Remembering The 19 Beautiful Souls

When I go to China next week I’m taking this beautiful plaque with me for the 19 souls we lost in 2019.

 

We got a message to say 40 Greyhounds and Whippets were in a slaughter house ready to be killed.We agreed to take them and asked summer to collect them. The slaughter house was about 4 hours away from Beijing.The butcher refused to let anyone from the rescue go to the slaughter house and said if we paid his worker they would drive them to the vets.

 

We had to agree otherwise we wouldn’t have got the dogs.The first 20 were loaded in the van (the video posted) all the dogs were happy and ready to start new lives. The fawn and white lad is ingrained into my mind forever.

 

When the dogs arrived at the vets and the doors opened the vet and staff couldn’t even begin to imagine the horrors waiting for them.

 

All the dogs apart from 3 were dead.It was the middle of summer the van had no Aircon and the dogs had been piled into crates together.The dogs were covered in bite marks from trying to escape.

 

Only one dog out of the 3 survivors pulled through.His name was Aimilio who is now happy in the UK.Summer collected the other 20 the next day who have all gone to homes.

 

It was a horrific day and one that has stayed with us.I have all the videos of when the dogs arrived at the vets which I have never posted and never will because they are truly awful.The vet was rushed to hospital because she had heart attack after what she witnessed.

 

Rest in peace you beautiful 19 souls