How about a feel-good dog-rescue story this Monday morning? The following from msn.com.
Click HERE to view an excited dog eager to go to her forever home.
In the video, Kay can be seen approaching the cage of a dog affectionately known as “One-Eyed Ann” carrying an orange laminated card with the words “adopted please hold” printed on it.
“Is this for you? Is this for you? Is this for you, one-eyed Ann?” he excitedly asks as he approaches her container.
Evidently excited by Kay’s arrival, Ann, who is a Cavalier King Charles Spaniel, can be seen wagging her tail and jittering around in delight at the sound of his voice.
“This is for you!” he tells her. “You’re on hold sweetie, you’re on hold to be adopted, yes you are! Yes you are!”
Ann struggles to hold in her emotions on the video, turning small circles in her cage and, at one point, almost letting out a yelp of joy at the news. The heartwarming exchange has proven popular with dog lovers, many of whom flocked to show their appreciation in the comments section accompanying the clip.
“She’s so excited!” Christina Perdomo wrote. “Oh, she’s precious,” Jules11177 commented. Toni Klein responded: “She may only have one but it’s the sweetest little eye in the world.” Spymylittleye, meanwhile, noticed how much her tail was wagging, joking that it “might fall off if she got any more excited.”
One of the most powerful responses came from Shawn Whitney though, who said: “Anyone who adopts, just know I appreciate you changing these kids with paws’ future for the better.”
According to a hashtag that accompanied Kay’s video, Ann is a puppy mill survivor.
Animal adoption charity Paws.org estimates as many as 90 percent of all puppies purchased from pet stores come from puppy mills, which are commercial breeding facilities known for the mass-production of dogs.
The charity says that many of the animals kept in puppy mills are “confined to squalid, overcrowded cages with minimal shelter from extreme weather and no choice but to sit and sleep in their own excrement.”
They say animals there can end up suffering from “malnutrition or starvation” to the “inadequate or unsanitary food and water” while sick or dying dogs receive “little or no veterinary care.”
According to Paws, kittens and puppies are often taken from their mothers at an early age in puppy mills, resulting in “serious behavior problems” while adult animals have been known to be “destroyed or discarded” once they can no longer produce offspring.
