursdays. It is very hard to get hunting dogs adopted in N.C. because there are so many turned out by their owners after hunting season to die. Many times they are pregnant too. The hunters who do this don't care what happens to these dogs. Now that the trial is over, and Grace is no longer "evidence", they plan to put her down tomorrow. We've asked that they hold off on putting her down, but seriously, there are no fosters in the humane society right now, and the one hound they do have, they have had for three years! Adult hounds do not find homes down here. So I am asking, pleading, for a crosspost on Grace in the hope that there is a rescue or adopter up north who might take her in. She's been in the shelter for seven months! After everything she's been through, she doesn't deserve to be gassed! She deserves better than this. If you know of anyone or of a rescue who might be able to take Grace, please contact Pat Lambert with C.H.S., lambertpat54@yahoo.com . Transport can be arranged up the east coast
Is Grace even still there? It says they euthanize every week on Thursdays, and they plan to put her down "tomorrow." Today is Friday.
Gracie's Safe Rocky and KD, Thanks for replying to my message. KD...yes Gracie was there...she was granted a stay of execution in the hopes that someone would come forward to assist. A kind soul has stepped forward and offered Gracie a forever home. I'm elated that she is out of danger. Again...thank you so much for your interest and response.
Thats soooo good to know. I would of probably been willing to take Grace in to keep company with Laila and Jese
I'm so glad someone came forward and saved her. That person is a saint. But I hope the SOB who abused her dies a slow death. People that abuse animals are cowards and should be beaten for their cruelty. I'm just glad she found a new home.
