Tag 19-A Puppy Mill Rescue
Little Mariah Hope left this earthly world to join her mill rescued brothers and sisters at the Rainbow Bridge on
May 17, 2007.
She was 21 years young. Rest in painless peace our little angel.
Her legacy against puppy mills will live on forever. The desire to get her story out to the public will go on and on as a tribute to the life she had before rescue.
Mariah shortly after rescue
Imagine yourself spending your lifetime in a shower stall with 4-5 other people every day and being forced to breed. You have limited food, no heat or cool air, living sick in your own waste, filthy water, and you are never loved. That was Mariah Hope’s life!
She spent years as a puppy mill breeding mommy in Eastern Oklahoma. Her owners had permanently marked her head with a hot branding iron, inserted metal cow tags in her ears. She was kept her on wire so that her legs are now permanently crippled in her senior years. They forced her to wear her rusty metal chain with her breeding number as a collar, and never took time to hold her unless they were throwing her in another cage to breed. All for their almighty dollars. Mariah was bred so many times over such a long period of time that only she knows how many puppies she produced. Her last litter was born blind and therefore she was no use to the breeders any longer. "Aunt Sandy" took the time to rescue Mariah and many more.
For that we are all eternally grateful.
May 17, 2007
