AR-News: (IA - US) Junkyard puppies, mom find new homes

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Junkyard puppies, mom find new homes 
    
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By HAL HATFIELD
Assistant Editor    02/20/2004  
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The eight junkyard puppies - and their mother, too - have new homes.

Last week, Sara Bixby, director of the South Central Iowa Solid Waste Agency 
landfill southeast of Knoxville, put out a call for help. A female dog - 
probably some sort of hound and some other breeds - gave birth to eight puppies 
some time in January in a den she had scooped out in a snow-covered pile of brush 
at the landfill. The father is thought to be a basset hound who frequents the 
site. 

The puppies were growing and becoming increasingly mobile and were exploring 
the landfill, often needing to be rescued when they wandered into the path of 
heavy trucks and compacting equipment.
Bixby said landfill equipment and little puppies do not mix and that a 
tragedy was in the offing.

Word about the puppies and the danger facing them spread quickly among 
landfill employees, trash haulers and the media, and potential new puppy owners 
began showing up at the landfill. 

Mike Bennett and his father Don Bennett of Harvey came to get a puppy for 
Mike. He chose the runt of the litter, a black and white female. Before they 
left, Mike went back to get a brown and white male for his sister Chris Reisinger. 
Later in the day, Reisinger decided she could use two puppies and the family 
went back for a third.

Paul Mason, a driver of Red Rock Rubbish, chose a puppy for the big yard of 
the home he and his wife had just bought in Tracy. His wife thought the yard 
could use two dogs, so back they went to adopt the fifth puppy. 

By the weekend, all eight puppies had been adopted, the last one, a black and 
white female, going home with Vickie Chambers of near Columbia. On Monday, 
the puppy appeared to have adapted to the Chambers home nicely, romping around 
the living room and harassing the family cat. 

On Tuesday, landfill employees dug into their pockets again and took the 
mother dog to a veterinarian to be spayed. On Wednesday, she was on her way to a 
"no-kill" shelter in Des Moines where there is a chance that she, too, will be 
adopted. 
    
©Journal-Express/The Reminder 2004  
    
 
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