An animal shelter in Fayetteville, North Carolina, received quite a shock after a recent storm: A “nameless man” had dropped off an orphaned litter of puppies at the shelter’s door.
“In the wake of a recent storm that swept through our area, we experienced a moment that simultaneously broke and uplifted our hearts,” the Fayetteville Animal Protection Society wrote in a Jan. 15 post on its Facebook page.
The five puppies, estimated to be under two months old, were “left with a note that tore at our heartstrings,” said the shelter.
“The note was from a kind soul, a homeless man who, despite his own hardships, took it upon himself to rescue these innocent lives after their mother, a local stray he cared for, tragically passed away,” said the shelter.
The shelter included an image of the note, which said that their mother had been hit by a car and had died on the side of the road.
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“I knew from feeding her that she had puppies somewhere and after searching where I would usually see her I found them,” said the note, signed by “Nameless Man.”