Filthy stray dog begs dog mom for help after neglect left pup underweight and with matted fur, she agreed and fell in love, adding four paws to her fur family, says: ‘She had been kept in the yard since she was a puppy, never groomed, fed rarely.’

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    "Well, I ended up falling in love with this dog and decided to take her to the local pet shelter/veterinarian to check for a chip"
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    Let me preface this by saying that I believe I saved this dog from horrible neglectful owners, and I would have given her back if the previous owners actually did anything
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    to care for this dog prior to me finding her, but they didn't. I live in the desert, where it gets to 110+ degrees most days in the summer, its a dry sweltering heat that often
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    leaves animals left outside dehydrated with heat stroke, and damaged paws, if they don't have access to water and/or shade. One morning in the middle of the summer, I was out
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    for a run in my planned community with my golden retriever Lady. Lady is a very reactive dog, who doesn't really like other dogs. As we are running through the neighborhood, a
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    small, very dirty, and matted whitish/grey dog comes out from under a car and begins to follow us around. Of course Lady is getting riled up at this point barking wildly at this dirty dreadlocked little dog. I run all
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    the way back to my house, trying to control Lady and get her away from the little dirtball as fast as possible, but unfortunately the little dirty dog kept up and was able to follow us home.
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    Lady was of course irate, and I was at a loss on what to do. There was now a dirty, dreadlocked, possibly disease ridden dog waiting outside my door, and the temperature
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    was climbing to intolerable rates. I decided to grab the little dog and take her to the bathroom to 1.keep her away from lady just in case she was carrying Parvo or
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    someother disease, and 2. to get her inside where I could keep her cool and get her some water/food. After getting her in the guest bathroom, I realize that this dog is filthy and
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    probably hasn't been bathed in a while, but despite her appearance the dog is very friendly and seems to be thankful that I let her inside. I decided to give her a bath with
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    some flea shampoo and this is where is see that she has large dreadlocks all over her body, the coloring around her eyes are actually tear stains that have accumulated into large brown sludge crusts, and she has
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    several dreads near her but that have intertwined with fs because she has never been groomed, brushed, or bathed. I give this little dog the most thorough bath | could and got off
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    most of the dirt on her body. At this point, she was still very matted and dread locked, but seemed to be in much better spirits and was very affectionate. Well, I
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    ended up falling in love with this dog and decided to take her to the local pet shelter/veterinarian to check for a chip (they didn't find one and she didn't have a collar) and get her some shots (parvo, rabies, etc.)
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    The people in the pet shelter told me that she is probably a stray and had been outside for several months, and to post a picture online somewhere. If no
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    one replied in 30 days, I would be able to keep her. So, I put an ad online immediately and waited it out. During this time the dog is groomed and checked again by
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    the vet, and she turns out to be some sort of bishon mix about 1-1.5 years old. The groomer said that the dog had never been groomed before because the dreadlocks would
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    take a year to get that long (6-8 inches), and the vet approximated her age by looking at her teeth (which were very white and new). About 9 days after finding this dog,
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    now named Phi Phi, I see a single flier on one of the community mailboxes describing a lost dog that fits the description of Phi Phi. (I live in a large community with several mailboxes and posts, but only
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    one flier was posted.) In their flier the previous owners state that they lost the dog the DAY I FOUND HER. This means that she had been kept in the back yard since she was a puppy, never groomed, fed rarely (she was about 3 lbs
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    under weight for her size), and neglected. They also waited 8-9 days to post a flier, in the heat of the desert the dog would have dd without any care in this time. (I was still running every morning with Lady
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    and was checking to see if anyone posted any fliers, and didn't see one until this day.) Phi Phi now had a new life and was loved/taken care of and I couldn't bare the thought of returning her to be neglected, so I didn't. I took
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    down my online post, and didn't mention Phi Phi's origins to anyone. It has been a year and Phi Phi is a beautiful, affectionate dog and is very happy to be in my house with her sister Lady.

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