Roxy's Legacy - Project Spay/Neuter

Roxy's Legacy

This fundraising campaign has begun in memory of Roxy. Our goal is  to help prevent the pain and suffering for dogs just like Roxy.  Every single dime donated will go directly to spaying and neutering of dogs in Alamance and other counties in North Carolina. We want to stop the ongoing cycle of breeding and neglect. Our rescue wants to use these donations to stop this abuse before more dogs have to suffer!

Old North Canine Rescue is not only a nonprofit dog rescue organization, but our mission is to reduce the number of dogs dying in shelters - whether those dogs be mama dogs like Roxy being dumped, or puppies who are too young to be shoved in a box and dumped at the shelter or young stray male dogs who wander the streets and end up "fathering" many pups due to careless owners. We want to ensure that we are doing our part to help the pet overpopulation problem in our area. We aim to use all funds from this campaign to not only spay/neuter the dogs, but help educate pet owners about the risks involved in "backyard" breeding of pets.

15000 people read Roxy's story the night she died. If those same people gave just $1 to our campaign, we could spay/neuter approximately 135 dogs. Just one unaltered female dog and her offspring can produce 67,000 puppies in only six years. Those spay/neuters could wind up saving hundreds of thousands of dogs in the upcoming years.

Roxy's Story
Roxy, a recently rescued dachshund, died tonight. She was mom to four beautiful pups from this litter. She was mom to beautiful Jaxson, a volunteer's dog as well. She was bred repeatedly, not taken care of, living in filth. She was rescued by one of our volunteers who refused to give up. Volunteers from Old North loaned her $150 to "buy" this family from their worthless "owners". Normally, this is not something a rescue would ever do - buy a dog. But hearing about their conditions was sickening.

After years of neglect and what I consider abuse, Roxy was rescued. Of course, upon arrival, she was bathed repeatedly, started on dewormer and given good food and a loving home. She was still nursing her babies too. Tonight, she suddenly began hemorrhaging and was barely breathing. By the time we got to the emergency vet, she was gone. The vet believes that she was so full or parasites, that it overloaded her system when she was given the dewormer. Her poor body would have died anyway, but having received the medication brought them all "to the surface" and her sweet, tiny body gave out.

I, personally, am furious. I am so so so sick and tired of people not caring about their animals. I am so sad to think of all the dogs we have had to bury, to nurse back to health and to put back together because of human's lack of basic decency (and we are just one tiny little rescue). I don't want Roxy to die in vain. I want people to be angry about this. I want people to look at her beautiful little face and think she DID NOT have to die.

If people want to breed their dogs, at the very very least - give them basic vet care. Don't surrender your pregnant dog to the shelter (1 puppy died). Don't surrender your dog while giving birth to the shelter (5 puppies died). Don't let your dog have puppies and then dump them in a box at Wing Zone (4 puppies died). Don't allow your dog to give birth in filth and when she has a uterine prolapse, allow her to slowly die while all her puppies become infected with maggots (8 puppies died). These are just a few of the cases we have dealt with since this summer.

If you don't want to spay or neuter - be decent. Take care of those lives you are creating. If you don't plan to do this 100% of the time, spay and neuter your dog. I am begging you to consider these lives worth something rather than $50 you might make off facebook. For those that follow our page, I'm pretty certain I'm not referring to you. Obviously you care about rescue dogs and want to make a difference. For you, I beg of you to spread the word. Please share and talk to people about fixing their animals, about vaccinations, about deworming (repeatedly), about puppies not living in filthy outside conditions before having any vaccinations, about giving puppies away before they are at least 8 weeks of age, about all the mom dogs and their babies that die regularly when people fail to do the right thing.