A shopping cart full of puppies was found beside a dumpster outside an animal shelter.
Animal advocates in Mississippi and Louisiana were alarmed Wednesday when an animal shelter worker found the abandoned shopping cart full of puppies by a dumpster outside the Concordia PAWS Shelter in Ferriday at about 5:15 a.m.
Fortunately, a PAWS staffer who begins her day early saw the man dump the puppies and leave. She immediately went to their rescue.
The worker took one of the eight puppies to a Natchez veterinarian for medical attention.
The puppies appear to be about two months old, and all but one seem to be in decent health, said Dianne Watson of Concordia PAWS.
“We took one puppy to Miss-Lou Veterinary Clinic to be tested for Parvo. We have named her Molly, and she had a deep gouge in her neck and had other wounds around her head. They told us they are going to keep her overnight to treat her wounds,” Watson said.
Molly’s Parvo test was negative, but she does have coccidia and worms. Because she has them, the other puppies likely do as well, and will all be treated for those things.