Saturday, September 19, 2009

Good Sumaritins Give Starving Puppy A New Life And Love!!!

PROVIDENCE — Michelle Desrosiers has seen many things while driving her dump truck for the Department of Transportation, but she probably won’t forget what an inmate she was working with found on the railroad tracks. Willie On Monday, Desrosiers was working with minimum-security inmates at the Adult Correctional Institutions who were picking up trash along Route 95. As she drove her dump truck northbound near the Eddy Street overpass, an inmate called out to her. There was a tiny dog walking along the railroad tracks, Desrosiers recalled Thursday. When he retrieved the puppy and brought it to Desrosiers, she could not believe her eyes. Nearly every bone in the Chihuahua puppy’s spine was visible. “He was just a skinny bag of bones. I couldn’t believe he that he could actually walk. When the inmate picked him up, the puppy was so content that someone had finally rescued him,” Desrosiers said. Just minutes after the inmate had taken the puppy off the railroad track the train came through, Desrosiers said.
“They should call him Lucky because he got saved twice,” she said. Desrosiers took him to the Rhode Island Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals, but not before the inmates offered the starving pup some water, which he did not take. He did accept tiny pieces of bologna inmates offered him from their lunch. Dr. E.J. Finocchio, head of the RISPCA, said the puppy weighed 2.3 pounds, about half the weight of a Chihuahua. Finocchio said the puppy is critically ill. Workers named the pup Willie, for Box Car Willie, an American country music singer, because he was found on the railroad tracks. Finocchio sent the pup to the Dighton-Rehoboth Animal Hospital in North Dighton, Mass., where he is being treated and has gained five ounces. Finocchio said Willie is reported to be severely emaciated, dehydrated, anemic and infested with fleas.
Finocchio said the puppy is slowly regaining his appetite and that his recovery will require a lot of care and veterinary costs, which are being covered by the Marvin Fund. Because of the puppy’s severe condition, Finocchio could not say if he would survive. “He deserves a second chance,” he said.

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