THE REDOAK RESCUE
Sunday September 28th was the worst day in GDROC's rescue history. Our President and his wife went to Redoak Va. a 330 mile
round trip, to rescue what we thought were 3 possibly 5 Danes from a neglective/abusive situation. When we arrived there were
actually 8 dogs, 6 Danes and 2 mixed hound/Danes. All are in terrible shape. The property is disgusting and literally infested with
millions of fleas and ticks. Every dog was completely covered with both. We have never seen this before, but the dogs clusters of ticks
of 50 or more all grouped together all over their bodies. Millions of ticks were walking freely all over the ground, not to mention the
poo and urine everywhere. The real issue is that the owner would not give us all the dogs. He insisted on keeping Marley and Deva.
We literally tried for 2 hours to convince him to give them up. He would not. We managed to take home Baby, Ru and Scarlet. Spot
unfortunately ran under the house and refused to come out. There were also several kittens that looked just as bad as the dogs, but
we couldn't get close to them.
These dogs are extremely ill. Initial report is that the three have all worms imaginable, 2 of them have heartworm and 2 of them have
Lime disease. To make matters worse Scarlet may be pregnant. Babies wound is terribly infected. These dogs are in seriously bad
shape and may not make it. At this time we are not sure. We need a few more days to investigate the extent of their illness. Stay tuned
for more.

RESCUE EFFORTS ARE ON GOING TO SAVE THE REST OF THEM. WE ARE WORKING TOGETHER WITH
MAGDRL TO RETREIVE THEM FROM THE PROPERTY ON SATURDAY 4 OCTOBER.
9-28-08
Babies terrible skin. Marley's infected and broken tail, and
spot who didn't hang around for long.
Marley on the right. Spot on the left. Deva in
the middle.
Spot again. As soon as we tried to put a leash on her, she
ran under the house and never came back out. We were
alllowed to take her, but we just couldn't get at her. She has a
terrible skin infection.
Marley. He has severe skin infections,
a subluxed tail that is also infected. He
is also very under weight. The owner
would not let us take him.
This is Baby again. Yes that wound
is terrible. It has been that way for a
long time. X-rays revealed that the
leg is actually broken in 3 places
right under the wound. Poor girl
lived with this for weeks.
Marley, Jennifer and a helpful neighbor
who tried to convince the owner to turn
over all the dogs to no avail.
This is Deva. She also was not allowed
to leave. Poor girl would run around in
circles banging her head on things to
try and knock out the thousands of
fleas and ticks crawling around in her
ears.
Click HERE to see more of the property.
We are accepting donations to
help offset the cost of getting
these ladies back to health.
Anything you can give will
help. THANK YOU. Click the
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Click HERE to go directly to an update on  Roo (now called Willow).
Click HERE for Scarlet2 (now called Charlotte).
Click HERE for Baby.