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Woman Can’t Decide Which Dogs To Save … So She Buys The Entire Shelter

Picking just one dog from a shelter can be a horrible choice. You know that there are some dogs who have been there for a long time, while others are in desperate need to be removed from the shelter. So how do you make that difficult choice? For this woman, she didn’t have to.


Danielle Eden is the founder of the Dog Tales Rescue and Sanctuary and has rescued hundreds of dogs who were in terrible situations and brought them to the shelter in King, Ontario.

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But when she went to visit an animal shelter in Israel, her heart broke.

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The facilities were only fit to house 70 dogs, but they were currently housing 250.

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The dogs were crammed together in pens, and there were even more rats than dogs. There were dead rats too, and that made their living arrangements terrible.

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The dogs would get tossed some bread, and it would turn into a mauling session over who would get to eat.

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There was no way she could only pick a handful of animals to take back with her.

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So she bought the whole shelter.

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She managed to find homes for 90 of the dogs within Israel and 25 of them are making the trip back to Canada to find homes of their own.

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The remaining 150 dogs are still at the shelter, but through her efforts and those of volunteers in Israel, they are working together to make it more habitable and for the dogs to receive medical attention for their various conditions.

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