Rosy
I know the cute baby animal is the most fetching and the one you want to see. It's the one that motivates people to want to send money to help. It's the hook and the con. But rescue is rarely about the cute babies. Rescue and lifetime care is about the used up. About the abused. About the cast out. About the replaced. About the ones nobody wants. The ones that usually end up with the needle in the heart or the bullet in the head. It's how we humans are even with our own...quick to consider helping a child and slow to help our old.
Meet Rosy...now Rose...we got a call that she belonged to someone's grandmother. She had been a pet for seven years after the dogs got through with her two years before that. The dogs got her ears, they ripped out an eye and they damaged the nerves in her face causing her tongue to hang out and making it hard for her to eat. The grandmother loved her so much that she fed her three or four times a day causing Rosy to become so obese she could barely breathe and hardly walk. The grandmother had gotten to the point where she couldn't get around so well anymore to care for Rosy. Her grandson talked to us and was going to call so we could meet him and follow him to pick her up. The call never came.
Many days later a girl showed up at the door. Seems her father had also talked to Buck and all Buck told him was that it was a 250# pig. Her father thought it was a freezer full of pork for free and said sure, he'd take it. When the guy got home and saw it was an obese potbelly he was going to shoot Rosy and leave her in the field to feed the buzzards. That's how they are around here. But his daughter knew of us and there she stood asking us to please come and get the pig. Of course we did.
Rosy could barely breathe she was so obese. Walking was a chore. She was terrified. You could see it in her one good eye. She wasn't cute, she wasn't friendly, and for sure nobody would want the likes of her. We were glad to have the opportunity to show her how very different things could be. We assured her that she had now become our Rose, plucked from among the thorns, and that she was about to embark upon a life unlike any she had known to date. We promised her that she would never be in danger again and that she would never again have to worry about her life, about what would happen to her, about where she would live, about who would love her, about who would protect her, or about who would care for her. We would. Forever.
Rose is what rescue is all about. We provide sanctuary to almost 200 animals from situations not all that unlike this one. And the people who let us save their animal, or ask us to take their animal, rarely, almost never, contribute anything to their care or to the work we do 24/7, 365 days a year.
Darlynn's Darlins, Inc. is a registered not for profit organization.
Our mission is to provide rescue, temporary or permanent food, shelter, medical attention, personal and emotional care in a no-kill sanctuary to abused, abandoned, homeless or neglected domestic, farm or feral animals, particularly potbelly pigs. In addition, to educate the public by propagating an interest in the protection of animals by teaching respect for all animals as living, breathing creatures of the earth with all the rights and consideration which should be afforded to any sentient being, by encouraging the practice of spay and neutering of all companion animals both for the optimal health of the companion and to work toward an end to the abhorrent glut of homeless animals, and by inspiring acceptance of the philosophy that the ability to make a lifetime commitment is a primary responsibility of animal guardianship.
Make a financial donation to:
Darlynn's Darlins, Inc.
2842 Rosalie Lake Rd
Lake Wales, FL 33898
Visit our web site at www.darlynnsdarlins.org to learn more!
We could always use volunteers to help with fund raising, cleanup,
repair, belly rubs, and so much more.
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