I was reading about little Mollie on a Facebook page today, it made me want to blog about the people who helped her so much so I contacted Jennifer Willis, the lady who had written about Mollie.
Please check out https://www.facebook.com/nobodywantsmeanimals
There is also a website for this project but it currently needs updating http://www.nobodywantsme.org
This one concentrates on finding homes for older and longer term residents of shelters - this project was started in March 2013 and has been involved in finding homes for 39 unwanted dogs since then - some had been in their shelter for 9 years.
This project is under the organisation Animal Angels Global https://www.facebook.com/AnimalAngelsGlobal which is a registered charity in Spain and not for profit in the UK. They run on a shoe string often out of their own pockets.
They in Andalucia only half hour from Gibraltar and work closely with a few shelters down there, do some street rescues, neutering too.
Mollie's story:
To cut a very long story short Mollie was rescued ..before the pound lifted her ..from living at a petrol station as a three month old pup. She was very 'wild' but was settling well in a shelter where she was placed her until she was ready for homing.
One day she just started falling down, she stayed in the vets for about 2 months with every test under the sun but never a diagnosis because the only unaffordable test was an MRI, so it was decided to take her from the vet to a wonderful foster place and hope to rehab her there with water therapy etc.
The two pictures of her lying down were taken by Jennifer the day Mollie was transferred to her foster place, she could barely lift her head but you could see the will to live. Everytime someone spoke to her she wagged her tail. She showed she wanted to live.
Her head flopped in her water bowl, all her muscles were wasted, her little head was tilted, but within a few days she was shuffling around the garden using two legs and from there it started.
A specialist in Belfast gave advice on water therapy exercises and her will to live and to play with her doggie friends was her tonic.
Today she still amazes us and her adoptive family (failed fosterer!) & she is a delight and a joy.
Below: Mollie, early July 2013, age about 7 months, on her way to her foster home, looking pretty sorry for herself after spending weeks in the vet. We decided to give her this chance in a foster home with wonderful people who were committed to helping her if possible. She would get aqua therapy, love and lots of play time with the other dogs in the family which together with her will to live and enjoy life has brought her improvements none of us could even have dreamed of.
Below: This video is early November after only 4 months of rehab with her foster carers - she's enjoying life so much and has progressed hugely since then, she's now able to climb up on the sofa and is much more stable, just as funny as ever and the tail never stops wagging.
